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Jack and Ianto went to the country house, calling into the Big House before heading on to visit Rhiannon and the kids.
Daniel loved Flash on sight, squealing as Jack let the dog run free in the back yard with Myfanwy, his fear of the large dog being mean or overzealous not shown as she was motherly and happy to see another friend.
Ianto had headed inside of the house and was met with an angry female whose whirrs and clicks came so quickly even the Tardis key aroid his neck had trouble keeping up with the translations. Good thing he had spent so much time with these species that he could speak it fluently without help because she was…. Pissed!
"I know" Ianto finally said to her once she stopped for breath "you think I do not know?"
She seems to deflate slightly from the huge thing in the doorway then she started again, quieter this time and Jack entered the kitchen to get a drink, freezing as he found Ianto and Godi locked in some sort of staring battle.
"Interrupting something?" he asked as he reached between them to get to the fridge.
"Likely" Ianto replied sagely, then sighed and nodded "OK. I know. Come on, let me have a moment Godi. It is not like for you as for me."
Jack paused at the strange way Ianto was speaking and then recognized the Tardis Key working to translate Ianto's guttural speaking to her. Ianto was speaking her language. Clever. Wow, a hard one to master and although Jack could understand it with the help of his own key around his neck, there was no way he could speak it. Jack now wondered just how deep the relationship here went, how close were they and…
"Projecting again" Ianto sighed turning to face him "If you must know, I adopted her as a larva. OK? She is like a child to me. I raised her, brought her here to care for Daniel and know that he is with family. OK?"
"Really? That makes sense. She is very protective … sorry Godi. I do not mean to speak of you like you are not here. Rude. My apologies" Jack bowed to her and she made a rude noise in her throat that had Ianto straightening and blinking at her with surprise.
"Godi, don't be rude!" Ianto snapped "I am thinking on it!"
Jack followed Ianto to the bedroom and looked around, marveling in the grandeur of it compared to the one at the other house. This was clearly the house Ianto wanted for himself one day, for them and Danny. Calling it the blue house seemed rude given the inhabitants and Jack had instead started calling it the stained glass house in his head.
Ianto opened a door that Jack thought would be a wardrobe in Ianto's room but instead followed Ianto into to what had been a nursery and Jack saw where his son had his first few years of life before being moved to the room he has now. Jack was surprised to find no sign of the family in here as clearly they had not used this room, leaving it as Ianto's like they had the gorgeous bedroom they had just walked through.
"So, little Dan the Man slept in this" Jack said with wonder as he reached out to stroke the plastic covering the crib and Ianto turned to look over at him.
"Yes, that was by me bed for the first six months while I constantly checked he was still alive. A jaunt away was murder for me, even if the Doctor was careful to return me an hour or so after he took me, no matter how long I was gone." Ianto touched it as well, then folded the plastic back to let Jack see the pretty little crib and recognize one of the Doctor's own creations. That man was so brilliant at woodwork.
"Wow. Cute" Jack grinned, touching the little animals carved in the wood, some Jack could easily see were Boeshanninan as well.
"Yeah"
"You OK?" Jack asked, concerned as Ianto sounded sort of… depressed or worried about something.
"Yeah. No. sort of.. not really" Ianto screwed his face up then faced Jack "The problem is… the problem is that you and I … we are so in-tune now that we can connect just with touch. Your hand on my thigh makes me so hard, so horny and I didn't' really consider the ramifications of us being together again."
"I'm going too strong… too hard" Jack agreed eager to please "we can slow down Tiger. We can…"
"No. It's too late for that." Ianto laughed softly, his face softening "We have eternity to slow down Cariad. No … the thing me and Godi were fighting about. She smelt you on me. In my skin, in my flesh. She was scolding me for being my usual flighty self when a child is in the picture and as is the way of her kind, she wants me to cut it out. Step back from the Decay more."
"Of course. As Danny's 'other' mother of course she sees the danger there if anything happened to you, she thinks I am a bad influence? She knows you can't die right? Maybe I can talk to her and…"
"Jack. Stop. For a second or two… stop. You are so much like that Jack Russell downstairs, leaping about in top gear. Stop and focus." Ianto said as he reached out and took Jack's face in his hands, making eye contact.
"I am trying to tell you I am preggers again."
