The Lake House Retreat - Walter 29

by Awatere11

The Lake House is like a silent character in the Water Verse so let's see what happens each time the house is full of life, this instalment of Walter Verse being about the times Ianto and others are enjoying time away from the village.

47. Chapter 47

47

"Hawk?" Jack looked around the house as he let the now de-pooped dogs inside. "Sweetie?"

Maybe he went to change into his little CKH outfit, he did bring it in case of alien invasion or something. The dogs would be no good on the lake, barking and stuff, so Jack got them each a treat and placed them in the warm of the window where he straightened up and looked out in time to see the canoe in the distance.

Huh. Red. Like Ianto's one. Ahhhhhhh…. FUCK "HAWK GET BACK HERE!"

Jack was running now, the little boy paddling with a much better skill then you might expect for a preschooler. Jack knew the bag of bread would be in his lap, the little one's idea to be the Cool Cat making him a first class shit-bird.

Huh. Jack wondered where that came from. How long has he been referring to his child as that? You know… it seemed right somehow. Jack slid into another canoe, the blue one, and took off after him without really thinking though the fact he and Hawk were now in canoes, the fan boat and the jet boat both sitting there ready to go but clearly… forgotten.

Ianto would have taken a boat.

Jack reached the child and reached out to hook the tail of the canoe then found out why Ianto would have taken a boat as the child deftly swung his canoe while also swinging his paddle, catching Jack in the head and Jack yelled as he threw himself back, overturned the canoe and found himself upside down in the lake.

"Use your paddle" Hawk yelled as he watched the upside down canoe wobble about "Dad, use your paddle to right yourself, for goodness sake, you are scaring the fish!"

"For goodness sake" Hawk said again as Jack finally remembered how to pop back up like Ianto had taught him and he sat there dripping as he glared at the child.

"You …you hit me."

"You scared me… could have been a bloody fish man come to suck me eyeballs out!" came the sage reply "Seriously Dadda… you need to learn how to use one of these machines correctly if you are coming out on the water without a life jacket on. So dangerous. Tadda would growl at you for that!"

Jack's mouth fell open as Hawk deftly swung the canoe back towards the house, his own little life jacket so orange and stark against the black clothing. Jack looked down at himself and knew the child was right, his life jacket still hanging in the boat house area under the patio.

Ianto would have remembered a life jacket, emergency or not.