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"How big do they get?" Jack asked as he watched Rosie clasp the older one to her chest with wide eyes, making little begging noises at him.
"You member the little pony called Candy? That fell through the barn floor? Largest one was that big in the reports" Ianto sighed and Jack sighed too.
"Shit. I remember now. Yeah. Big. Black with two rows of teeth and a flip top head. Right?" Jack looked at his little girl as she jiggled on the spot now "I don't know poppet."
"We are having this one" the Twins said calmly as the egg still hatching jiggled about.
"Five eggs that are OK" Ianto sighed "One for Dean and Frank, one for you two, one for Hope and one each for Rosie and Pip."
"I don't know, Pip is so young for …" Jack's voice waivered as Pip made a sound of horror, his face dropping as he heard his father say he was not allowed one.
"Jack! You cannot let the others have one and not Pip! That's not fair!" Ianto scolded.
"What about the other kids, they will kick up" Jack warned.
"And we will tell them that when the pups are full on Predi-dogs they will able to eat a toddler alive" Ianto replied "Only a Wolfling can control them, they are empathically bonded to their handlers. These will not be pets. They will be extra protectors running the perimeters with these pups of ours."
"I was kidding about Pip riding one" Jack sighed "He will, won't he."
"Probably wants a saddle" Ianto snorted, "Shit. Look at them, so cute and …it's hatching!"
They watched the egg move and break open, the one that tumbled out a dark midnight blue, not black like the other two and everyone made a noise of pleasure.
"See?" the twins intoned "Our one. What is it Tadda?"
Ianto picked it up and checked "Boy."
"So … three boys?" Jack frowned "What if they are all male."
"No, always one girl as a queen" Ianto said as he looked back at the eggs "Hope's probably best as it will be the nastiest."
Pip snorted with mirth and Jack laughed as he agreed.
"What if it's the dormant one?" Jack pointed "The failure?"
"No. If the males made it, a queen will too. It's the natural order of these things" Ianto assured him.
"Bio-engineered"
"From their natural pets and preferred alien species" Ianto nodded "A bit of Xenomorph on there I think, even if it was never admitted to."
"They will panic" Jack sighed.
"We don't' tell them" Ianto said with a calm descending at he made the decision for them all "We let everyone fall in love with the cute little bundles of destruction and as they grow people will comment that they are biggier than they thought they would be. Bu the time they are grown and fully combatable people will simply see pets."
"That gullible?"
"Worked with our pups didn't it?" Ianto laughed "they don't look at them and see Wolfing, they see our children. We name these, give them collars and their personalities will shine. People will accept these watchdogs that could take down a Z with ease."
Jack looked at his love and saw that he was animated, shining … glowing with delight in the little monsters and knew he had to agree even if his memory of these things in a pack taking out an entire outpost on a planet he was sent to while in the Agency to clean up.
Ianto was right though.
They were bloody cute as pups, the little blue one squeaking as it writhed in the straw.
"Food?" Frank asked Dean who pulled his pack over and removed a tin of cat food and a bowl.
Ianto sighed, knowing it would not work then watched Myf solve it by pulling some flesh from one of her sheep and dropping it to the ground, the little things struggling from eager arms to fight for it. Already fighters with tiny teeth and a dangerous determination.
"Shit" Jack said softly.
"Language!" Pip scolded, leaning over to hook a stick from the sidelines and poke at a pup, laughing as it simply lifted the leg out of the way and kept eating.
"Pip, it may bite you if you threaten its food" Ianto warned "you know that."
"Yeah, just looking at the bits."
Jack frowned "Are you being a pervert?"
"He means the dreadlocks" Ianto clarified "Pip, those will have electric shockers on the ends once fully grown. When angered or needed in self defence, those ropes will give a nasty jolt."
"Good" Pip leaned back "Babies need teeth."
Ianto glowed at his youngest who gave such a Wolfling answer.