17
To suits, six waistcoats and several shirts that Walter had found in Ianto's 'casual' area had made the cut, Walter glancing over at his Dad's side and freezing as he saw something hanging there he had not thought he would.
A row of SWAT gear.
"I thought he only had one set"
"He nicks them each time he goes for a bloody training sessions with the newbies. I think he gets a weird satisfaction from thieving something in the middle of a secure Heddlu department. I scold but he does look sexy" Ianto shrugged as he looked for something else in his drawers.
Walter tried on the tight Kevlar shirt, the vest and beret. He removed the beret. Piney would not wear a hat, not with a fro growing in sometimes. Maybe a cowboy hat? Like Heck wore in the garden? He looked in the floor to ceiling mirror.
"I didn't know I was so tall" he said to himself with surprise, the handsome black man looking back seemed like he wss more accustomed to raiding houses or taking down terrorists than a country cop. He wondered if it was too much.
"I like it darling. For the serious moments, the times when Piney 'saddles up' the sequence of cut-shots getting ready will engage and excite the audience" Ianto turned to look at him "A change from the usual softer image. Go back to the button-up shirt and waistcoat for a second would you love?"
Walter complied, buttoning the shirt to leave the neck open, no tie. The waistcoat buttoned up and looking dapper, he preened at himself in the mirror "I look like Idris should give me a job."
Ianto reached around him and Walter though he was going to hug him but then felt his hands in his pockets, looking at Ianto's hands move away to leave one of his beautiful pocket watches from his collection. The chain was plain gold along with the shiny watch but it was the clasp that held Walter's attention.
A star.
Ianto had found a way to include the star Walter wanted, instead of a badge it ws a pocket watch pin. Walter stared at it and felt his throat closing with emotion as he saw the deep red and black tartan waistcoat material with the child's 'Sheriff" star that had been his Taddy's once upon a time when a little Saggy Bum settled on it for a birthday gift, the chain holding a watch at the other end long and nicely hung.
Water stared at the title screen for his show.
He even knew how the first episode would include a child gifting this star to him like pining hopes and dreams on the protector of the truth and innocent. The show would end with that scene … yes…. The child found in the fog at the beginning …. yes….Walter was thinking, planning and the pen and paper in his hands appearing as he began scribbling ideas that he knew would infuriate and excite the script writers who thought they had it all sorted.
They would soon learn that he was his Taddy's son.
There was always more to share.