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"Four" Pen repeated soflty to himself "Four!"
"Imp was in it too" Maisey said to Ben "He didn't think he wanted to be but he looked cool running in the grass with us."
"I liked tht one. We all got lemonade after they were finished having us do it" Ben agreed "And you were very fast Missy Moo-Moo."
"I liked it" she agreed "Maybe I like that. I could do that. Is Aunty in the next one?"
"Yeah … she is arriving home from some reason to be away in the net one on the old bus from her car collection with the weird doors." Ben agreed "Remember we got to ride in it too. You know … this is fun."
The men sat watching their children as they talked, laughed and excitedly agreed that they liked being movie stars too. Curtis turned to Walter "This has to be the most clever thing you have ever done Walter Harkness-Jones."
Walter smiled as he hooked Curtis' hand "No. Marrying you was my master stroke. I know that. Everything else is gravy."
"Oh my god! Did you quote your father at me?" Curtis fake wailed, and then they both laughed, sharing a kiss and a moment of delight in one another before Curtis sighed and rose "Come on kids. Ice cream to celebrate. Remember tomorrow Grandy and Grampy are letting you have a water party"
"YESSSSSSS" fist pumps and shouting as they let their patents know bed was now a loooooong way away as they raced for the kitchen.
"Curtis? Anything I can do?" Walter called from the sofa as his phone started to go off, the first of many congratulatory calls they knew would come.
"Fix my bloody bedside lamp and put the trash out ya lazy bastard" came a faint reply and Walter laughed as he accepted the call, revelling in the life his Taddy had helped him into.
No need to hide that fact, everyone knows.
This is Ianto's world after all.
Speaking of which, Ianto was currently in the bed while Jack replayed the episode from the beginning because an argument had broken out between Imp and Monkey over their screen times. Ianto sighed as Jack started to watch it at double speed while Imp started saying each person's lines at super speed as well, giggling and laughter as the kids got to see Imp show he had his Taddy's edidic brain and had memorised the script.
"Now that…" Jack pointed down the bed as the kids snuggled at the foot in their blankets "… is bloody funny."
"Yep. We made that. We made these kids, this life… that silliness down there. This is all ours" Ianto said happily "Thanks for being here, for the ride."
"You kidding? I'm too scared to unlatch my fingers for fear I will fly away into the darkness. I cling to you like a man hanging onto some box flying through the universe you my only constant. My love. My life." Jack said in a silly voice, his eye wide as Ianto laughed and slapped him.
"Go on ya Twpsyn … go get me a milkshake!"
The bed erupted and kids spilled from under the covers, arguing about the best milkshake flavour and like some wild storm they fled the room, the top blankets being pulled with them while the two men lay there now uncovered in their PJ bottoms.
"Wow. That actually happened" Jack said dreamily.
"Yeah. Meteor storm? So,e earthquake or … temporal flux do you think?"
Jack laughed all the way down to the kitchen and the milkshake syrups already being slapped on the counter.
What a ride.