Bubbles of Madness - Walter 31

by Awatere11

So you have bene asking and so... you horrible people.. is has come. The flu that is not just the flu is about to hit the lovely village of Shangri-La making Ianto take drastic action even as others scoff that it is just the flu and everyone is being silly. We shall see.

19. Chapter 19

19

Ianto was in the Christmas Room sorting things. Lockdown finalized, he now knows how many children are in the village … all eighty three of them. Eighty three. Oh... almost half as many children as adults but not quite… don't be silly… a third? Well… there are actually three hundred and five adults too. Would have been more but some chose to leave the village before the lockdown and take up spots at the London pads so they could continue to work.

So… all in all … we have a grand total of three hundred and eighty eight people in the village right now. Come Christmas there will be one more … a newling due in the next week or so.

Ianto was doing what Ianto does best… itemizing.

He had thrown away the clipboard and instead he had a wall length of trestle tables set up and there were baskets in rows along the tables… a name in a tag on the front of each basket. Yeah… he was seeing to the Christmas gifts.

The other opposite wall was similar but of course less baskets… but bigger ones since it was the 'kiddie' wall. There was a large basket, a paper bag behind it for the 'Santa gifts' to go under the tree on Christmas Eve and in front of each named basket sat a single toy that would go in the Santa Sack for the photo booth after the parade, the kids posing eagerly on Santa's knee.

Ianto was going wild, picking through things while also remembering those upcoming birthdays… yeah…the back wall had the twenty three birthdays coming up in the next three months. Seriously… they really did. With click and go he was also online buying masses of things for anything else… each day was exciting as the men brought packages up and waited to see if they could open them for him… to help like… and they even fought over whose turn it was to help Toto.

Yeah.

Ianto took hiding to a fine art form as he spends day after day humming to himself and the little sleepy Shay strapped on his chest. He was packing baskets, wrapping things and creating what would be the best and most extravagant Christmas yet.

Jarred had done it for the last five years or so and it was not like it used to be in the early Harkness-Jones days of madness… Ianto had now taken it back.

And was bringing sexy back as only he can.

He was not hiding… honest. Just really… really busy away from people.

Really.