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The kids were lined up, Hawk looking at them with open confusion and then he noticed the one with the two tufts and went closer, pointing to it silently.
"Again… a super hero cannot hide if he is always in uniform" Ianto said without blinking and the little finger dropped as Hawk nodded his agreement. Taddy always knows right? The request for his hair to be sculpted into ears forgotten as he looked harder at the boy whose double Mohawk was now a set of horns, the back completely gone between last night and this morning. No doubt his father's razor hidden a beat too late.
"So. We have us a problem… the Christmas Photo for the village that is usually done and sent away about now so Santa has everyone's faces memorized is all wrong now" Ianto sighed as he looked at the kids "The ones taken at the parade with Santa's Helper and sent to the Fat Man are not no good with you guys is it. I mean… I will have to do some fast talking to get him to put you back on the good list now… you all knew the risks when you picked up those clippers."
All faces swung to glare at Creep who stood resolutely with one hand fondling a bright green horn. Yeah. APPARENTLY… once you get enough gel on it to kill a horse… you use the neon spray paint from your father's garage he uses to mark his potato patch for spring dig over and you…. Spray your head. So… yeah… from his eyebrows up, all over his head was bright neon green… including most of one ear.
"Master Creeptin. Care to explain the brain fart here?"
"Ah…." Creep blinked slowly as a finger poked out and his mouth opened, then closed slowly as he knew he was buggered.
This is when LB spoke, her soft voice almost singing as she said "Don't have a cow Grandy… we just needed to express our indivi…indi… individuality. It will grow back like Uncle Walt's did after the reshoot for the m..m.. movie."
Walter had to re-cut his hair for the movie reshoot that meant losing the afro he was just building and she knew she had him as he had said at the family meal that it would grow back in time for the photos. Ianto grinned slowly and a beat to late she knew he had her too.
"Ah… but that was then, this is now. Too late to wait… the snow is here" Ianto shook his head "So… you will all come back with a hat. I will either allow or disallow that for the new photo to send Santa. Oh and LB… nice try Lady Bug."