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"Hmmm?"
"I said… how much did all that fire gear cost!" Jack repeated "It didn't come out of the joint account."
"No, I used some of my play account" Ianto replied as he turned over another page of the paper he was reading with his glasses perched on the end of his nose. Ton sat on the other side of the table with Tony on his knee and Angel say with Shay on hers, both reading things too. Ton had a book on Chickens he was reading to Tony with his glasses on the end of his nose as well. Angel was not that silly… she was reading one on goats to the little Shay bum.
"Your play account" Jack repeated slowly.
"Yea, from the last two books, the movie money from my guest appearance for Walter's last movie… I keep that one for shits and giggles" Ianto said, showing Jack his phone … yeah.. the account really had that as the title. S & G.
Jack then noted the amount still in there "Jesus love. There's almost a mill still in there!"
"Yeah… Easter is not that far away and I would love to get some rabbits for the little petting zoo."
"Petting zoo" Jack said, and then stalled out as his eyes widened "Darling? What Petting Zoo?"
"The one River talked about at Christmas Dinner? A few little things for the kids to learn empathy and such? Also that death is a natural part of life…. You know… a petting zoo" Ianto rolled his eyes.
"Tiger… she said a hamster and maybe some budgies or something" Jack said as he frowned.
"Jack. What is the Harkness-Jones motto again?"
Hawk screamed it with glee as he stood listening intently to the conversation "GO BIG OR GO HOME!"
"I thought it was, always look on the bright side of life" Jack said with surprise.
"Argh… how boring. No Cariad… share and share alike! "Ianto rolled his eyes again and Jack found himself slapping at the cheeky beast who was giggling like a child as he skipped off. Jack laughed as he ran after him leaving a little Lord Beastly alone with the conversation still lingering.
"A petting zoo" he said softly as he looked around "But where would we put one?"
He wandered off to ask some of his minion…. Er …. Friends.
Ianto knew he had put a bomb under Jack who had been so bored he was driving the rest of the village mad. Of course Ianto would NEVER do that… right? Soon the phone calls started as he ordered timber and started to design a nice little enclosure for things, guinea pigs getting a mention as Ianto listened in the background.
Ah yes.
Breeding things.
In this village they would soon be over run like bloody Tribbles in no time.
Jack looked so excited too.
"Just forward me the bills to pay Hunky Bum" Ianto yelled then settled with the book he had been unable to finish all bloody Christmas.
Finally… peace in the valley.