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It was time. Ianto more excited and terrified than he had ever been in his life.
The first little boy came out with no problem at all, Jack's little doppelganger with those blue eyes awwwwww. Ianto barely had time to clock those little eyes before handing him over to Jack and turning back to Toshiko.
The second one was not so easy, stuck. Stuck? What do you mean stuck? No. We are not doing stuck… I thought we talked about this. No. Ah… shit.
Owen was way too panicked and this was scaring Ianto now as he held her hand and told her she was doing great. Just great. Probably his baby now… a stubborn one who does not want all the fussing out here… everyone looking at him and stuff… let the other one have the limelight for a while. Toshiko laughed weakly between contractions and Ianto tired to ignore the activity around them, focusing in her as he told her she as a fucking star.
"Forceps!" Martha shouted and Ianto now tightened his grip on her hand, leaning in close as he sang softly, helping her focus on her breathing as the work was done out of Ianto's eye line.
The second baby was actually smaller than the first and clearly Ianto's child, both hands moving to cover the little face like he wanted to hide. Ianto was torn between fussing on her and seeing his son, finally relinquishing his hold as Owen came to her beside to comfort her on the other side.
Then he slid to the babes, watching them get cleaned up and checked over, the larger one loud and brassy as he tried to challenge the world while the little one just blinked with confusion, his little hands now held out like he was trying to ward everyone off.
"Hey… hey little one… its OK. Look at you… scared? Don't be scared Taddy is here" Ianto crooned, letting the little one grip his finger "It's OK little fella."
"Look at him" Jack gushed as he got to hold the larger one again "Look darling, he has my chin too."
"Yes, clearly a little James Dean in the making, a heartbreaker." Ianto said without looking up from the little fella.
"James Dean" Jack repeated "James Dean Harkness Jones. A 'J' at the beginning and the end…. Oooo… I like that."
Ianto looked up with confusion "what?"
"James Dean. Jamie. J.D. Yeah … WOW… I LOOVE IT!" Jack gushed happily "when he is a movie star everyone will say it was the perfect choice."
Ianto blinked and let it go, not focusing too much on the name he had inadvertently given Mr Big as this is Jack talking so in an hour's time it might be a completely different name being bandied about.
The little one… he is the one Ianto was focusing in with those steely grey eyes now focused back on him and the intelligence was clearly there as he stopped moving each time Ianto spoke. Yeah, he knew his Taddy's voice.
"Hey little tyke."
"Did you say Tyson?"
"NO" Ianto said forcefully, trying to keep his voice low so as not to startle the little one "Stop it… go… take yours out to the mothers to gush and croon over… this little guy needs a moment to get used to the idea of all this madness we are subjecting him to."
"Really? I can take him out without you?" Jack asked with open glee "Yeah?"
"Go… bugger off" Ianto said and Jack ran out of the room with glee.
"Thank fuck for that" Toshiko muttered in the bed as she lay there getting cleaned up still "He was like the fucking Energizer Bunny bouncing about like that, he was doing my head in."
"I know… sometimes he is like an ADD child… or maybe… a Labrador puppy?" Ianto screwed his face up and she laughed weakly.
"Is he OK?"
"Yeah, just shocked I think" Ianto smiled softly "It's OK little Angel. It's OK. Angel… hmm… we have Gabriel? Hmmm? No? Michael? Daniel? Hmmm… Zechariah … no…"
"What about Nathaniel?" Jack asked as he returned without Mr Big.
"What?"
Ianto stared at him, and then looked down at the little one "Nathaniel. Nathe? Nate? Oh.. I like that one Cariad. Yeah."
And that is how they wound up naming each baby.
James Dean and Nathaniel Sean.
Perfect really.
