18
Ianto returned from the Lake House with a new purpose, walking along the outside of the charred building as he contemplated his next move.
"Boss"
"Mountain, my lovely man. What news?" Ianto asked then scolded himself internally for sounding like a prig.
"The boys. Gwen had a few words with them… I think the tazer was mentioned a few times… you know… she is a good woman once you get past the bullshit… anyway… they are angry because some sort of rave was arranged by the crew of the movie in the east lot. You shutting it all down meant they lost their party, this was a payback for that. They didn't' think the whole thing would go up, they thought the office would get some damage. Still think you are the mayor ya know."
Ianto huffed.
"We talked it over and… Walt had the idea that they boys can help with the clean up so they spent the weekend knee deep in water and charred paper clearing out the last of the library so we can strip it and begin relining it all. They did not have a Rave of a time but we did play music for them to dance to if they wanted… loudly." Mountain grinned and Ianto canted his head in silent question so Mountain added "Opera. Hey…did you know Ton can sing operas? Not that well but he gave it a go."
Ianto snorted with mirth. Trust Ton to amuse the Hoodlums for a while. So that's why he stayed home huh? One of the lads. Good.
"Well… I have been thinking and I think we need to modernize a bit more. The school needs to as well so… let's talk to Christopher about some more computers, a stronger mainframe that backs up to the cloud and get us more tablets and e-readers so when they take books, they take a little library of their own. Bad weather and they can have a month's supply… maybe even get more on-line."
"Sounds good, I will pass it with Christy and ask young Heather over at the pet store. Ya know, she went to Harvard. Came here and never left during her graduation year!"
Ianto turned to look in the direction of the store "What did she get?"
"A degree in art and computer graphics or something."
"Ahhhhhhh….. great. My other idea" Ianto said with glee "The stained glass classes go so well, so many things that the hall bursts with… we need an art centre."
"Shit. Really?"
"Yeah!"
Ianto was on a roll.