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"Babe?"
"Hmmm?"
"Are you OK?"
Ianto looked up from the little matinee jacket he was carefully folding as he sat at the kitchen table to stare at his husband with raised eyebrows "Hmmmm?"
"This. Are you OK with all of this? Don't give me the 'we have to be bullshit. Right here and now, just you and me. Are you OK with this?" Jack demanded.
"Yeah. I will admit to a little panicking at first and … yeah… some anger but then I though about how Ton helped with Hawk and I have to let it go… ya know? I have no reason to think this will impact our lives... the first year or so sure but… when he or she is a late toddler… they will be more than capable of parenting."
"I agree" Ianto said knowing Jack was here to vent, not listen so he waited.
"I knew Ton was going to be a 'rest of our lives' kinda thing but when he became more self sufficient I do admit to being relived" Jack admitted to his love "Then the wedding and both of them here… it didn't seem so different. I mean... this house will always be filled with noise and bluster, seems weird on those rare occasions when it isn't. I think I've warmed to it now... still a little shocked but that is the prude in me…me. Who knew I could even be prudish."
"Oh Cariad… these are our children… we will always baby them and think of them as innocent little cherubs. But if there is anything Babs has taught us… they are NEVER as innocent as they look!" Ianto laughed as he watched Jack pick up a tiny bootee to squee over.
"They will be fine" Jack said to himself like a mantra "Just fine."
"Yes" Ianto agreed.
Under the table Monkey sat with a lollipop considering things and he decided they would all be OK as well, after all Everyone survived Papa and his parenting right? You have to admit, anyone that can control John Hart… can control anything.
Monkey curled up in the dog bed with the little naked cat and went to sleep.
He was not worried either.