5

Lisa was at home for a change, coming home at lunchtime angry with coffee split on her and Ianto not picking up the damned phone to bring her a change at work. He looked up with shock as she stormed into the apartment then stopped to stare at their son asleep on the sofa.

"Why is he not at preschool?" she demanded.

"A bad mood, I think it may be a back tooth. You know he suffers with his teeth like you do love" Ianto said easily, not totally lying as some of that was true.

"OK. OK, I do suffer" she huffed, going to change and Ianto waited until she was back out doing up her buttons to slide over the paperwork Jack had left with him that morning.

"Before you leave love, I know you will come home tired as it's a busy day so can you sign these papers for Henry now, get them out of the way."

"What are they?" she asked, puling them close to look over with mild interest.

"Well, his teeth. I may need to take him to a dentist and as you know, teeth are important with the braces out had to wear in our first year of our relationship so … I may need to sign something for some happy gas or something… made me think. If anything happened to you .. God forbid… but you are out there in the dangerous field of litigation and I worry. I worry for his future. As you are so busy, jet setting about helping everyone else you may not be here if he is hit by a car or… god. I don't know. You know I am a born worrier. As his primary caregiver it means they do not have to wait for you to come to the hospital as well, to give second permission to do emergency surgery or something. I don't know if that might be important but one of the kids in the Daddy and Me group had a problem when his son got his hand injured and needed a plastic surgeon to reconstruct some of the fingers. Both parents had to agree as it was outside of the insurance coverage and there was no clear custody chain" Ianto said, this all true.

"Christ, you are right, we see cases like that all the time. These days they need everything bar your blood. Well … they might need that next." She went off on a tangent about barcodes on the back of your hand, something she likes to rant about and he made the right noises as he filed away the papers that signed full custody to him of the child, regardless of DNA. Holy shit, it felt so wrong and at the same time… so right.

Like Jack's hand on his shoulder squeezing gently as he reassured him that he was a good Tad, doing the right thing. Lisa jet setting around could go up in a fiery plane crash … a shooting at the court house… it made sense.

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Jack was swinging in his chair, not really thinking about much… other than that Welshman that seemed to take every spare moment right now.

He knew this was a good man, he didn't need to read the reports to know he wss a righteous man, even if his wife was clearly a whore! Jack knew she was paid a lot more than a legal secretary should be, noting the reason most likely the generous lawyer that needed her with him at all times. The Asian bastard that liked to rest his hand on her knee in the restaurant.

The kid was sweet. Clearly on the spectrum but his cute father was securing a good life for him and Jack felt sorrow in the man's pain in knowing this child was not biologically his. Blood did not matter, love did and to know Ianto was not changing his stance in the fact that this was still his son only told Jack what a good man he ws.

And damn, he looked good in a suit!

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Lisa was home early.

Ianto was surprised to see her already and checked where their son was, relieved to see that he was not upset that his routine was out.

"Ianto... is he OK? Can we talk?" she asked, sitting at the table without even speaking to her son. Of course not. He was a secondary thing in her life… like Ianto.

"Sure love" Ianto said, hoping this was not bad news. He didn't want to move again, her love of loft apartments and such not his. He hated every place they lived in and he sat to learn the new fate.

"This was not planned" she began, like she did most thing she knew he might not like "this is a shock for me as well but I think we will embrace it, like we do everything in our life."

OK. Really not liking this.

"Ianto love… I am pregnant again" she said, her face glowing as she leaned forward "Your desire for another one… it's happening. I am about five weeks!"

Ianto was numb. His useless balls shriveling into his belly as he stared at her knowing there was no way in hell this was his child… again. He felt like he was floating away, shock setting in and he swallowed thickly.

"Wow. What I call a surprise alright!" he finally said, then smiled "Wow!"

She grinned as she leaned back and patted her flat stomach … and the reason that when she went to the bathroom Ianto pulled out his cell phone and typed in three words he never thought he would.

LET'S GO LOW