4

"So, this is my room. Well … mine and Jack's. Rhia, you and Johnny take this large double one. Mica and David can share this one with the twin beds and Alice … you and Steven can share this double room …unless … do the two boys want to share? Mica can sleep out in the living room on the pull out I guess since she seems to like that." Ianto seemed to consider as the two boys lit up, nodding as they clutched at the crate holding Max who was still powered down.

"My own bed?" Mica asked.

Ianto walked to the living room area and pulled the sofa from the bottom, the entire thing unfolding into a large double bed "See? We can make it up for you and you can be out here since we will all be too many people to be in here anyway. We will eat at the large kitchen table and in the evenings we will probably be too tired for anything else. It's only for a few days until Mama is assigned a house, maybe that one next door so you can run from the door there to this one"

Mica stood with her hands on the glass of the large sliding door, peering at the other house that was so close the decking joined them and she squealed "We would be SOOOO close."

"I will ask Kelianne as it looks empty" Ianto said as he stood with his hands on her shoulders.

"Do you think so?" Rhiannon asked with interest "I love that place, it's a replica of this one."

"Yeah, it would be good for the kids to be close. There are not many little ones here and the boys seem to have clicked." Ianto nodded, then turned to watch Jack lift Mica onto the sofa. Alice was watching the two boys who had unpacked the dog and had turned it on, waiting for it to power up with glee.

"OK, maybe the first thing we need to do is get supplies" Ianto sighed "Clothes and such first yeah? Bedding? Then we can sort what we are going to do."

Ianto led them out into the day, other people walking about with purpose and they found two children waiting for them nervously. The larger boy stepped forward "I am Orik. This is my sister Miko. We wondered if you wanna come play."

The kids looked at their parents as Ianto watched the little robot dog march over, startling and exciting them.

"I don't want a kitten or puppy just yet!" Ianto said suddenly, surprising everyone "Do not fall in love!"

They laughed as they ran off and Johnny glanced over at Ianto, "How do you know there are kittens and puppies?"

"There are always kittens and puppies" Ianto relied sagely "And always eagerness in finding a home. Be warned, there will be furry things in your future, part of the price for living here. Not that I really mind, I do like them but right now we need to settle in and get into a routine."

"Just like that!" Johnny snorted.

"Yes. Yes, this is it. The new world is here. The one you knew is gone"

"So we settle into this simple life, till the soil or whatever and what … fish and fucking grow veggies?" he scoffed, Ianto's face changing to one of anger.

"Well … we will do that. You can fuck right off if ya want to. Next contingent to the mainland can take you and drop you off … I am sure the Bots will be happy to find a willing slave!" Ianto snarled, his hands as fists at his sides "Abandon your kids and leave the only safety there is for you shall not take then with you. I will not allow that!"

"You will not allow that" Johnny parroted "Do you hear how stuck up you are?"

Jack swung, surprising everyone including Ianto who blinked slowly as the Captain towered over the man on the ground "you ever speak to my Holdfast like that again and I will till the soil with your fat arse! Now get up and pull your head in!"

Rhiannon was shaking as she spoke "How dare you. In a place of safety for our kids, somewhere others will not be allowed to come, will have to fend for themselves out there … do you think all survivors will flock here? They will open the borders and let them in? Use your brain. They could have left us … we could have left you. Now get off the ground and be a bloody man, such as you are!"

He slowly got up and as he straightened up Jack body slammed into him, their bodies flush and they faces nose to nose "And I will know if you hit her. Anywhere, anytime. I will know. You raise a hand to her and I will decimate you. She is Ianto's sister. That makes her mine too. We don't actually need you! You are only here for those kids."

Johnny gaped as Rhiannon nodded and started to walk away hand in hand with Ianto.

She felt….

Lighter.