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"Everyone needs a thinking spot"

Ianto walked slowly up the road, knowing where he would find Ton.

He had been annoyed to learn that while he and Jack had been enjoying Date Night, Ton had been fighting with Imp about the book. The little shit had stirred Ton up by making fun of some of the chapters, telling Ton his own book would be better without such silly things.

Ton was where he always was when thinking. On Rocky.

Jack had offered to move Rocky to the Horse field behind the new house like they had the pagoda only to get a look of horror from Ton who told him that would be horrible as what would everyone else use for a special spot?

"Hey Love" Ianto said as he settled next to him, remembering the time honoured rule as he kicked off his shoes and leaned back "And hello Rocky."

"Imp is a tool."

"Yes. Brothers are" Ianto agreed "Me and Gene sometimes hit each other, broke favourite toys and even blamed one another for things we did bad"

"Really?" Ton gaped "MY Uncle Gene?"

"We were horrible children. I don't know why my parentals wanted us really. They should have stopped with Gene, taking me and Rhiannon on as well was madness." Ianto laughed. "Or they might have done better breeding dogs"

"But you took me. And Imp … sort of the same I guess. All of us … Walter is the only one you thought you would have" Ton considered "Do you regret it?"

"Never. Not for single heartbeat would I EVER regret having any of you … even if Babs sometimes makes my teeth hurt" Ianto assured him happily, "You know Imp is jealous right?"

"What?"

"Imp is jealous. Walt has a book, although Babs doesn't have one, I wrote one for her remember? Fen is doing the book on aircraft with Daddy and … well. What is Imp doing as a project? He's feeling left out. You need to remember that he is terribly clever. Of all of you children, he is the most intelligent but also the baby. Too young to do most things he wants to."

"I didn't think about that" Ton flopped back to lay next to his Tad, "He needs something too."

"If you think of something … let me know" Ianto patted his knee as he rose, "Got to be something I can do with him."

Ton watched a cloud pass overhead and let Rocky warm his back.

Gotta be something Imp and Taddy do that is special.