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Jack had another nugget ready to go and Ianto wailed that he hated nuggets and wanted them gone.
"Ta!" Anwen said happily swimming over to Andy and settling in his lap with the rest of the nuggets, offering him one.
"What do you need!" Jack was frantic to provide and he wrung his hands as he tried to think of something to offer.
"FRIED BREAD!" Ianto screamed and Rhys started to wade for the edge of the pool.
"Right, on it sweetie" he said as he got out and raced upstairs, a towel flapping.
Ianto groaned softly as another spasm occurred and Jack was there, kissing and crooning as he told the bump to be a good boy for Taddy.
The water swished and Ianto decided it was too cold so the rocks they had kicked apart five minutes before due to his demands that it was too hot were pushed back together.
Rhys hurried down with the bread, shoving it at Andy as he climbed back in and Anwen grabbed a piece with glee.
"Look at us, three in the bloody morning, it looks like an orgy and there's a wee girl in here eating all the food" Mickey giggled as he slid his arms under Ianto to spell Jack.
Ianto looked at the piece of bread being offered and made a noise in his throat, making Jack bark a warning to sit him up as he rushed for the empty bowl the nuggets had been in. He barely made it back to Ianto before the nuggets started coming up, Ianto crying with fatigue.
"Swap" Jack said, wanting Ianto back in his arms and he told him it was OK as he pulled him to the shallow part so he could sit with Ianto between his legs, rubbing the stomach.
"Oh god" Ianto wailed, letting his head fall back.
"I love you" Jack said as he watched the pain flicker across Ianto's face, "I love you so much baby."
"Oh ….SHIT" Ianto roared as he bore down and the water started to change colour as his waters broke, signalling the baby's readiness.
Martha was entranced, watching the birthing canal quiver then open and Ianto was panting as Maddy took the other side, opposite Jack, humming encouragement to her little nephew.
Ianto cried out softly, gripping their hands as he bore down like a trooper, Martha yelling as the head crowned.
"Holly shit" Andy said and then a loud THUD had them all looking, even Ianto, at the passed out Rex.
Now Ianto was laughing through the pain, Rhys telling them to leave the silly bugger.
Then Ianto gave a roar that was almost animalistic as he bore down and Martha reached for the baby, Maddy getting there first and she disappeared under the water with the other two, welcoming the child to an underwater freedom.
"Where….where is he…..where….." Ianto was gulping out, panting and looking worriedly at the bubbling surface, then they erupted with the baby held high and then the first breath was taken, the tiny mouth opening and a tiny cry issued forth.
Maddy carefully placed the newborn on Ianto's chest and he started to cry with joy, the tiny child perfectly formed and lusty.
"He's gorgeous" Jack sobbed, "Oh darling. He has your chin but the rest ….oh Gods, he looks just like me!"
Ianto looked up at Maddy and whispered his thanks as she held him, supporting them in the water a Jack crowed that he was a Harkness through and through.
"Wait" Jack stopped jumping in the water "We don't have a name!"
"Yes he does" Ianto said with wonderment as he watched a tiny hand grasp at the Predator's mandibles, "Tucker. Tuck for short, in honour of Rumtuck. Tucker Harkness-Jones."
Jack stood blinking as he considered then a strange sound had everyone starting with surprise. Maddy was making it, her hands waving in the air and it took them a few moments to realise she was crying.
"Brother, you honour us" she finally choked out, "Rumtuck lives on."
"I love it" Jack finally said, "Tuck. A good name!"
"Strong yet fun" Martha agreed, "He will be a fighter."
"Yes" the dark Predator said, "He tried to bite me under the water. He already knows what he wants and it was his parental."
Ianto wasn't listening, totally blessed out as his tiny little man found a nipple and latched on, feeding for the first time.
"Oh Cariad, look!" he wept and Jack smiled as he watched the wonder of Mother Nature, coming through when heeded.
"My little son" Jack whispered, "You will be brave, strong and fierce!"
"Yes" Maddy agreed, "You will be a champion."
"My baby" Ianto sighed as he drifted in Jack's arms, "So happy."
Jack kissed him and poured all his love into it, the warm water healing his brave beloved.
Their son drank his fill.