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Ianto decided to take Wick around the neighbourhood to say hi to everyone, the little three wheeler pushbike with a handle on it was perfect to push the little bugger about as he waved and chortled happily. Jack was happy to take a kitty nap, the impending birth so tiring on his body.

Ianto was pleased to see other children running over to say hi and show interest in the little one. It did not matter if they were Were or Kelpie, they were happy. Ianto noticed someone walking towards him and he raised a hand to wave but then felt a shift in the air, letting his hand instead reach down to hook his son from the little bike seat and swing him back into the arms of the woman standing nearby with her children talking to the little man.

"Oh" she squeaked with delight, hugging the little one as Ianto stormed forward to meet the man who had entered his area without permission or warning, slamming into him.

"Easy there partner" the man laughed, placing his hands between them to shove Ianto back but instead of Ianto stepping back the man found himself flying back into the hedgerow. He lay there blinking as Ianto growled… a deep rumble as he lowered his head, going into a semi-crouch.

"I am not your partner. I am not your friend, amigo, buddy or mate" Ianto said as he continued to glare at the man "Right now… I am the danger."

""You!" the man laughed as he looked around at the slowly forming crowd "A little Were like you? Get over yourself worm… I am the High Councillor of… gleeeeep?"

Ianto reached out and cut the man's words off with a hand to the throat, squeezing enough to silence anyone or anything, but not enough to cause permanent damage… yet … "Listen here… worm… I am not interested in your fake titles or bullshit reason for trying to piss in my patch. All I know for certain right now is that you are uninvited, called me a Were and seem to think you are of a higher pecking order to those who ACTUALLY have a right to be here!"

"Oh shit" Warren said softly as he came upon the scene "High Councillor Grenville. You know... you were told that there was a way of doing things if you wanted an audience with the Kelpie Leader. What are you doing here?"

Ianto said without turning away from his prey "Grenville can't talk right now, if you leave your name and a short message he might remember it briefly as he convulses and dies from the snap of the neck I am about to break!"

"Please Ianto... he is my uncle via me mum" Warren sighed. "She will have my guts for garters if I don't at lest ask for mercy here."

Ianto considered and then placed the dangling toy back on its feet, releasing him to wobble for a bit as he gasped for air. Ianto then disregarded him as he turned to warren "Your mum? She seems a level headed Were, how the hell did she get a brother like that?"

"I wonder that sometimes myself" Warren grinned.

"You…you…" Grenville choked out "I want your name, pack designation and name of your fucking Alpha for this…this…"

"I am Ianto Icarus Jones, I have no designation except for Kelpie and no one rules me. I am the Dragon Borne Old Blood Reborn King. So fuck you and the stupid little red Honda Civic you drove up in."

Giggling started as Ianto rocked back on his heels and regarded the man now trying to fathom what was just said "Kelpie… bullshit. They are big fucking horses wading about in water!"

"No. That's the Scottish Cousins. We are Welsh." Ianto said calmly "We prefer Dog form."

"Bullshit."

Ianto shrugged and then transformed, his sudden change into a huge slathering beast that was larger than a supposedly fuckable little red Honda Civic. Ianto then grinned, letting the rows upon rows of teeth appear like a shark. A land shark. Yeah… he liked that one… then it happened.

The snout changed first, the surprise evident in everyone including Ianto as the fur folded, slicked and became scale, like a chain reaction dominoes fell across his body, rendering fur to scale as they flicked and gelled until a huge red dragon stood on the side of the road staring down at the frozen Were.

"Wow" Warren said after a few beats "That's a new one friend."

"Seemed a good time to show it off… give it so airrrrrrr" Ianto breathed on Grenville and watched the man pale, then yelp as he spun to run from Ianto, yelping like a dog kicked.

Ianto picked up a huge front paw and examined it, curious to find little pads on his feet "Look… I didn't know dragons have kitty cat paws under those claws and scales."

Unafraid, the Weres and Kelpies alike all crowded in to see as Ianto held out his paw for them. Little pink pads like a kitty cat. Suddenly Ianto found himself a little more respected by the men and maybe.. .a little more interesting to the women…. Ok. And some men. We all know that one is a given.

I mean…

hello…

Ianto of here!

Sigh.