Notes: Chapter number two, and I think each chapter is gonna be longer than the one before at this rate. Anyways, hope you all enjoy, and thanks again for the good feed back!
Tamsyn quickly pulled her hands away from her father's and moved back from him.
"Forgive you?" she asked. "You've lied to me for the last twenty-six years." she said. "My whole life." she crossed her slim arms over her chest and started at him. "The name on my birth certificate?"
"Tamsyn Grace Lane is your name..." Henry said.
"No, my mother's name." she corrected him, anger starting to creep into her tone. "Rhyne Neal." she said. "Who is that? Did she even exsist?"
"In a round about way, yes." he answered weakly. "Rhyne Neal is an anagram of my name." he explained. "So technically..."
"How did you get that birth certificate?" Jack asked as he watched Tamsyn pace around again, wringing her hands.
"A doctor friend of mine." Henry replied.
"And this huge secret, your daughter's safety." Jack went on. "You couldn't trust me, but the village idot slash drunk, him you trusted. The man who'd do or say anything to get a leg over?"
"I wasn't really thinking." Henry said defensively, sweat starting to build up on his brow. "He was there when I found Tamsyn, he was there when she was born. I didn't know who, if anyone I could trust. And you, you'd go off for weeks on end, I knew so little about you, Jack."
"Hatched, I think you mean." Tamsyn ground out between clenched teeth. "How could you not tell me?" she asked again, "Especially when I came to you so excited about the fact that Callum and I were going to have a baby. I knew you seemed worried, but I thought it was just normal fatherly worrying."
"Part of it was." Henry quickly answered. "Most of it was worry that your baby may look like you when you were born."
"Look like me?" she asked as she sat down. "What did I look like."
"Mostly human." he assured her. "But, there was the small matter of a tail and a horn."
"You were born horny." Jack laughed. "People have accused me of that, but with you it's true." his smile faded at the look Tamsyn shot him. "Sorry."
"A horn and a tail. So, when I had Emily, the doctors could either said, "Congratulations, Mrs.Reid, it's a girl, just mind the tail and horn, they look a bit fragile." she snorted, "Or I could have laid an egg right there the delivery room." she said, almost wishing it had been more than some spoons she'd put out before he got there. "Why don't I have them now? Did your doctor friend take care of that for you as well?"
"No, the tail fell off once you learned to walk." Henry answered. "And the horn broke off when you tripped over the dog once. That small scar on the tip of your nose..."
"I had a horn on my nose?" she squeeked a bit as her fingers instinctively flew to the tip of that appendage.
"You remember when I took you to the zoo and they explained how alligators and crocodiles have them on the end of their snouts, they use them to break out of their eggs." Henry reminded her. "The same thing. Your's just didn't seem to be the temporary type. Duchess took care of that though."
"So, her tail was a sort of training wheel?" Jack asked, not being able to help himself.
"Yes, actually. Only when she was about to fall backwards though." Henry laughed. "Forwards she was out of luck. And you should have seen her cornering when she ran about the house. It seemed to help with balance there."
"Do you have pictures?" Jack asked, unable to contain his amusement at the images that played in his mind. "Home videos perhaps?"
"Jack!" Tamsyn cried in horror.
"No, I wish I did though." Henry answered, ignoring his daughter's annoyance. "And by god, you should have seen her swim!"
"It must have acted as a rutter!" Jack chortled, tears starting to form at the mental picture.
"That's it!" Tamsyn cried. "Both of you, out!" she said as she stood up, grabbed Jack's long coat, threw it at him and opened the front door. "Leave!"
"Syn, I'm sorry." Henry said, "It just brought back such fond memories. Please, I'll do anything."
"Both of you go, please." Tamsyn said again, looking on the verge of tears. "Jack will you tell Tosh that I will be there to help her get ready for her date."
"Tamsyn.." Jack started, suddenly sobered of his near hsyterical laughter.
"I need to talk to Callum." she said as she impatiently waited for them to leave. "I think my husband has the right to know he's spent the last decade with a bloody alien who hatched from an egg."
"You drove me, in case you forgot." he reminded her.
"I'll give you a lift." Henry said, knowing his daughter too well to argue anymore. "I'll ring you later, Syn. I'm sorry again." he added as he made to give her a kiss, but she jerked away.
Sitting his his car, Henry sighed deeply and looked at Jack.
"You know, I'd hoped we'd run into one another again, just not like this." he said.
"I'm sorry." Jack answered. "I just wanted to know where'd you taken off to, and why you'd never mentioned her." he added. "I'm sorry, too, that you didn't feel like you could trust me."
"It's history now." Herny replied as he looked at his daughter's front door. "What kind of a freak of nature are you that you haven't aged at all in twenty-five years?"
"You don't think this is natural?" Jack asked, a little bit offended.
"No, but you know what, I feel like hell, so I don't really feel like listening to a bunch of rubbish I probably won't believe." he said as he shook his head. "I'll drop you off and then I'm heading for a pub." he said as he started the engine and took off, Tamsyn watching from the window as she listened to the ringing on her phone, needing Callum to answer.
"How did lunch go?" Ianto asked as he set a cup of fresh coffee on Jack's desk. "Get to talk to Henry?" he asked.
"Yes." Jack answered. "And it didn't go so well."
"Really?" Ianto asked, smiling. "I mean, I'm sorry. I get the impression the two of you..."
"Were over long, long ago." Jack finished for him. "It was Tamsyn who it didn't go well for, before you gloat too much, by the way."
"What?" he asked, suddenly concerned. As long as it was a bad reunion between Jack and one of his countless ex's it was good, but if his friend had been hurt. "What happened?"
"You two are buddies, I'm sure she'll share with you and Tosh if she feels like it." Jack said as his head turned in the direction of the large door opening. "Excuse me." he said as he went down and greeted Tamsyn, who was looking reasonably worn and worried.
"I'm just here for Tosh." she said as she made to move past him.
"I know." Jack answered. "Did you get hold of Callum?" he asked.
"Yes, he'll be catching a train tonight." Tamsyn answered as she waved over to Tosh who was finishing up some work.
"You need to talk to him." Jack said quietly. "You can't stay mad forever."
"Please just butt out of it." Tamsyn said, sounding very tired . "Almost ready, Tosh?" she called over.
"Almost, just have to save this file..." Tosh answered. "There we go, just need to grab my stuff."
"Where are you two off to?" Owen asked as he sauntered over.
"Shopping, Tosh has a big date tonight." Tamsyn answered with a smile.
"A date?" Owen asked. "Alien, soldier pop?" he asked with a grin.
"Callum's new seargant." Tamsyn snapped as she scratched at the small abrasion on her shoulder.
"Oh." the doctor answered, feeling a little less cocky. "That scratch bothering you?" he asked. "I've got a good cream if it is."
"Yeah, that'd be good thanks." Tamsyn replied with a weak smile.
"You feeling alright?" Jack asked.
"I'm fine." she replied as Tosh walked up. "Let's be off then." she said as she took the offered cream from Owen and was out the door quickly.
"None of these things would look good on me." Tosh complained as they searched the racks. "All of them are so low-cut and so short."
"You've a nice figure, Tosh, show it off." Tamsyn said as she held up a dark blue dress to her friend.
"This is nice, I guess." Tosh answered, not really feeling so sure of any of the clothes. "I've got a closet full of things, Syn, I could just wear something I've got."
"Your work clothes on a date?" Tamsyn laughed. "Go for that red dress." she said,completely sure of herself. "Trust me, Nick will love it." she added as she knelt down in front of a shoe rack. As she stood up to show Tosh a nice pair of heels, she suddenly felt lightheaded and stumbled back into the clothes rack behind her.
"Syn, are you all right?" Tosh asked, dropping the skirt she was looking at.
"Yes, I'm fine." Tamsyn answered. "I didn't have lunch. That and I stood up too fast. Really, Tosh, it's all right." she said, trying and failing to laugh it off. "Come on, let's buy this stuff so we can get you ready."
"Are you sure?" Tosh asked as she followed Tamsyn to the registers.
"Yes." was the curt reply. "I'm sorry, I don't mean to snap. I've just had a hell of a day."
"If you're sure." Tosh said as she handed over her credit card. "God, I'm nervous."
Tosh woke up the next morning, feeling a couple of things. Firstly, that sleeping with a guy on a first date, was a mistake, secondly, she was very glad that she'd made that particular mistake because it had been wonderful.
She went into the bathroom and was getting ready to step into the shower while Nick made them some breakfast. She heard the phone ringing, her home phone, so obviously not work. The ringing stopped and Nick stuck his head in the room.
"It's Mrs.Reid on the phone, Tosh." he said as he held out the receiver. "She sounds kinda frantic."
In less than ten minutes, Tosh was at Tamsyn and Collum's door knocking as loud and as hard as she could.
"Come in." she heard Tamsyn answer.
When she walked in, she followed the noise in the kitchen and stopped in her tracks and what greeted her.
"Something is very wrong." Tamsyn said, crying, as she stood in front of Tosh, looking about four months pregnant.
"We need to get you to the hub." Tosh said as she grabbed her friend's hand and was out the door.