A/N A new chapter for you, a bit of fluff, a lot of drama... Hope you'll like it!
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Chapter 23
'Ianto, where do you want this box, I thinks it's books! It sure feels like it…'
'Didn't know you were so weak, sweetheart?' Ianto joked mockingly, and received an evil glare as his only response, before his partner went to put the box in their study.
Jack and Ianto were in the middle of their move, when Jack received his call.
The boys had started by looking at houses on the web, and then they had chosen a few to go see, and the fourth one they visited, they both felt straight away, this was it, they fell in love with it at the spot. It was a big house, four bedrooms, with a lovely garden. This was where they wanted to raise their family. There was room for a nursery, and whenever Alice wanted to visit, she would have her own room. This idea turned out to be very good and very important.
Jack's phone rang and he left Ianto with the boxes, taking the call in the garden. A few minutes later he came back, and Ianto knew right away that something was very wrong. Jack's face was expressionless and numb, and as soon as he passed a chair in the kitchen where Ianto was un-packing, he slouched down on it.
'What's wrong, Jack? Who rang?'
'That was a hospital in London…' Jack began, but couldn't finish his sentence.
'What's happened? Is there something wrong with Alice?' Ianto was now beginning to panic, he needed to know what the call had been about. He was slightly calmed by Jack's shaking of the head.
'It's Lucia… They were both in the car when a drunken driver hit them… Lucia was killed on the spot, Alice is at the hospital that just called. She's in shock, understandably. They want us to come as soon as possible; we're the only other relatives she has…'
'Of course, Jack, get your jacket, it'll be night when we get to London, I'll go get the car.'
Jack was in a daze, during the entire drive to London, and this trip was very different from the first one they had taken a few months earlier. When they arrived at the hospital in London, Ianto took charge, and led Jack by the hand to the reception desk, where they were shown to the room where Alice was.
They opened the door to find the girl sleeping, a nurse by her side, but as though she felt the presence of her father, she woke up and as soon as she saw them, she sat up and ran towards them, wrapping her arms around them both, and started to cry again, when she felt safe in their arms. Ianto led the two of them out to the car, where he installed them in the backseat, before going back to Cardiff again. The drive back was silent, especially since Jack and Alice soon fell asleep, completely worn out from crying. How things had changed in the last months.
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