6 Six fools a-playing

Ianto was short of breath but determined to win this, taking careful aim and letting it out softly as he fired.

Owen roared as the snowball exploded on the back of his head and he swung to glare at Ianto "You are lucky I had my helmet on, you might have killed me!"

Rhys yodelled as he let fly, this time hitting Owen's arse "And is that helmeted too?"

"Mother fucker!" Owen screamed.

"OI! It's Cooper Fucker to you!" Rhys replied and Gwen popped up out of a snow drift.

"RHYS!"

"There she is!" Tosh screamed with glee, letting loose a volley with some strange contraption she had created with a gas cylinder and some drain pipe as Jack gleefully dropping snowball after snowball through a hole in the top.

"Awwwwww, not fair! I didn't know we could use weapons!" Owen wailed, "JACK! I wanna weapon!"

"Here's one" Ianto called, Owen turning as another snow ball slammed into him. Ianto waited a beat then said calmly "Catch."

"YOU BASTARD MOTHER FUCKER!"

"Captain Fucker thank you very much!" Ianto said jauntily, another snowball fired as Owen ducked and Rhys grunted as it hit him square in the face.

"Time out, I want a waste paper basket like his!" Rhys pointed at Owen who stuck his tongue out then looked horrified, Ianto starting to laugh as he guessed why.

"Tell me Owen, how does that metal latticework taste?" Ianto asked with glee, "Or … cat got your tongue?"

"What's happening?" Gwen struggled to her feet, brushing off the snow.

"He has his tongue stuck to the metal lattice of the rubbish bin" Ianto giggled.

"It's OK, I can fix it!" Jack said as he strode towards him "Owen get on your knees. I will have to pee on your head!"

Owen was actually almost on his knees before he processed the comment, raising again "Waith a godddmmm minuth!"

Ianto rolled his eyes, "Come on Owen. I have some bottled water in the SUV"

"THANGOOOO!"

"thangoo!" Rhys sniggered, "OK, I admit it. This is fun!"

"Do you think he likes it?" Jack asked watching Ianto fuss over Owen like a mama bird finding her baby bird fallen from the nest.

"He is having fun, you know Ianto is happy fussing and pretending to be put out" Toshiko assured him.

"I hope so … the last week or so has been a bit crazy and he's not had much sleep with all the clean-up. Christmas is always a shit time for him, his mama died at Christmas ya know" Jack sighed and Gwen looked at Jack with horror.

"He never told us that!"

"He never tells anyone anything about his … all sorted Tiger?" Jack smiled as Ianto approached, his face one of consternation.

"We were until Rhys dared him to lick the SUV" Ianto replied calmly, "you know … he's a bit of a fool."

"Which one?" Jack asked, then squeaked as his feet were swept out from under him, Gwen screaming as Tosh yodelled with glee and Jack rode Gwen like a slide down into the side of the SUV.

"Dear Gods!" Ianto sighed "Maybe we all are. Six Fools out here. Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but obviously Welsh bastards play in blizzards!"

"And me!" Jack said from the snow bank he and Gwen had turned to slide into now, "What about me?"

"Well, there may be a bit of Welsh in you sir …" Ianto said as he helped him up, brushing the coat down. Then he said what he knew would get them back to the warmth of the Hub "…Maybe later in the shower like?"

Six fools in an SUV traversed the snowy ground

Screaming and yelling as they scraped and slid

Back home safe and sound!