5

It was Kara who worked it out, of course she did. She was her Taddy's daughter after all.

"Tad?"

Ianto looked up from the food he was pushing around the plate.

Salad.

"Tad, this health kick you are on is admirable but you hate salad" she sighed as she settled to pluck a cherry tomato from his plate.

Ianto sighed as he pushed the plate back, "There was chicken too love. I promise I ate that."

"Gotta keep up your energy. Also, I got these in case you need them like" she shrugged as she placed the multi-vitamins on the table.

Ianto looked at them in silence.

"Tad? They want the child. I'm not a child and they are Time Agency so they know I am fully grown. If they want me they would go back when I was small and take me, before Dad was here to help right? Dad did say they were sometimes off by a few months or so. It's not me they want is it."

Ianto sighed as he leaned back.

"You're hiding it. Why?" she frowned.

"So much going on, I …. I got a feeling when the stabilizing was settling with the walls." Ianto shrugged again.

"You were not Jump Sick. That was….oh my god. Are you telling me that you came for me knowing…I mean… if you had died…." She looked at him with new horror.

"You are my baby" Ianto said softly hoping she wouldn't know that he had…slightly…sort of…, "For you I would give up anything and everything, especially something that isn't even real yet. Was not real yet. It was not even a flutter in my gut, not even real."

"Six months, you're more than six months. That's why you are exercising and watching the intake. You are hiding it" she was now more confused than ever.

"Sweetheart, this is an age of any things, a lot more acceptances but what do you think they will make of a pregnant man around here?" he asked, "Seriously. This is the wrong time to be cooking a bun in the oven."

"Bun, yum" Jack said as he plonked into his chair and Ianto stared at him with mute shock, Kara gasping as she realised he didn't know. "Babe, are you going to sleep in the bed with me tonight? Willem is here and Gino is sleeping on the pull out. Come on, it's been nearly two weeks you've slept out there like a bloody faithful dog on duty."

"You've not told him either?"

"Told me? We've hardly had time for a cuddle lately" Jack looked between them, then looked at Kara, "Wait! A bun in the oven. Are you telling me that bloody Were needs skinning alive? Kara, I thought you would know the need for birth control. Jesus wept, these last few months have been dangerous, no place for a baby."

"Thought maybe it would be a mote point" Ianto threw his arms up in defeat as he ignored Jack, focusing on his daughter still, "Almost was earlier this week, right? If I had fallen, it would be gone."

"But you didn't and it's still there. Tad! Were you this bloody blinkered when pregnant with me? Seriously?"

Jack frowned as he listened to their argument, Ianto sullenly pulling his robe around himself more as he felt a chill nobody else did, "When I was pregnant with you I hid. Yes, I burrowed in like a fucking mole and even had meals delivered. I hid. You. I was ready to do anything I had to in order to protect you."

"And now, what's different?" she demanded with open rage.

"Nothing" he roared as he rose, his robe swinging open to show the slight curve of his belly before he pulled the robe closed again "For you I would sacrifice everything!"

Kara sat silent.

Jack's eyes followed the movement of Ianto's hands as he pulled the robe closed again, tucking it around the bump and then he took a deep breath.

"Ianto are you preggers?"

Ianto looked down at him with annoyance "What?"

Jack stared at him.

"Yes. Well, apparently yes. That's what they want, OK? That's the problem. This one. Not her after all. I think she set off alarms that she was related to the one they want. The offspring is not her, her sibling, OK?" Jack blinking as Ianto ranted, "I am up the duff. Preggers and bloody stuffed!"

"Any coffee?" Gino broke the silence as he wandered past like the two sitting with their mouths open as the one standing with his hands on his hips yelled about pregnacy, robe swinging was nothing.

"Fresh in the pot" Ianto said sagely.

"Ta"

The Were wandered back out and looked at his brother who was sitting in the lounger with his head in his hands, "You know, I like this lot. Not like humans at all are they. More like us, animalistic."

"Yeah" Willem said weakly, unable to think of any other response.

Bloody mad animals.

They grew on you.