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Chapter 7
It was exactly a week after the mini argument, about which qualities I got from who, between Ianto and Jack. I was still not at school, which I was still fine with; I hadn't been for around seven to eight weeks. The hub kept me busy, and I never got bored with it, which was new. I had stepped off the platform and it seemed that no one else had arrived yet. Well, no one apart from Jack and Ianto, since they lived in the hub. But it was 10:30am on a Saturday, so I couldn't blame them for not being in yet, also Gwen had Anwen – I had seen pictures of Gwen's daughter – so she probably couldn't get in yet. Jack was the first to catch site of me.
"Morgan, great. We need to speak with you, come sit down." Jack said waving me over to the sofa.
"Okay dockay." I replied, walking over to him.
I saw Ianto over by the coffee machine, typical. I sat down next to Jack. When Ianto came over he handed Jack the coffee, me a coke – he knew me so well now – and sat down next to me. Ianto had stopped wearing suits every day now, and today he was wearing black jeans and a red shirt – apparently red was his colour...and apparently Jack loved Ianto in red. I had known the two of them for about eight or nine weeks, but it seemed like I had known them longer. I found it strange, but I was ok with that.
"So what do you need to speak with me about?" I asked, sipping my coke.
Jack and Ianto shared a look, and they both sighed.
"We have something to ask you. But first we thought, since you seem more comfortable with the situation, we'd answer any questions you have, and if you want to know, why we gave you up." Ianto replied.
I looked from Ianto to Jack, and then down at the floor.
"Well...I do have a few, I guess." I said.
"Go on." Jack told me.
Jack and Ianto twisted so they were facing me. I took a deep breath. Anyway I asked the questions it would be awkward.
"Ok...Why did you give me up, for how long did you keep me before giving me up, how are you both my parents and why didn't I know from the beginning that I was fostered?" I rushed.
I knew it was a lot to ask all in one go but...I needed to know.
"Well, we didn't want you to know if you were fostered or adopted because we wanted you to have as normal a life as possible." Ianto told me.
"We don't know exactly how we both are your parents, but trust me we are. And we can prove it." Jack smiled.
"We kept you for two months before we gave you up." Ianto said.
They stopped. Telling me why they gave me up would be the most difficult, I knew that. I looked at the two men. It looked like they were trying to keep themselves together and find the words to say, this had to be the hardest thing for them to do. They twisted back round, so they were facing forwards. They glanced at each other every now and again. I put an arm around them, and hugged them. They looked at me, they looked a little shocked by what I was doing, but they also seemed a little relived.
"Take your time. I'm in no rush." I told them.
It was about five minutes before anyone talked again. Which was alright, it gave me time to think.
"You were four weeks old." Jack said. "We took you out. The three of us were sitting at a table. We didn't realise what had happened until we heard you scream."
"We saw an alien of some kind running off with you. We ran after it, but we lost it. We got a look at its face, when it turned back to see where we were. Tosh found the alien based on the description we gave her. It was a Pexo-lane." Ianto added.
"We all searched high and low for three days. And then we found the Pexo-lane's hide out. We could hear you crying, but we didn't know where you were. While Gwen, Owen and Tosh finished off the rest of Pexo-lane's we ran around trying to find you." Jack told me.
"It took a matter of minutes. It's surprising what parents can and will do, when their children are at stake. We found you in a room cold, scared and you were hurt. We knew then that we had to do something to keep you safe." Ianto said.
"You stayed at our side for a week; if you were going somewhere then you would be with at least one of us. You forgot everything by the time that week had passed. And that's when we made the decision that we had to give you up." Jack added.
"But it was to keep you safe. It was the hardest decision to make, and we had to run it by Tosh, Gwen, Owen, and the family. After a while they thought it was for the best, it took a couple of weeks though. Then we took you to the adoption place. It was the hardest thing we had to do. Ever." Ianto said.
My eyes went wide.
"I thought it was just a dream." I whispered.
"Huh?" they asked.
"I thought it was a dream. The room, I thought it was just a terrible dream that was happening to some poor child, but...it was a memory." I replied bewildered.
Tears ran hot down my face. That horrible dream I had, had actually happened.
It took a while to get over it and let what I had been told sink in.
"You ok?" Ianto asked, after a while.
"I'm getting there." I replied, laughing a little.
"It's natural to feel this way. Just take your time." Jack insisted.
I breathed.
"I'm fine, honestly." I told them. "Anyway, you said you wanted to ask me something after you answered my questions."
Ianto and Jack looked at each other and smiled a little.
"Now, we're not forcing you to do anything. It's just a suggestion." Ianto said.
Jack and Ianto shared a smile again.
"Ok, stop with the secretiveness, the anticipation is killing me." I said.
"Well, we were thinking..." Jack started.
"If you wanted..." Ianto added.
"We could...take back parental rights, take you off the adoption list and you can come live here again...with us...like a 'normal' family." Jack and Ianto said.
Did I really just here that, or were my ears playing tricks on me? My eyes went wide...again.
"Are you being serious?" I asked.
"Of course we are." Ianto said, his smile growing uncontrollably.
"So what do you say?" Jack asked.
I didn't know what to say. I wasn't expecting them to ask me that. Then again I wasn't expecting anything like this to happen. My eyes darted from side to side, my mind racing, my heart beating faster and faster. When I realised they actually meant what the said, I couldn't stop a smile from spreading across my face.
"What do I say? I say HELL TO THE YEAH!" I yelled.
"Really?" Jack and Ianto asked excitedly.
"Really." I smiled. "Do Michael and Julie know you're asking me?
"They came up with the idea as well."
I smiled.
"I love you dad and Tad." I said hugging them.
"We love you too." they replied.
Finally, my life was going back to normal.
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