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Ianto settled in the bedding and took a deep cleansing breath, humming it out as he waited for Jack.
Caden slid into the room and stood watching for a moment, then left in search of his Daddy who was downstairs talking with the bugs.
"He is feeling the heat so I would rather we don't over excite him…hey Stormy" Jack lifted Caden to his hip, "Mavis, maybe he will eat something light if you insist, you know he hates saying no to you but he's not eaten since yesterday morning."
"Bennu is taking the room because he is getting ready" Caden said just as calmly, "He's singing."
The bugs all made happy noises at the little one they considered their wee buggly boy. They did know what the wee one was saying, they were getting ready as well and the thought of the impending hatching had them all excited.
Jack grunted and placed Caden back on his feet as he grimaced and rubbed at his back, "Damn I pulled a muscle pushing that bed over to the window."
The bugs watched with gleaming eyes as his hands slid to the front, cradling the stomach that was not really there.
Mavis turned to another and they had a clicking conversation that had several bursting to life and rushing off as Caden clasped his hands together happily. Caden shot off back upstairs with several bugs in tow, finding Ianto still on the bed but now uncovered except for a corner of the sheet across his lap.
He was hot.
"Tadda?"
Ianto rolled has head to look at the one clutching the edge of the bed with excitement.
"Is Bean ready?"
"Yeah" Ianto smiled, "I think so. I feel a happiness and newness."
"Yay" Caden crowed as quietly as he could, Henry leaning in to look at the belly with alarm as it seemed to move.
"It's OK Henry, it's the baby moving" Ianto explained, "See this bump? It's his head. Oh shit."
"Bad word Tadda."
"Caden love, go call Poppy would you love, tell him I need a word?" Ianto whispered and the little man happily went to obey, used to calling his grandfather all the time.
"Hi Poppy" Caden said as he waved to the smiling man in the screen, "Bean is ready and Tadda said shit then said he wants to talk to you. I think because bean is coming and there is no hole? Beanie is asking where the hole is. Do we not have a hole?"
"Shit"
"See?" Caden said to Henry who stood beside him with mandibles pressed together "They say it a lot."
"Caden" Ianto was calling out, soft laughter as he had heard the conversation, "Sweetling, I will have the bean in the big bathtub. My body will know what to do and it will make a hole as our kind do. Don't worry love, it will not hurt me so much as feel weird. OK?"
Jack came in with a frown, "Babe is Storm with, ah there he is. Sweetie, wanna come to town?"
"Nope, wanna see beanie born" came the sedate reply as Ianto huffed softly and clutched at his stomach.
"what? Oh shit!"
"See?" Caden whispered to Henry, "What did I tell you?"
"What do we do" Jack was moving in a slow circle as Mavis walked past calmly with salts in her claws, "Shit, Owen, I have to call Owen and your dad? You want your dad? Shit."
"Caden already called Papa he is there watching see? You can call Owen, I have a long time yet, the opening is just a thin membrane here at the moment, it will take a few hours to become I think." Ianto soothed, "Mavis is running the bath for me to lay in and Bennu will come out when he feels ready."
"I gotta pee" Jack spluttered and Ianto snorted with mirth as Jack jigged on the spot like Caden then took off to the bathroom, Mavis shooting out with a look of horror, no mean feat for a bug.
The roar of the large Transporter arriving resounded as it dropped with more speed than probably necessary and it landed with a dull thud, the Brig racing for the house with arms flapping as Yvonne followed with their little one, her little eyes gleaming as she felt the bond growing.
Ianto soon found himself in the warm water feeling so fine, Jack naked in with him even as Ianto repeatedly reminded him who was giving birth, bloody exhibitionist did at least make Ianto feel like he wasn't in this alone.
"Give me that towel to drape over our bits" Ianto insisted, "Go get Alice. She needs to see that I am OK, this is all OK. I don't want her scared. The children should be here."
"For the birth?" Jack asked with surprise.
"No reason why not" Owen answered as he entered, "We can cover the bottom half with a sheet, I know what I am doing and the body knows what it is doing, beanie knows what he is doing, shit I am calling him that as well"
"See?" Caden whispered and Henry nodded as that word was used yet again by another Grup.
Must be a good one.