Chap 6
"What if she changes her mind?" Jack tried to reason with Ianto who was pacing outside the room.
"Look, she's not just filled it out. She gave it to the social worker. She's had this in mind before today" Owen answered as Ianto rubbed his face and looked at Jack wearily.
"So? What are the rules here? Where do things lay?" Ianto asked and Jack's answer was to ring an old friend in the court system.
The judge had told Jack that without a DNA test, Ianto was now legally the father with all parental rights. If she didn't want the child he could legally take it. No need to do an adoption or seek court approval.
"If she wanted to sign over parental rights, we can legally own him" Jack told Ianto who turned on him.
"He's a little boy! Not a fucking possession!" Ianto snarled, then his face crumbled as he reached for Jack's reassurance.
"Hey, it's OK tiger. We'll sort this. She's tired, hormonal and not thinking straight. In a few days she'll want him. She'll love him. I know she will" Jack soothed as Ianto sniffled into his neck.
"God I love you" came a muffled replay and Jack grinned.
Jack knew it was a done deal the moment they looked through the window at the little skinned rabbit fighting for his life. Jack placed his hand on the glass and cooed before Ianto. Poor little mite.
Chrystal again refused to talk about it, already planning her travel home and lamenting her belly over the phone. She wouldn't tell them where she was and Ianto found that he really didn't care.
"I thought I would go down now the bloody thing is out!" she moaned and Ianto walked the length of the room to regain his temper before he said something he might regret.
Jack was thinking on his feet, the papers arriving by cycle courier within an hour of his phone calls. By the time Ianto finished the hopeless phone call he was the Taddy of a new born baby boy.
Ianto knew he should be angry and he knew that he was definitely disappointed in her but really? If he had a gun to his head he might admit that maybe, just maybe this was easier to accept than he was making out.
Chrystal was happy to leave, Jack was happy to let her go after ensuring that she had no claim to the baby with ot without her family's influence. And Ianto? He didn't know what to feel.
All he knew for sure was that he was going to need baby gear.
As his mind began compiling he realised the simple truth.
It was a done deal. The poor little unnamed baby was his and if he survived he would be one of the most spoilt little monsters on the face of this planet.