8
Rhiannon opened the door and looked at the bedraggled mess being propped up by the most handsome man she had ever seen. Like, a damned movie star.
"Hi" Jack smiled softly, manoeuvring Ianto into the house and looking back at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Shit" she blurted, "Best get him up to the bedroom I guess. Second on the left is his when here."
Jack zoomed him up the stairs and she followed, watching shoes get levered off as well as jacket and trousers as Ianto sat morosely watching his hands moving about him. Finally Jack eased him into the bed and turned to face her, "Hi. Again. Jack, I'm Jack. Work with him. Ah. Rhiannon right? Sister? Right?"
"Yes" Rhiannon blinked as Ianto never spoke about her, it was weird to think someone else even knew the connection.
"We had a horrific day filming and Ianto has suffered for his art, some memories resurfaced and he is a bit fragile" Jack explained, "A death scene with a young lady that resembled your sister-in-law."
"She was my sister" she corrected.
"Really?" Jack said with surprise, "He said you were."
"He did?" she smiled with a warmth in her marrow, "Well, I guess I am now. We both cling to each other as all we have left of her. Well, and the kids."
"Kids"
"Yes, gods I better go" she sighed, "School getting out soon and I always pick them up from the After School Activity Club."
"Well. Um, nice to meet you" Jack smiled, then frowned as he looked at the parking space, "Shit. His car is still at the lot. Look, I will pick him up in the morning. Only one more lot of filming, the Hub scene with the Cyberwoman chasing us about. I think they are doing the pterodactyl attack this avo to give him the rest of the day off."
"The what?" she gaped, "Jesus he's been tight lipped on how much is reality and how much is fantasy but really? You know they were his favourite dinos as a kid, the flying ones. He was so excited to have a son, someone to share that love with. Dafyd does too, a real palaeontologist."
"Really?" Jack smiled softly "He named her, I gave him naming rights so he called her Myfanwy."
Rhiannon laughed as she headed out the door with him, pulling it shut gently, "Cheeky fella, he knows that was our mother's name. She never warmed to him ya know."
Jack laughed as well, glancing back one more time before driving off and he could have sworn he saw the curtain move up in the bedroom.
Ianto watched the flash SUV with TORCHWOOD stencilled into the metalwork crawl off, then he changed into a pair of jogging pants and some trainers. He went downstairs and checked the time, knowing he could do the entire estate and be back before his sister-in-law so he took off out the back door and leapt the back garden fence with ease as his Parkour kicked in. He was soon traversing alleys and coasting along rooftops as he tried to shake off the bad dreams he knew would visit him in the dark.
On one hand he was pleased tomorrow was the last day of production for the week, the lighthouse better soundproofed against his cries in the night and with his children sleeping in the room next door at Rhia's he knew he would not sleep at all unless he took one of those dreaded pills.
No.
Better not.
Ianto slid down a drainpipe and came face to face with Banana Boat who blinked softly, "Mandem. You just blow my mind Yan."
"Hey BB" Ianto puffed, "Just clearing me head. A lots of shit in here ya know."
"Yeah" he sighed softly, then brightened, "Oi! You remember Rhys? The big fella from the rugby team?"
"Yeah, nice guy"
"His missus is in some new show, one of those Alt-reality shows and he's gonna have a wee pat in it" BB told him and Ianto blinked.
"Gwen?"
"Yeah her, apparently they are supposed to just be dating on it, something about sexual tension between her and the lead fella, some sort of hottie" BB laughed and Ianto found himself clasping his hands into fists.
They were not supposed to tell anyone, Christ on a Harley, the Pilot hadn't even aired yet. What the hell was she thinking?
After he had eaten, Ianto headed home and even got a shower in before hearing the familiar song of welcome, or at least two children arguing ferociously over the TV remote.
"Hey guys" he said softy and they swung to face him, their delight at his early homecoming obvious.
"Taddy, are you finished?" Mica asked hopefully.
"One more day tomorrow, just a little scene or two in the studio and we can go home for the weekend pet" he smiled as he settled on the sofa and accepted his son in his lap, even though Dafyd was really a bit big.
"What do you do tomorrow" Dafyd asked and Ianto hummed as he rubbed his back.
"Just splashing in a wee pool and stuff, pretending to be dying or something" Ianto sighed theatrically, "Damn not knowing how to swim."
The kids laughed at their father who swam like a fish around the cove from the lighthouse when it was dark and rainy then promptly let the subject drop.
Ianto wondered if he needed to tell the show Gwen had blabbed and then promptly forgot about it as well.
Not his problem.
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Lightening has fried my Modem and it looks like it will be 3-7 working days before another modem can be set up for my internet at home, therefore this is only possible today as I am at the library while in town. This looks like I will be going dark for a while, will try to post every second days if I can, while in town but no promises. When it is finally fixed I promise a multi-chap osting to make up for it. Sorry guys. I am gutted too. Look at it this way...what might I write while distracted?