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"whatcha doing?"
Ianto was used to this now, Owen's form of hello. He clicked a few more buttons and finally answered "I am going over the photos from the Drone you sent over the Eastern Homestead. I can see some building supplies."
"Really?" Owen leaned in "Oh yeah. Looks like they were gonna build a barn or something? Tables maybe?"
"Hmmm. It's a full load of good posts and building timber. I was hoping for this but not this much, I thought we might have ot use some fencing."
"Fencing? For what?" Owen settled now, his head tipped ot one side a she watched Ianto.
"Well… that truck stop was great with that roof. I was thinking… is we give this house a nice big verandah, with a flat roof we can turn that roof into a second story lookout."
"So… all the way around?" Owen looked out the window and hummed "So… which is best?"
Owen took off and Ianto followed out the door in time to see Owen racing into Rhiannon's area and she roared at him as he shot back out and ran for the other rooms yelling over his shoulder "We can see the road from her one… maybe more clear of a shot from this one"
Owen had entered the spare room and gave a whoop of glee "YEP! This one… we can put the door outside from this room."
Ianto was still apologizing to Rhiannon who had been half dressed as the time, her blouse held shut as she glared at them both and muttered "Bloody boys never grow up."
Ianto held back a giggle as Owen started racing around again. He said to his irate sister "Maybe four sugars in his morning coffee is a bit excessive. OK, I will concede to your objections there."
"Arseholes" she huffed, slamming her door and then opening it again "What the fuck is he on about?"
"I want to put a verandah on the house with a flat roof for a top verandah too. So we can see out over the fields to the road and the Bugs or whatever. He is just… ah… Owen."
She stared at him for a moment before pursing her lips together, and then closed the door again.
By the time Ianto got downstairs Owen was telling everyone the idea, his hands flapping as they tried to keep up.
"Hang on there, Lone Wolf Man Number 2…." Mickey held up a hand for silence "You want to go get the timber from the farm over that way and make a viewing platform on the Harkness-Jones house?"
"Yeah! The verandah means we can stack wood for winter, we can have some clothes lines up there as well…. Wide enough for the kids to ride bikes even, then the second story height is good to use as a lookout in case those Buggers start to swarm or whatever."
Ianto straightened in his chair and sort of stretched, making Owen squint at him.
Once Ianto rose to leave the conversation going on around the room, Owen did too and seized his hand to drag him off. Ianto hissed at him to cut it out but Owen wasn't having it, pulling him into the bathroom and locking the door "Show me!"
Ianto glowered at him.
"I mean it. Show me or I call Martha in!"
Ianto lifted the T-shirt and Owen made a noise of alarm as he looked at the vivid red lines coming from the burn, like thin red threads.
"Fuck."
"It itches and is sort of… hot." Ianto said as he tried not to touch it.
Owen turned to rifle through the drawers and came up with an eyeliner pencil, "Keep still. I will draw around it and give us an outer ring. We can check it and see if it grows anymore or not."
"Good thinking, hopefully it's…." Ianto stopped talking as the door slammed open, the lock meaning nothing as Martha stood there looking at the two men who stood with matching looks of shock.
"I knew you were hiding something" she said as she rushed over to look "Creating a time check. Good idea."
"What about some antibiotics?" Owen asked, looking up at Ianto from the side of the bath he was perched on.
"No… we have no idea what this stuff is. What if that feeds it? Makes it worse? I think we have to believe the fact I quarterized the wound and the fact after two days this is all there is… that my body is working hard to overcome it and I just need to drink plenty of fluids and have a cat nap now and then."
"Jack knows?"
Both men stared at her like she was nuts and then Ianto said calmly "Well this morning in the shower he did take care while giving me head… yeah."
Owen roared with glee as she gasped, her hand going to her throat like she was shocked before she joined in and they all roared with mirth at the imagery. Ianto then corrected himself "Actually, we both just did hand jobs for one another this morning. Far too slippery for that sort of thing. It's a myth… great shower sex. We only tried that one time. I swear to god… he nearly put his back out."
More roars of laughter and the Lone Wolf Pack allowed another into their pack… for a moment or two.
As long as she understood that Owen was the real Lone Wolf.
Like Ianto.