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Ianto had expected the Judoon, glad he had reinforced chairs just in case, already placed by the fire. They like to watch flames. They wanted to know what had really happened and Ianto then followed them at a slow amble towards the fuckwit barracks. He stood outside, his hands in his pockets and several Blumanchu standing behind him like kids peering aroid their father's legs.
After an hour he grew bored and left but the Blumanchu were transfixed as they watched the MPs running drills while huge Judoon chased them like monsters. It was quite funny really, especially the one with the cast on his arm being made to salute with it.
After all, he had wasted most of the afternoon and he was done, it was getting dark and he was hungry. The kids had been at Alice's today but he did not like the idea of Rhiannon home alone.
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"Honey, I'm home" Jack roared.
"You're home late back" Ianto replied, turning to watch Jack enter the house with the night air casing him in.
"I know… the kids are doing a sleepover?" Jack asked as he settled, then looked across at the huge chairs "Wow. You've had Judoon visit?"
Ianto sat and told the story, placing a hand on the arm of the man who wanted to race from the house to pummel and maim, then telling of the court case and the Judoon anger. Jack was not pacified and Ianto knew there would also be more drills in the future of the fuckwits.
"I want to make sure the Blumanchu are being well cared for and the first thing I need to address is the way they are spoken to and dealt with. Communication." Ianto patted Jack's arm and added "But I did not enjoy the cell or the horrible room they locked me in. So hot, I felt ill."
He said the right thing, Jack now given a bone to chew on with massive teeth.
The courthouse and the MPs cells were about to be torn apart.
Good.
Now for the other problem who had been listening from the daybed by the fire. Her eyes wide and glowing with the flames, her glare locked on her father.
"Maybe you can talk to the Judoon. You missed them earlier while you were enjoying the bath in peace, but I know you have a way with them and they like your stern tone" Ianto gave her a job too.
Rhiannon nodded.
Oh yes... she can do stern.
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Ianto woke to find his house empty, everyone gone already and the warmth of the bed was fading. He felt strangely bereft. It had been a night where Jack had stayed over, spooning him with a hand over Sprout all night, the comfort to them all was now gone and Ianto knew it was getting harder and harder to maintain this relationship in the loose way they had agreed to.
He padded downstairs to find the note left on the fridge telling him that lunch was going to be just the tow of them, the silly love heart and cross that was supposed to be a kiss was smudged and he suspected Mica had kissed it too. Sweet little girl was besotted with Jack and was already calling him Grampy.
Ianto got dressed and went for his morning walk, several Blumanchu appearing from nowhere to walk with him and he quietly noted the weapons on display as they flanked him like…. Bodyguards. Oh. Looks like a vigilante response to what happened was in effect and he considered this as he walked then decided on the matter, turning to face them as he stood at the path to his house "Kom. I need ahead count of all those who wish to be security for our patch. Also, are you all in the barracks? We will need some form of uniform or something so you are not hassled while paroling as is your right as citizens and residents of this area. Maybe we need to look at fencing off our patch and posting signs warning of patrols and the danger of intruding on our space?"
Kom puffed his chest out as his hand swinging the large bat with a balled end "We will talk and tell."
"Lovely, thank you men. A lovely walk with you this morning, good for the sprout to get out and about. You know, he can hear you now, his ears work. By the time he is born he will already know your individual voices. His loving uncles" Ianto told them, some of them bristling with glee, their long dreadlocks moving like tentacles.
Ianto then went inside to eat breakfast and consider the fact he was creating his own army within the compound. Well… they started it.
This is going to be interesting.
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Over the next few days several things happened.
First of all, razor wire still exists. Who knew. And it was on everything that surrounded their compound which was larger than most thought, the property line now fully fenced and sign posted in English, Galactic Standard, Blumanchu and Heriffok. Not that they would ever come near, strange nocturnal creatures that hate noise but… they were being clear in their intention to patrol and police ALL incoming.
Jack was slathering still, his rage mostly metered by Ianto telling him he was pleased with al he was doing, Archie was more deliberate and calm in his mass destruction and Rhiannon was doing well with the Judoon who liked her large ample body and strong voice. They thought of her as a mighty female and good specimen of a human, also recognizing whose offspring she was.
Ianto didn't have to do a damned thing.
But… well… maybe work on this thing with Jack.
Before Sprout is here... they had to define their relationship.
Right?