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"Tom."
"Huh?" Ianto woke to blearily look over at his husband who still clutched the baby.
"Tom."
"Thomas?"
"No… tom cat." Jack said, and then grinned mischievously. "A Tiger Cub that will be a lady killer? Or Bloke Cuddler… god. Am I labeling him?"
"Cariad, stop it." Ianto didn't have the energy to scold, letting his eyes travel to Owen who stood drinking the Blumanchu drink with a thoughtful expression. "What do you think Owen? As Godfather?"
Owen choked on his drink, then made out he hadn't as he looked furtively at Jack "Well… Owen is a good strong name too, ya know? Powerful."
Jack sniggered softly, throwing a nappy at him. Not a used one, it was clean.
"Stop it" Ianto sighed softly as he repeated himself, shifting in the bed "well… come on. Seriously now folks."
"I don't care what my kitty is called, he will be my little kitten" Jack crooned, as he kissed the tiny head, the hair now dry and sticking up like some sort of weird cap.
"Wow, so much hair. No wonder I had heartburn" Ianto muttered, reaching up to rub his face, "Well… It has to be something simple. Poor little bugger had to learn to spell Harkness-Jones now."
"My first son…. Our first son. He is… perfect. Look at my eyes and my chin… your nose sweetie, so cute with the cupid mouth… awwwwww. A heartbreaker." Jack was gushing as he stroked the cap of thick dark hair and the baby blinked calmly.
"Gabriel?"
"Hmmmm?"
"Gabriel, like the angel." Owen repeated.
"Owen that is… brilliant. I like it" Ianto agreed "Cariad?"
"Gabriel. Gabe." Jack tried it out "I like it. Yeah, I would have never thought of that but…. It does suit him. Gabriel. Yeah."
Owen looked so made up to have been the one to suggest it, his face glowing as he accepted a hold, "Awwww, yeah. An angel's name for an angel. He is perfect ya know."
Ianto smiled and said softly "any chance I might get a hold? I did make him myself ya know."
"Shit, yeah" Owen surged forward as they remembered the Dam, Ianto not angry about it as he accepted the little one whose mouth was already moving. "Look at that, he can smell your milk, awwww…. Hungry little champ."
Ianto grunted, moving the baby to the breast without a nasty scar across it, watching as he latched on like a champion and started to suckle like he was… well… born to it. Luke Rhiannon, he had inherited those superior genes…. If only the aging one could be in there but… not a time to dwell on that.
"Wow" Jack sighed "a day for saying that."
"GeeTee, I'm back" Mica called, first home as she swing her bag into it's usual corner and started to walk toward them, then froze as she saw what he had in his arms. Her eye grew wide.
"Breathe sweetie, I forgot" Jack said as he moved to let her closer.
"Oh… I …" her hands were moving around her face like bees were attacking, her eyes filling with tears as she drank in the sight of him. "he's sooo cute!"
"Gabriel. We will call him Gabriel, after the angel" Jack rubbed her back "What do you think? You will be one if his best friends and he will love you soo much."
She leaned in and smelt him, something that Ianto found hilarious as he had done the same thing. Then she touched him hesitantly, her smile growing wider as Ianto laughed softly.
"wow" she agreed.
"HOME!" David roared, the baby surprised at the noise, dropping the tit to roar back.
David froze "shit."
"David, would you go call your mam please, she might want to come home to meet her brother if your finished cussing" Ianto asked.
Instead of picking up the communicator like a normal person David instead took off running.
"See that?" Mica sniffed "Head like a donut. Clearly from Da's side"
Jack felt hysterical laughter bubbling up and Ianto smiled as he saw the joy and humor in the day, nothing wrong, bad or evil. Nothing sad or… it was all good.
Rhiannon arrived with her friend trailing, Alice as eager to meet their new brother as she was and the two women expertly snatched the baby away, burping, changing and cuddling as Ianto lay there accepting another drink.
"You know… he is pretty good for a baby" David said conversationally "I thought he would puke more."
Jack hid his face in the blankets as he tried not to laugh.
"Maybe later" Ianto offered a hopeful answer and David nodded, heading off.
"See?" Mica hissed "Da's side."
"Gabriel" Rhiannon said as she held him "Good name."
"Gabriel Harkness-Jones" Alice said with a nod of agreement "Not too long, manly and also… when said would be recognized."
"OH, he's' going to be somebody is he?" Jack asked with amusement.
"don't' be silly Dad, he already IS somebody special" Alice scolded "he is ours."
Ianto liked that.
A lot.