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"GABRIEL HARKNESS JONES YOU LITTLE SHIT!"
Ianto woke to the sound of his husband yelling at their three and a half-year-old terror and he groaned, rolling over in the bed to hug Jack's pillow. Ianto had worked all night at the embassy with the new intake coming and the late afternoon Fire Ant attack that caused chaos. He had hoped for a sleep-in but clearly Jack was still angry about the fact he had pulled an all-nighter.
Like he had any control over the mess that had been created by a fire within one of the camps. They were overcrowded and the drinking party had attracted the bugs with the alcohol spilt on the ground which ignited. The smell of burning flesh never really gets any better ya know.
Ianto growled into the pillow as their son's scream of rage answered Jack.
Finally, Ianto couldn't take it anymore and he blearily rose, staggered out to find out why… OH MY GOD… Ianto's pristine kitchen was like a fucking snowstorm, the sugary dust from the icing sugar container their child had just shaken all over the kitchen like it was a cocaine party tasted sticky in the air and Ianto noted that their child was also completely fucking naked.
Lovely.
Ah.
Crunchy underfoot… oh God, seems the little shit had done the cereal first… didn't find the normal sugar so went for the next best thing … what next… the milk?
Jack could now see Ianto from his vantage point on the other side of the kitchen, the dust dissipating to settle on anything and everything, including them.
"Good morning, nice of you to join us" Jack grinned in a sweet manner that was fucking fake as the sugar additive. He was pissy that he had to get up to their son? Really?
"I only got to bed at three" Ianto replied, looking now at the child who was licking one of his own arms like some sort of eerie cannibal.
"Where the hell is Rhia? Isn't it her day to have him?" Jack grumbled as he gingerly picked his way towards the hellion.
"He is not a bloody dog ya know, this is our son. Our BAAABYYYYY as you said every time I tried to chastise or scold." Ianto replied angrily "Remember?"
"Well… I know my kids never acted like that" Jack pointed as their son now happily urinated on the floor below, still standing on the counter. Now he was a weird water feature? Oh, it just keeps getting better. He must have had a big sugar rush. Great. Might as well snort the bloody stuff.
"Rhia is at the office, she wanted to get that work done before Herb takes her for their date this afternoon." Ianto finally said as he reached for the child, finding his little feet stuck to the countertop. Ah. Lovely. Good thing that they were going to have to have a shower.
"Tada… we is both nakies"
"Yes, we are both naked. Please speak in GS, not Blumanchu" Ianto replied softly, "Daddy doesn't speak it so well."
"Daddy doesn't speak GS so good either."
"Oi, I heard that" Jack said as he followed them into the other room, then to the bathroom where the shower soon had them both getting ready for the day as Jack got the kitchen sorted out… sort of. We all know Jack's idea of a clean kitchen and Ianto's idea of a clean kitchen ls like lemonade compared to champagne. But whatever. Their child pissed…. URINATED… so nothing short of a hospital grade disinfectant would do.
Jack wandered into the bathroom as Ianto knelt drying their child and said "that is about where I was up to when he bolted, knocking over the talc container. I was cleaning that when he… well."
"Yes, but you had the bedroom door open. He can't reach the door handle, remember?" Ianto replied as he let the boy go and Gabriel stood back, his eyes hooded as he looked at each parental and the door.
"Right, I will get Alice to take him" Jack said as he turned to leave, and Ianto felt a spike of anger.
"No, I will take him. I am awake now, clearly I am up and I will just... keep him with me. Go on, bugger off to your thing" Ianto waved a hand.
"No, Alice can…"
"She is away today remember? It's the cultural exchange with the Blumanchu… she will be at their control center for the day doing the seminar" Ianto cut him off.
"Oh right"
"Jack, just go. You will shake this off by the time you get to the office. Go on, they will be waiting for you to help with the division of the newbies. I left the lists and the recommendations" Ianto waved a hand and then looked at their problem "Come on you little beast. I know what you need. A good run."
"But you just showered" Jack frowned.
"Jack… bugger off"
.
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Gabriel was running, and the mud dog, two Blumanchu and a weird looking goat were joining him as Ianto walked sedately along the street, ignoring the menagerie that was circling him at speed. This was mostly because the boy was on a leash. Ianto held the pivoting handle over his head as the child orbited him.
Yes, this was something Ianto and Jack argued about but if the boy was not on a leash, he would be gone. He ran like the wind, by the time Ianto passed the library it was OK to unclip the leash, the boy now too tired to move too fast.
He was not a naughty boy; he was a bored one. So clever, so advanced. For some reason, the super solider factor that their daughters did not inherit seemed to be injected into this boy's very psyche. Ianto and Jack did not talk about it, neither one was willing to even admit that they thought such a thing was possible and yet… their son was advanced, crafty and strong. Really strong. Oh… and his healing ability was astounding… like theirs.
Yeah. Slam his head on the edge of the table and squirt blood everywhere while screaming like he is dying? Yeah… five minutes later not even a scar as he laughs at the vid-screen programmes.
Their mortal children had been girls, it never occurred to them that a male might inherit the immortality gene. This was not a great thing for them to even think, hence not speaking it out loud. After all… if this was known by the powers that be, how long before their son would be considered of age form some advanced class and conscripted? The argument that he belonged to them as he had the advanced ability of a Super Soldier?
But they both thought it alright.
And it was not alright at all.