Goodnight Sweetheart 56/57 + Epilogue
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missthingsplaceTitle: Goodnight Sweetheart
Author: ![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Ianto/Lisa Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Owen/Toshiko, Andy/Donna
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while.
Summary: When Ianto lost his job he knew it was the oppotunity he'd been waiting for but nothing could have prepared him for what was to come when he leased the premises for his new enterprise.
Warnings: Slash, fluff, romance, angst, humour, AU
Spoilers: Anything is fair game
Rating: NC17 for series
A/N: I am hoping to get another chapter written today to post tomorrow morning before i go to London, but te rest of the day is a little full, so fingers crossed!
Jack sat at the kitchen table watching Ianto with Jenni, she was perched on the younger man's lap while he supported her with one arm and was trying to coax her to try the tiny spoon of baby rice he held to her lips.
“I don't think she wants it,” Jack said, a small frown furrowing his brow.
“She'll love it once she tastes it,” Ianto answered, taping the spoon gently against the little girls closed lips. “or so my sister insists.”
“It doesn't look at all appetizing to me,” Jack said, wrinkling his nose at the sloppy, bland looking food.
“Well, it's not like she's ready for bacon and eggs yet, is it?” Ianto laughed softly and was rewarded by his daughter when her lips parted and her tiny tongue snaked out to taste the baby rice.
She screwed up her nose as she tasted the tiny piece of food, a look on her face that seemed to tell her father that she wasn't at all sure about what he was giving her.
“So, are you going to try some more?” Ianto asked the little girl softly, pressing the spoon to her lips again as she swallowed.
This time she opened her mouth a little wider, allowing Ianto to put the tip of the small spoon into her mouth and she sucked most of the contents of the spoon in while gazing up at her father.
“It's good, isn't it?”Ianto asked her, scooping up the last tiny bit from the dish and offering it to her.
This time there was no hesitation, she sucked it enthusiastically from the spoon and swallowed it down.
“There you go, she'll be demanding a full Welsh breakfast before you know it,” Jack laughed.
“It'll still be a while,” Ianto grinned, picking her her bottle and offering to her.
Jenni drank the contents down greedily while they talked.
“It's the perfect day for our picnic,” Jack smiled, looking out at the brilliant sunshine through the window. “even the wind has dropped.”
“Yep, it's good to have a day off work, it feels like I've barely stopped since we moved in here,” Ianto answered. “but I have a full staff again and I can take advantage of being the boss for a change.”
“I've loved taking care of Jenni, but we're both happy to have you to ourselves, aren't we baby?” Jack said, smiling at the little one.
“So, what your daddy got planned for us today then?” Ianto asked Jenni, taking the now empty bottle from her mouth and lifting her to his shoulder to burp her.
“I thought that after breakfast we could go to that little bakers in the next village and pick up some of their delicious sandwiches and cakes, along with something to drink and then we could drive out into the countryside,” Jack answered, a huge grin on his face. “find a certain tree, in a certain meadow where we picnicked before.”
“That Oak tree might not be there any more,” Ianto said thoughtfully. “but no matter, nothing can run this lovely day. I'll go and get Jenni washed and dressed.”
“And I'll clean up in here,” Jack smiled, watching his lover leave with their daughter before cleaning away the dirty cups and plates from their own breakfast and rinsing them in the sink.
Within three quarters of an hour they were on the road. They had picked up the items they wanted for their picnic and were heading out into the countryside with a large blanket for them to sit on, sun cream for them all and Jenni's bottles stored in a cool bag.
“It there, it's still there,” Jack exclaimed, pointed at the huge Oak tree in the middle of the meadow.
Ianto pulled the SUV to a stop beside the hedgerow and turned the engine off, the pair of them were out the vehicle like a shot. Jack grabbed the picnic from the boot while Ianto released Jenni's car seat from the back and then they made their way across the long grass of the meadow to the tree.
Jack spread the blanket under the shade of the branches and then placed the picnic and Jenni's cool bag next to the trunk. Ianto popped the still sleeping baby onto the blanket, leaving her in her car seat and then settled down onto the blanket himself, smiling up at his lover as he took his place beside him.
“No hanky panky today,” Jack grinned, his mind full of images from the last time they were in the exact spot. “but I don't care, we're here as a family and that means more to me than anything.”
Ianto nodded. “I never thought I'd feel like this, so in love that being apart from you actually makes my heart ache a little, physically,” he said, his emotions bubbling away inside him. “don't get me wrong, I loved Lisa and Jenni … well, she's proof of that in my eyes, but I never felt the way I do when I'm with you. I love you Jack.”
“I love you too,” the Captain smiled, his eyes gleaming as they welled up, his own emotions bursting forth. “the day we met, I knew that you weren't meant to be just another fling, I felt a connection.”
“Perhaps that portal was there for this very reason?” Ianto said, reaching with a hand to stroke it over his lovers smooth cheek. “We were meant to be together?”
“We'll never know for sure, but I like that idea,” Jack told him, leaning towards the younger man and kissing him tenderly.
The sound of Jenni giggling to herself pulled them apart and they turned to find her watching them intently from her car seat, with what appeared to be a hint of mischief in her eyes.
“That's funny is it?” Ianto asked, moving onto his knees so he could reach her car seat and open the harness. “Your daddy and taddy kissing?”
Jenni giggled again, making them both snort with laughter.
“Oh she's going to be a handful when she's older,” Jack grinned.
“When she's older?” Ianto laughed. “I think she's starting already.”
After soothing sun cream over the baby's exposed arms, legs and face Ianto placed the baby on the blanket beside Jack and then took his own seat again the other side of the little girl. Both of them talking softly to in encouragement as she rolled from her back to her front and then over again with a smile on her face.
“It'll only be a few months and then she'll be sitting,” Ianto said, giving his daughter one of his hands to play with.
“And then comes crawling and walking,” Jack added. “there'll be no stopping her then!”
“Oh boy!” Ianto exclaimed in mock horror. “But do you know what? I can't wait, I can't wait to see her grow into a mischievous toddler.”
“She's beautiful Ianto, you and Lisa, you created a gorgeous baby,” Jack told him.
“Jack, I've been thinking and … I was wondering … actually, I really hope you want to,” Ianto stuttered a little. “I … I want you to become Jenni's daddy for real … legally, I mean … Jack, I want you to adopt Jenni.”
“Adopt her?” Jack asked, his lighting up at the idea. “I'd love to. I can do that? She can have two men as her legal parents?”
“Of course,” Ianto laughed. “So, is that a yes then?”
“Yes, yeah, of course it is!” Jack exclaimed loudly.
“Then there is something else I want to ask,” Ianto said, his voice becoming a little more serious again as he slid a hand into his pocket and pulled out a small, black velvet box. “I wanted to ask, that is … I hope you will … Jack, will you marry me?”
“Marry you? We really can do that?” Jack asked, excitement bubbling up inside him. “We can get married?”
“Technically they call it a Civil Partnership, but yes, we can marry,” Ianto grinned widely.
“Then yes, yes Ianto Jones,” Jack said, whispering his answer, emotion getting the better of him. “I want to marry you.”
Ianto flipped open the little velvet box to reveal the two plain Platinum bands nestled within.
“They are perfect,” Jack smiled, leaning over the wriggling baby to kiss his husband to be tenderly. “I'll be proud to wear your ring on my finger.”
“So then?” Ianto asked hopefully.
“The sooner the better,” Jack answered, over the sound of Jenni giggling again.
“I think Jenni approves,” Ianto laughed, smiling down at the infant.
“That's good,” Jack nodded, then stole another kiss.
“This has got to be the most perfect day ever,” Ianto sighed happily, reaching for the picnic hamper.
“So far,” Jack agreed, feeling that the best was still yet to come.
TBC
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