Jack- August 19th, 2010
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ericadawn16Title: But Time Didn’t Stop
Characters: Jack, Mica Jack/Ianto
Rated: PG-13 ANGST COE Spoilers MPREG
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Iefan receives a mysterious present.
Author's Note: Starts after COE.
Previous Segment: August 18th, 2010
Masterlist: http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/63337.html
August 19th, 2010
The other end seemed to be waiting on something so there was a definite pause before Mica suggested, “How about you just come over? We’re both home.”
No, no, no, Jack remembered how well that went last time when Rhi had sent Mica up to her room and yelled at Jack. It was only three months that he had left them last time; he could only imagine the reception he’d receive this time and he’d deserve every minute.
“No…no, it needs to be a public place with nothing breakable,” he stated and he heard her sigh.
“Even though I’m beginning to be put out with this, why are you so sure that my mom is going to try and kill you? Her temper is really not that bad. I’d think she’d be happy that you got on and tried to start over by adopting a baby,” she said and he stopped himself from correcting her.
She shouldn’t know before her mum did and not over the phone.
“Because if I were in her place, I’d kill me,” he replied, telling the simple truth. At least in a public place, there was minimal risk of death.
“Whatever,” she mumbled into the mobile like a true thirteen year old.
“And you can’t tell her that she’s meeting me,” Jack added as he realized he hadn’t told her that. The ambush approach would probably work better. He was also worried she wouldn’t agree to come if she knew it was him.
“Fine, go there now, I’ll join you and come up with an excuse why she has to come pick me up or something” Mica told him and when she received an affirmative, hung up. Jack set the mobile down and decided he should have a quick shower beforehand. After doing that, he dressed in clean clothes. It looked chilly outside so he put Iefan in his brown and blue sweatpants with a matching longsleeve shirt and beanie hat. He put a jacket on top of that and was about to head out the front door when there was knocking on the back one. Jack shifted the nappy bag to the same arm as Iefan and asked, “Should we see who that is?”
When he opened the door, no one was there. However, there was a blue wrapped package on the porch and he heard the faint sounds of the TARDIS leaving. The card said simply, I’m sorry. I had the real one when I was younger.
“I think this might be for you,” he said with no real reason except a gut feeling. They went back inside and he set the gift on the floor before helping Iefan open it. Inside was a purple plush animal that was a bit like koala except with six legs and a smaller nose.
“This is a Flubble,” Jack spoke with wonder and waited for Iefan.
“Faba,” his son repeated with those baby blue eyes just like his father.
“I’ve only seen a Flubble once. It was in a zoo on Thrace and was the cutest thing there, but it was the only one and they had no idea where it came from. They assumed his planet had been lost,” Jack explained and in doing so, realized that planet was probably Gallifrey. Iefan reached his body for the animal. Jack watched to see what his son would do. The baby moved a knee forward until he was able to grasp one foot.
“You’ll be crawling soon at that rate,” Jack commented and was happy for what Iefan was accomplishing, but a little sad how fast he seemed to be growing up and how Ianto was missing it. It was also going to make the baby-proofing more difficult. Perhaps it was time to buy a playpen. He picked him up as well as the nappy bag and car seat.
Mica was sitting on a bench when the two of them were out of the car.
“About time,” she complained, pulling the jacket tighter around her.
“Sorry, things came up,” he replied and sat beside her on the green wood, “Did you call your mum?”
“Not yet, I was waiting to see if you’d actually show. It’s not like you’ve been Mr. Reliable in the past, gone for six years and now I never know when you’ll turn up,” she spoke and he hated how every accusation was true. It wasn’t as though she owed him anything.
“Why didn’t you just hang up on me then? Why did you agree to do this?” he asked and buttoned up his coat. For a moment, she looked at the bundled up children on the play equipment.
“My mum should know what happened to you,” she said, “and despite everything, you’re still my uncle and you know things about Ianto that no one else does.”
Her brown eyes met his blue ones.
“Whenever I think about what you said, how he battled aliens and cannibals and saved the world…it’s just so unbelievable,” Mica spoke, shaking her head, “I just wish…I wish I could have seen him like that.”
Jack hugged Iefan and thought about what she’d said.
“There used to be footage of him…everywhere in the Hub was under surveillance, but that was close to a decade ago,” he guessed although he wasn’t sure what year this was, “it’s probably all gone by now except for Martha Jones’ wedding.”
So many of his loves had been like that, nothing left behind except the memories of those left behind until he was the only one who remained.
“Mum still watches that sometimes and it’s sweet…watching you two together like that, but it’s not the same,” she said with her hands in her pockets, “Because that was the quiet person that we knew, that David told me about, but not the brave one that you did…”
He was secretive, that’s for sure which was probably why they got on so well. Ianto understood needing to keep secrets to exist.
Mica took her mobile out of her coat and held it up to her ear.
“…yeah, mum, it’s me, I think it might snow. How about coming to get me?...It didn’t look that bad when I left…Yes, I was meeting a boy,” she spoke and winked at Iefan, “If you want, you could come meet him, too…No, I think he does want to meet you…see ya.”
The mobile was put back in her coat and she looked at Jack, saying, “I’ve got her intrigued now, she’s coming.”
“Thank you,” he told her and hoped he could earn her trust back, but she wasn’t the only one he’d have to do that with. She shrugged and he remembered what Martha had said about her and her brother trying to hack into UNIT. Mica might have even been successful by now.
“What’s today’s date?” the man asked as Iefan sucked on one of the Flubble’s feet.
“February 13, 2017,” she answered and in a brighter tone, added, “I’ll be fourteen in three months.”
Jack couldn’t help doing the math. Ianto would have been thirty-three and Steven would have been eighteen next month; a man. He knew someday he’d stop thinking about how old they would have been, but right now, he couldn’t imagine it.
“You shouldn’t be in such a hurry to grow up,” he complained and she shot him a look.
“Why not? It has to be better than this. David looks happy,” Mica spoke, slouching against the back, “living in Cardiff with his boyfriend and going to university together.”
A dog started barking and Iefan began to cry while grabbing Jack's coat.
"Shh," he tried to speak in the most soothing voice possible and rubbed his son's back, "It's just a dog, I wouldn't let anything hurt you, I promise."
He turned back to Mica.
“Being with the one you love does make things better, but it’s no guarantee of happiness, maybe it’s also because he knows what he wants to do,” Jack suggested and looked over at her, “What do you like to do in school? There must be something.”
“No, not really, it’s a bit more challenging now, but still, what’s the point? If I’m going to be lectured at, I might as well just read a book about it and why should I read a book when I could actually do it?” she asked, “I want to be out there doing something.”
Iefan took the foot out of his mouth and shook the purple plush creature. Unlike some of his other toys, it didn’t make any noise and his look was quizzical.
August 19th, 2010, Part Two
Characters: Jack, Mica Jack/Ianto
Rated: PG-13 ANGST COE Spoilers MPREG
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Iefan receives a mysterious present.
Author's Note: Starts after COE.
Previous Segment: August 18th, 2010
Masterlist: http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/63337.html
August 19th, 2010
The other end seemed to be waiting on something so there was a definite pause before Mica suggested, “How about you just come over? We’re both home.”
No, no, no, Jack remembered how well that went last time when Rhi had sent Mica up to her room and yelled at Jack. It was only three months that he had left them last time; he could only imagine the reception he’d receive this time and he’d deserve every minute.
“No…no, it needs to be a public place with nothing breakable,” he stated and he heard her sigh.
“Even though I’m beginning to be put out with this, why are you so sure that my mom is going to try and kill you? Her temper is really not that bad. I’d think she’d be happy that you got on and tried to start over by adopting a baby,” she said and he stopped himself from correcting her.
She shouldn’t know before her mum did and not over the phone.
“Because if I were in her place, I’d kill me,” he replied, telling the simple truth. At least in a public place, there was minimal risk of death.
“Whatever,” she mumbled into the mobile like a true thirteen year old.
“And you can’t tell her that she’s meeting me,” Jack added as he realized he hadn’t told her that. The ambush approach would probably work better. He was also worried she wouldn’t agree to come if she knew it was him.
“Fine, go there now, I’ll join you and come up with an excuse why she has to come pick me up or something” Mica told him and when she received an affirmative, hung up. Jack set the mobile down and decided he should have a quick shower beforehand. After doing that, he dressed in clean clothes. It looked chilly outside so he put Iefan in his brown and blue sweatpants with a matching longsleeve shirt and beanie hat. He put a jacket on top of that and was about to head out the front door when there was knocking on the back one. Jack shifted the nappy bag to the same arm as Iefan and asked, “Should we see who that is?”
When he opened the door, no one was there. However, there was a blue wrapped package on the porch and he heard the faint sounds of the TARDIS leaving. The card said simply, I’m sorry. I had the real one when I was younger.
“I think this might be for you,” he said with no real reason except a gut feeling. They went back inside and he set the gift on the floor before helping Iefan open it. Inside was a purple plush animal that was a bit like koala except with six legs and a smaller nose.
“This is a Flubble,” Jack spoke with wonder and waited for Iefan.
“Faba,” his son repeated with those baby blue eyes just like his father.
“I’ve only seen a Flubble once. It was in a zoo on Thrace and was the cutest thing there, but it was the only one and they had no idea where it came from. They assumed his planet had been lost,” Jack explained and in doing so, realized that planet was probably Gallifrey. Iefan reached his body for the animal. Jack watched to see what his son would do. The baby moved a knee forward until he was able to grasp one foot.
“You’ll be crawling soon at that rate,” Jack commented and was happy for what Iefan was accomplishing, but a little sad how fast he seemed to be growing up and how Ianto was missing it. It was also going to make the baby-proofing more difficult. Perhaps it was time to buy a playpen. He picked him up as well as the nappy bag and car seat.
Mica was sitting on a bench when the two of them were out of the car.
“About time,” she complained, pulling the jacket tighter around her.
“Sorry, things came up,” he replied and sat beside her on the green wood, “Did you call your mum?”
“Not yet, I was waiting to see if you’d actually show. It’s not like you’ve been Mr. Reliable in the past, gone for six years and now I never know when you’ll turn up,” she spoke and he hated how every accusation was true. It wasn’t as though she owed him anything.
“Why didn’t you just hang up on me then? Why did you agree to do this?” he asked and buttoned up his coat. For a moment, she looked at the bundled up children on the play equipment.
“My mum should know what happened to you,” she said, “and despite everything, you’re still my uncle and you know things about Ianto that no one else does.”
Her brown eyes met his blue ones.
“Whenever I think about what you said, how he battled aliens and cannibals and saved the world…it’s just so unbelievable,” Mica spoke, shaking her head, “I just wish…I wish I could have seen him like that.”
Jack hugged Iefan and thought about what she’d said.
“There used to be footage of him…everywhere in the Hub was under surveillance, but that was close to a decade ago,” he guessed although he wasn’t sure what year this was, “it’s probably all gone by now except for Martha Jones’ wedding.”
So many of his loves had been like that, nothing left behind except the memories of those left behind until he was the only one who remained.
“Mum still watches that sometimes and it’s sweet…watching you two together like that, but it’s not the same,” she said with her hands in her pockets, “Because that was the quiet person that we knew, that David told me about, but not the brave one that you did…”
He was secretive, that’s for sure which was probably why they got on so well. Ianto understood needing to keep secrets to exist.
Mica took her mobile out of her coat and held it up to her ear.
“…yeah, mum, it’s me, I think it might snow. How about coming to get me?...It didn’t look that bad when I left…Yes, I was meeting a boy,” she spoke and winked at Iefan, “If you want, you could come meet him, too…No, I think he does want to meet you…see ya.”
The mobile was put back in her coat and she looked at Jack, saying, “I’ve got her intrigued now, she’s coming.”
“Thank you,” he told her and hoped he could earn her trust back, but she wasn’t the only one he’d have to do that with. She shrugged and he remembered what Martha had said about her and her brother trying to hack into UNIT. Mica might have even been successful by now.
“What’s today’s date?” the man asked as Iefan sucked on one of the Flubble’s feet.
“February 13, 2017,” she answered and in a brighter tone, added, “I’ll be fourteen in three months.”
Jack couldn’t help doing the math. Ianto would have been thirty-three and Steven would have been eighteen next month; a man. He knew someday he’d stop thinking about how old they would have been, but right now, he couldn’t imagine it.
“You shouldn’t be in such a hurry to grow up,” he complained and she shot him a look.
“Why not? It has to be better than this. David looks happy,” Mica spoke, slouching against the back, “living in Cardiff with his boyfriend and going to university together.”
A dog started barking and Iefan began to cry while grabbing Jack's coat.
"Shh," he tried to speak in the most soothing voice possible and rubbed his son's back, "It's just a dog, I wouldn't let anything hurt you, I promise."
He turned back to Mica.
“Being with the one you love does make things better, but it’s no guarantee of happiness, maybe it’s also because he knows what he wants to do,” Jack suggested and looked over at her, “What do you like to do in school? There must be something.”
“No, not really, it’s a bit more challenging now, but still, what’s the point? If I’m going to be lectured at, I might as well just read a book about it and why should I read a book when I could actually do it?” she asked, “I want to be out there doing something.”
Iefan took the foot out of his mouth and shook the purple plush creature. Unlike some of his other toys, it didn’t make any noise and his look was quizzical.
August 19th, 2010, Part Two
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:55 am (UTC).....((huggles Jack, Iefan, and the Doctor))
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Date: 2010-02-13 06:50 am (UTC)Thank You
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Date: 2010-02-13 06:53 am (UTC)thank you
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Date: 2010-02-13 06:55 am (UTC)(blushes)
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