Just An Ordinary Day
Title:Just an Ordinary Day
Rating: PG (at most)Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, OC’s
Warnings/Spoilers: None.
Summary: It’s just an ordinary summer afternoon.A/N: Un-beta’d (for now), written as part of the horizonssing challenge.
"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;
to me those have always been the two most
beautiful words in the English language."
Henry James
"Ianto Jones, you’re a lifesaver!”
Ianto blushed slightly as Helen pulled him down in order to kiss his cheek before dashing back in the direction of the car park. With an indulgent smile he flipped open his phone. Jack answered on the second ring.
“Jack? Helen’s got to take her car to the garage so I’ve said we’ll watch Elliott for a bit. Thought I might take the boys to the park, enjoy the weather while we’ve got it, meet us there?”
Jack quickly agreed and Ianto hung up just as the school bell rang releasing a flood of small children into the playground. Dewi and Elliott, trailing bags and sweatshirts, made straight for Ianto, easily the tallest and therefore most easily spotted person there. Ianto crouched down so he was on a level with the boys.
“Hey you,” he greeted his own son, “have a good day?”
“Yup!” Dewi responded eagerly. “We’re practisin’ for sports day, me an’ Elliott are gonna win the three-legged for sure this time!”
Ianto chuckled, his son’s enthusiasm infectious as ever.
“Where’s my mum?” Elliott asked, looking around him with a faintly puzzled expression.
Ianto turned to him, “She had to take the car in to be fixed,” he explained, “I figured you’d rather come to the park with us than sit around at the garage.”
Both boys squealed in delight, jumping about excitedly before grabbing hold of Ianto’s hands and all but dragging him from the playground.
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On reaching the park both boys promptly abandoned Ianto in favour of the new climbing frame with tunnel slide that had become their favourite place to play. It made a perfect base of operations for whichever game they decided upon whether they were playing at being super secret agents (Dewi’s favourite) or knights in shining armour (Elliott’s) or any one of dozens of things in between. From what Ianto could gather as he dumped the collection of bags and other miscellaneous school things by the bench, today the frame had been transformed into some kind of space station which the boys were defending from an unseen foe. He sat back on the bench, extending his legs in front of him and checked his watch. Ten past three, the park was closer to the school than the Hub and on such a glorious day Jack would most likely walk, he’d be here soon.
Sighing Ianto stretched his arms out along the back of the bench and let his head fall back, eyes closing against the glare of the sun. The heat was making him drowsy, the smell of freshly cut grass and the shouts and laughter of children playing only adding to the effect. There were days when he could scarcely believe that one of those children was his, when the lazy days of his own childhood seemed like just yesterday and he was slightly amazed to find that he was now the adult, the parent, with his own little boy growing up so fast he was almost afraid to blink lest he miss a single moment.
“Sleeping on the job Mr. Jones?”
Jack’s familiar, and faintly amused, voice broke Ianto’s train of thought and he sat up, drinking in the rare sight of his partner in jeans and a t-shirt, the weather having finally managed to coax Jack out of his ever-present greatcoat. “Just enjoying the sun,” Ianto smiled.
Jack hummed appreciatively, “Well it certainly agrees with you.” He grinned and leaned down to capture Ianto’s lips with his own.
Ianto stretched up, pushing himself away from the bench slightly as he responded to the kiss, lost for a moment in the sensation until…
“Ew!! Dewi your Dads are snoggin’ again!”
Jack and Ianto broke apart, laughing and Jack pressed one more swift kiss to Ianto’s forehead before turning to face the two boys now watching them from the top of the climbing frame.
“Right then!” He bellowed, “Who’s for ice-cream?”
[fin]