My Darling Irish Girl - Ianto Jones

It was an hour and a half flight home; I landed in Belfast and my older brother Ciaran was there to pick me up,
"You've gotten taller" he said like this was some impossible feat I'd just accomplished,
"Shut up you" I said swinging for him,
"Too slow baby sister" he laughed, "come on then Ma's going blue in the face waiting for you"
"Come on then" we picked up my suitcase and then made the 25 minute journey home,
"So have you got a man yet?" Ciaran asked
"No and don't start the 'Saoirse you're 25 now you need to find yourself a man and have six kids' cause I'm not in the bloody mood" I growled
"I wasn't about to, I was gonna say good for you. The rest of us got married and had kids sure but that's because we wanted to not because we had to. When the time is right maybe you'll do the same maybe you won't. I'm not here to judge"
"Thanks Ciaran" I hugged him as we pulled up outside the house, my dad had heard the car pull into the driveway so he was standing at the door waiting for us, "Daddy!" I ran towards him and hugged him,
"Don't mind me I'll just take your heavy bag into the house all by myself" Ciaran said sarcastically,
"Deadly" I laughed as Ciaran swung for me,
"Did I hear right? The pest is back?" my second oldest brother Tony said coming out,
"I'm not a pest!" I said defensively
"And she still has that squeaky voice" my other brother John said coming out as well,
"I do not have a squeaky voice!"
"You so do" John teased
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Enough you two, John stop teasing your sister"
"Daddy's girl"
"Mummy's boy"
"Come here you" John pulled me into a bone crushing hug, "PILE ON!" he yelled and pinned me to the ground as the other two jumped on top of me,
"Did someone say pile on?" my younger brother Harry asked out the window,
"We're piling on Saoirse, get Eoghan and come on!" John yelled,
"Let me up you bastards!" I yelled thrashing about,
"No can do sorry baby sister" Tony laughed as Eoghan and Harry piled on top of the other three crushing me even more,
"Alright you five that's enough, let your sister up" Ma was standing in the doorway,
"Yes Ma"
"Harry, Eoghan take your sister's bag to her room and Tony help your sister off the ground"
"Yes Ma" Tony helped me off the ground my lifting me up and throwing me over his shoulder then proceeding to spin me around as fast as he could,
"Tony put your sister down" Daddy said laughing,
"Yes Da, there we go baby sister, don't fall" he laughed when out of dizziness I'd fallen to the ground in a heap, "up we go" Tony helped me off the ground and held me up,
"Stop the world I want to get off!"
"Come on, five minutes on the sofa you'll feel better" Tony helped me walk into the house and what was supposed to be five minutes on the sofa was two minutes when Siobhan came bursting in,
"OH Saoirse, Saoirse, Saoirse, Saoirse!" she threw her arms around my neck, "you're home!"
"Hi Siobhan" I hugged her back, "You cut your hair" Siobhan's usually long curly blonde hair was now cropped into a short 1920s style bob,
"You don't like it?" she reached up to touch it,
"No I love it, it suits you"
"Speaking of suiting, what's with the baggy clothes?"
"Ma doesn't like my tight fitting stuff" I explained, "don't worry though I have stuff with me for your Hen night"
"I can't wait!"
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It's amazing the little things you miss when you're away from home for so long, the things you wanted to get so far away from in the first place are suddenly the things you long for most.
It was Siobhan's hen night, the night before her wedding of course and we'd planned to spend the day in a spa in Belfast having a girly day I'd broken out my new white skinny jeans,
"Holy shit Saoirse were you poured into those jeans?" Siobhan asked when I got changed in her house,
"You like? I bought them in Cardiff"
"You have to take me some time; you seem to get all the best clothes"
"Come on you, we'll miss our appointment" we both piled into Siobhan's car and drove to Belfast.
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"This is amazing, we have to do this more often" Siobhan said as we walked out of the hairdressers, I had dyed my hair again and Siobhan got some highlights in, I was about to agree when something in the corner of my eye made me turn around,
"Jack?" I didn't believe my eyes,
"You're a hard woman to track down, I called at your house and they said you were in Belfast getting your hair done which is really cute by the way Ianto likes brunettes but still I had to run all over Belfast looking for you" then he spotted Siobhan, "Captain Jack Harkness"
"Here we go"
"Siobhan McBride"
"Anyway Jack what are you doing here?" I pulled him to one side,
"We have a problem. You know what a ‘nostrovite’ is don't you?"
"Let me guess there are two of them in Ballymena 'cause they fell through the rift and ended up here. And they've scouted out Siobhan as host Mummy?"
"Good guess, how'd you know?"
"Cause I can never have a Paddy's day away from bloody aliens" I grumbled, "alright I'll take Siobhan home and then you can tell me what's going on"
"Ianto pull the SUV round" Jack said into his com,
"No need we came here in Siobhan's car" I walked back to Siobhan, "we gotta go babes, I have a work thing. This is my boss"
"Alright, you'll be over for the hen do won't you? The girls are dying to see you again"
"Of course, come on then" Siobhan and I got back in her car and drove back home, I dropped her at her house and told her not to tell my Ma about Jack parked her car and then met up with Jack at the corner of my estate,
"Fucking aliens I can't have one Paddy's day off from them, I'm getting my bat" I made a pit stop in the house and lifted my Hurley bat from the umbrella stand in the hall then walked to the corner of the estate where Jack and Ianto were waiting, "so what do we know?"