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A couple of weeks after the class began, Ianto take him to the store after work and she would drive hi when they were getting ready for bed When Ian took off his shirt, Paul noticed that his left shoulder was covered with a gauze bandage

“What happened to your arm?”

“Nothing” He turned away, trying to hide what Paul had already seen “I can’t show you yet”

“Shohat?”

“It’s a surprise”

“But why do you have a bandage on your… You didn’t get a tattoo”

Ian grinned like the cat ed the canary “You’ll like it, I think”

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

“I told you, I wanted to surprise you”

“You got it for me?”

“Yeah, what do you think?”

“I don’t knohat to say” Paul didn’t knohat to say because he was fairly sure that when someone tells you he just permanently altered his body as a token of his love for you, the answer he is hoping to hear is not, “Why the hell did you do that?”

“It’s notlike that?” Paul asked

Ian picked at the tape surrounding the gauze “I’ll show you, but it’s not very pretty right now” He peeled back the gauze with a slight wince and revealed a heart about three inches across In its center was a cross

“You see, it has a doubleGod back into my heart And you did that So this is, like, the minister in my heart too”