Dora Tonks: Other: Iago's Birthday! "Iaaaago?" Dora keens at him from the living room where she's been colouring while he's scrubbing the kitchen counters again.
"Yes, Tesorina?" He doesn't look up.
"Can I have a hundred pounds?"
Now he looks up at her. "What do you need a hundred pounds for?"
"For your birthday!" she reasons.
"You don't need to get me anything for my birthday and not something that big."
"But it's your birthday! And you're supposed to get gifts on your birthday."
Iago groans. "Can we pretend it's not my birthday?"
Dora puts her hands on her hips and looks at him. "Is this cause you think you're gonna be old??"
"Thirty is old, Dora."
Eventually she talks him into giving her forty pounds and she agrees to take Jack shopping with her. Jack's more than happy to go with her- he's always congenial to, well, pretty much anything, actually. So the next day, she leaves Teddy tucked into the spare bed at Jack and Zelgadis' house with firm instructions to Val to let him sleep, and she and Jack went shopping.
"Where are we going, Dora?" Jack asks as they head out of the house.
"To buy Iago's birthday present!" she answers cheerily, swinging his arm a bit as they walk.
"What are you getting him?" He obliges her by squeezing her hand and swinging easily.
Dora shrugs. "I don't know. It's not a thing. It's..." She falters. This makes sense to her, or it did.
Jack waits patiently then prods her gently with, "Where are we going then?"
She second-guesses herself when they get to her intended destination. Dora doesn't want anyone cross with her and Jack's blushing a lot, but not resisting her request. She thinks through her reasoning again and nods decisively then gives Jack the four ten pound notes. When he returns, she thanks him with a hug.
After returning to her house Dora disappears into her room for a few minutes. She's tempted to have The Minister take Iago's gift to him, but they're still at war with each other. She's forgotten why, by now. But instead, she starts hollering for Iago even before she's out of her room. When she finds him, cringing a bit at the volume of her voice, she presents him with this: