TW FIC: Love and Devotion

[waldos_writings]

Title: Love and Devotion
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400.  Yes, exactly
Summary:  She was sure she’d have felt less shocked, less embarrassed, if she’d walked in to find them shagging on that couch.  This was far more intimate.
Written for: kensieg for the ABC prompt challenge on my main journal.
Author's Note: Trying a new POV here. 




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Gwen shivered as she ducked through the cog door.  It was snowing again and there was a wicked wind coming off the bay.  Jack would kill her if he realized she’d forgotten her mobile before she was able to run in and grab it.   Rhys had been pissed off that she’d come in and turned around and run right back out, but Jack had made it very plain – the mobile was on and with her at all times.  Aliens didn’t hold their invasions for a time when it was convenient for the nine to fivers.

She ground to a halt at her desk, movement over in the corner catching her eye.

Jack was sitting on the sofa across from the autopsy bay.  Ianto was stretched out on his belly, his head on arm of the sofa, his body across Jack’s legs.  Ianto’s shirt and t-shirt were untucked and rucked up under his arms.  There was a mug with a tea bag tab hanging out of it on the floor near Ianto’s hand.  Jack was tracing soft circles on Ianto’s back with his fingertips. 

“Forget something?” Jack asked completely nonplused by the interruption.

Gwen’s eyes jerked back to her desk.  She was sure she’d have felt less shocked, less embarrassed, if she’d walked in to find them shagging on that couch.  This was far more intimate.

It wasn’t as if she didn’t know about them.  She’d seen them snogging often enough.  But, she realized, she’d thought that was all it had been.  Just snogging and shagging.  She was somewhat surprised to find that it was something more.  She and Tosh had both commented that day that Ianto had looked a little run down, a little tired.  She hadn’t expected Jack to notice.

But clearly, he had.  Gwen dug through the accumulated detritus on her desk looking for the wayward phone.  She hadn’t expected that level of devotion from Jack.  Jack, who tended to make everything about sex and relationships into a cheap joke.  She wondered when she’d started selling him so short. She found the phone and pocketed it.

“I’m good,” she said not looking over again.  She wasn’t sure if Ianto was even awake, but she suspected that even if Jack weren’t embarrassed by her barging in on them, Ianto would be.  And if he wasn’t, she was embarrassed enough for both of them.  She fled back to the car park.

Comments

[secbeth.livejournal.com]

That was sweet

[smallwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[jessionthemoon.livejournal.com]

These little moments are my favorites :)

lovely mental imagery... that'll get me through the rest of the day!

love this!

[smallwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I literally woke up with that image in my head. Then I went over the list of prompts to see which one it would fit. :)

Thanks and Have a good day. :)

[wynterwolf47.livejournal.com]

That was lovely and very tender. I love those little moments too. And I liked seeing that from Gwen's POV, that actually seemed to heighten the intimacy of the scene.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I figure that if she were to have walked in on them shagging she would have been the sort to yell, "get a room" and roll her eyes and leave and then give them shit for weeks.

But this was so different. It wasn't 'inappropriate', but it was very private so she didn't know what to do with it.

Glad you liked it. :)

[melfinatheblue.livejournal.com]

That was wonderfully sweet.
And yay for Gwen's pov.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

I don't like Gwen, but I'm trying to get over that. Writing from her POV makes me think about her perspective on things. *shrug* Hopefully she won't be as annoying next year.

Glad you liked the story. Thanks for the note!

[erin-giles.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Lovely. I loved how it was from Gwen's POV so we we're also intruding on the moment. Bless sleepy Ianto.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

I woke up with this image in my head this morning, so I was sleepy when I was writing it in my head. :)

Thanks so much! :)

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

This was very sweet. You can feel the affection there, and having it from Gwen's POV gives a good outsider's look at it :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much.

[ffarff.livejournal.com]

i imagine Ianto could possibly be purring.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

This is not altogether unlikely. :)

[vampgirly.livejournal.com]

That was really sweet :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[invisible-lift.livejournal.com]

This is lovely. Thanks for posting this!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Thanks for the note. :) (And for plugging WIAD when you repost your stories. You're awesome for that. :)

[aphroditesky.livejournal.com]

ah.. so nice. Leaves one with a nice feeling. Thanks

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And thank you for such sweet feedback. :)

[sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Very easy to picture Jack being completely unfazed by Gwen seeing them. Such a wonderfully intimate moment.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Hee. Jack probably wouldn't have been anymore fazed if she had walked in on them shagging. He just doens't get 21st century taboos. :)

Thanks so much for the note. :)

[likestowrite.livejournal.com]

I adore the intimacy of this. And the small delicated touches of affection. I love it to bits.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Eee! Thanks. That's the mood I was shooting for - intimate but not sexual. And the awkwardness of barging in on someone in that moment.

Thanks so much!

[glitterfairy25.livejournal.com]

that's really pretty :) and nicely written.

just a little thing though, "pissed" in the UK means 'drunk'. I think you mean "pissed off".

otherwise, lovely :)

[smallwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I knew something didn't read right in that line, because, yeah, I kept going, "That means drunk... so what means mad?"

Thank you!

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

Great story; I'm always a big fan of devoted-Jack :D

[smallwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I think sometimes Jack gets the short end of things. He brings it one himself, but after all the time he's been alive he has to want companionship above and beyond sex.

[badwolf36.livejournal.com]

Just a quick note: I thin you meant "barging in" in the last paragraph, not "barraging". :)

This was really sweet. I like that Jack would do that for Ianto, and that Gwen was the one to reveal it. It worked well.

[smallwaldo.livejournal.com]

DOH! Thank you. I love my spell check, but I really shouldn't substitute it for my own brain. :)

I think Jack has moments of being really tender. He just doesn't get the opportunity to show that facet of himself that often what with all the alien chasing and stuff. :)

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

Aww, that was a nice sweet one and hee for embarrassed Gwen

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. :)

[therandomgirlie.livejournal.com]

Mmm....lovely mental images coming into my head....someone has GOT to draw that scene....
Lovely ficcage!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Oh my YES! I have no talent for that sort of thing, but I would write fic to spec for someone with a good hand who could illustrate that!

[geordie-star.livejournal.com]

This was sooo cute! If I was Gwen I think I'd have reacted the same. Very good!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's always awkward when you stumble on something like that isn't it? It's not like you saw something "wrong", but what do you say? Glad you liked it. :)

[carma-chaos.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to cuddle a fic, or for a fic to cuddle a person? Honestly, this is what this piece feels like, a big warm cuddle.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Eee! What fabulous comments. Thank you so much. Oddly enough, that's exactly what I filed it under (well, their word was 'snuggle') for my TW Claim of 100 things... thing. :)

[riftugee.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I love this. It's refreshing to see Miss Cooper noticing maybe she doesn't know everything in the realm of 'being human'.

I can just see Jack sitting around watching Dancing With the Stars while Ianto snoozes (or pretends to do so)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she needs to cut Jack a little slack. He's not as oblivious as she'd like to think.

And, yeah, it'd be "Strictly Come Dancing" for Jack, wouldn't it? But totally. I can see him just sitting their reading or watching telly while Ianto rests. And come hell or high water, he wouldn't move until Ianto woke up on his own. :)

Thanks so much for the great note!

[mistressslash.livejournal.com]

This was so beautiful that I saved it to my computer. Fantastic job!!

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the story Waldo! It's just what I was looking for.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Whee! It's always good when the requester likes it. :)

[nhj28.livejournal.com]

This is just perfect!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you very much!

[onehundredmoons.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is really lovely! I'd like to think that Ianto was awake and just a bit shy. *winks*

Have you seen the J/I manip at the The Theban Band (http://squidge.org/praxisters/)? (Follow the DW link and it's the last one) Your disheveled Ianto put me in mind of it, though you've got them belly to belly. :-D

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Well, I couldn't explain because it was the wrong POV, but in my head he was in that twilight sleep where he was aware of sounds and things going on around him, but just too damn comfortable and sleepy to be arsed to respond to them.

I've seen the TB image. I can't figure out what's going on with Ianto's shirt in that shot. Where's his collar?

And anyway, I've actually got Ianto over Jack's legs. Which in another context could be kinky as hell. o_O

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Aw, that was lovely, sweet, and though short, it said everything that it needed to say with a lovely image!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I just woke up with that image in my head this morning and had to scribble it down before I forgot it. :)