TW FIC: The Marks They Can See

[waldos_writings]

Title: The Marks They Can See
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 808
Summary:  "Ianto knew there were two very good reasons not to touch that particular place on the side of his head."
Written for:  the ABC prompt challenge on my main journal.
Author's Note:  So I've done sickeningly sweet and I've done silly... now I'm going for vaguely porny.  But only vaguely.



Ianto knew there were two very good reasons not to touch that particular place on the side of his head.

Number one, he was simply aggravating the bruise that was already a fairly livid purple.

Number two, he was calling attention to the fairly livid bruise and really, he could do without Tosh and Gwen going all, “Oh, poor dear did you get hit by a Weevil?  Here have Owen look at that for you,” on him.

And he could definitely do without Owen noticing and yelling, “Well, I guess the Teaboy got some yesterday.  Look at that love bite!” across the room.  What would be worse would be the fact that he’d never be able to deny that it was in fact a love bite - what Jack had called ‘hickey’ that morning - with anything like a straight face.

Best not to touch it then, he reminded himself as he shoved his right hand into his pocket.  He dropped the report Jack had been waiting for on his desk.  He didn’t fail to notice the way Jack looked at the mark on the side of his head or the slow smile that spread over his face.

Ianto could feel himself blush bright and hot as his hand immediately flew up to his ear, covering the bruise just under his earlobe.

As his finger grazed the mark, a sharp flare of pain reminded him of the way Jack’s teeth had worried that one spot over and over with his teeth while he used the soap or shampoo or whatever it was that he could reach as he stretched Ianto open for him in the shower the night before.  That was what kept him toying with it.  With each rush of minor pain, he remembered the incredible rush – okay, rushes, if he was honest with himself – of pleasure from the night before.  The shower had been after brain-bending blowjob Jack had given him while Ianto leaned back on Jack’s desk.  And after the shower there had been the bed…  Several times.  Ianto felt himself blush even harder.  He might have been coming up on thirty in the not too distant future, but Jack could make him react like he was thirteen.  And Jack’s libido was clearly as immortal as the rest of him.

As he fled the office he caught sight of Owen at his desk giving him an odd look.  Ianto beat a retreat into the Weevil vaults before Owen could make whatever remark he was likely to have at the ready.

After tossing Janet’s lunch in her cell, he found Tosh leaning on the wall at the end of the row. “Looks like you had a good time last night,” she said with a raised eyebrow.

Ianto blushed and couldn’t tear his eyes off the stains on the concrete floor.  He just shrugged with a shy smile.

Tosh laughed and headed back for the stairs.  “By the way.  You know you’re damn proud to be showing off the fact that you got shagged last night and the rest of us didn’t – hell, even Gwen said Rhys was out of town with his mates.  So drop the blushing virgin act; you’re just freaking people out.”

That made Ianto laugh.  He really had no idea why he’d felt the need to hide what had happened.  Maybe the fact that the last time he had had a love bite, he’d been fifteen years old and his mother kept asking him why he wanted to wear a turtleneck under his school jumper.  That one had been just slightly lower than this one and he knew the regular shirt and tie wouldn’t have come close to hiding it.  He’d had to think fast and invent a girlfriend, because Ianto was quite certain his mother wasn’t ready to hear about Cedric and the locker room after football practice.

But yesterday was different.  Everyone he worked with knew about him and Jack.  And other than the fact that it was something else for Owen to give him crap about, no one cared.  In fact he was reasonably sure Tosh would have been knitting them baby booties if either he or Jack would have been the sort to settle into a legally recognized partnership and start adopting babies.

But they weren’t.  So she contented herself with teasing him about love bites and the little public kisses as Jack crossed the Hub and making sure they were both okay after something work-related put them at even the slightest odds.

“If you mean Owen,” Ianto shouted to Tosh’s back as she left, “he started out a freak, so it’s not a big leap.”

He could hear her giggle as she ascended the stairs.

He tugged down his sleeves under his jacket again.  The comments about the ‘hickey’ were bad enough.

If anyone noticed the rope burns…

Comments

[jessionthemoon.livejournal.com]

That last line! Ohhh I love it!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

It's always fun to have that last little unexpected kick, isn't it? :) Thanks so much!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

OH YES. :-)

I love Ianto being embarrassed about everyone noticing that mark and knowing where it came from.

I love Ianto remembering exactly how he got it, mmmmm.

I love Tosh pointing out that he didn't need to be embarrassed, since it was no secret what he and Jack were up to.

And I REALLY love that last line. :-)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

OH THANKS! :)

Ianto would need to be reminded that, really, no one really gives a damn. He's just conservative like that.

And I love doing little last line punches like that. Glad it worked for you. :) Thanks so much for the feedback.

[badwolf36.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Sexy, snarky, and I loved the last line to bits. Thanks for sharing!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was fun to write. :)

[invisible-lift.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Oh, that's brilliant. Love it.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Aw. Thank you much. :)

[cjedwards.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious, and I do love that last line ;).

[ffarff.livejournal.com]

brilliant icon

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Very nicely done, funny with some hot thrown in there.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I like doing humor... the hot... well, I'm working on it. :)

[shara50.livejournal.com]

Very Cute!!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[rubydreamer.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, what can I say? Fanning myself. Nice and hot, and love the little bit at the end. Could do with some more you know. Hint hint!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Aw! Thanks. As for more... well, I'm warming up for the porn battle. (http://oxoniensis.livejournal.com/343067.html)

Which could use a few more Torchwood prompts. ;)

So glad you liked it!

[jolie29.livejournal.com]

Ianto was marked! Lucky him!..lol..very cute, thank you greatly enjoyed it:-) though im curious about the rope burns...lol..

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I'd let Jack mark me anydamnwhere he wanted to!

I'm warming up for the porn battle over at: http://oxoniensis.livejournal.com/343067.html. Maybe if there are some good prompts I can work in the ropes. ;)

[ru-salki99.livejournal.com]

rope burns! brilliant. I suppose in the grand scheme of things, the love bite wasn't all that bad then really. hee hee.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

But really, Jack should know better than to use ropes that abrade. Someone like him should really invest in some cotton ones or something softer. ;)

Thanks so much!

[ffarff.livejournal.com]

all i could think about was the idea of Ianto farting out bubbles after the sex in the shower...

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

oh dear...
... uh... well, I hadn't thought of that.

[larielromeniel.livejournal.com]

This was great! Glad to see you do some writing yourself, while putting us through our paces!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, I'm working on two mosters - well, one's a monster-ette. And I needed to get out something short and palate cleansing. :)

Speaking of which... ready for tomorrow? :)

Glad you liked it.

[onehundredmoons.livejournal.com]

Tosh is adorable here, and the last line is the perfect kicker ending for a sweet porny little piece like this! Much fun. :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

I think Tosh has moments of thinking of Ianto as both her little and her older brother. This was definitely a 'little brother' moment. :)

And I'm just working up to the porn. There's going to be a porn battle soon, so I needed to get, you know a few step closer to actual porn to get ready for it. (http://oxoniensis.livejournal.com/343067.html)

Thanks so much for the note.

[kronette.livejournal.com]

*gasps incoherently whilst pointing/waving at the last sentence*

I...he...sleeve...the slight tug...then the lovely red skin...okay, my brain is in a bad place. A very good, bad place. Thank you muchly! It's nice to see a different side of Ianto/Jack (I've only just started reading TW stories two weeks ago). Just the *idea* of rope being involved...yum.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm getting warmed up for the porn battle (http://oxoniensis.livejournal.com/343067.html) in the hopes that we get some good J/I TW prompts.

And welcome to the club. There's a lot of really great fic. Have fun discovering it all. :)

And thanks for the lovely note!

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Love the light heartedness of this, the reactions from the others and the last line's a killer XD

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I typically do better (especially if I'm trying to keep it short) with the silly stuff. So it's fun to write.

Thanks!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I must sound evil to my roommate, snickering like this.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Hee! Then I guess I did something right. :)

Thanks!

[lizz-112.livejournal.com]

Oh that last line.

Loved it.

Wonderfully (if that is a word) written.
Simply grand :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Wonderfully is really a word. :) And thank you so much for using it. :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[seize.livejournal.com]

OH! OH! OH!

You lovely thing you. That just made my morning.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

LOL! Glad to have done so!

Thank you for such a great note! :)

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Love the fic. I can so see Ianto being like this, and I adore the last couple of lines. *snorfle*

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Ianto's so conflicted, poor dear boy.

And the last few lines were total fun to write. It's been fun watching everyone react. :)

Thanks!

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

Cute! (but so's Ianto.)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

He really is, isn't he? Thanks!

[crystalshard.livejournal.com]

*grin* That was a brilliant last line. I also like the way you have Tosh reminding Ianto that he doesn't always need to hide what he thinks. Great story!

(By the way - I noticed a little typo. I think you meant flare of pain, not flair, which usually means either style or natural talent.)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! And yeah, poor Ianto. He's so conflicted. :)

And thanks re: typo. Will fix. Got in a rush last night. :)

[nhj28.livejournal.com]

Fab, especially that last line!

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[myshka23.livejournal.com]

*g* That last line=brilliant ;)

Yummy story too :)

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

[trekkiepirate.livejournal.com]

Loved this so much. Also enjoyed the image of Tosh humming to herself and knitting baby booties as Jack wanders around all pregnant (he set himself up for it in the first episode).

Brilliant, darling, really.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Tosh has an evil streak. She really does. She'd enjoy giving him hell. And yeah, Jack pregnant.

Oy, someone needs to write the story where Jack tries to tell Ianto and he isn't really right up front about it and Ianto doesn't *get it*... but everyone else does. :)

So glad you liked this. :)