waldos_writings: (Torchwood fic)
waldos_writings ([personal profile] waldos_writings) wrote2007-12-28 08:33 am
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TW FIC: Love and Devotion

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: [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
My pleasure! And you're absolutely right about Jack, that's why I love him so much!

So glad to have found the Torchwood community! You guys have great fanfic, I gotta say!

[identity profile] badwolf36.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] smallwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] smallwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] smallwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)
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[identity profile] sunnyrea.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, that was a nice sweet one and hee for embarrassed Gwen

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much. :)

[identity profile] therandomgirlie.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm....lovely mental images coming into my head....someone has GOT to draw that scene....
Lovely ficcage!

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] therandomgirlie.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, neither do I.
Ah well. Will just sit back and pray. :)

[identity profile] geordie-star.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
This was sooo cute! If I was Gwen I think I'd have reacted the same. Very good!

[identity profile] carma-chaos.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] riftugee.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
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)

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You're very welcome. Thanks for the note. :) (And for plugging WIAD when you repost your stories. You're awesome for that. :)

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] carma-chaos.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Cuddle. Snuggle. Huggle. Cuggle. Any of them apply, and you really deserve a load of praise for how sunggable this was. I was alone when reading it (having spent the day with a loved one) and whilst reading it was like I could feel their arms around me still.

Either your fic has grown arms or it really is that well written. I vote both!

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You're so amazingly sweet. Thank you. :)

[identity profile] mistressslash.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
This was so beautiful that I saved it to my computer. Fantastic job!!

[identity profile] kensieg.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the story Waldo! It's just what I was looking for.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Whee! It's always good when the requester likes it. :)

[identity profile] nhj28.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
This is just perfect!

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, thank you very much!

[identity profile] nhj28.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No worries, I've just added it to my memories for days when I need a pick me up! Some days we all need a moment like this.

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