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] secbeth.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That was sweet

[identity profile] jessionthemoon.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
These little moments are my favorites :)

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

love this!

[identity profile] smallwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. :)

[identity profile] smallwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)

[identity profile] wynterwolf47.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)

[identity profile] melfinatheblue.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That was wonderfully sweet.
And yay for Gwen's pov.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] erin-giles.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww. Lovely. I loved how it was from Gwen's POV so we we're also intruding on the moment. Bless sleepy Ianto.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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! :)

[identity profile] crystalshard.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :)

[identity profile] ffarff.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
i imagine Ianto could possibly be purring.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
This is not altogether unlikely. :)

[identity profile] vampgirly.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That was really sweet :)

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks so much!

[identity profile] invisible-lift.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This is lovely. Thanks for posting this!
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[identity profile] aphroditesky.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
ah.. so nice. Leaves one with a nice feeling. Thanks

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome. And thank you for such sweet feedback. :)

[identity profile] sphinxvictorian.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely! Very easy to picture Jack being completely unfazed by Gwen seeing them. Such a wonderfully intimate moment.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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. :)

[identity profile] likestowrite.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I adore the intimacy of this. And the small delicated touches of affection. I love it to bits.

[identity profile] thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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!
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[identity profile] glitterfairy25.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :)

[identity profile] love-jackianto.livejournal.com 2007-12-28 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Great story; I'm always a big fan of devoted-Jack :D

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