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thursdayinspace · 3 months
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So what if Ianto lives and becomes immortal, in whatever way, but after everything that happened, he and Jack still can't find a way to close that last distance. There's still the mess their relationship used to be. Both of them are still unable to say what they really feel. Everything ends in a fight, they just keep hurting each other.
So with some alien device they erase their memories of each other, because they know they will just keep falling back into old patterns otherwise, and it would only ever end in more pain. So they erase each other from their minds completely. Like none of it ever happened.
They travel the universe separately until they meet again on opposite sides of a conflict, as enemies. They hate each other but also there are flashes of something else. Images in their dreams. An ability to predict what the other one is going to do.
Memories are returning slowly, but they erased them for a reason, and they are also very much still enemies. So they're back where they started, only worse. And now they have to figure that mess out.
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CoE fix-it idea: the Face of Boe shows up at Thames House and enfolds Ianto with his smoke to keep him from breathing the virus.
Jack is VERY confused. But grateful. When asked why he did it, the Face says only that Ianto Jones is important.
(He is. To him.)
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Chapters: 20/25 Fandom: Torchwood Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, John Hart (Torchwood), Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper, Martha Jones Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Romance, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Smut, Developing Relationship Summary:
From the moment Ianto met Jack, he couldn't shake the feeling that he'd known the American much longer than he had. But Jack is keeping a huge part of his life hidden. When Ianto finds out and realises where he fits in Jack's life, how will he react?
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secretartquotes · 2 years
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Au where Jack and Ianto accidentally get sent to the past ( late 1885 specifically ) and live there for almost two years , while the team have a bad couple of days trying to get them back or that time Jack & Ianto got sent to 1885 , had to avoid Victorian Torchwood and past!Jack , made friends, lost friends , had a relatively stress free time ( almost everything is less stressful that this job ) and completed a time loop, while Gwen , Owen and Tosh scoured to find how to get them back , found new things , helped complete the time loop , got their friends back and took a deserved nap .
An edit for the Torchwood 2022 Pride fest. it could fall into the 7th and 9th prompt (7.family ; 9.historical) ,but I'm not sure. I had a lot of fun with this though,kind of proud of it.
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miraclegay · 8 months
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I have had the slightest uptick in followers here so. If anyone has any dr who or torchwood fic recs that are longer…… or are like “fandom classics” of new who…….. please for the love of god dm me or something
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glitch-in-space · 2 years
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"I want to ki__ you." (Answer may vary.)
Moodboard for my dark au in which Ianto seduces Torchwood's leader to muddy the waters of their case, trouble comes however, when Ianto realises his feelings for Captain Harkness are all too real. For the 'Inconvenient crush' square of my Torchwood bingo card:
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greendreamer · 1 year
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Janto for the ship bingo <3
~ @sammys-magical-au
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In canon, this relationship is so weird. We go from Ianto losing Lisa, to weird watch-based innuendos, to them being "Facebook-it's-complicated" by the end of S1. Ianto fell for Jack very early on (thanks to Fragments and Broken to back this up).
But for Jack, it's the events of TYTNW for him to realise and want to commit to a "standard 21st-century" relationship. And he makes this so clear with how awkward he acts when asking Ianto out. (Really makes you question what his experience with romantic relationships has been like since he became immortal.) Onward from there, we get small moments between the two of them. CoE even went so far as to give a retcon vibe to the relationship ('Boyfriend' anyone?)
What I'm trying to say, is that we need a Broken 2, set during S2.
Ship Bingo
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poisonous-smiles · 2 years
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AU where Ianto adopts the little boy who survived and got his breath back in the From Out of the Rain episode.
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drarreckyninja · 2 years
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belated: drarreckyninja’s top 50 ships of Aug 2022 [6. Janto]
Fandom(s): Torchwood
Pairing: Jack Harkness x Ianto Jones
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Where u from? Deccan Plateau, India || Cardiff, UK
Families (my AU):
Jack: Franklin (dad), Gray (younger brother)
Ianto: Glenda (mom), Rhiannon (younger sister)
Subship(s): N/A
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thursdayinspace · 3 months
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My mind started drawing parallels between Janto and Jane Eyre last night for some reason, when I was half asleep. I'm struggling to remember the details, but it made absolute sense to me why Jack was just like Rochester and Ianto would make a great Jane.
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Op can you tell me more about your Buffy AU ? I'm very interested, like one of the reasons I started watching the show .
Hello! Yes, I can, I can share the outline I drew up with you :D Also, did you just imply one of the reasons why you started watching BtVS is because I mentioned a Torchwood Buffy AU?? Anon, that is insane (affectionate). Message me if you want to talk about either show <3
Disclaimer that even though I still love this idea, I am almost certainly not going to write this fic, so if anyone would like to try their hand at it, you're welcome to take any or all of the plot points below.
Very mild spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I changed the story to parallel Torchwood and fit the characters, so nothing big.
Ianto is the slayer
He’s trans, so he was assigned female at birth and he was also assigned as a potential early in life. The Council didn’t bother to check in on him again until he was called at 16 and they sent someone to explain to “her” about being the Slayer. The emissary of the Council did not find [deadname] Jones. They found Rhiannon Jones, who seemed reticent to give them any information on her only sibling. Eventually they find him. Somehow, Ianto ends up being the first slayer to give the Council as big a shock they are used to giving on one of these visits.
Ianto Jones was about to finish school anyway, so he fast-tracks that and moves to London where the hellmouth is (as well as his Watcher). The Council wanted him there, but he is only too happy to leave Cardiff behind, where so many people still see him as someone he’s not. A fresh start sounded like just the thing.
He’s given accommodations and introduced to his Watcher, Yvonne Hartman. She seems pleased to find out she has a male Slayer. Ianto finds out not long after that it’s less a male Slayer and more a trans Slayer that she was happy to get. Turns out she’s trans herself!
She trains him, he saves the day a lot, time passes. He meets Gwen Cooper and bonds with her over their shared Welshness and contempt for the English. Her boyfriend, Rhys, starts hanging out with them and soon becomes Ianto’s friend as well.
At first, Ianto tries to keep them away from danger but that doesn’t work out too great for him. Gwen isn’t one to take that lying down. He resigns himself to fearing for his friends’ lives but it turns out they’re pretty good after a while.
Gwen dabbles in magic and becomes a powerful witch with time.
Rhys continues to be the “regular guy” of the group, but he’s also secretly the voice of common sense and therefore saves their asses on more than one occasion. He’s also ride or die, which is exactly what the group needs.
Ianto meets Owen a couple of years later, on his frequent hospital visits (more often for his friends and Watcher than for himself, slayer healing is a wonderful thing). Owen is a great doctor, and very understanding, so Ianto was very surprised when he saw him outside a medical emergency context. Turns out he’s kind of an asshole :) They become friends anyway when Ianto and Gwen save him from a demon cult. 
They meet Tosh when they rescue a couple dozen people from an underground labour camp that another demon was running. She’s the only one who doesn’t run as soon as they can. Instead she stays to thank them and ask questions (the one running the operation… what was he?; what are you?; so you stop people like that—demons, i mean; vampires?? Really?; so you all have powers of some sort?; not all of you? So that means regular people can help too….) and the more they talk, the more courage she seems to gather to herself, until she eventually asks if she can help them. When Ianto is a bit reticent (bc he doesn’t want to endanger civilians), she insists, and Ianto sees that despite her earlier hesitation, despite the trauma of being held captive for months, underneath the pain and the gratitude, there is a determination of steel. She deconstructs his excuses, arguing that it is not up to him to decide for her, that she wants to help, needs to help; she can’t go back to regular life, burying her head in the sand, now that she knows there are creatures like that running around, hurting people. She even says that if they don’t have a place for her, she’ll just go after whatever demon she can on her own. They’re speechless. Ianto finds himself agreeing. They soon find out she’s anything but “regular”, despite her words. She’s bloody brilliant. 
Tosh meets and falls for demon!Mary (not former demon Mary but still-a-demon!Mary). Mary takes a while to warm up to them but she starts helping them after a while.
At some point, Ianto meets and falls in love with Lisa. And then loses her when she’s targeted to get at him.
When Ianto’s 24, something big happens that ends up with them closing the hellmouth. But of course the hellmouth doesn’t stay closed. They sealed it up tight enough that it can’t open again, not right there in the heart of London. But there are other places where the protections are thinner.
They get enough reports that they realise what must have happened: the new hellmouth is in Cardiff. They all move there (except maybe one or two of them? Owen maybe bc he wants to stay at the hospital, or Tosh and Mary. They'll still visit though).
Jack is a 176-year-old vampire. He was turned by Rose. Rose’s boyfriend from when she was still alive (the Doctor) was a powerful sorcerer/demon who eventually managed to bind her soul to her body. She felt awful about turning Jack so she asked her bf to do the same for him. So Jack only spent a few years as a soulless vampire. It’s not until decades later that they find out the ritual bound their souls so tightly to their bodies that they won’t die. If something happens to damage their bodies, the magic will simply heal them.
Jack has settled in in Cardiff for some reason (unrelated to the Hellmouth, something else supernatural that he was helping with).
Jack has heard some rumours about the Slayer but he has his own thing going, and he’s a “good” vampire anyway so it’s not like he wants to take the Slayer on or something, so he doesn’t pay too much attention to the rumours. 
The Council—well, mostly Yvonne—had been careful, though. Most people don’t know the Slayer is a man. 
Jack has heard about the Slayer moving to Cardiff, of course, and he knew why. He wasn’t too interested.
Eventually, he was bound to run into them, though. 
He sees a few nasty vampires who’d been very good at staying out of his way so far lead a man and a woman to a deserted side street and, with a tired sigh, goes to save the hapless humans.
By the time he gets there the humans are safe and sound, grinning to each other. The vampires are nowhere to be seen, though. Not until Jack notices the piles of ashes on the floor.
Ah, this must be the Slayer and one of her friends, he thinks. The friend is cute. So is she, actually. He withdraws without letting them know he was there.
He sees them strolling the next night, arm in arm (and maybe dancing?), and he feels a little disappointed that the man seems to be unavailable. Two nights later, he sees "the Slayer" kissing another man and isn’t sure what to think. None of his business, though.
Several nights later, he runs into the man, this time alone, surrounded by half a dozen vampires. They’ve been getting rowdier, unhappy to have the Slayer come to what they consider their turf. He jumps in to save the man, of course. Only… the man doesn’t seem to need any help.
After he’s made short work of them, the man turns to him. Jack can’t help but hiss a little at the cross.
“You’re a vampire.”
“Yes, but I’m not your enemy.”
To his surprise, the man nods and puts the cross away. He’d used the cross to stake two of the others. The longer side was carved into a point precisely so it could be used as a stake.
“You must be the Captain. I’ve heard about you.” The accent, to Jack’s surprise, is unmistakably Welsh.
A blink. “You have?”
“A vampire that’s been taking down evil cults and secret societies for years, in my city? Of course I have.”
Jack offers his hand to the man, taking him in more carefully this time. Mostly, he’s checking him out. “Captain Jack Harkness.”
The man accepts the handshake with a small impish smile. “Ianto Jones.”
Jack takes a second to appreciate the way those lips shape those vowels. 
“You’re a friend of the Slayer’s.” He ventures.
Ianto Jones grins. “Have you been watching us?”
Jack shrugs. “This is my city, you know. You move into it, making every demon and undead baddie raise up a ruckus, I’m hardly likely to miss it. So yeah, I’ve been watching you.”
“Perhaps you should take a closer look,” Ianto Jones tells him, tone neutral enough that Jack can’t tell if it’s a come-on or not. (It’s not; Ianto is amused Jack assumed Gwen is the Slayer.) “And you say this is your city but it doesn’t sound that way to me.”
Jack frowns, not liking that one bit. “What do you mean?”
Ianto Jones raises one eyebrow, a smile dancing elusively on the corners of his lips. “Your accent?”
Oh. 
Ianto Jones smiles. Jack finds himself chuckling at the cheeky expression on the man’s face.
“I thought you might be angling to tell me this town isn’t big enough for both of us, or something.” 
Ianto Jones chuckles. “You’ve been doing good here. Why would I want you to leave?”
“Ianto!” a female voice shouts.
“That’s my cue,” tha man says. “It was nice to meet you, Captain!” he throws out as he jogs away, towards the voice.
Jack follows him (hidden) and finds none other than the Slayer herself waiting for him. (Or so he thinks. He'll learn his mistake soon after.)
They have a few more encounters where Jack starts flirting with him but he's also a little confused about who he is (he assumes a rogue demon hunter who's helping the slayer at first, maybe even sent by the council). A while after Jack meets the whole gang and learns that Ianto is the slayer and how that can be (a male slayer is pretty much unheard of, not because there haven't been any but bc transmasc slayers mostly had to lie about their gender or when they didn't, the history books did)
Ianto is relieved when this doesn't change Jack's attitude towards him at all, and they start working together on purpose. Before, they would run into each other when Ianto was patrolling or when Jack was following a lead, but now they start calling each other for backup and such.
Jack's flirting escalates and Ianto is considering it. Probably something happens like Jack "dying" in front of him that makes Ianto realise he has feelings for him that he does want to pursue. That's how he learns Jack can't die, not even by being staked or by sunlight (he does die but then he comes back).
They fall in love basically and all but join forces. They're spending most days/nights together and move in together officially
John shows up 👀
John is a morally grey vampire who's in an on-again off-again relationship with Jack and has been for the past century.
They spend a few years together where John mostly behaves himself and then they have an explosive breakup and they spend some years apart until they meet again and fall together again. It's not the first time one of them's had another relationship when they were apart but John is petty so he decides to stay in Cardiff and cause problems on purpose.
Jack wasn’t there the first time John approached Ianto and started a fight. John knows Jack is seeing this guy and then he spies Ianto dusting some vamps and he's like 'huh not bad' but it's not until he starts a fight and manages to scratch him (and tastes the blood on his fingernails ofc) that he realises 'oh shit, he's the slayer'. John responds with manic glee ofc bc he's insane <3 A fight he might not win? That's his favourite kind, babey! He gets a few good hits in but eventually has to run, you know, so he doesn't die a fast and violent death. But before he does he tells Ianto to "send Jack my love ;)" so that's a conversation Jack has to have when Ianto comes home bruised and frustrated that he couldn't kill this vamp.
So Jack explains and they get to know each other a little.
John keeps poking Ianto (metaphorically, mostly) and trying to annoy him and sometimes it works but sometimes Ianto is just amused and he's really good at poking back so John is grudgingly entertained by him and has to admit he sees what Jack sees in him. Ianto is also an excellent fighter (he's 24 which is older than Buffy was in s7, so he's old for a slayer and therefore extremely powerful and skilled) which John finds very very hot and once he sees Ianto in action, he can't help the urge to start fights with him. Jack has to interfere and explain to Ianto that John "isn't trying to kill him, please don't kill him, he just likes the thrill of a good fight".
So after that they start sparring for fun or training. Yvonne is very happy with this bc John is a very creative fighter and has the ability to keep Ianto on his toes, which is rare at this point considering how good he's become. Having a challenge means Ianto doesn't become arrogant and he can keep honing his skills.
John starts helping them with the baddies bc he's always up for a good fight and then when he starts helping with training, he becomes this mildly feral sort-of-friend and life goes on. Ianto and John are allies now, sort of, and friends almost but not quite, and they have this antagonistic relationship at first bc John is very blunt about wanting Jack for himself and he's a bastard and morally grey at best, so he'll do some questionable stuff every once in a while, but then that softens into a faux-antagonistic friendship where they're just competitive and they pretend that they're jealous of each other but they're not actually? And John is helping more often than not.
Plus John is making noises about sharing Jack and also starts looking at Ianto like he wouldn't mind nibbling on him (in a sexy, non-lethal way).
Gwen and Rhys get married, a demon crashes the wedding and tries to turn Rhys against Gwen but fails, and Gwen kills the demon in a rage before Ianto could even try to step in. Rhys is smitten, as well he should be. The wedding goes well, despite a few stains they couldn’t wash or spell off left behind by demon guts on the lower half of the bride’s wedding dress. Mary assures Gwen it only makes her look sexier and more formidable, and Gwen decides she’s right. Rhys agrees.
And then the next day, Ianto calls Jack and gets no response. He goes home and he's not there. He asks John to track him down, worried something might have happened but John can track his scent only so far and then it's like he disappeared. Gwen does a tracking spell but he's nowhere. He's not on Earth.
They ask Tosh to track him down through the city's CCTV and they find out he's left on his own. They see him talk to a blonde that John identifies as Rose, Jack's sire, and they see this guy open a portal and Jack walk through it, Rose following right behind. (The guy is the Doctor but they won't know that until much later.)
They suspect the warlock did something to him at first, but Gwen goes over the footage and then studies the place where it happened magically and comes up with the fact that he couldn’t have, not without leaving any magical residue. Jack left willingly. Without bothering to call them or leave a note or any kind of explanation, and they have no idea why or for how long. Ianto is devastated. John tells him what little he knows about Jack’s sire and their relationship: he knows Jack loved her and he knows she’s the reason why he’s immortal but not much else. He’s only met her briefly before (or maybe only seen a photo?).
Ianto takes it really hard. He tries to put on a brave face about it and insists that Gwen and Rhys should go on their honeymoon despite recent events. It’s not like they know if/when they might be able to do anything about it. Gwen refuses at first and they stay a few weeks trying to work everything out and to find a way to Jack but after they’re sure Jack left on his own, Ianto puts his foot down, and Gwen and Rhys go on that trip. Mary tapped on some contacts in the demon world and Tosh has been helping in her own way, but Ianto can’t help but feel like it’s useless. Jack left. 
Ianto doesn’t want to open up about how he’s feeling with his friends but somehow ends up hanging out with John more. John is the only one who doesn’t try to make him talk about it and he’s the only one who doesn’t look at him with pity. John gets it, he’s right there with him in fact, both hurt and angry (and confused still) about Jack leaving them like that, and that makes it easier, a bit. They grow even closer, sometimes talking about Jack and sometimes about anything but; going on patrol together, going out for drinks or to watch a film together when something looks interesting enough to give it a try. Before Ianto knows what’s happening, John has become his closest friend and confidante. Before John knows what’s happening, Ianto is kissing him. Things develop from there.
The Scoobies take it well (Gwen threatens to set John on fire if he hurts Ianto, but that's her prerrogative as Ianto's bestie <3) and Ianto starts to come to terms with being abandoned after several months. John is still pissed, for both of them. Ianto is mostly resigned.
Six to nine months after he’s disappeared, Jack comes back. He didn't mean to stay away for so long, he was supposed to be back hours after he left, but the Doctor fucked up the spell.
He comes back to find his boyfriend shacked up with his ex and isn't sure what to do with that information. He explains that Rose needed him and that he tried to be back sooner but John still punches him in the face. He also kisses the blood off his lips afterward.
Ianto is glad to know Jack is alright, but he’s still hurt from being abandoned like that and scared to trust him again and he’s also fallen in love with John in the months Jack was gone, so he’s conflicted about what to do.
But of course, it’s Jack, and Ianto never stopped loving him, so it takes him some time to work through it and some Jack proving himself before he gets there, but in the end Ianto forgives him. John forgave Jack within minutes. A few months away feel less weighty for a century-old vampire, and John’s used to being with Jack on-again off-again, so Jack showing up and saying he’s sorry is enough for him.
Happy throuple time. 
Gwen gets another death threat in, this time to Jack if he ever pulls another disappearing stunt on Ianto again. 
They save the world a lot. Tosh and Mary and Owen visit frequently. 
The end.
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NEW CHAPTER NOW UP!! 
Chapters: 19/25 Fandom: Torchwood Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones Characters: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones, Owen Harper, John Hart (Torchwood), Toshiko Sato, Gwen Cooper, Martha Jones Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Romance, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Smut, Developing Relationship Summary:
From the moment Ianto met Jack, he couldn't shake the feeling that he'd known the American much longer than he had. But Jack is keeping a huge part of his life hidden. When Ianto finds out and realises where he fits in Jack's life, how will he react?
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secretartquotes · 2 years
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A Gwen/Jack/Ianto Captain America: the first avenger AU moodboard for the Torchwood 2022 Pride fest checking off prompts : 14.polyamory and 20.queer retelling of classic movies/books/fairytales
Starring Jack Harkness as Captain America ( Steve Rogers ) ; Gwen Cooper as Srg. Bucky Barnes and Ianto Jones as Agent Peggy Carter
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itsatorchwoodthing · 3 months
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i saw a few new people struggling with the audiodramas + i got a lot of questions over on ig and i wanna say, except for a few series (like season5) you can literally listen to them in any order
like most of them will give you clues on when they are set, like you understand Ghost Mission is set after s4, or that The Three Monkeys feature an already dead owen, so it’s post Reset, you will get it - just grab the ones that look interesting to you, especially because how expensive they are you don’t have to feel like you have to listen to them in order or listen to them all, also i might argue the most recent ones are way better then some of the old ones
the lives of captain jack also, it’s a serie but the audio are all independent from each other - one is set during 2006 jack, one is post Alonzo, one is about his time in the time agency
literally just read the description on the site and if it sounds interesting go for it
also if i’m not mistaken none of them are technically canon, so go to town
my recommendations
- Broken for an heartbreaking s1 janto experience
- Serenity to fix what Broken did, it’s a janto fake dating au, but they’re dating
- The Three Monkeys for andyowen experience
- The Last Becon for owen ianto shenanigans
- Rhys and Ianto’s excellent BBQ talking about grief, loss and breaking stereotypes
- R&J for River and Jack’s romantic relationship through space and most importantly TIME
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glitch-in-space · 2 years
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'To whoever finds this note, if you're enjoying this book, you have great taste. Look for my other notes & leave one of your own, if you'd like; I think we'd get along well. - I.J.'
Moodboard for an AU in which Ianto leaves little notes in his favourite books in his favourite bookshop; Jack is the only person to leave a note in reply, thus spawning a romance fed through months of love letters left in books until they agree to meet face-to-face. Fill for the 'Meet Cute' square of my Torchwood Fan Fest bingo card:
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From TWM #22, it's the second and final part of Shrouded.
SPOILERS AHEAD.
I love this story. I adore that both versions are the truth. Both choices are the correct choice and both choices are the wrong choice. As you should all know by now, I've always wondered if Jack and Ianto stood back and looked at each other, would they choose to be together? And Ianto gets his chance here. Gets to step back and say no, I wouldn't choose this life. Even as a long time Janto girl, I love that for him.
My only criticism would be the pacing. It needed to be three parts to really give the reveal time to breathe.
Also! Jack's at the funeral in the last panel is something that has been said to both happen and not happen. Personally, I don't think he was actually there. Not to be too on the nose, but it's really just another nail in the coffin if he isn't.
Now that we have Big Finish's Torchwood One range, we would never get this, but I'd love to see stories of this Ianto's adventures. Definitely ripe for AU fanfiction anyway, which I don't know if I've ever seen any of.
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