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Title: The other side
Set in ouretesyeux AU by athousanderrors a there should be a link here but I don’t know how to make one (yes I am that techniqually dense I am amazed that the computer hasn’t exploded yet, still it’s early days)
Ianto stood looking out over the sea, it was raining heavily and the sky was bruised black and purple. He took a drag of his cigarette and glanced at the figure next to him. He’d first met Katie four years ago at a party thrown by Jacks parents in London, they’d chatted for a while about nothing in particular but Ianto, who had been nervous at being surrounded by so many people, had been grateful to see that she seemed just as awkward and unsure. She had married a postman called Harry and moved to a cottage in Cornwall in a place called Sennen, he had come home from the war with a shoulder wound that had healed badly, a foul temper and a resentment of everyone particularly it seemed his devoted wife. He had hoped that staying with her down in Cornwall for a few days would help ease the tension after the argument and the following days of frigid silence.
Katie took a drag of her cigarette and winced slightly as the cut in her lip re-opened. Ianto studied her covertly, she was tall for a girl five foot six but skinny her face pale and drawn, her eyes were a mix of blue, green and grey and seemed to change colour as the light caught them. Now one of those eyes was black and there was another bruise on her neck, she had a cut over her eyebrow and she sat very straight, the erect posture of some nursing bruised ribs and trying not to show it. “You’re wondering why I stay” he started, he hadn’t realised she was aware of his scrutiny and she had guessed his thoughts “well yes, I mean he’s hardly the man you married” she was silent for a while just watching the waves crash onto the shore, finally “your right, he’s not the man I married, he’s violent, abusive, impossible to please, but..” she paused “but I still love him, I love him even when he’s screaming at he,” she was sobbing now, tears streaming down her face “I love him even when he throws plates at my head, even when he hits me and spits at me and says he hates me, I can’t stop loving him and if one day he finally kills he, I will love him with my last breath. The war took everything, it took our time together, in took our happiness and there’s nothing I can do, I have to stay because even this is better than life without him” she sat sobbing and hiccupping staring out to sea her eyes impossibly blue for a moment and he had to look away. and maverick0324, don't know why it's done this sorry folks.