Fic Rec: Torchwood: The Smell Of Skin by beatthedisco
Spoilers: after "Cyberwoman" in Torchwood
In The Smell Of Skin, beatthedisco gives us a slow thoughtful piece about one of the little, rich details of what Ianto does after "Cyberwoman" and how he copes. Of course this is Ianto, and his coping looks a lot like not coping, but beatthedisco gives us a nice, smooth arc and brings us just far enough out the other end.
It's slash, yeah, but it's such light and delicate slash you'll be surprised.
His old sheets, sheets from a life that now seems like it was never his, sheets that were picked out by another pair of hands; those sheets smelt like life. A heady, musky smell that mingled with morning sunshine and that awful herbal tea she drank and intoxicated him, became him, made him everything that he was.
In The Smell Of Skin, beatthedisco gives us a slow thoughtful piece about one of the little, rich details of what Ianto does after "Cyberwoman" and how he copes. Of course this is Ianto, and his coping looks a lot like not coping, but beatthedisco gives us a nice, smooth arc and brings us just far enough out the other end.
It's slash, yeah, but it's such light and delicate slash you'll be surprised.
His old sheets, sheets from a life that now seems like it was never his, sheets that were picked out by another pair of hands; those sheets smelt like life. A heady, musky smell that mingled with morning sunshine and that awful herbal tea she drank and intoxicated him, became him, made him everything that he was.