The beginning and the end of the world (6/?)
Title: The beginning and the end of the world (6/?)
Pairings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/OMC maybe, Torchwood team.
Rating: PG-15
Spoilers: Post-Meat
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood.
Summary: When Ianto Jones was 8 years old, the world ended, he just doesn’t remember it.
Author's Notes: My first attempted at Torchwood fanfiction, English is not my first language so if you find any rare thing along the way just let me know :P
Thanks to captain_bdsm for being my beta (I hope you'll feel better soon)
chapter 5
Chapter 6
Every table of the coffee shop was full, four wooden chairs for table hidden beneath a black tablecloth, at the left corner of the place three teenagers laughed at the latest story their friend had told them while an old man watched them with a frown on his face behind a newspaper that he had grabbed with his both hands.
The old man looked at one of them straight in the eye and said ‘quiet’ while the teenagers laughed at his attempt of silence. He huffed under his breath and grabbed his things while he got up from the small table and walked fast to the door, still hearing the teenagers’ laugher behind him. But as he was crossing the door he looked at the men that were passing through, one was dress in a black suit followed quickly by a man of the same age, but as he turned his head his eyes made contact with him and for a second what it seemed pure green became blood red, while the men walked to one of the tables, he just stood there and blinked, frowning at himself and at the coffee that was making him delirious. He pressed his things more forceful against his chest and walked out of the door.
Tina sipped her coffee while she watched at the old man walked away and smiled, who did he think he was to talk to them like that but before she could turned her head to talk to her friends, she watched at the two beautiful men that came through the door and were getting near to where she was sitting, very quickly she left the cup on the table, straightened her back and listed her hands to lower her shirt to show a little of her cleavage while she crossed her legs and put a smile on her face.
The man in a suit passed right trough her side lost in thought without even looking at her, but the second man posed his eyes on her and smiled, so she smiled at him ignoring her friends knowing eyes behind her back. But as she kept looking at him, his smile started to disappear and a look of disgusted appeared on his face, looking right trough her, but he wasn’t the only one, she could see it in every man and woman that was inside that coffee shop, and as she turned her head she looked through the window at the frozen people outside who were doing the exact same thing.
But as quickly as the image appeared, it disappeared just before her eyes, and everything was normal once again, she looked at the man that now was sitting peacefully on a wooden chair, two tables to her right while he glanced at the man who was in front of him with a beautiful smile on his face.
And for a moment she wanted to walk right there, grab the man in a suit and tell him: run, but she didn’t do anything, she just turned her head to look at her friends and forgot everything that had happened a moment ago, because after all everything was in her mind and nothing else, she was perfect, who would want to judge her.
Ianto looked at his cup of coffee, very slowly revolving the sugar he had put a moment ago with the black spoon he had in his hand, 1 round, 2 round, 3 round. He knew he couldn’t keep doing that forever but right now it seemed a lot better that the decision he had took which was looking at him right now with that strange smile.
‘Would you like to drink a cup of coffee with me?’ Cai asked with a smile while the only thing Ianto could do was looked at him in surprise hoping that his mouth wasn’t hanging open.
He realized that the time was passing and he wasn’t saying anything at all, but Cai didn’t seem to mind and was waiting patiently for an answer.
Ianto was lost in thought and while he wanted to say ‘no thank you’ some part of him drifted to Jack and asked ‘would he feel jealous?’. And he didn’t know what answer could hurt him the most.
‘Its someone waiting for you?’ The man asked with knowing eyes. And without a second thought he answered.
‘No, I would love to drink a cup of coffee with you’
And now he had no idea why he had accepted to this in the first place, it wasn’t the mans fault that he didn’t know where Jack and he stood or that he couldn’t make a decision. 4 round, 5 round, he let go of the spoon and looked up at man who was in front of him.
Cai watched as Ianto finished collecting his thoughts and smiled, he looked as he lifted his head and posed his eyes on him once again, and he couldn’t help but watched at the changes that had taken place while he was away, his eyes were just like his ‘you won’t take him’ Cai frowned at the memory that came to his mind.
He could still see clearly that man’s eyes. The eyes which were an exact replica of the ones Ianto Jones had. He could see them right now glancing at him behind the cup of coffee that was resting against his lips and Cai couldn’t help but smile at him and as he did that he could see Ianto’s eyes widen at his expression. In that moment he promised himself, it was going to be different this time.
‘What do you do?’ He asked.
‘I work at a Tourist office, it’s not very existing’ Liar, he thought and he kept on smiling at Ianto, after all he knew everything there was to know about Ianto Jones, the moment he had came back or more precisely escaped from that place, he tried to discovered everything about him, no matter how unimportant the information seemed to be, from favorite chocolate to most painful moment.
And it hadn’t been an easy task, without being able to enter his mind or even his dreams, while he had left some part of him inside of him, an image of his childhood self; it wasn’t strong enough for him to enter.
Ianto’s mind was a closed chest for him and that man had eaten the key before he could do something about it. ‘you won’t take him’
‘Well then, you can show me around , this is the second time I've come to Wales, the first time I couldn’t do too much sightseeing, if you are not too busy, of course’.
He looked at Cai’s expression, trying to find a double meaning to his proposition so he could say no. But there was nothing there, only pure sincerity. Jack’s face appeared in his mind once again and it was that image that made him took a decision.
‘Yes, why not?’ But Ianto Jones didn’t know, that those words started to put in motion something bigger than his own life.
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I'm planning to make something for Tina and the old man on the next chapter (a bloody ending? I think I'm watching too many horror movies) what do you think?
chapter 7
Pairings/characters: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/OMC maybe, Torchwood team.
Rating: PG-15
Spoilers: Post-Meat
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood.
Summary: When Ianto Jones was 8 years old, the world ended, he just doesn’t remember it.
Author's Notes: My first attempted at Torchwood fanfiction, English is not my first language so if you find any rare thing along the way just let me know :P
Thanks to captain_bdsm for being my beta (I hope you'll feel better soon)
chapter 5
Chapter 6
Every table of the coffee shop was full, four wooden chairs for table hidden beneath a black tablecloth, at the left corner of the place three teenagers laughed at the latest story their friend had told them while an old man watched them with a frown on his face behind a newspaper that he had grabbed with his both hands.
The old man looked at one of them straight in the eye and said ‘quiet’ while the teenagers laughed at his attempt of silence. He huffed under his breath and grabbed his things while he got up from the small table and walked fast to the door, still hearing the teenagers’ laugher behind him. But as he was crossing the door he looked at the men that were passing through, one was dress in a black suit followed quickly by a man of the same age, but as he turned his head his eyes made contact with him and for a second what it seemed pure green became blood red, while the men walked to one of the tables, he just stood there and blinked, frowning at himself and at the coffee that was making him delirious. He pressed his things more forceful against his chest and walked out of the door.
Tina sipped her coffee while she watched at the old man walked away and smiled, who did he think he was to talk to them like that but before she could turned her head to talk to her friends, she watched at the two beautiful men that came through the door and were getting near to where she was sitting, very quickly she left the cup on the table, straightened her back and listed her hands to lower her shirt to show a little of her cleavage while she crossed her legs and put a smile on her face.
The man in a suit passed right trough her side lost in thought without even looking at her, but the second man posed his eyes on her and smiled, so she smiled at him ignoring her friends knowing eyes behind her back. But as she kept looking at him, his smile started to disappear and a look of disgusted appeared on his face, looking right trough her, but he wasn’t the only one, she could see it in every man and woman that was inside that coffee shop, and as she turned her head she looked through the window at the frozen people outside who were doing the exact same thing.
But as quickly as the image appeared, it disappeared just before her eyes, and everything was normal once again, she looked at the man that now was sitting peacefully on a wooden chair, two tables to her right while he glanced at the man who was in front of him with a beautiful smile on his face.
And for a moment she wanted to walk right there, grab the man in a suit and tell him: run, but she didn’t do anything, she just turned her head to look at her friends and forgot everything that had happened a moment ago, because after all everything was in her mind and nothing else, she was perfect, who would want to judge her.
Ianto looked at his cup of coffee, very slowly revolving the sugar he had put a moment ago with the black spoon he had in his hand, 1 round, 2 round, 3 round. He knew he couldn’t keep doing that forever but right now it seemed a lot better that the decision he had took which was looking at him right now with that strange smile.
‘Would you like to drink a cup of coffee with me?’ Cai asked with a smile while the only thing Ianto could do was looked at him in surprise hoping that his mouth wasn’t hanging open.
He realized that the time was passing and he wasn’t saying anything at all, but Cai didn’t seem to mind and was waiting patiently for an answer.
Ianto was lost in thought and while he wanted to say ‘no thank you’ some part of him drifted to Jack and asked ‘would he feel jealous?’. And he didn’t know what answer could hurt him the most.
‘Its someone waiting for you?’ The man asked with knowing eyes. And without a second thought he answered.
‘No, I would love to drink a cup of coffee with you’
And now he had no idea why he had accepted to this in the first place, it wasn’t the mans fault that he didn’t know where Jack and he stood or that he couldn’t make a decision. 4 round, 5 round, he let go of the spoon and looked up at man who was in front of him.
Cai watched as Ianto finished collecting his thoughts and smiled, he looked as he lifted his head and posed his eyes on him once again, and he couldn’t help but watched at the changes that had taken place while he was away, his eyes were just like his ‘you won’t take him’ Cai frowned at the memory that came to his mind.
He could still see clearly that man’s eyes. The eyes which were an exact replica of the ones Ianto Jones had. He could see them right now glancing at him behind the cup of coffee that was resting against his lips and Cai couldn’t help but smile at him and as he did that he could see Ianto’s eyes widen at his expression. In that moment he promised himself, it was going to be different this time.
‘What do you do?’ He asked.
‘I work at a Tourist office, it’s not very existing’ Liar, he thought and he kept on smiling at Ianto, after all he knew everything there was to know about Ianto Jones, the moment he had came back or more precisely escaped from that place, he tried to discovered everything about him, no matter how unimportant the information seemed to be, from favorite chocolate to most painful moment.
And it hadn’t been an easy task, without being able to enter his mind or even his dreams, while he had left some part of him inside of him, an image of his childhood self; it wasn’t strong enough for him to enter.
Ianto’s mind was a closed chest for him and that man had eaten the key before he could do something about it. ‘you won’t take him’
‘Well then, you can show me around , this is the second time I've come to Wales, the first time I couldn’t do too much sightseeing, if you are not too busy, of course’.
He looked at Cai’s expression, trying to find a double meaning to his proposition so he could say no. But there was nothing there, only pure sincerity. Jack’s face appeared in his mind once again and it was that image that made him took a decision.
‘Yes, why not?’ But Ianto Jones didn’t know, that those words started to put in motion something bigger than his own life.
ººº
I'm planning to make something for Tina and the old man on the next chapter (a bloody ending? I think I'm watching too many horror movies) what do you think?
chapter 7