Deviations from the Norm -- Its Eyes Are For The Stars

[gracie_musica]

Title: Deviations from the Norm
Chapter Six: Its Eyes Are For The Stars
dwtwprompt prompt: Writer's Choice: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's FanDate Written: 5/22/08

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[gracie_musica]

I adore it when you comment.

Oscar Wilde is amazingly amazing. *laughs* He's so funny, and spot on, even today! Jack would just fall head over heels for him, because he's so witty and outrageous.

Coffee! I forgot that. I imagine Jack would too, I bet he went into withdrawals while he was away.

Torchwood has a long memory, especially when it comes to the Doctor -- that and Jack is many things, but subtle is not one of them. I have it in my head that Ianto caught on fairly quickly about Jack's immortality, especially since he's the clean-up man and the archivist (and yes, I imagine that what was left of the 'Jack files' were scavenged from One).

Ianto didn't push because he knows that's not the way to get Jack to open up. All Jack needs is a light touch, a little suggestion dropped here or there. Ianto's a professional at that sort of thing already, so he, essentially, has Jack wrapped around his fingers.

And the necklace bit... This one is set sometime just before Captain Jack Harkness, their relationship is just starting to make the transition from 'casual fuck' to 'maybe something more'. The necklace picks up on how they both really feel and is trying to give a not-so subtle reminder about what they really are to each other (because right now they need a little kick in the pants).

[katestamps]

I adore it when you comment. On a day like today, when I'm beating myself up over my writing ability/trying to work up the nerve to/decide which community to post into, you have NO idea how much I needed to hear that.

I think most people would be in love with Oscar Wilde if they just knew (of) him. Those that didn't love him could still appreciate him (like the internet - with popcorn!)

Ianto, unlike Gwen, knows that demanding answers is an EXCELLENT way to get Jack to dig in his heels. I think it might be a case of one stubborn introvert understanding another. (And yes, I did just call Jack an introvert. Sound and fury and all that jazz.)

And thanks for straightening out the necklace thing. That's the one spot where you sometimes loose me - I need a flow chart that shows where each story falls in relation to the others (though I survived Time Traveler's Wife AND 100 Years of Solitude, so I'll muddle through.)

[gracie_musica]

I do adore it when you comment! It's always intelligent and well-formed and it makes me smile 'cause I get to talk! *laughs*

Ianto, unlike Gwen, knows that demanding answers is an EXCELLENT way to get Jack to dig in his heels. WORD. Like in Cyberman, when she's arguing with Jack that he wouldn't really shoot Ianto. I think that Jack himself didn't know what he would have done, but when she pushed he clammed up. (and yes, Jack's an introvert where it counts, completely and utterly agree!)

For this universe, just take it whenever either of them play idly with the necklace or whenever it's mentioned in passing and not explained, there's a deeper meaning behind it. For the most part they're always warm because they're both alive. When either one of them dies, the necklace goes cold. When Ianto and Jack play with their necklaces, they're thinking about each other -- or the other is getting up to something he really shouldn't (Ianto is going to be playing with his necklace FOREVER AND EVER UNTIL ETERNITY). Normal little flares, like in this one, is the little subconscious kick in the pants going shape up, prats!.

And Ianto is completely, utterly obsessive about his necklace. Jack's come to terms with it over 150 years, but it's Ianto's security blanket for the most part.