Ianto had just dozed off. He had just dozed off, and he was warm, and he was pretty sure he'd just begun what was going to be a very nice dream, and that, of course, was when someone knocked on the door ( Read more... )

ooc: For alien_catcher's first lines meme. Ignore the complete lack of Ianto!She remembered being that cold and scared once ( Read more... )

ooc: I'm no longer in oncoming_storms (sadly), but I decided no one will mind if steal one of this week's prompts. Because I'm snowed in and have nothing else to do..."My sister once told me I'd be a natural at this," Ianto said, without turning around to look at Toshiko. When she didn't answer right away, he sighed and rubbed the screaming baby's back. No change ( Read more... )

ooc: Companion piece to this post. Because sometimes, in the course of a year, everything changes.

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.At five forty-five on Christmas Eve, Owen appeared at the top of the autopsy room steps. "I," he ( Read more... )

"Time is it?" he managed, rubbing his eyes for a few seconds before deciding that it was too much effort to hold up his hand. It flopped onto Jack's stomach and Ianto decided he could deal with that, so he left it there ( Read more... )

"Are you sure you haven't come to visit someone?" she asked him the second time he stopped in. They were out in the garden again, with a thermos and two teacups that had seen better days, and she looked over her shoulder, to where he towered above her wheelchair ( Read more... )

You wake up one morning to find you've been transported 10 years into the past or ten years into the future.

Ianto woke up on the sub-basement floor. It was uncomfortable, and dirty, and most certainly not where he had fallen asleep ( Read more... )

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Ianto Jones, as a seasoned Torchwood field agent, had reflexes that were sightly above average. When faced with an airborne projectile that was dangerous, he ducked. When faced with an airborne projectile that wasn't, he...

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"Keep her talking," said the voice of Toshiko in his ear. "Jack and Gwen haven't checked in." He nearly groaned; that was exactly what he'd hoped to avoid. Only his sense of decorum kept him from making his discontent audible. Unsurprisingly, his sense of decorum was also the cause of his ever-present, tourist-office polite smile ( Read more... )

As the Earth righted itself, Ianto found himself with an armful of Gwen.

"He did it!" He didn't know if she meant Jack or the Doctor, or them both collectively, but it didn't matter. She grinned and kissed him on the side of the mouth. Twice. "We're back."

"We are," he breathed into a laugh of relief as he held her close.

( They were alive, thanks to Tosh. )