"Endless Love" Torchwood Post-CoE Fix-it/AU/Crack fic

[karaokegal]

Title: Endless Love
Fandom: Torchwood
Genre: Post CoE/Fix-it/AU/Crack-fic
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 1700
Warnings: Contains spoilers (by implication) for CoE. Possibly triggering mentions of miscarriage.
Notes: Written for the Never Will I Write meme, where Jack/Ianto domestic fluff was suggested by an evil wench filthgoblin, and

Comments

[mimarie]

Noting that there are very few writers I'll click on something labelled J/I for...

I'm veering wildly between feeling that this is horribly, horribly sad - to drive Gwen to do that, for them (all) to have to pay such a high price as their part of Jack's bargain, to be able to feel her pain so very clearly, all the way through this - and that it's just utterly, wonderfully evil! (My only quibble would be to feel that Jack would be more than a little distressed to see *Gwen* leaving, no matter his feelings on the occasion or who she was with!)

The Doctor would be lucky to get her though, Gwen would make a *wonderful* companion.

[karaokegal]

I really did intend this to be pure crack!fic, but from the comments, I'm starting to think that it got away from me a bit. Gwen and the Doctor would get on famously, since we know they have similar taste is footwear.

Of course real!Jack would be gutted to see Gwen leave, but this is supposed to "fluffy domestic J/I" and the people who believe in that don't like to acknowledge how important Gwen is to Jack emotionally, much less otherwise.

Thanks for reading and commenting.

[mimarie]

I guess I just wasn't expecting a crack fic to hit me in the gut with such a painfully tormented, torn apart Gwen. Maybe if you relabelled it as a parody of Gwen-bashing? As you say, that would also account for the OOC Jack.

[karaokegal]

I thought the "Summary" kind of made it clear that I meant to have tongue in cheek, as well as marking it AU/Crackfic.

Is it possible I'm giving readers too much credit? Not being snarky. I'd genuinely like to know the best way to label this when I do the cross-posting. I want people to read it, but I don't want to give the game away.

[jo02]

It is much closer to parody than crack - I was expecting a lot more crack and/or snark than was there.
Knowing the way you normally write Jack/Ianto (and I'm saying this quite seriously!) this is probably the kindest Janto fic you'll ever write *g*

[karaokegal]

I think the easiest thing to say is that I really intended crack, but as the Doctor once said "It kind of got away from me." This still reflects my vision of what a J/I relationship would really mean for Jack.

And honestly, stay tuned for Halloween. You may be pleasantly surprised. Or not, depending on where you're coming from.