Title: They come in batches
Author:
amand_rFandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Ianto/Lisa
Rating: PG, possibly pg-13. I'm bad that this rating stuff.
Wordcount: 2, 129. I might have got carried away.
Author's Notes: this is for
mtgat, who commissioned it in the
help_haiti auction. She requested a deleted scene from We held gold dust in our hands. This is set
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So sweet. ...No pun intended.
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Thanks for reading man.
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I wasn't entirely convinced by the idea that Jack would have no idea how to eat the food, at first, but a couple of things made it work for me: the notion that his memory is already quite selective and spotty because he's lived too long (and is human enough still for that to be an issue), and what you show as an acute deprival of domesticity in his life. Which makes Lisa's and Ianto's "gift" here all the more touching and double-edged for him, fraught with both happiness and anxiety. He's still so worried about fucking it up and losing their trust. That comes across beautifully.
Also, the gifts he wants to make in return are just as telling: the ugly bicycle basket and the sifter painted with flames -- practical, fulfilling real needs, but also touched with excess. Owen would say "that is so gay of you, Jack." He doesn't know the half of it.
I really cannot get enough of this 'verse.
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This is all going to blow up in his face.
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