Comments | amand_r: Fic: Quality Time (Gold dust deleted scene for <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/cruentum">cruentum</a></strong>, Ianto, kidfic )

amand_r

Fic: Quality Time (Gold dust deleted scene for cruentum, Ianto, kidfic )

Jan 20, 2010 12:08

Title: Quality Time
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Ianto/Lisa, Evan, Gwen, Ravi, Claire
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 3,665
Author's Notes: So cruentum bought my arse in the help_haiti lightning round, and I figured why mess with a good thing? Third time's a charm. This is Gold dust fic set post series, but still before the end of the story. Crue wanted some Evan- ( Read more... )

fanfic, torchwood, auction items, lisa is the biggest badass ever, ianto jones is gay for you, jack harkness's cock

Comments 55

neifile7 January 20 2010, 17:27:57 UTC

I could read these all year. I love that Ianto's a superb multitasker and crap when he has to focus on the kidlet. The contrast between the alien-catching disaster and team dynamics and Evan bouncing around on his inflatable horse = utter win. And the jealousy. This is so plausible it's beyond comically horrifying.

amand_r January 20 2010, 17:33:55 UTC

THEY WENT TO THE BALLET WITHOUT HIM.

cruentum January 20 2010, 17:33:28 UTC

Oh man, this is exactly it. This is pretty much exactly what I wanted to see when I came up with the prompt and it's awesome, and... I do like Ianto being unsure about it all and needing the emergency call time with Gwen and hell that whole beginning of, "how do you talk to a kid?" ... it did make me think "hey, that's what people feel like when they are parents, maybe I wouldn't totally fail as a Dad. Or yknow ... I'd be very Ianto-ish at it, really ( ... )

amand_r January 20 2010, 17:36:28 UTC

omg we got those three thing from a machine the might i started this. wtf with brass knuckles in a vending machine??

I'm glad you liked because all i have to go on is my kid, and that's how we talk to each other. That's genuine Vivi art up there! well, some of it.

There was a final scene with tipsy on champagne Jack talking to Ianto while Lisa puts the kid ot bed, but I skipped out on it. It's good where it ends.

cruentum January 20 2010, 17:41:04 UTC

Yeah, the brass knuckles are way LOL actually, like ... omg. And yeah, I can see you in this. I just called C and was like, "omg, mandr's fic makes me want to adopt a kid." Haha I don't think C wants another one.

I can see why you cut the final scene because it does work like this and actually, yeah, it feels right ending at that point rather than going on with something else.

Enjoyed it a lot because it's, yknow, it's kidfic that feel real yknow and because Ianto is awesome in his, "I'm so not comfortable with this, but dude, my coworkers are starting to LOL and/or evil-eye me, so I better, damn, here we go" and yeah, I mean, he loves his kid but it's like ... an alien, yknow. Kids are aliens, man.

amand_r January 20 2010, 17:48:28 UTC

Kids are aliens, man. They have a whole system of communicating that I don't get.

You would find that a kid cramps your jetsetting to see JB style.

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easilymused1956 January 20 2010, 17:38:22 UTC

Love. Ianto and Evan are just wonderful together. You get into Ianto's head, and give us a terrific view of his life as part of Torchwood, the Triad, and as a father.

Another great, great story!

Renee

amand_r January 20 2010, 17:39:38 UTC

HAAAHAHAH ONE CAN NEVER BE FREE OF TORCHWOOD.

Thanks, Renee!

electrictoes January 20 2010, 18:15:53 UTC

Oh, absolute WIN.

amand_r January 20 2010, 19:28:32 UTC

Thank you!

golden_d January 20 2010, 18:17:43 UTC

Aw! I adore this. And it makes me feel way less inadequate about my own interactions with kids.

amand_r January 20 2010, 19:29:12 UTC

This is a standard interaction, really. I'm not good with kids who can't speak well, so my interactions with my daughter are much like this.