"Only A Pawn" Torchwood Fic Jack/Gwen UST 900 Words PG13

[karaokegal]

Title: Only A Pawn
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Gwen UST (references to Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys, Gwen/Owen)
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 900
Notes: Takes place during Series 2, pre-Something Borrowed. Unbeta-ed, feel free to jump in.
Summary: Jack comes home to the unexpected.

Comments

[samstjames]

OMG... awesome!
Exactly what I needed after a long day :D.

[karaokegal]

I REALLY REALLY didn't plan to write this one. I've pretty much said all I need to say in Role Reversal...but it got in my head and wouldn't go away. So here it is.

Thanks for reading and commenting. Glad it made you happy. :)

[samstjames]

Sometimes ideas are like this: pestering you the whole day :D.

[filthgoblin]

An excellent reflection of Torchwood morals. They're none of them angels. Not a single one.

Very nice :D

[karaokegal]

This one literally hit me this morning and wouldn't go away. So much for the whole...no more fanfic thing.

Glad you liked. I think it's hysterical that people who love J/I try to trash Gwen's morals. I think that the moral equivalence is what makes them so attractive to each other.

[lefaym]

Once again I'm fascinated by where we agree and where we don't. :)

This isn't really concrit, because I'm certainly not going to argue that your interpretation of Gwen is any less valid than mine, even though it is quite different in some ways -- I think your Gwen is a lot more explicitly calculating than mine; in this story she knows exactly what's going on and she's willing to manipulate everything so that it runs smoothly. Personally, I see Gwen as someone who wants J/I to work out for similar reasons, but she does it more subconsciously -- because she feel less guilty about the UST between her and Jack if Jack is paired up with someone else. J/I allows her to deflect her feelings for Jack, in a way, by projecting them onto Ianto -- in many ways, I think she subconsciously views J/I as a safeguard against her feelings for Jack.

[karaokegal]

Thanks, as always for reading and commenting from your side of the chasm

[talkingtothesky]

Brilliant. :) I like the shades of grey in this.

Also, I gave up on that around the same time corsets went out of fashion. Hee! ♥

[karaokegal]

Thanks! I sometimes go with the "Torchwood corrupts everyone" theory, but perhaps it also attracts people who are morally damaged as well as emotionally broken.

Glad you like the corset line. :)

[beta_goddess]

Oh, I love this one. You know I'm in your sandbox, so the basic concept works for me, but you've also got a lot of subtle implications in just a few words here... implications about Gwen's place in the team compared with Ianto's, about what might happen in the future between Jack and Gwen, and about what doesn't need to happen between them in order for them to have something neither of them has with anyone else. The bit about how well they read each other says most of it, really, and I like the reference to John, which further underlines the implications.

You're an O'Neill drama, you're Whistler's mama, you're Camembert!" IOW, nice stuff. :)

[karaokegal]

Thanks sweetie! I reallyreally had no intention of writing any more TW, because I feel like we said it all with Role Reversal, but this one just started demanding to be written.

You're romance...you're the Steppes of Russia...You're the pants...on a Roxy Usher!