TW: Alexandria (Jack/Ianto) PG13

[smokeringhalos]

Title: Alexandria
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG13
Words: 310
Summary: Sometimes Jack visits him in the past.

Comments

[thehighwaywoman]

*dabs away a tear* You've captured them just right -- the strong emotions that make the atmosphere between the two are so rich. Ianto will break my heart one of these days, if the good Captain doesn't tear it to shreds first.

Beautiful fic!

[technosage]

*sniffles* Writing this fic cut me to the quick. It just... I never write anything even close to death-fic, but the first two lines stuck in my head on the way home from a breakfast writing J2, and I had to write it down.

Ianto will break my heart, and Jack will shatter it into a million pieces.

I'm so glad this rang true for you. Thank you!

[greenapricot]

Oh, yes. Yes. Oh. This is makes me ache and sigh with a bittersweet dreaminess that is just right. There is something so delicate and tragic about them which is all the more poignant because neither one of them is actually delicate (except when they are. oh). I can't stop thinking about them either, and it's been months, and things like this aren't going to help me stop ever. <3

[technosage]

*smiles a sad smile* They're so tragic. I adore them. They make me ache like crazy, so I'm both glad and sorry I did that to you.

They aren't delicate, are they? But they are, both of them, terribly fragile in places. There's something about the way that they touch, physically, that gets inside me and makes me feel.

I haven't felt this way about any one else's characters since... well, ever I don't think. Maybe Sam and Dean. Maybe Tommy and Kevin. But this pairing... I heart them.

I'm SO glad you enjoyed it! Thank you. <3

[greenapricot]

Your mention of Sam and Dean and Tommy and Kevin reminds me of a thought I had the other day which is that the thing that's so amazing with Jack and Ianto is this underlying (almost unnoticeable at times) thread of devotion (and you know, doomedness) that I haven't felt with characters that aren't brothers in a damn long time. And it is so so nice and even more potentially heartbreaking 'cause it really doesn't have to be doomed from the start it just is. Oh, I do love me some angst I do. :)

[technosage]

*smiles* You know I'm going to ask why they didn't interest you before. Though, if it's to do with episodes in series 2, hold off on telling me, I guess until I catch up. :)

I didn't want to love them, but they got under my skin, and now they're like this ache behind my breastbone that needs the heel of my hand pressed to it. Inelegantly. But that's how it feels.

Thanks for reading it and making me feel shiny. I'm glad you enjoyed it, babe.

[technosage]

Hmmmm. I think I should probably read her fic. I'm hearing it's an institution. And I don't, actually, hate Owen, but...seriously, I love Jack/Ianto.

Jack/Doctor works for me. Jack/Gwen works for me. Jack/Martha works for me. Jack pretty much anyone can work for me. But there's something so...right...about Jack/Ianto to me.

And heeeeeee! I'm glad you *saw*. ;) *twirls you around*

[elyssadc]

Damn, girl. I think you are the only person who could make me read Jack/Ianto fic. Beautiful as always. And that last line? Killer.

[technosage]

You too? Okay, you're a Jack/Doctor shipper, I bet, since you're into the old Who now, right? *g* I can't imagine not shipping these two. There's something so... beautifully sad about them. *sigh*

Thank you sweetheart. I'm glad to be colliding fandomwise again. I missed you!

[elyssadc]

Okay, you're a Jack/Doctor shipper, I bet, since you're into the old Who now, right?

No! I mean yes, I'm into old Who, but I'm not a Jack anyone shipper. I can't see Jack actually LOVING anyone but himself (and maybe not even himself, most days). Not now. Not Torchwood Jack. So I don't actually believe Jack/Ianto in the way the shippers seem to. I don't see any love on Jack's side of it.

That being said, I'll always read YOUR stories and if you want to write ship-tastic Jack/Ianto...I'm all yours. Happily and wholeheartedly. Especially when you write it so damn beautifully.

I'm glad to be colliding fandomwise again. I missed you!

I've missed you too! And I could not be more thrilled that so many people seem to be coming into the DW/Torchwood fold. It's making me so, so, so, so happy. My flist and I are once again in harmony and all is right with the world. \o/

[technosage]

I can't see Jack actually LOVING anyone but himself (and maybe not even himself, most days).

REALLY? *is astounded* Jack in my head loves...well, he loves a lot. Often. Broadly. He's hugely self-protective, but very sentimental. Jack strikes me as a wee!Time-Lord-in-the-making. The product of an eternity of living past the deaths of his lovers, and cut deeply with each loss.

But that's my Jack. Maybe yours is different. I'm very interested in this, as long as it doesn't involve Jack or Ianto bashing. But it's you, so it won't. :)

That being said, I'll always read YOUR stories and if you want to write ship-tastic Jack/Ianto...I'm all yours.I'm glad of that, to be sure. You're one of my favorite readers. But don't they end up feeling out of character if my Jack is so not yours? *is curious

[hebrew_hernia]

OH ALLIE OH GOD. I'm much more of a casual TW watcher than an avid fandomer, but this makes me want to take the plunge. Oh, Jack.

[technosage]

*clings* Monica, I NEVER write anything even close to death-fic. It breaks me like plate-glass. But. But. Argh. *hugs*

I don't think I'm going to plunge into TW fandom. There's so much negativity about the show. I think I'll hang out here on the fringes and be in love with Jack and Ianto. Wanna hang here with me?

Thanks, sweetheart. So much appreciated.