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jack has been working

Sep 16, 2009 00:32

WHO: Jack and Ianto
WHAT: making progress?
WHEN: now-ish? time is weird in this place
WHERE: his room

Jack sighed. He wasn't actually tired, mostly because he couldn't seem to get tired these days. If he'd been a normal man, though, he'd have been utterly exhausted. The alien tech was inside his head. All right, fine, he'd had unwanted visitors ( Read more... )

ianto jones, jack harkness

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guns_and_coffee September 16 2009, 08:25:14 UTC

Ianto had been around the station after his last talk with Jack, scanning the bits of space visible from the windows, but he simply didn't have Jack's knowledge of the multitude of star systems out there, and it hadn't taken him long to realize he was wasting his time. He'd really only gone out in the first place because he'd desperately needed distraction from Jack's latest I-remember-everything-but-you bombshell. It worked fairly well, even though he didn't find anything. He'd always been good at burying his feelings in work ( ... )

fixdpointintime September 16 2009, 09:00:48 UTC

Jack, well... he didn't quite smile, because this was frustrating as hell, but at least there was one person on this station who not only wanted to get home, but seemed to be capable of helping. Now, headset was where? Headset was... Huh. Jack looked behind himself. Possibly under that bushel of bananas. Damnit.

Jack opened the audio link on the terminal instead. "Hey there Mister Jones. Do me a favour. Pull up chart seven thirteen four two point six." Jack glanced at the screen to make sure it was the right number. "Yeah, six. Rotate thirty degrees clockwise, fourteen degrees near right, and shift account for four thousand light years along fourteen degrees eight seconds. Actually... no, four thousand eighteen."

Jack waited a moment, but not long, because this guy was obviously good. "Got it? Now get a monitor to bring up the view from the window in quadrant six. What do you think?"

guns_and_coffee September 16 2009, 09:30:49 UTC

And Jack had once again ignored Ianto's preferred medium of communication and gone straight to audio. Ianto considered, for a moment, continuing to respond with text anyway, but no -- He wasn't a coward. This was how things were now, and he was going to have to learn to accept it, the sooner the better. In the meantime, he was just going to have to fake it, and he knew he was capable of doing that ( ... )

fixdpointintime September 16 2009, 09:41:44 UTC

He sighed and rubbed one hand across his eyes. "That's what I figured, too. Call me Jack," he insisted. Rose... she could get away with calling him Captain, mostly because she didn't do it often. It didn't feel right, though, and while he couldn't stand to correct Rose, he could correct this one.

"I've been through six thousand of these. I never actually... believed I'd get sick of the stars." Jack stood up and hefted the bananas out of the way. Just because he didn't actually need them didn't mean he was giving them back. "Where's that fucking headset? Damn bananas." Oh, screw it. Jack sat back down, closed his eyes, and needed the headset to appear on the desk in front of him. When he opened his eyes, the view was exactly what needed. He picked it up and situated it on his ear, and the audio feed instantly jumped. "How's that? Can you hear me?"

guns_and_coffee September 16 2009, 09:56:37 UTC

When Jack had first asked Ianto to call him by his name, he had also been on the verge of asking him out on their first date. It had been a turning point in what had, until then, been a largely superficial relationship.

Ianto wasn't going to call him Jack again.

"Loud and clear, Sir."

Right back where he'd started from.