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Title: The Stars From the Ground
Author: [livejournal.com profile] giddygeek
Pairing: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto
Notes: This one is for [livejournal.com profile] misspamela, who requested the Torchwood story I've been talking about writing since the new season started, because she's smart like that. When I said I'd try for 1000 words, what I meant was clearly that I'd write 2600 words. 2x1 spoilers--2x1 post-ep, really. Fluff fluff fluff.



"I hate to mention it," Ianto says, breaking the awkward silence that had settled so thickly inside the SUV after they'd buckled in. "But how are we going to avoid ourselves if we're all...in the Hub?"

For a second it's as if no one heard him. Then Jack wrenches the wheel and the SUV screeches, slides to a halt. Ianto, the only one who had thought to brace himself after the question, watches the others jolt forward, and he sighs.

"Jack!" Gwen shouts, hand on her chest where the nylon strap of her seatbelt had dug in as they slammed to a stop. "What are you trying to do, kill us all?"

"Out of the car," Jack says. "Ianto's right, what was I thinking? Go on. Go ahead. Well, you're already at work, aren't you? You might as well get a night off out of it."

No one moves.

Jack waits a long, silent moment, then sighs and pops the locks. "Last call," he says, more gently. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Did you know barkeeps say something like that the whole universe over? It's true; I could translate it for you in 200 languages, give or take a few dozen."

No one moves. Ianto meets Jack's gaze in the rearview mirror and holds it, waiting. In the lights from their instrument panels, Jack's eyes flash, but they're not harsh. They're a little tired. A bit sad.

"I'll be there when you come in tomorrow," Jack says, not looking away. "I promise."

Owen is the first to give in. "Why won't we be stuck in an infinite time loop?" he asks. His seatbelt clicks open and he shrugs it away. "More and more copies of us appearing as each team gets to the end of the night?"

"John is gone," Jack says. Christ, that sadness. Ianto finally looks away, down at his lap; he unfastens his seat belt as Owen scoffs.

"Always so logical, aren't you, Jack? Knowing it all? I bet it doesn't work--I bet there are 50 copies of us all soon enough, trying to hide--"

"Trust me," Jack says, and Owen shuts up. Gwen and Tosh quietly undo their seatbelts. Ianto puts his hand on the door, thumbs the lock although he knows it's open.

Jack laughs a little. "This is why I had to come back for you," he says, and Ianto doesn't dare look up. "No other creatures in the universe would do as I asked, just because I asked."

Gwen chokes at that, then throws herself out of the SUV, dashing round the hood as Ianto climbs out the other side; he, Owen and Tosh move more slowly.

Gwen has her hands on Jack's cheeks through the open window of the SUV. She pulls him down and kisses the corners of his mouth. Jack closes his eyes. "You're a bastard," she says, wiping her lip gloss off his skin with her thumbs. "But I'm so glad you're back." She kisses him again, lets the gloss shine on his cheek, and then backs away. She holds his gaze for a few steps before she runs up the street, her phone already in her hand.

"I'll go after her," Tosh says, and Jack holds out his hand to her. Tosh takes it with a shy smile, ducks her head when Jack pulls her close and kisses her cheek, her forehead, breathing her in. Then she's gone too, her bag banging awkwardly against her side, her heels clacking, her voice breathless as she calls for Gwen.

Owen sniffs. "I won't be kissing you," he says. "I'm not even--well."

"We have a lot to discuss," Jack agrees, serious, but he's smiling a little when Owen shakes the hand he holds out. "And besides, Ianto will kiss me to make up for it. Won't you, Ianto?"

"I might not," Ianto murmurs, ducking his head a little. "Until you're here tomorrow morning, at least."

"Ah, then you'd better stay with me tonight to make sure," Jack says, smiling but not looking away from Owen, still holding his hand. "Get back in."

Owen twists free. "Do you have to talk about shagging the butler when I'm right here?" he asks, mock-disgusted, and he walks away shaking his head, grinning a little.

"Did we get a butler?" Jack asks Ianto. "Shouldn't there be a hiring freeze when the boss is away? Clearly we need to...discuss...the chain of command."

Ianto doesn't laugh or respond to the innuendo so clear in Jack's voice; he frowns down at the glossy exterior of the SUV instead. It's smudged, sporting a new scrape. It's always that way, from the moment Jack takes the wheel; he drives like a madman.

Jack is quiet, watching him. Ianto should just walk away, follow Owen, share a cab with Tosh and Gwen, but he doesn't. He just studies the faint misshape of his reflection in the curving black gleam of the car.

"Will you come with me?" Jack asks Ianto, who doesn't feel like he can go anywhere at the moment, who isn't quite certain he can go so far as to take his hands out of his pockets.

He clears his throat, hesitates. "Where would you like to go, Jack?"

"You promised me a date," Jack says teasingly, a serious look in his eyes when Ianto finally meets his gaze again. "Did you mean it?"

"Yes," Ianto says. He has always meant it; he has never said yes to Jack without meaning it wholeheartedly.

Jack's smile warms, brightens, his face going young and sweet for a moment. "Then there's no time like the present," he says, and laughs. "Especially considering that right now it's the future, and also the past."

Ianto smiles back at him without being able to help it, finally feeling warmed by that infectious good cheer he has. Truly warmed; his ears go hot and he flushes as he rounds the hood to climb into the passenger seat.

As he's buckling himself back in, Jack leans toward him, catches his chin in the palm of his hand, turns his head. "I missed you," he says, quietly, searching Ianto's eyes for something, some hint to what Ianto is thinking; he's always done that, as if he'd known all along that there were thoughts Ianto hardly understood himself. "I missed you more often than you could know."

Ianto curls his fingers around Jack's wrist, pulls his hand back gently, holds it in his own. He ducks his head and kisses Jack's knuckles, feels the twitch that is Jack restraining himself, smiling against the warm, slightly rough skin as Jack exhales shakily.

"I barely noticed you were gone," he says, shaky himself; it's a blatant lie, and Jack laughs the way Ianto meant for him to do. He lets go of Jack's hand, sits back, looks out the window and doesn't see a thing as Jack pulls back out into the road, and they speed off into the night.

~

"Stay here," Jack says, refusing to let Ianto go into the pub with him.

Moments later, he pops back out, empty-handed and frowning. "Do you have money?" he asks, leaning against the door of the SUV, smiling into Ianto's eyes. "I have four million dollars in Astolerian crystals, but they kind of look like cat litter; I don't think they'd exchange very well. Thanks," and he disappears again with all of Ianto's cash.

~

Ianto eats a piece of roll, warm and yeasty and dripping with gravy. "I don't believe it's a date if we eat in the car," he says, switching the top and bottom boxes of take-away, pleased to find lasagna steaming in the second carton. He breaks off a piece of the garlic bread tucked in snugly with the pasta, hums a little, licks his fingers. No napkins. There are probably some in the back; he'll grab them when they get where they're going.

"We're not eating--hey, don't you start without me," Jack says, reaching out to smack his hand. "We're not going far, you want to wait a little while longer, maybe?"

Ianto considers this, breaks off another piece of garlic bread. "If I must, I suppose."

"You won't regret it," Jack says, and his hand comes to rest on Ianto's knee, hot and heavy, achingly familiar and missed all at once.

Ianto closes the take-away carton and folds his hand on top of Jack's, and he thinks that yes, this is already worth the wait.

~

"This is also not a date," Ianto says as he climbs out of the SUV, balancing the take-away boxes and shutting the door with a bump from his hip. He looks up at the tall, forbidding expanse of his building, and sighs. "I believe this is more along the lines of what we used to do on a fairly regular basis."

Jack is grinning, bounding up the steps to courteously hold the door open. "I like it here," he says. "But we're not going to bed. We're going a little bit higher than that, I promise. Hey, do you have beer?"

~

"I am good on roofs," Jack says, propping the door open with a rock, two bottles clinking in his hand. "You said so yourself."

Ianto puts the food down, then carefully wipes clear a spot on top of the vast platform where the television satellites are perched.

"Perhaps you are," he says. "But I prefer to be a bit closer to the ground myself. And warmer. And cleaner."

"Well, I can promise to keep you warm, at least," Jack says, and he sits down, his coat billowing around him. He smooths it and pats the fabric invitingly. Ianto sits; they're too close like this, sharing too much of their body heat, although there's really not enough coat to go around both of them and hold it in.

"How will we eat?" he asks, and Jack smiles at him, tugs him closer.

"We'll live on stardust for a while," he says. He's so close that his mouth brushes Ianto's, a light kiss. "Stardust and this, perhaps," and it's so good, the feel of his mouth, his heat, his hands on Ianto's cold cheek and the nape of his neck--it's so good that Ianto thinks he could live on this.

He closes his eyes, fists his hands against Jack's back, and takes Jack's mouth with his until the sharp edge of his hunger for this is dulled just a little, sated, the way he'd imagined it might never be again.

~

They watch the stars and Jack tells him how they end. It's almost all fanciful and glorious, but Ianto listens to the stories Jack doesn't tell, and kisses him during the long, strangely touching silences between lies.

~

"Tell me something about yourself," Jack says against Ianto's temple, breath washing warm against his cheek.

"You know all there is to know."

Jack tsks. "Liar. Tell me about your first pet."

Ianto smiles, tucks his head down a little more; his nose is cold. "A pterodactyl."

Jack laughs. "All right, all right--tell me about your first fuck."

"I don't like how you leapt from pets to sex so quickly."

Jack is shaking with repressed laughter. "Your first kiss, when you were young and it was only puppy love."

"A girl named Melis," Ianto says, remembering her fondly. "Short blonde hair, a big, sweet smile. Mature for our age."

"By which you mean she had a nice rack," Jack says, and Ianto turns his head, sinks his teeth into the muscle at the crook of Jack's neck and shoulder.

"She was beautiful," he says, warningly.

"Not as pretty as me," Jack says. "Not as beautiful as the first time you kissed me."

"Different," Ianto says, hiding his smile; that's the last thing Jack needs to see. He'll be insufferable if he knows the truth. Moreso than usual, anyway.

"I felt your world change," Jack says, not nearly as smug as he should be. "I knew."

Ianto hesitates, then nods. "It was your fault the ground shook," he says, teasing, sincere. "I suppose you should take the blame."

"The credit," Jack says, his hands smoothing down Ianto's back, slow and steady pressure. Ianto shivers, closes his eyes. He tucks his head against Jack's neck and doesn't say a word. Jack's hands are very warm.

~

The sky brightens slowly, Jack's stars vanishing one by one as daylight creeps over the horizon.

Ianto is cold and tired, a bit groggy from dozing off against Jack's shoulder periodically. He's not accustomed to napping, and he's not used to just relaxing against someone like this, being held. Another first Jack's claimed.

"We should go in," he says, shifting. He feels stiff, a little sore. "We'll be expected at the Hub soon."

Jack's thumb moves in a slow, steady pattern behind Ianto's ear. "We should call out."

"And have the others over here in a minute, wondering why?" Ianto snorts lightly, then sits back, stretches. So many months without Jack, and already it feels odd to not be touching him. Jack must think so too; Ianto stands and he follows, crowding close.

"Let them wonder," he says, and his kiss now is lazy, slow, but no less consuming than the first one.

Ianto eases away. "As they've been doing for so long now?" he asks, raising an eyebrow, and they stare at each other in silence for a while, the moment stretching on as the sun rises higher in the sky.

Then Jack takes a step back, cracks his neck, bends down to pick up their trash. "You're tough but fair, Ianto Jones," he says, and strides off toward the door as easily as if he hadn't just spent hours sitting on a cold, hard surface, as if he weren't hundreds of years old. He holds the door open and Ianto slips past him, brushing against him, feeling Jack's hand on his back for a moment. "Tough but fair. You know, I like that in a lover," he muses, and laughs as they take the stairs down to Ianto's flat.

~

"Sleep for a few hours, then come in," Jack says, standing with Ianto at his door. "We'll hold down the fort while you rest."

"A terrifying thought," Ianto says dryly, but he means it in a way. He's seen what happens when he's away for a day. He's seen what happens when he's away longer, and he never wants to see that ever again.

Jack smiles at him, then leans in to press a gentle, closed-mouth kiss on his lips. "What's terrifying is the idea that maybe you won't come out with me a second time, Ianto. Say you will?"

"Only if we go properly out next time," Ianto says, meaning yes, knowing Jack hears it.

"Maybe we'll go out improperly," Jack says, kissing him again before taking a step back, another, grinning. "I'm going to go before I very improperly ask if you're a first-date kind of guy."

"Wise," Ianto says, opening his door and hesitating on the threshold, watching Jack watch him. "Although hardly necessary."

"Very necessary," Jack corrects, then he beams, flings his arms out wide, coat billowing in the narrow hall. "We're trying something new and different this time, Ianto! I think we're going to like it, don't you?"

He winks, then turns at the door, disappears down the stairs. Ianto doesn't linger in the hall once he's gone. He goes inside, closes and locks his door, slips off his shoes, his clothes, turns up the heat. He touches his lips, feels them swollen, and smiles as he crawls into his neat bed; Jack is right. He's going to enjoy this, for as long as they can make it last.
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Date: 2008-03-02 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com
"Maybe we'll go out improperly," Jack says, kissing him again before taking a step back, another, grinning. "I'm going to go before I very improperly ask if you're a first-date kind of guy."

"Wise," Ianto says, opening his door and hesitating on the threshold, watching Jack watch him. "Although hardly necessary."


Oh, oh, THEM. This is absolutely perfect -- unsure but adult Ianto, flirty-yet-kind-of-sad Jack, and that feeling of grabbing on to happiness while they can. I love this and I love them and I love YOU.

*clings*

Date: 2008-03-02 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yay, you liked it! I win! 'Ficlet' #1 is a success! *grins*

THEM, MissP. I LOVE them. And it doesn't seem to matter how many times I watch that asking-out scene in 2x1, it is never less awesome.

Thank you so much for requesting this and getting me off my ass about it! *gloms you*

Date: 2008-03-02 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wesleysgirl.livejournal.com
God, it's like you were made for this fandom, seriously. You do such an incredible job of showing the emotion that's running underneath the glib, casual, sometimes-funny facade without losing the glib-casual-funny, which is really just vital for these characters. This is gorgeous and wonderful. :-D

Date: 2008-03-02 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Dude, I don't even know what it is about this fandom, but I really feel like my Torchwood fic is my best work in general. It's like this show was just made for me! With the humor, and the crack, and the OTT melodrama--so fun.

I'm so glad you liked this! Thank you very much! :)

Yay!

Date: 2008-03-02 04:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] giglet.livejournal.com

*smishes you to Giddy bitlets*

Thank you so much! This is a lovely Ianto, and a not-entirely-assholic Jack who might possibly be learning from his mistakes, and very sweet.

Re: Yay!

Date: 2008-03-02 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
LOL. I made [livejournal.com profile] bayleaf read it over for me, and she was like, "And Jack is not being an asshole! Yay!" Oh, Jack Harkness. <3 I'm glad you liked it! Thank you very much! :)

Date: 2008-03-02 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Thank you, this was a good intro to the crackiness that is Ianto/Jack for me! :-)
Quick question, will you be posting your story from the Surfacing zine? I'd love to read it. Your Rodney & John are always fantastic.

Date: 2008-03-02 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yay, I'm glad you liked it! Jack and Ianto are awesome--Torchwood is SO much fun! :)

The Surfacing zine story--I actually don't have a final copy anymore, I lost it in a crash between one computer and the next. I'm sure I have a copy in email somewhere or could get one from [livejournal.com profile] stormheller, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Sometime soon! Thank you for asking, I'm flattered to hear you're on the lookout for it. *G*

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Date: 2008-03-02 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilexa.livejournal.com
LOVE! Love love love.

"Not as pretty as me," Jack says. "Not as beautiful as the first time you kissed me."

Oh, Jack.

"Did you mean it?"

"Yes," Ianto says. He has always meant it; he has never said yes to Jack without meaning it wholeheartedly.

Jack's smile warms, brightens, his face going young and sweet for a moment.


♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I would like to subsidize your career as professional TW fic writer. Except I have no money.

Date: 2008-03-02 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Heeheehee! I wish I had money! Then I would spend all my time writing Torchwood fic! Well, and a couple other fandoms. *g* Blast the universe that does not just hand me winning lottery tickets all the time (it would probably help if I bought them!)

Thank you so much, also. I'm really glad you liked it! :)

Date: 2008-03-02 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffimai.livejournal.com
Jack tsks. "Liar. Tell me about your first pet."

Ianto smiles, tucks his head down a little more; his nose is cold. "A pterodactyl."

Jack laughs. "All right, all right--tell me about your first fuck."

"I don't like how you leapt from pets to sex so quickly."


Oh, this is perfect. Completely perfect.

Date: 2008-03-02 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I'm so glad that you liked it! They're so much fun to write. :) Thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-02 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fayemeadows.livejournal.com
YAY NOW YOU WRITE IN TWO OF MY FANDOMS!!! This is so, so good sweetie. *hearts*

Date: 2008-03-02 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Ahahhaaa, Faye, I've been writing in Torchwood WAY longer than bandom! Check my Torchwood tag and um, [livejournal.com profile] tw_flashfic--there's a bunch of stuff! If you liked this, you'll like that.

Also, YAY, I'm glad you liked it! *grins*

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Bloody Hell...

Date: 2008-03-02 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Now I'm sniffling. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. So nice to come across a new writer who really knows how to press all the right buttons!

Re: Bloody Hell...

Date: 2008-03-02 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Heeheee, thank you so much! But I'm hardly a new writer! I've been writing Torchwood since S1--just apparently not announcing it widely enough? *grins* Check my Torchwood tag and [livejournal.com profile] tw_flashfic if you'd be interested in reading my other stuff. If you liked this, you'll probably like some of that! *grins*

Re: Bloody Hell...

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Date: 2008-03-02 07:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cjedwards.livejournal.com
Oh. Oh, this is lovely. Very them, and Ianto! *flails* I just want to hold him and pat him on the head.

Date: 2008-03-02 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I love Ianto. I really feel like they plucked Ianto-Season-2 right out of my DREAMS of what would happen with the character. His snark, and his confidence, and his nerves, and his PAINFUL ADORABLE MANCRUSH ON HIS BF, I just. <3 Anyway, glad you liked it, thank you!

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Date: 2008-03-02 08:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com
I think this is the most them I've ever heard them be in fanfic. You, my dear, are masterful as always. And funny as hell. As always. *hugs you*

Date: 2008-03-02 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Awww, thank you! I love writing the two of them--they have such a fun dynamic, and the show is just such great crack. I'm glad you liked it, thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-02 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theohsocurlyone.livejournal.com
I've read your fics before, and clicked the link to your story so quickly I got whiplash. And God, it's so lovely; emotional and beautiful and bittersweet, but understated at the same time. Plus, the image of Jack and Ianto on a rooftop at dawn is just wonderful.

"We'll live on stardust for a while," he says. He's so close that his mouth brushes Ianto's, a light kiss. "Stardust and this, perhaps," and it's so good, the feel of his mouth, his heat, his hands on Ianto's cold cheek and the nape of his neck--it's so good that Ianto thinks he could live on this. He closes his eyes, fists his hands against Jack's back, and takes Jack's mouth with his until the sharp edge of his hunger for this is dulled just a little, sated, the way he'd imagined it might never be again.

I got me some tingles with that paragraph. Thank you!

Date: 2008-03-03 01:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I'm so glad that recognizing my name didn't mean abandoning the story where it sat! *grins* And I'm so glad that you enjoyed it--hurray tingles!--and thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-02 11:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] misslucyjane
I squeaked out loud when I saw this--new fic from Giddy! And it was just what I hoped for, lovely and sweet and melancholy and all good things.

Date: 2008-03-03 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
*beams* That squeak makes me so happy! It's good (if kind of intimidating *G*) to know that you were hoping you'd like it. And great to know that you did! I'm so glad. :) Thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-02 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] surrealiste.livejournal.com
This is really, really lovely. You write very well and both of their voices are captured perfectly - I can so see this as a coda to KKBB!

I think I might go investigate some of your other fic. Thanks for sharing this. :D

Date: 2008-03-03 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! I'm always paranoid about characterization--cardboard versions of the characters I love--so I'm very glad that you thought the voices were well done. And that you enjoyed the story as a whole! I hope you do enjoy some of the others. :)

Date: 2008-03-02 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] technosage.livejournal.com
Charming, sweet and lovely. It's nice to see them taking care of each other this way without a mushy turn toward OOC schmoop. Thank you!

Date: 2008-03-03 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yeah, this felt schmoopy enough for me. A little goes a long way! *grins* And thank you, I'm glad that you liked it! :)

Date: 2008-03-02 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silviakundera.livejournal.com
Oh mother of GOD this is good good good. The quiet moments and simple sensuality that could exist in Jack/Ianto.

Ianto, I just ache for him. And Jack, you really pull together everything that's alluring about him. Such a wonderful, true Jack. We get why Ianto couldn't resist.

I have desperate hopes that you end up writing this pairing again.

Date: 2008-03-03 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I love these characters so much. Jack is a little bit much for people sometimes, but I just adore him. And Ianto! S2 Ianto is everything I dreamed of S1 Ianto becoming! Fantastic.

This is a show that I had a very hard time writing when it was on hiatus--I wrote it during S1, then stopped for a while--but now that it's back, my head is brimming over with ideas. Plus I got several prompts form my friendslist last night! So there should be more coming, and I hope that you'll enjoy them as much as you enjoyed this one.

Thank you so much! :)

Date: 2008-03-03 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarren.livejournal.com
Adorable. *snuggles fic*

Date: 2008-03-04 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Awww, I'm sure it'd snuggle back! *G* I'm glad you liked it, thank you very much. :)

Date: 2008-03-03 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marvola.livejournal.com
"I felt your world change," Jack says, not nearly as smug as he should be. "I knew."

Oh God! I don't know why exactly, but this line really got to me! Maybe because it's so true, it's scary.

This is my first time commenting on one of your fics (I think) so I'll take the opportunity now to say I think you're an amazing writer! You seem to have such a handle on their characters and every fic literally leaves me aching for both of them.

Date: 2008-03-04 02:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Hurray for the lines that get to you--I enjoyed that one myself. Oh, Jack. ♥ that totally incorrigible bastard.

Anyway! *G* Thank you for commenting! I'm so glad you liked it, and am very glad you let me know! :)

Date: 2008-03-03 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qaffangyrl.livejournal.com
oh! I just adored this, it made me wibbly and tingly and go awww and ohh. Just beautiful.

Date: 2008-03-04 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yay for aaaw and tingly and wibbly! *grins* I'm so glad that you liked it, thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-03 01:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] used_songs
Oh this is so nice. Romantic and heart-tuggy. I love how spare the dialog is while all the while they are saying so much.

Date: 2008-03-04 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Thank you very much! I was hoping for romantic without going OTT (which is actually a fun and fine line to walk with these two! *G*) I'm very glad that you enjoyed it!

Date: 2008-03-03 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] storydivagirl.livejournal.com
This was wonderful and there needs to be more Jack/Ianto fluff! It's happiness!

Date: 2008-03-04 02:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
It is happiness, you're right. I luff them so much--fluff is the only outlet! *grins* I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you very much!

Date: 2008-03-03 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cobblestones.livejournal.com
This is so good! You write Jack/Ianto so perfectly! ♥ ♥ ♥

Date: 2008-03-04 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Awwww, thank you so much! I'm a real fretter when it comes to characterization, never sure I'm getting it right, so I really appreciate that. And I'm glad you liked it! :)

Date: 2008-03-03 02:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spacedye-vest.livejournal.com
You are amazing! Every Jack/Ianto story you write is absolutely beautiful.

This story is so wonderful, so sweet and touching and that bit of sadness and... everything about it is beautiful and just perfect.

Date: 2008-03-04 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Awww, I really appreciate hearing that! I love this pairing and this show so much that I can't help but wallow in the fic now and again--I'm glad that you liked it. Thank you so much! :)

Date: 2008-03-03 02:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onehundredmoons.livejournal.com
A perfect blend of tenderness and humor. Really lovely, as always!

Date: 2008-03-04 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I love playing around with this pairing because tenderness and humor are just my favorites, and they bring it. *G* Thank you so much! :) I'm really glad that you enjoyed the story!

Date: 2008-03-03 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com
I love this, absolutely love it! A very sweet reunion, just what I like to think would have happened. (((hugs))) Jack & Ianto

Date: 2008-03-04 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Hee, yeah, I'm busily imagining seven or eighteen different ways that date could go--all of them very sweet reunion fics. I can't help it, it's the pairing's fault. *grins* Glad you liked it, thank you!

Date: 2008-03-03 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erin-giles.livejournal.com
This makes me grin like a fool! It's just so them!! *continues to grin* It's just so cute and grin worthy...

Date: 2008-03-04 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Awww, and that makes ME grin and grin. I'm so glad that you liked it, thank you so much!
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