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Title: Gift for Lady Korana
Author: tarotgal
Fandom: Torchwood (set after Doctor Who Season 4 but before Children of Earth)
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Disclaimer: Not my world or characters; just my story. Written for fun, not for money.
Summary: Ianto has a cold, a fact that barely registers with Jack as they’ve got more important matters to deal with.
Author’s Notes: I can’t even begin to apologize for this being so very late. I hope it’s worth the wait! Written as a holiday (2007?) gift for Lady Korana.

Story: http://tgsrealm.beastlet.com/stories/GiftLadyKoranaTW1.html

Okay, so I really need to learn how to write Torchwood fic without plots. I still think my plots are massive fails. And I keep trying to just write proper PWP but they never turn out the way I want-- the bad plots sneak in when I'm not looking! I actually hated parts of this during draft 1. I'm not super happy with it now several revisions later, but there are parts I do love (and I like more than I dislike) and you've waited a lot time for this. So I hope you can overlook its weaknesses and focus on the sniffly, sneezy, angsty Ianto boy instead :-) I hope you enjoy it!

Date: 2009-10-18 04:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
*Squee*!! Oh, my dear sweet, loyal, competent, awesome, professional, long-suffering, utterly adorable Ianto! I don't have words for how much I love him here. I could write paragraphs on each of those adjectives I used up there to describe him but I think they're pretty self-explanatory. I want to just hug him and wrap him in warm layers and take him to bed and just snuggle for hours. *happy sigh*

Jack needs a swift kick in the backside! At first I thought he was being distant because the illness might remind him of Ianto's mortality, but this seemed to go beyond that. If he were just ignoring it, the least he can do is still be his normal flirty self, but he just came across so cold. By the end, I understand his motivation, but I sure don't agree with him here. Boy does he owe Ianto a heap of comfort, though he does seem rather eager to deliver it, (or comfort sex, at the very least *G*). Wish I could be there to watch it all...

Thank goodness Gwen was so sweet. I really love Ianto-Gwen friendship. Go Team Wales! I am especially fond of Gwen being slightly mothering toward Ianto. Recent audio plays and books really back this up here, with her often calling him 'Sweetheart', saving his semi-conscious arse at least twice, and wrapping him up in a blanket to warm him once. Great stuff. So glad to see it reflected here as well, even if you haven't been exposed to nearly the amount of extras I have.

No worries needed about the plot. It was more than adequate to hang the story on. Just enough info to create a sense of importance about the mission without bogging the fic down with too many nitpicky details about the technology or motivations. A very typical Whoniverse approach, actually. I've seen DW eps based on far less believable stuff. New New New New etc. York and comes to mind. (They really have every single disease? Let's cure them by mixing all the IV bags together and then spraying it and transmitting the cure by touch. My pharmacist self says NO WAY!) :-)

Oh, and I think this had to be the 2008 request. I didn't fall hard for TW until about spring 2008 when I did a season 2 marathon with sirenprincess so I could be caught up and download Fragments and Exit Wounds when they aired in the UK. So this isn't all that terribly late, all things considered. *G*

In conclusion, THANK YOU! *hugs*

Date: 2009-10-20 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
Wha?? I know practically nothing... but even I know that's not going to work. Pffft!
It's the first ep of DW Series 2, 'New Earth', with the hospital Cassandra and the Face of Boe (side note: after CoE and a certain heartbreaking Face of Boe fic written post-CoE, I can't watch Face of Boe stuff without wanting to cry now.) and the cat nurses. Interesting tidbit: they filed the 'cure' scene in the lobby of the Millennium Centre and I was thinking about that ep when I was there. And then thinking of Saxon as I walked up the same stairs he and his wife walked down in 'The Sound of Drums' on our way to our balcony seats for "The Sound of Music". One of these days I need to upload some pics from that trip...or anything at all off my memory cards, actually. *G*

In 2008 I asked people with outstanding requests if they wanted to revise their request.
Oh yeah, I remember that now!

Date: 2009-10-18 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
By the way, I have no idea how correct the info is, but I was impressed by how much effort you obviously put into all the UK specific details- city locations, travel time, etc. I wouldn't put it past you to have gotten the exact train numbers correct. Nice job!

Date: 2009-10-20 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
I am awed and impressed by the amount of research. More than enough realism for this non-UK resident. Seriously. Ianto would be proud of your thoroughness. *G*

Date: 2009-10-18 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
You know what? I am a bad reader this time and probably owe Jack (and you) a teeny bit of an apology. I think I was just so worked up and indignant on Ianto's behalf that I managed to miss so many little details. Maybe you just deserve extra kudos for making Ianto so miserable that I felt I had to defend him, hehe. I was seeing it from Ianto's point of view and coming to Gwen's conclusions. That probably says something about me, but not sure what.

On re-read, all the tiny things, like the glances and eye contact, practically jumped out at me. I way, way underestimated the SF aspect of this, possibly because I didn't see it coming on first readthrough and it made me feel slightly uncomfortable, though I'm not sure why. The second time through, knowing Jack's true motivation, the earlier little details slot into place for me. The moments of eye contact, brief glances, and the times where there is no mention of symptoms now frought with meaning.

Jack's driving seems more of a kindness than an act of expediency now; a chance at rest the best he could do for Ianto at the time. And I have a big thing for touching/kissing foreheads, so I kinda missed Jack's shoulder touch because Gwen was checking for fever. So sorry! I can't get over how different my second reading experience was from my first. Overexcited from the newness and overprotective of Ianto and angry at Jack vs. savoring the reread with foreknowledge. Wow. I feel like the world's biggest dunce, and like I didn't do justice to your hard work. So sorry! If anything, it was a fascinating lesson in emotional response shaping perception...

Btw, the end is pretty hot now. ;-)
Edited Date: 2009-10-18 06:10 pm (UTC)

Date: 2009-10-20 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladykorana.livejournal.com
No, no, not massive fail on your part. Really! I claim a fair bit of skimming for choice yummy highlights and not reading every word. This is why I read most fics through more than once before typing really long comments.

I'm trying to think of what else you could have done to foreshadow it without totally giving away the ending. Maybe a little twitch from Jack at the right moment or a tiny hint of lust in his eyes, suppressed so quickly Ianto thinks he misinterpreted it for something else. That's about all I've got.

LOL, there's very little I can't see Jack going for or trying out at least once. SF stuff is rather tame compared to some of the stuff TW writers have been coming up with lately. Remind me to link you to Omnijaxual when I'm not nearly falling asleep at the laptop. It's a fic challenge group devoted to Jack having sex with anything and everything as long as it's not human. I'm hoping for Jack/Jadzia Dax, personally. Two people with lifetimes worth of sexual knowledge of multiple genders and species. Or Jack/Legolas. That would just be really really pretty! *G*

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Contents of this journal include: sneeze fetish references and lots of hurt/comfort, short fics and/or WIPS, everything from gen and het to slash and femslash, everything from G to NC-17, random ramblings about my life and fandom obsessions.

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