Ianto Drabbles
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mercyrobotVarious Ianto Drabbles, x100 words.
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to RTD or Joss Whedon. Shoplifted phrases may belong to Bob Dylan, Shakespeare, or the Smiths.
Spoilers: Not for anything current so this is probably superfluous, but TW "End of Days," DW "Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday," BtVS "Dirty Girls."
Title: None is the Number
Pairing: Jack/Ianto (sort of)
Rating: PG-13, if that.
Summary: The mind plays tricks.
Notes: Weird. Possibly avant-garde. Set post-End of Days.
None Is the Number
He's here. Dawn-shadowed in the doorway, waiting, watching. Statue unsticks. Breath-stutter and blood-boil and falling falling-- O deliver me don't look don't touch don't move a muscle-- falling failing flying FREEZE. By the pricking of my-- oh. Real it's real where have you been my blue-eyed Yesgodyes wet-hot white-hot touchtastegasp. Swallow dive drive down hush, hush, hush. Heartbroke feverpitch oh no don't stop now Oh let it be real
Awake, pale light and sticky sheets, departing ghost of a touch, goldshot echo of doused flame. A haze and a daze and no, I've not gone mad. He's just gone. Still.
Title: Stop Me if You've Heard This One
Pairing: Ianto/Xander Harris
Rating: PG-ish
Summary: A chance meeting.
Notes: Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Stop Me if You've Heard This One
Title: White Lies
Pairing: Ianto/Rose
Rating: G
Summary: Bedtime stories on the other side.
Notes: DW crossover, obviously. Two versions because I couldn't decide.
White Lies (I)
"...and the Traveller sang a beautiful golden song that made all the monsters go away."
"Did they live happily ever after?"
"Always," Rose whispered with a kiss to her daughter's forehead, smoothing back the untidy mass of black curls. "Sweet dreams, love."
She shut Kate's door and realised she'd had another audience.
"Happily ever after?" Even after five years, Ianto's voice still made her go a bit wobbly around the knees. Especially when it was wrapped around that soft smile no one else got to see.
It wasn't perfect, couldn't be. But it was good. Rose smiled back. "Getting there."
White Lies (II)
Ianto listened to the end of his daughter's favourite story.
"...and the Traveller sang a beautiful golden song that made all the monsters go away."
"Did they live happily ever after?" Kate. Soon to be five and so innocent it was blinding.
"Always," Rose whispered. "Sweet dreams, love."
They'd met in orbit around the gaping maw of loss and gravitated together.
"Happily ever after?" he asked.
The flicker of could-have-been in Rose's eyes matched his own, but she smiled. "Getting there."
And they were, though he did sometimes wonder if there was a world where they were someone's first choice.
Disclaimer: Characters you recognise belong to RTD or Joss Whedon. Shoplifted phrases may belong to Bob Dylan, Shakespeare, or the Smiths.
Spoilers: Not for anything current so this is probably superfluous, but TW "End of Days," DW "Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday," BtVS "Dirty Girls."
Title: None is the Number
Pairing: Jack/Ianto (sort of)
Rating: PG-13, if that.
Summary: The mind plays tricks.
Notes: Weird. Possibly avant-garde. Set post-End of Days.
None Is the Number
He's here. Dawn-shadowed in the doorway, waiting, watching. Statue unsticks. Breath-stutter and blood-boil and falling falling-- O deliver me don't look don't touch don't move a muscle-- falling failing flying FREEZE. By the pricking of my-- oh. Real it's real where have you been my blue-eyed Yesgodyes wet-hot white-hot touchtastegasp. Swallow dive drive down hush, hush, hush. Heartbroke feverpitch oh no don't stop now Oh let it be real
Awake, pale light and sticky sheets, departing ghost of a touch, goldshot echo of doused flame. A haze and a daze and no, I've not gone mad. He's just gone. Still.
Title: Stop Me if You've Heard This One
Pairing: Ianto/Xander Harris
Rating: PG-ish
Summary: A chance meeting.
Notes: Crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Stop Me if You've Heard This One
"Demons?"
"Aliens?"
Two voices in unison. Two blue eyes and one brown locked in a who'll-crack-first stare.
An inhuman growl (earthly or not) ends it in a draw.
"We can argue after we don't die."
They don't argue. They've both seen too much to disbelieve anything. Instead they drink, trade war stories. Zeppo and Teaboy strike a chord that resonates in backs against alley walls, in pulled hair and ruined trousers and kisses that feel like fighting.
After, still breathless, they lock eyes again, weighing risks and secrets. An exhale. A nod. Two silent promises, no goodbye. They'll meet again.
Title: White Lies
Pairing: Ianto/Rose
Rating: G
Summary: Bedtime stories on the other side.
Notes: DW crossover, obviously. Two versions because I couldn't decide.
White Lies (I)
"...and the Traveller sang a beautiful golden song that made all the monsters go away."
"Did they live happily ever after?"
"Always," Rose whispered with a kiss to her daughter's forehead, smoothing back the untidy mass of black curls. "Sweet dreams, love."
She shut Kate's door and realised she'd had another audience.
"Happily ever after?" Even after five years, Ianto's voice still made her go a bit wobbly around the knees. Especially when it was wrapped around that soft smile no one else got to see.
It wasn't perfect, couldn't be. But it was good. Rose smiled back. "Getting there."
White Lies (II)
Ianto listened to the end of his daughter's favourite story.
"...and the Traveller sang a beautiful golden song that made all the monsters go away."
"Did they live happily ever after?" Kate. Soon to be five and so innocent it was blinding.
"Always," Rose whispered. "Sweet dreams, love."
They'd met in orbit around the gaping maw of loss and gravitated together.
"Happily ever after?" he asked.
The flicker of could-have-been in Rose's eyes matched his own, but she smiled. "Getting there."
And they were, though he did sometimes wonder if there was a world where they were someone's first choice.
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