TW Recs: Won't You Come Home To Me/All That I Ain't Got

[out_there]

These two are getting recced together because they're part of the same story (both by sam_storyteller so you know they're worth reading). First, you have Won't You Come Home To Me where Jack crosses his own timeline and needs Ianto to sort out some of the details (Jack Harkness, entertaining himself for three months without running into himself. Very cool idea). It's fun and funny, and the characterisation of Jack and Ianto makes me happy.

Jack didn't bend with the push; instead he leaned against it and kissed Ianto, grinning. "Have I ever told you that you're perfect?"

"You'd know better than I would whether you have or not. Also, that's a scurrilous lie. Go."

And, because I can't resist this little exchange (makes me snigger every time):
"...Anything interesting happen while we were gone?"

"Yes, your time-traveling future self appeared in the Hub and I had to send him off," Ianto said serenely.

"Not funny," Jack replied, climbing the stairs to the conference room.

"Not for another three months, anyway."

"Still not funny!" Jack yelled from above.

"Hasn't been three months yet!" Ianto yelled back, and was rewarded with a paper airplane that floated gently down from the balcony to land in front of him.

And then, there's a... not a sequel, since it fits into the same timeline, but All That I Ain't Got are the letters Ianto and Jack sent to each other during the three months. It's lovely and touching, funny at times and just right. It even has postcards.

Comments

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Oh, right, thanks for reminding me about those, I was going to read them before the vid ate my brain, and now work hit it so hard today it's turned into mush, so I'll have to wait till I can think again to read it to properly appreciate it.

God, that was one long run on sentence!

[out-there.livejournal.com]

That really was!

Well, I've read those (so good!) and now I'm typing up fic notes and waiting for pages of tw_babiez to load. I don't know how I missed that cuteness before, but it makes me giggle and make general cooing noises. Comics! Of baby-versions of Torchwood!

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Have a Zelenka pony.



Yeah. That was completely random.

I need to go to bed.

TTYTomorrow.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

I cannot see Zelenka pony.

*is sad*

ETA: No, wait, I was sneaky and got to see it. Eeeee! So cute!

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

How's that for something completely random by SGA's TPTB??? Seriously, PONY?!

*dies*

[out-there.livejournal.com]

Very, very random. But wonderful.

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for linking to these. I was desperate for new Jack/Ianto that was not awful. *g*

[out-there.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Sadly, that's a very fair concern in this fandom. A lot of stories just... don't quite work (and that's putting it nicely).

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah. There's only so much of Ianto-as-soccer-mom I can take.

Or Jack and Ianto singing to each other.

Or...

But this! This was good and hit the spot and yum.

[out-there.livejournal.com]

There's only so much of Ianto-as-soccer-mom I can take.

*shudders* Although he does drive the SUV, so part of that fits.

Or Jack and Ianto singing to each other.

Ew, no. That should only be done within an episode, and only ifiit's a musical episode, and we get to have Gwen and Rhys singing a fight. Because that would thrill me.

Mind you, I was thinking about his on the way to work (I get bored when my music player is out of batteries). I hate nicknames -- love, darl, the horrible "Yan". Possibly, given that Tosh is canonically Tosh, and not Toshiko, I shouldn't object to fanon Jack shortening Ianto's name, except "Ianto" and especially "Ianto Jones" are such fun sounds to say.

Cariad is a nice sounding word, and I will accept it at a maximum of once per story, and it had damn well better not be in the middle of gushy romantic scene or I'll roll my eyes.

Mind you, you'd think I'd have a higher tolerance to cliches given that canon is cliched. I mean, one partner's psycho ex comes back and taunts the current boyfriend and/or tortures his ex, leaving him vulnerable and hurt? Canon. Hurt/comfort scenarios that involve one person being hurt physically or emotionally while on a team mission? Canon. Unusual use of common, everyday objects in a sexual manner (and some of them used in ways that make your brain hurt with the possiblities)? Pretty much canon. That terrible old slash cliche -- that popped up so much in popslash it almost made me groan -- of everyone being either secretly gay or at least bi enough to sleep with teh occasion same gendered partner? Definitely canon.

I mean, with all the canonical cliches to work with, I just don't see the need to add other horrible ones.