TITLE: FIVE THINGS IANTO JONES DID AFTER HE BECAME A TIMELORD (AND ONE THING HE DIDN'T DO)
In which ABBA, The Wombles and The Charleston (amongst other things) cause Ianto to despair.
The Torchwood team comprises Jack, Owen, Tosh and Gwen. They've just encountered the faeries of Small Worlds. Unfortunately, they've also caught the eye of another type of faerie, and he's rather intrigued by Jack.
They stole him. Just a little. Seconds of him, snatched out of time, out of space, taken beyond the World. To protect it. To protect Him.
"'Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.'" - Holly Golightly
Owen thought his day couldn't get any worse. Well, it could. Bloody Harkness.
An undercover investigation at a gentleman's club goes tragically wrong during Jack's absence. Set between S1 and S2.
Jack and Ianto are having a spat. Gwen is going to kill them both.
Ianto is having one of those weeks; his new pet keeps on eating things that it shouldn't, there's zombie blowfish, and Jack's...making some very strange noises.
A COMPREHENSIVE AND USUALLY BRIEF ABSTRACT, RECAPITULATION, OR COMPENDIUM OF PREVIOUSLY STATED FACTS OR STATEMENTS
Jack absently nibbles his chip. It might be a |Q|. If it is, only two downfacing |K|s remain in the draw pile, and that spells trouble for Tosh's prized Hitchhi_ersguidetotheg_laxy.
Amidst paper animals, looking like he's scrapbooking for five-year olds, that's Ianto Jones.
"Ianto wonders if he could really love something that never changes. Change, he suddenly realises, is what makes choice interesting. Ray Charles is dead, after all."
"When I was under the influence I wrote everyone letters," Ianto said quickly, eyes pinging from Owen's hand to Jack's face. "Letters which you posted."
The end is where we start from. Part of my Five Ways The World Was Put Right series.
Children of Earth fix-it, like apparently every other Torchwood story I write at the moment. Part of my Five Ways The World Was Put Right series.
Mica Davies is five years old when her Uncle Ianto dies.
Tosh always notices the little things.