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Jack Harkness (lastmanstanding) wrote in parabolical,
@ 2008-03-25 23:54:00

Entry tags:

ianto jones, jack harkness

Jack finds a freind
WHO: Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones
WHAT: A confusing reunion
WHEN: Mid afternoon, not that you can tell.
WHERE: The streets of LA
RATING: Lets start with PG-13, but their lovers...so be prepared.
STATUS: In progress....

The one person Jack Harkness wasn't expecting, though he was happy to see him was Ianto Jones. He'd noticed the other man walking down the street toward him. He smiled and debated a way to get his attention. So many options.

Maybe outside of the Hub he'd have a chance with the stranger. Their chemistry was undeniable, but often the work thing got in the way. He stepped forward, holding out a hand.

"Mr. Jones, I'd presume." He said with a wide smile, looking more like the Cheshire cat by the second.

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notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 04:09 am UTC (link)

Ianto hadn't expected to run into Jack here. Nobody had indicated they'd seen him, even if there had been people who knew him. For all he knew, Jack was still trapped under the rubble with Tosh and Owen. But there he was, looking the same as ever. So Ianto stood and stared for a long moment, wishing that he didn't look so awful, bruised with scrapes on his hands and face from the rubble and his left shoulder still sore.

But it was dark and he doubted his lover would notice just yet. So he just smirked slightly, biting back a laugh at the greeting. "You'd presume correctly, Captain Harkness," he said, addressing the other man in kind as he took his hand. But the formality couldn't hold for long and he really needed to reassure himself the other man was really alright.

Pulling Jack forward by the extended hand, he hugged him, reminded eerily of the exchange after Abaddon and Jack's death. "God, Jack," he said, "I was so worried." He pulled back, looking into Jack's eyes, before leaning forward again and kissing him.

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lastmanstanding
2008-03-26 04:27 am UTC (link)

Jack kisses Ianto back, surprised but not fighting the turn of events. This meant two things. This Ianto was from his future. And he had finally gotten him into bed.

He smiled to himself, pulling Ianto against him, before pulling out of the kiss and smiling.

"Well okay then. I think theres something you should know. I think we're different times, i mean, where we came from is." He grinned wildly. "Not that I mind in the slightest."

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notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 04:46 am UTC (link)

Ianto shouldn't have been surprised, given the things they dealt with on a regular basis, but he was. This wasn't his lover. This Jack knew him, which was good, but it wasn't the Jack he was involved with. He wasn't sure what to make of that. Still, he didn't move away from Jack. He didn't want to upset him, and if he was completely honest, he needed to be near him.

"It has to be quite a bit of time then, sir," he said, slipping back into the more formal address. Clearly the affection was what had alerted Jack to the disparity. Oh god. What if Jack didn't remember Lisa. Shit. There was so much more than that to think about.

"Perhaps we should find somewhere to talk," he said. "There's a lot you need to know."

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-26 04:48 am UTC (link)
	Jack nodded. "Somewhere you can kiss me like that again if you like, and get away with it." Jack gave a smirk at the thought. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 04:55 am UTC (link)

Ianto nodded, though he was more focused on preparing Jack in case Owen showed up dead or Gwen showed up married. Or if Martha showed up at all or even the Tosh he knew. Or if someone mentioned Lisa. There was so much to consider and his mind was racing to think of everything.

"Lead the way, sir," he said. "I've only just arrived here really...wouldn't know where to go."

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-26 04:57 am UTC (link)
	"I have a room, we could go there. It's got a terrible coffee pot that makes terrible coffee." Jack grinned. "Start debreifing me then, get me up to speed. Then the proper debreifing can happen later." Jack winked, leading Ianto by the hand back towards his hotel. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 05:02 am UTC (link)

"That's only because you have no idea how to work a coffee pot," Ianto said with a smirk, following Jack. It was so easy to fall into the flirting and innuendo with him. "You have to know how to handle it right."

"First you'll need to tell me the last thing you remember, sir," he said as they walked, "so I'll know where to begin." He paused rolling his eyes. "It's nice to know that no matter what happens you're still completely incapable of uttering a single sentence that isn't laced with innuendo and devious intentions."

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-26 05:28 am UTC (link)
	"You make me like this, what can I say." He grinned. "And I have no doubt you can handle anything right if given the oppertunity." He grins, walking up to a decent looking hotel. "This is home. Well, temporarily. I'd look for a way to Cardiff, but theres a good chance of timelines crossing. Well theres potential for it anyway, and thats not fun." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 05:39 am UTC (link)

"I have it on good authority that you're like this no matter what the provocation or lack thereof, sir," Ianto said with a laugh, shaking his head. Jack really was impossible.

"I highly doubt it," Ianto said. "My bet would be on a parallel world." After all, Rose had been in one before, why couldn't they be in one now. "And you still haven't answered my question. I can't debrief you if I have no idea where to start."

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-26 05:42 am UTC (link)
	Jack stops to think. "Suzie. Suzie shot herself, Gwen joined. Alien sex gas, then a total blank" Jack looks at him. "How far behind am I?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 06:11 am UTC (link)

Ianto was surprised by just how much time there was between them.

"Over a year," he said, "for me. Longer for you...but I'll get to that. First...there was an incursion at the hub a few weeks after Gwen was hired. A partially converted cyberman." He looked down slightly, choosing his words carefully. "It was my fault. It was Lisa. I was trying to cure her. We both know I was hardly stable after Canary Wharf. I realised after that I had foolishly endangered the team...all of Cardiff. The threat...was neutralised. I honestly can't say why you didn't follow protocol and kill me or retcon me. I'm glad you didn't though."

He sighed. "Maybe I'm being stupid, telling you this," he said, "but I don't want to lie about anything. You deserve the truth, sir."

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lastmanstanding
2008-03-26 06:51 am UTC (link)

Jack looked at Ianto with a shimmer of betrayal.

"And somehow we still ended up in bed together. Must be slipping in my age." Jack half mumbled to himself. "It takes real balls to admit it though, you had a chance to hide it and you didn't. Shows that you've changed since then. I'll give you the benifit of the doubt."

Jack eyed him suspiciously though, studying the other man.

"What else?"

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notjustateaboy
2008-03-26 01:41 pm UTC (link)

Ianto shouldn't have told him.

"We're honest with each other," was the only reply. He didn't want to explain to Jack that it wasn't just sex between them, not on his end anyway. This wasn't his Jack. It didn't matter if he knew.

"There was an incident with faeries shortly after," he explained. "Estelle is dead." He continued on, telling about the cannibals, hands shaking slightly at the memory of the cleaver pressed against his throat, about Tosh and Mary, Suzie's return, Eugene, and the visitors from the past.
"When Diane left," he explained, "Owen was understandably upset...it affected his work and he nearly let himself be killed by a weevil. Some time after, you and Tosh got stuck in 1941...with the real Jack Harkness. Owen tried to use the Rift Manipulator...I shot him but he still managed it."

"You two came back but the Rift was out of control. We had to open the rift fully to repair the damage. You didn't agree...Owen...he killed you. And you came back." He looked down. "The rift was repaired but Abaddon was released. You stopped it, but it killed you. You were dead for days before you finally came back. I thought..." he shook his head. "And then you left. You didn't say anything to anyone, you just left, with your Doctor. You wanted him to fix you. Gwen took charge while you were gone. She and Rhys got engaged...they're married now. You came back about a month later...but I don't know how long you were actually gone, since you were travelling in time." He paused now to let all this sink in.

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-27 04:21 am UTC (link)
	"Dead for days?" Jack spoke softly, the rest of it registering, but that struck him the most. "Nothings ever kept me down that long. The Doctor came back huh. Did he fix me? Am I fixed?" His eyes raised to Ianto's. "How did we get together after everything?" His mind flits through the thoughts as quickly as he asked the quesitons. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-27 04:36 am UTC (link)

"Yes," Ianto said. "We didn't think you would come back. But as I said you left with the Doctor. Gwen was in charge while you were gone. Then you came back. He didn't fix you...I suppose there wasn't a way for him to. Right after you came back, a man arrived...Captain John Hart. He knew you apparently. Nearly killed everyone...shot Owen, poisoned Gwen...pushed you off a roof. When he left he said something about someone named Grey."

He continued on, talking briefly about the alien sleeper cell before moving on. "Tommy finally went back to his own time. Tosh was instrumental in that. Rhys knows about Torchwood now. He helped us and you allowed Gwen to not retcon him. As I said before, they're married now." He looked down at his hands. "Martha Jones worked with us for a while, you met her when you traveled with the Doctor again. Owen..." he bit his lip. "Owen was killed. He died to save Martha. You brought him back using the other resurrection glove but he came back different. He isn't dead but he's not alive. And he doesn't heal."

He was studiously ignoring bringing up their relationship. "We encountered the Night Travellers...and Gwen knows about the bunker now. She wouldn't give up. She knows about the people who are pulled into the rift." He looked down again. "The last thing I remember...we were investigating an alien signature in a building. It was a trap. Gwen wasn't there, but you and I and Tosh and Owen were. There were bombs...the building exploded. That's the last I remember. God...I don't even know if they're..." He trailed off and shook his head. "That's everything, Ja...sir."

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-27 05:13 am UTC (link)
	Jack thought about everything being said. "Seems like everything has changed a lot." He looked at the other man, seemingly trying to decide how he felt. "Seen plenty of changes though in my time." "Wait, did you say Grey?" He asked softly, the color draining from his face slightly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-27 05:22 am UTC (link)

"So many things have changed," Ianto agreed with a nod to his head. "And now we're here." And this still wasn't his Jack. Even if he told Jack every detail, it wouldn't be his Jack.

Jack's question pulled him out of his thoughts and he nodded. "Yes," he said. "John said something before he left about finding Grey. You got this look on your face...rather like the one now. You never said who Grey was." He shook his head. "Perhaps I should leave, sir." He wasn't really sure what to make of Jack and it felt too complicated for him right now.

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lastmanstanding
2008-03-27 05:30 am UTC (link)

Suddenly Jack had the worst urge to distract himself.

"I don't want you too leave. Tell me about us." He was begging for a distraction, trying not to let the idea of John having his paws on Grey stick in his head. If this was an alternate reality, then it was very possible it wasn't the case here.

"I want to hear about us. What are we to each other, you certain seemed happy to see me."

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notjustateaboy
2008-03-27 05:36 am UTC (link)

"I was happy to see you," Ianto said. "I thought you...he...bloody timelines...I didn't know if he was alright after the explosion...but it doesn't matter. You aren't him, as much as you are. I don't want to discuss our relationship with you." Because it was something private, even though everyone knew about it they didn't know the details, it was between him and Jack. His Jack.

"It's complicated," he said with a sigh.

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lastmanstanding
2008-03-27 05:54 am UTC (link)

"I want to know. I was always interested in you." He spoke softly, reaching out to touch Iantos hand.

"It makes me happy to know I had the forgiveness within me to let you in." The words came out before he really thought about them, and he was surprised at how true they really were.

He needed to know that through all that his humanity still stood the test, what little was left to begin with.

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notjustateaboy
2008-03-27 06:22 am UTC (link)

"I figured I wasn't hired because of my stellar ability to catch pteranodon, sir," he said with a small smirk. It was too easy to fall into old habits with Jack.

"It took a lot to earn back your trust," Ianto said softly. "It was the Beacons that started it...with the cannibals and everyone nearly dying. After that I think we both needed something...it wasn't really much of anything until after Suzie came back that it really became...but it was just sex mostly."

"And then you died and you came back," he said, "and you left and came back. And it became more. I can't really qualify it...but it was more than just shagging. God...I miss you." And somehow he was sure Jack knew what he meant.

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-27 06:29 am UTC (link)
	Jack nodded, he did understand. The differences between their points in time was enough to jar him as well. It had started as comfort, and moved to something more, something stronger, something real. Jack leaned in a bit. "When did our first kiss happen?" He asked softly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notjustateaboy
2008-03-27 06:40 am UTC (link)

Ianto laughed. "That's complicated too, sir," he said. It was all so complicated.

"Lisa had tried to kill me," he said, "I was unconscious and not breathing. You...it wasn't CPR...you kissed me and suddenly I was fine. It was very strange. I hated you then." He paused. "The first time we kissed and meant it was in your office...after the cannibals. You sent everyone home...but I couldn't stand the idea of being alone with my thoughts after that. I stayed and you made me feel something...I had felt so numb after what happened...you changed that."

He could feel the sharp similarities right now. The bruises and physical pain, the emptiness inside, and the desire to be closer to Jack...even if it wasn't his own. And he gave into that feeling, crossing the distance and kissing Jack like he had that night in the hub.

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	lastmanstanding 2008-03-27 06:56 am UTC (link)
	Jack pulled away slightly, looking into Ianto's eyes. He smiled softly. "When was the first time we slept together." He meant it as a joke, seeing as his kiss question got him a kiss. But he genuinely wanted to know as well. He wanted to hold the other man suddenly. Make him feel again, when like he'd said before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjustateaboy 2008-03-27 07:03 am UTC (link)
	Ianto shook his head, leaning forward and resting his forehead against Jack's shoulder, stifling what could have been a laugh or a sob...and was maybe a little of both. It had been a long day. "After Suzie died again," he explained, not elaborating. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)