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Captain Jack Harkness (foreverjack) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2016-12-20 11:38:00

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ianto jones, jack harkness, jun kanzaki, martha jones, spike, the doctor (ten)

Day 407 / Action / Open and closed
Action – closed to Ianto

He's finishing getting dressed and bending to get his boots out of the wardrobe, when the sight of something at the back of the wardrobe, sitting innocuously right behind his boots where he'd swear it wasn't yesterday, gives him pause. A box. A box he had for decades. A box which couldn't possibly be here if this existence wasn't virtual and/or outside of time.

Hardly breathing, he scoops it up and takes it through to Ianto, who's already in the kitchen, getting coffee.

"Hey. Look what I found!"

Action – open

Jack's gift is a box of photographs of past lives and lovers, incredibly precious since it was blown up along with him and the rest of the Hub over a year ago and (in real life, at least) lost forever.

Find him sifting through the photos, or just gazing fondly at one of them, at various points through the day – at the Defence Force HQ, in a restaurant at lunchtime or dinner time, wandering along with a coffee in his hand etc. etc. etc.

((OOC: NSFW content in the thread with Ianto (surprise surprise)! ))

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	readystopwatch 2016-12-20 08:22 am UTC (link)
	"What is it?" Ianto asks curiously, looking up from the mugs he's working on. He's never seen the box before but then again it's hardly something Jack would have shown him back at the Hub. They didn't share as much back then and this is particularly private although doesn't know that just yet. (Reply to this) (Thread)

foreverjack
2016-12-20 11:43 am UTC (link)

Back at the Hub, it's definitely not something Jack would have shared with him, although considering he kept it in a drawer of his desk he wouldn't be surprised if Ianto had come across it at some point. Whether Ianto would have snooped inside it if he had... he doesn't know.

It's all academic now anyway because now, he wants to share.

"Memories," he says softly, setting the box down on the counter with supreme gentleness, as if it might disintegrate into the dust it must be in real life if he's too rough with it. He glances up at Ianto with an almost shy smile, and then looks down again as he carefully opens the lid of the box, turning it round to show Ianto the little mound of ageing photographs inside, carefully collected over decades of life.

"It was blown up along with the Hub," he murmurs, with a wondering and almost radiant smile. "I never thought I'd see these again."

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readystopwatch
2016-12-20 12:09 pm UTC (link)

He snooped, but only for big, obvious clues like things left sitting out on his desk or in archive files. Anythingthis personal he would have left alone. It feels like such a long time ago now.

He leans closer, gently flipping through the old photographs, knowing these are important. The few memories across his very long life that Jack has chosen to save. He can't decide which is more interesting, his unchanging face documented across the decades or the unfamiliar ones of the people in the photos with him.

"They gave it back to you," A smile at a picture that must be at least a century old of Jack in a suit next to a woman in a wedding dress.

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foreverjack
2016-12-20 12:21 pm UTC (link)

"They did. After all the things they've taken from me, they gave me this back."

It feels a little odd, looking back at these after all this time, and more especially with Ianto, one of the few he's chosen to share them with, but more than odd it feels very special, and he moves next to Ianto and slides an arm around his waist as he watches him go through the photographs. Content enough, for the moment, to just enjoy Ianto's reaction - and especially to that wedding photo.

Link to where I've collected some of those photos

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	readystopwatch 2016-12-20 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	It does feel special and he leans comfortably against Jack as he looks through the photos. Just being trusted to share them is a mark of how far they've come. He smiles as he reaches the one of Jack by the fighter plane. "Very dashing. You look handsome in uniform." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)