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Tweak says, "Now I'm shoo shoo shakin'"

capt_harkness (capt_harkness) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-11 22:53:00

Entry tags:

!complete, day 10, ianto jones, jack harkness, location: gym, open

WHO: Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones & Open [if a doctor wants to swing by]
WHAT: The end of the day, Jack needs a break from Hero-duty.
WHEN: 22:00
WHERE: The Gym
RATING: TBA
STATUS: Active

Walking through town, helping as many as he could, by the end of the night, Jack had reached the point of exhaustion. He slowly walked through the darkened town, once more getting the strange feeling he had while with Gambit. Even before the earthquake there had been an odd feeling about this place, now, with the silence, Jack was worried. If this had been Cardiff, he would have shaken it off, helped who he could and went back to the Hub to 'sleep' it off.

But here? It was a veritable unknown. There was no tech to take readings, no way of knowing what was coming next. At least in the Hub, they had some sort of warning when something was about to happen when the Rift monitor went off. Here? There weren't even sirens to let them know a quake was coming. What was next? Typhoon? Tornado?

He looked up at the dark sky, knowing the glass cage was above and felt like a caged animal, placed somewhere to be observed. Jack breathed in, lowering his head and headed in the direction of the gym. Right now, he wanted nothing more than to see Ianto. Between the conversations with the Insider and hearing Gray's voice in the void, it was safe to say that Jack wasn't on his game. He'd been able to distract himself playing hero, but no longer. Now, all Jack had were his thoughts. It was strange feeling like he had to depend on someone -- Jack was the strong one. Not weak.

Well, everyone could have an off-day, right?

Hands shoved deep into his pockets, he made his way inside the rubble of the gym, glancing at the injured parties and hoping the doctors were handling things. He'd be around to help, but right now, Jack needed time to himself. And that meant finding Ianto.

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capt_harkness
2009-06-17 07:10 pm UTC (link)

Jack's eyes drooped, closing the moment Ianto's fingers began to caress his face. He tilted his head enough to lean into his touch, letting himself relax with his lover. Intimate enough for now, it was these times when Jack realised how their relationship had changed. Since when did a simple touch mean so much, serve to relax him so? Didn't matter, but it did and Jack was going to take the comfort. At least with Ianto, Jack didn't always have to play the hero -- he could actually show those human failings he claimed not to have.

"In that case, I should find some scotch post haste," Jack said with a chuckle. "I shouldn't be the only one here to ever see you in a drunken state. Though, without Owen, I don't think it's a proper drinking contest."

Just as Shannon had earlier, Jack sighed feeling the hand on the back of his neck. God, was he this much of a sucker when it came to touches like these? Apparently so. "Think an earthquake is going to keep me from you?" Jack asked softly. "Daleks couldn't. They'll have to try a bit harder." Empty words, maybe, but he needed to lash out at someone and the unnamed Powers were the only target he had.

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madeinwales
2009-06-18 06:33 am UTC (link)

Ianto's fingers tugged teasingly on a bit of Jack's hair before going back to sifting through it. "Careful, there, Captain. You're getting sentimental." Dangerously so. Though Ianto's voice was warm and easy with amusement and something else at Jack's words. At his tone, more than the words.

"But it could be amusing for everyone," he continued easily. "A sort of drunken revelry. Though the last time I got truly soussed, I kept trying to stick things down my trousers." Bottles, napkins, pens, mobiles. In the morning, he couldn't figure out why and just chalked it up to one of those stupid things that made perfect sense at the time. And for all that Ianto's voice kept going on, matter of fact and tinged with amusement as it usually was, his fingers were gentle and said entirely different things than his mouth.

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capt_harkness
2009-06-18 09:57 am UTC (link)

Jack made a contented noise in the back of his throat between the gentle hair tugging and the fingers lightly rubbing his scalp. With each deep breath, he could feel the tension leaving him, turning his head just enough so that cheek and not chin rested on Ianto's knee. He said nothing about the sentimentality, merely ignored it in the hopes that it would go away and they'd forget he said anything to begin with.

"Sticking things in your trousers and not even having any fun with what went down there," Jack replied with a chuckle. "I think Owen kept the CCTV footage just for bribery purposes." Jack's own hand slid up Ianto's trouser leg, rubbing the back of his calf in counterpoint to the hands in his hair.

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madeinwales
2009-06-19 06:27 am UTC (link)

Watching Jack relax strangely made Ianto feel all that much more relaxed. Maybe it was that they could unravel round one another without any of the fall out that'd happen round others. Maybe it was just sentimentality and Ianto would just have to live with it. "I think you kept the CCTV footage for amusement's sake. Didn't your mobile go down my trousers?"

Jostling himself a little, Ianto leaned forward, bending himself nearly in two, just to rub the tip of his snub nose against Jack's cheek. "When's the last time you slept, Jack? I know you don't need much, but you do need some." Running on empty wasn't going to do much for anyone except breed desperation.

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