Torchwood Fic: Breaking Up the Routine (1/1)

[hel_bee]

Title: Breaking Up the Routine
Pairing: Jack/Ianto (J/OC, I/OC, I/10 - only mentioned in passing)
Rating: R
Spoilers: Anything aired is fair game, but not really spoilers.

Summary: Just because they can spend forever together, doesn’t mean they have to or want to. One shot - not related to any of my other stories.

Beta: rakinaDisclaimer: Don't own 'em

Comments

[lefaym]

Oooh! I like this idea! I tend to avoid Ianto-becomes-immortal fics most of the time, but your take on it (that Jack and Ianto wouldn't spend the whole time in each other's pockets) is really interesting-- and very true to both their characters.

Nicely done.

[hel_bee]

Thanks!

Like I said I am partial to a longer-lived Ianto, but in reality they'd kill each other... I think for normal mortal Ianto, Jack would stick around since being in Torchwood Ianto is unlikely to make it to old age! But an immortal Ianto? Well, the universe is a big place with a lot of potential... and neither of them would want to miss out ;)

[teachwriteslash]

Oh I loved this -- I really can see this happening because forever is just so damn long. They would want and need, I think, time apart.

There is a wonderful Alan Alda film called "Same Time Next Year" I think and this made me want to watch it.

[hel_bee]

Thank you!

Forever is just unconceivable for us poor mortals, but even as a happily married bod I could see the disadvantage of waking up with the same person for millennia! And as there is unlikely to be anyone else (even Time Lord die eventually)who could really understand their predicament I think they'd naturally drift back together.

And variety is the spice of life!

:)

[neon_footprint]

Oh, now I like that! Forever is a very long time indeed, this seems like an expedient solution, and a very Ianto-like one. Seems he knows Jack better than Jack does! It's a similar solution to the one Jack reaches with OCs Ari and Dex in xennie_b's fic 'Secrets of Blood'. Vampires, hence the eternal aspect.

I hope the end of Mythology is going well, I've really enjoyed it as a series.

[hel_bee]

Oh... I've not read that fic - damn real life is not giving me the time to read WIPs at the mo - barely have the time to read finished one!

On the Mythology front, it's coming along quite nicely ... I really want to get it right since I hate leaving undeliberate loose ends!

[em615]

Oh! I adore immortal!Ianto stories, too. And this one rocks!

[hel_bee]

heh heh heh... thanks, my dear!

Although it is alittle different to the 'and they all lived happily ever after'... y'know me, can't do anything straight!

[em615]

Well, it makes total sense to me. You'd get so bored of each other after the first few centuries. I always hated Highlander stories that had Duncan and Methos living blissfully for millenia. C'mon. Variety is the spice of life!

[dwolf34]

That was excellent, thank you! An eternity spent with one lover is a great fantasy - but your on-again off-again passion feels much more realistic.

[hel_bee]

And don't get me wrong, I love a good fantasty as much as the next fangirl ;) *snort*.

Ianto is a very practical young man, and I don't see that changong just cos of trivial thing like being immortal LOL!