Title: In the Cold Light of Day
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen
Spoilers: Set after 'Exit Wounds'
Rating: PG
Word count: 9907 (total)
Summary: When Jack got agitated enough to track down something as minor as overdosed drug addicts, Ianto could be sure it wasn't a case to be shoved carelessly towards the local police department.
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Title: The Glasgow Files
Rating: Light PG
Summary: The official invitation only ran two words after giving the address and the relevant access codes: Come immediately.
Characters: Jack/Ianto, OMFC
Words: 4151
Notes: Set directly after 'End of Days', inspired by tw_wotd_fic's prompt ''portend'. Thanks to my betas aeron_lanart and elliptic_eye for fighting clichés, wrong word order ( Read more... )

openhanded \OH-puhn-HAN-did\, adjective:
1. giving freely; generous
2. done with an open hand

by 1593, open + handed

beseech \bi-SEECH\, verb;
beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching:
to ask earnestly; implore

c 1175, Old English bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from be- + Middle English secen "to seek"

tautological \taw-TOL-uh-guh-kuhl\, adjective:
unnecessarily or uselessly repetitive

by 1620 from tautologic, from Late Latin tautologia "representation of the same thing", from Greek tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say"

burnish \BUR-nish\, verb, noun:
1. to make shiny by polishing

noun:
1. a polish or shine

c.1325, from Old French burniss-, extended stem of burnir, metathesis of brunir "to make brown/bright, polish," from brun "brown, polished," from a Germanic source

interminable \in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
so long as to seem endless; never stopping

c.1374, from Late Latin interminabilis, from in- "not" + terminabilis

defalcate \di-FAL-keyt\, verb:
to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care

c 1540, from Latin defalcere, from de- + falx/falcem "sickle, scythe"

chaff \chaf\, noun, verb:
1. the stiff strawlike part of grains such as wheat, oats, rye

verb:
1. to make good-natured fun of someone

noun:
1. worthless material; detritus

c 1000, Old English ceaf, from Proto-Germanic *kaf-, *kef-. Chaffinch (Fringilla cælebs) is Old English ceaffinc

yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective ( Read more... )