tiny Torchwood fic

[bluecastle]

Title: Under Cover
Author: valancy_joy
Rating: rated "Toffee-Apple" for sweetness with bit of tartness.
Spoilers: I imagine this as sometime between Out of Time and when Jack buggers off...
Summary: a comfortable silence...
a/n: haven't written any TW fic for a while. This just sort of wrote itself this morning. I am rather fond of it.

"I can hear you thinking from all the way over here," came Jack's voice from the doorway.

Ianto smiled as he took in Jack leaning in the doorway, braces down, shirt and hair rumpled, Jack's own smile meeting his.

Jack set a bottle of water down on the table next to the bed, pulled the armchair in the corner closer to the bed, flopped into it and propped his sock feet up on the mattress next to Ianto.

"Your socks don't match," Ianto said as he shifted in the bed, propped up the pillow behind him, and took a drink of water.

"Flatterer," Jack said, laughing softly until Ianto silenced him with a hand to his ankle, fingers absently tracing the diamond patterns on Jack's mismatched argyles.

The two men looked at each other, trying to process a day in which one of them almost died, the silence between them a comfort.

"Get some sleep," Jack said finally, picking up his book from the bedside table.

"Doctor's orders?" Ianto smirked, thinking of Owen's less than polished attempts at sympathy earlier.

"I always find it's best to do what the Doctor says," Jack said finally, rubbing at his eyes.

"Jack?"

"Get some rest. You..." Jack trailed off, leaving Ianto to finish his thought for him.

"Jack. All this," Ianto gestured around the room, "this, its ... " Again there were no words, and no need for them really.

"You need anything?" Jack asked, fingers tapping idly against the cover of his book.

"Not a thing," Ianto said, as he curled onto his side facing away from Jack, moving gently to avoid the bruises.

Comments

[emyrldlady.livejournal.com]

Awww. beauty in simplicity.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

thank you! tried for a less is more approach...

[butterflycell.livejournal.com]

this was really touching just gave me a really nice warm feeling a the pure mundane-ness of it all - great work!

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

thanks! comments give warm feelings too :0)

[curriejean.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, natural snapshot. Loving the contrast of the casual and the dark.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

Thank You! I wrote it, and it seemed unfinished somehow, but I walked away from it for a while, and when I came back to it I realized it should feel sort of akward and disjointed. Those two so rarely actually say what they mean :0).

Thanks so much for commenting...

[stuffphile.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I really like the details.

[lone-star-woman.livejournal.com]

Mismatched argyle socks. I am a sucker for little quirks like that.

very pretty fic.

[samueljames]

This is really lovely.