Whistle While You Work

[donutsweeper]

Title: Whistle While You Work
Pairing/Warning/Rating: Jack/Ianto, many things usually warned for implied or a crack warning, rated R
Word Count: 100
Summary:  Ianto's life took an unexpected turn after quitting Torchwood.
Author's Note: Written for the tw100 challenge: Life After Torchwood, but blame for it rests solely on mad_jaks shoulders.  Now with a prequel! 

Ianto whistled happily as he puttered about, preparing the morning coffee.  This wasn’t the sort of future he’d planned, but after three years he’d grown to love it.

Are you sure you want to do this?  You’ll find leaving Torchwood is easy.  Jack had told him.  It’s leaving me that’s hard.

Ianto hadn’t realized the threat, or the promise, behind those words when he’d handed in his resignation.  But the next day they’d become evident.  He’d woken up with his memories, but without his clothes.  He’d earned a collar since then, and extensions for his chains.  Life couldn’t be better.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've also noted I tend to overuse similar phrases. I always try to reread things and make sure someone isn't grinning happily 17 times or something like that

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I do that, too, though usually in my academic essays. TAs really don't like when they have to read the same phrase over and over in one essay.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it's a frustrating thing to realize you've done, isn't it?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I only notice it later, usually if I'm rereading it in a different format, like after it's posted to LJ or if I've printed it out to read

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I usually notice a lot more easily if I've printed the thing.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm too cheap to print things at home, but I'll do it at work sometimes so anything long I've written just to check

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't even have a print at home. I just print stuff from the school library.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I have a printer, but it's perpetually broken or out of ink or randomly not working. I like using the work one, if they're sucking my soul at least I'm going to sneak some free copies and prints out of it

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Ink is far too expensive. Having a work printer to sneak stuff out on is always a good thing.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

absolutely!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

And copier...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that too!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Heh. My mind, of course, went to TW just now.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask why?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Jack and the copy machine in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh YES! *facepalm* how could I forget that! I'm not the biggest J/I fan, but that whole office scene was adorable

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I can never look at a copy machine quite the same again. Nor an office, for that matter, which makes my job right now rather interesting.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*hee* I never thought about it that way!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I have this whole list of things TW forever altered my perception of. At the top, of course, is the stop watch.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

TW is good at doing that

and omg yes- the stopwatch

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Of course, some of the things on the list are actually more fandom related. TW fic is good at that, too.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

tw fic can be evil *nods* not that I've contributed to that slippery slope at all, mind you

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

No, not at all.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

did you manage a straight face when you typed that?