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 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?

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Almost.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

you're improving!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

The student becomes the master.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I am very proud

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I still have much to learn, though.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I shall do my best to impart upon you all I know

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

Should I call you Obi-Wan or Emperor?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

neither. they're a little too dark for me. we're going for subtle here, remember