I got dreams so wide like a country mile

Fandom: Torchwood
Prompt: fanfic50 #008 Kiss
Summary: Jack's a prisoner on the Valiant, a plaything for the Master. He's not the only one.
Notes: A year that never was fic. I wrote it a long time ago and left it, thinking it wasn't finished. Now I think it was finished, it's just that it's disturbing.

( Ianto's eyes are like chips of ice as he stares along the barrel of the revolver. )

So, the inevitable has happened. Torchwood is back and this time it's in the US, apparently. I just can't see this being anything other than a fail, to be honest. Children of Earth was an amazing bit of TV that I never thought they could pull off and I just can't see how they can possibly move forward from there with those characters in the usual cavalier Torchwood writing fashion where all the consequences are just shut away and ignored. It doesn't help that RTD thought, having finished TW the way he had, that the appropriate farewell to Jack in End of Time was to have him hooking up with a random guy in a bar.

I guess I'm just sad that in order to shed the dead wood, poor quality writers/producers from Dr Who they've had to stick them onto Torchwood. Still, at least now I'll have Who to make up for it.

I'm still in shock from the fact that TW is good, but points to note... ( ... )

Title: Contact
Fandom: Torchwood, pre S1.
Rating: 18 - explicit.
Summary: Ianto comes back drunk to the Hub where he has a slightly cross purposes conversation with Jack and decides that what he really wants is not to talk.
Prompt: TW porn battle IV, Drunk sex, edging (link)
Notes: So yeah. Not so much with the comment fic. Just over 3k words. I haven't actually re-read it but I certainly enjoyed writing it, so I figure that's the main thing. Random extra feedback.

( When the Hub door cycles half an hour after he's forced Tosh out of the door, Jack at first assumes that even his direst threats have failed against the lure of figuring out the control matrix of the scanner and he's going to have to carry her out caveman style. )

Title: Do unto others
Fandom: Torchwood
Summary: Post Cyberwoman, Tosh persuades Jack to grant Ianto the mercy he once showed to her. Gen.
Prompt: fanfic50 #27, Hurt

( He doesn't say anything on the way home, just sits in the car and stares at the streets slipping past. )

Fandom: Torchwood
Title: Simultaneous release
Summary: Jack takes Ianto weevil hunting during his suspension, hoping to ease them back into a working relationship. All does not go as planned.
Rating/Warnings: Gen. Jack!death
Prompt: fanfic50 #37, Admit
Note: Unbeta'd, all mistakes herin are my own. All feedback/crit welcome. The title is a line from the song Dani California, from which the lines which inspired this also come from - "Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal 45, Just another way to survive"

( Ianto glared at Jack, standing in the hallway looking just the same as usual. )

Title: Operation Ruthless
Fandom: Torchwood/RPS
Rating: 18. Here lies PWP
Summary: Captain Jack Harkness has volunteered for a risky mission to retrieve German naval code books and help to crack the Enigma cypher. Dr Alan Turing wants to make sure he's taking it seriously.
Authors note: The idea for this pairing came to me at random while cycling one day and I couldn't resist it so I started looking for a suitable scenario. When I discovered Operation Ruthless, a plan to lure some German boats out by crashing a captured German plane in the Channel, overpower their crew and pinch the code books proposed by Ian Flemming (yes, that Ian Flemming) but never implemented, I couldn't resist. The reason it was never implemented seems to be in some dispute, but, I theorised, the likelihood of the crash just killing the pilot must have been a problem, which is where Jack, busy avoiding his previous self in London and looking for something to do, comes in. The characterisation of Turing is entirely imagined, although he did historically express frustration at the insistance by society of supressing and concealing homosexuality. Thanks to the_summoning_d for the beta and encouragement!


( Alan sat in the back of the briefing room, listening to Commander Flemming lay out the details of the operation. )

Title: Electricity
Fandom: Torchwood
Summary: An unwelcome blast from Ianto's past turns up in connection with Torchwood's latest investigation.
Rating/Warnings: Gen, team, implied pairings as canon. Jack!death.
Notes: So, this is my first attempt at coming up with my own Torchwood plot. I was fascinated by the description of Ianto's history from Fragments - it was so unlike how I had imagined it so I decided to try to build a story where a little more is revealed. This pushes him even more towards the bad boy side of the tracks than Fragments, but it is basically consistent with what Jack said there if you assume that he just didn't get caught much.

( 'So, Gwen, any connection between our bums yet?' Jack asked with a grin )