Drabble: The Family Line
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Title: The Family Line
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Characters: Jack, Ianto
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 295 – Family Tree at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
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Spoilers: Something Borrowed
Summary: Jack reassures Ianto after Gwen’s wedding.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
“It wasn’t what you were thinking, you know.” Jack spoke quietly into the silence as he drove Ianto home from Gwen’s wedding.
“What wasn’t?” Ianto was drowsy from the long day and the champagne.
“My dance with Gwen. It had nothing to do with me fancying her, or regretting that she’d chosen Rhys. I wanted, no, needed her to marry Rhys. It was such a relief to get them both through their wedding in one piece.”
“You’re not entirely making sense. Which isn’t unusual…”
Jack stopped the SUV outside Ianto’s home.
“They don’t marry, I don’t exist. They’re my ancestors.”
The End
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Date: 2013-09-22 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-22 10:07 pm (UTC)Thank you, I've been itching to write this explanation, I SO want it to be true. Jack flirted with Gwen because he didn't want to treat her differently and make her wonder why, but he overdid it a bit, lol, so she ended up thinking he fancied her!
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Date: 2013-09-22 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-22 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-22 10:30 pm (UTC)He had to flirt with Gwen because he didn't want her wondering why he treated her differently to everyone else, but because he was making himself do it, he ended up overdoing it and she got the wrong idea anyway, lol! He should have just told her the truth.
Thank you!
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Date: 2013-09-23 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 01:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 03:44 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2013-09-23 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 03:59 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2013-09-23 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 04:30 pm (UTC)The idea has been lurking in the corner of my brain for a while ;)
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Date: 2013-09-23 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 04:31 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2013-09-23 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-23 08:35 pm (UTC)That's what I thought.
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Date: 2013-09-23 10:57 pm (UTC)How did you manage to explain away all of Jack's behaviour towards Gwen, in a mere 100 words???
Genius!
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Date: 2013-09-23 11:31 pm (UTC)Brickbats
Date: 2013-09-24 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: Brickbats
Date: 2013-09-24 07:02 pm (UTC)I've had the idea in the back of my mind for quite a while, it's just one possible explanation for why Jack puts up with so much from Gwen.
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Date: 2013-09-24 05:39 pm (UTC)I'm speechless!
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Date: 2013-09-24 06:59 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2013-10-10 08:29 pm (UTC)I did not know not sure that the translator gives the good word.
in fact you totally surprised me!, not shocked (unless I think at countless fics where Gwen has a, very, bad role ....)
Then I thought it must allow full of possibilities. and the implications ...
As Spock meets the earthwoman and earthman that will be at the origin of his mother's family ... (in a book Startrek)
;-)
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Date: 2013-10-10 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-25 04:14 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2013-09-25 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-26 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-30 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-30 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-10-02 12:58 am (UTC)LOL, I just had the wildest thought of Ianto and Rhys having a Welsh boys night where Ianto gets hammered and tells Rhys who Jack really is to him and Gwen.
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Date: 2013-10-02 10:26 am (UTC)