Vocab_Drabbles Challenge #008 - The good old days

[m_findlow]

Title: The good old days

Fandom: Torchwood

Author: m_findlow

Rating: PG

Word Count: 200 words

Characters/Pairings: Jack, Ianto

Author notes: Written for Challenge #008 - Halcyon at vocab_drabbles

Summary: Ianto is fed up with all the administration it takes to keep Torchwood going.

Ianto growled and threw his report back on the desk, looking suitably frustrated by it. It was all Jack could do not to make a comment until he simply couldn't resist saying something. Ianto rarely got so annoyed by simple things like paperwork, especially if it was his own. It should already be perfect and to his own exacting standards that there was nothing left to take issue with.

‘Problem?’ Jack asked, curving an eyebrow at his leading question.

Ianto sighed heavily. ‘There are just some days when I wish you could go back in time, you know?’

Jack chuckled. ‘Ah, yes, those halcyon days before any of us became entangled in Torchwood, living our lives in carefree ignorance. When the biggest problem was where you would go for a drink and who you might share your bed with. Or perhaps you mean all the way back to childhood, when the world’s problems never touched us and we lived like we were immortal.’

‘That's very philosophical of you,’ Ianto replied. ‘I only meant to be able to go back to a time before I needed glasses to read these damn reports. All this fine print is giving me a headache.’
 

Comments

[mxcatmoon]

LOL. Getting old ain't fun! I'm sure Ianto will look sexy in glasses though, and I bet Jack agrees!

[badly_knitted]

Poor Ianto, I know that feeling more and more every year.