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Title: Lost for words
Character: Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 796 - Mess at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: Jack can't find the right words to apologise for the mess he's created. A double drabble.


“I made such a mess of things, and I'm sorry.”

Jack heaved another sigh and started tapping on the backspace key, watching the letters on the screen disappear one by one. He’d tried five times now to think of a way of apologising to Ianto for leaving, but none of them seemed right. It wasn’t like he’d planned on being away for months. He hadn’t even planned on being gone an hour. It had just happened that way, as it so often did wherever the Doctor was concerned.

For Jack it had been even longer, which was probably why he felt the need to apologise so much. Ianto had suffered far worse in the year that never was and though he’d never remember it, Jack would, and it would be his fault that it happened.

He tried again, tapping the keys. “I was gone for a long time. Longer than you think. I had a lot of time to think about things and I missed you. I think that maybe I'm in love with you.”

Jack groaned and deleted the text once more. There was just no good way to say what he felt. He really was in a mess.


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