m_findlow: (Ianto sad)
m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2024-10-27 04:28 pm

Challenge 836 - Strong feelings

Title: Strong feelings
Character: Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 836 - Feelings at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: Ianto has only one answer for Agnes Havisham. A double drabble.


Ianto wasn't quite sure what to make of Agnes Havisham. That fact that she seemed to be the one person Jack was genuinely terrified of and aggrieved to have around was in many ways amusing, but also unsettling. No one was used to Jack being pushed around like a naughty schoolboy, which also reminded them that they were potentially facing something so terrible that even Jack couldn't handle it on his own.

Despite the fleeting amusement of it all, it was the penetrating questions that Agnes directed at Ianto which caused him to question his own answers. Agnes had bluntly asked him if he had feelings for Jack, and under her intense scrutiny rather than come up with some eloquent way of describing their unconventional relationship, he simply said yes.

Of course he had feelings for Jack; very deep and profound ones that he knew weren't precisely reciprocated in the same fashion. He knew it and so did Agnes and she'd warned him that feelings like that were going to get him killed. He knew that as well, but it wasn't going to stop him. Agnes would have to be a whole lot more terrifying before he conceded that ground.

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[personal profile] badly_knitted 2024-10-27 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Agnes underestimates Ianto, I think. He already knows what she's telling him, and he's accepted it. Better to have what he has with Jack while he has it than to die without ever having felt that way.