m_findlow | Slashthedrabble Challenge 135

Title: Getting it in writing
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 500 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 135 - Book(s) at slashthedrabble
SummaryJack has a present for Ianto

Jack collapsed on top of Ianto in bed, arm hanging over the edge. As it did, he brushed against the box that was tucked away beneath. He sat up and leaned further over, dragging it out across the floor.

'What are you doing, Jack?'

'Just remembered something I wanted to show you,' he said, turning the combination lock on the old box, lifting off the dusty lid.

The box had been there for years. Ianto had taken one look at the lock and vowed never to touch it. Jack's personal effects were his alone.

'Here,' Jack said, handing him a series of hardback books.

'What this?' Ianto said, flicking through the pages, seeing Jack's cursive penmanship filling them. He stopped on one particular page and read a few paragraphs. 'You kept a diary?'

'Well, not a diary exactly. More like notes. I was thinking maybe one day I'd write a book.'

'A book?'

'More a memoir. The lives of Captain Jack. 1870-2010.'

'The glory years?' Ianto said raising an eyebrow at him, playful little smile on his face.

'Har har.'

'I never took you for a diarist. You're more a "live in the moment" kind of guy.'

'Hey, I like introspection.'

'So, this is all of the stuff you kept out of the official records?'

'Some.'

Ianto's curiosity was piqued. Jack hadn't exactly sanitized his reports over the years, but hearing it from the horses mouth in its unadulterated form would be very revealing indeed.

'And who is it that would read this book of yours, Jack? Certainly no one on Earth. Not with Torchwood being secret. Or are you only planning on including all your smutty love affairs with just a dash of the unexplainable?'

'Now that's a book people would want to read! Forget Fifty Shades of Grey.'

'Think I'll pass.'

Jack had spent the better part of the last four years committing every act of dirty underhandedness to uncover Ianto's diaries. He gleefully devoured their contents with the same guilty pleasure other people might consume trashy magazines

'I can't believe you had these all these years and never told me.'

Jack shrugged lazily. 'You never asked.'

Ianto rolled his eyes at the reply. Yes, because he was likely to say, "so, just checking, are you keeping any journals that spell out all of your adventures since you landed on Earth over a hundred years ago? Just after a bit of light reading."

Ianto handed the journals back. Sometimes it was hard enough coming to terms with his own relationship with Jack. He wasn't sure he wanted to read Jack's innermost thoughts on all of his past flames.

'Keep them,' Jack insisted, pushing them back on Ianto. 'They've been in that box for twenty years at least. I'm not in any hurry to have them back.'

'Not getting started on that memoir right away?'

'Hell, no. If I did, I'd be missing all the best parts.'

'Which parts would those be?'

'All the parts with you in them.'

Slashthedrabble Challenge 135 - Getting it in writing

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