Challenge 483 - Tongue tied

[m_findlow]

Title: Tongue tied
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Ianto, Jack
Rating: PG
Challenge: 483 - Hard at tw100
Notes: Ianto underestimated how challenging it would be to pick up his first alien language.

Ianto leaned back in the chair and let out a vexed sigh. 'I can't do it. It's too hard.'

'Nonsense,' Jack said. 'It's Galactic Standard. If I can do it, so can you.'

'I can't even pronounce half these words!' He'd picked up the basics of a lot of languages, but the universal language left him for dead. 'My mouth wasn't designed to be able to wrap itself around like that.'

'Ianto, I know for a fact that you have an exceptionally talented mouth and that it can wrap itself around just about anything.'

'Can we practice that instead, then?'