Unfeathered Notes

At last, the follow-up to Bridge Over Troubled Water that I began last summer but which fell by the wayside due to lack of motivation and the unfortunate intervention of Real Life... Thank you to Summer of Giles for giving me the kick I needed to finish it! :-)

Title: Stronger Together
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Pairing: Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1313
Spoilers: Set after Torchwood: Children of Earth, which means it's a long way post-Chosen for Buffy
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack's missing his wrist strap. Giles comes up with a replacement.
Author's Note: This is part of my Connection series, but each fic is separate and you don't need to have read the rest; all you need to know is that Giles is Jack's part-time Dom. This particular fic is a direct follow-up to Bridge Over Troubled Water so you might want to read that one first.

Written for summer_of_giles

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A pair of fics set before and after Giles' return to Sunnydale at the end of season 6, in my Connection-verse. :-)

Title: Return to the Fray
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Character(s): Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Buffy: Two to Go; Torchwood: pre-series
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Before he heads back to Sunnydale, Giles has a phone call to make
Author's Note: Written for summer_of_giles

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Title: Rough and Ready
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Character(s): Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/s, slightly rough wall sex
Word Count: 3,177
Spoilers: Buffy: set shortly after Grave; Torchwood: pre-series
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Giles returns from Sunnydale, in some need of release
Author's Note: Written for summer_of_giles and seasonofkink bingo, prompt: wall sex

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Wow, this series had no new parts for over a decade, and then two new, full-length, kinky stories in 12 days!!! I'm really rather pleased with this one, and especially the way it seemed to come to me out of thin air. Thank you, rounds_of_kink, for the inspiration!

Title: Under His Spell
Fandom: Torchwood/Buffy
Character(s): Jack Harkness/Rupert Giles
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/s, bondage, writing/painting on skin, light breathplay
Word Count: 2,967
Spoilers: Buffy: early S7; Torchwood: pre-series
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack is fidgeting; Giles devises ways to keep him still
Betas: Unbeta'd
Author's Note: Written for the April Fool's Mini-Round 2020 at rounds_of_kink inspired by the prompts: meditation and spine and the kinks: bodypainting or inkbrushing on someone's skin, discipline or punishment, talking and communication issues (silence) and situational engineering (a tiny bit). I also seem to have managed to include D/s, bondage and the inevitable (for me) breathplay! I didn't really manage to get April Fool's in there, although there is a bit of a twist so perhaps it's a slight April Fool's on Jack…

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This work is unbeta'd so please do let me know if you spot any typos or bits that don't make sense!

Title: Morning After
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Character(s): Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: The morning after Connection
Betas: Unbeta'd
Author's Note: A quick drabble inspired by a few phrases I found scribbled at the bottom of my original draft of the second part of Connection, while I work on vastly remoulding that and adding a lot of new stuff to it – hopefully I'll actually post it one day soon!

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...I'm still trying to decide where to post new fics other than AO3, if anywhere. My earliest fics were posted in my LJ personal journal, then later in my LJ fic community, then I moved to DW (with mirror posts to LJ) and posted them in the DW fic community, and then the few recent ones have all been for exchanges or challenges so posted to the appropriate communities on DW/LJ! So I have fics everywhere!

I *think* what I'm going to do from now on is make AO3 the main archive (I am very slowly getting everything posted there) with links from each fic there to the original LJ/DW posts so I can still get at the comments - because I love the comments, and yes I do still go back and read the comments! Not just because they're great for my ego, but because so many later fics have been inspired by comments to the earlier ones!

So yeah. I don't think I'm going to actually post this one to DW, just to AO3 with links from here and my Master Fic List.

(Also, please note, this waffle here is longer than the actual drabble I came here to post. That's me, folks!)

Title: Reconnecting
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing: Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Hints of D/s
Word Count: 200
Spoilers: Chosen/Last of the Time Lords
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack gets what he needs after the year on the Valiant.
Beta: unbeta'd
Author’s Note 1: Follow-up to Connection and Coming Home.
Author’s Note 2: Written for the Timestamp Meme, where mad_jaks requested No more than half an hour after 'Coming Home'.
Author's Note 3: Now followed up here: Burying the Past


( Reconnecting )

Look what mad_jaks has made for me! Header and icon for Connection! And they're both absolutely perfect and I am thrilled to bits and love her SO much!



Oh, and this on the same day that I discovered Connection had been nominated for two categories in the Torchwood Fandom Awards!

I am a happy bunny! :-)