Unfeathered Notes

Here it is - finally! The "big" Jack/Ianto fic from way back in April/May! Enjoy. :-)

Title: Never Meant to Happen
Fandom: Torchwood
Character(s): Jack/Ianto
Rating: R
Warnings: Only for what happened in the show
Word Count: 1,795
Spoilers: Up to the end of Children of Earth
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Some things happen however hard you try not to let them
Beta: Alexandria
Author's Note: I’ve never been a Jack/Ianto shipper. I came into Torchwood from Doctor Who, as a Jack/Doctor shipper, and I could never see what people saw in Ianto, nor what they thought Jack would see in him.

Then my role-play Jack met a wonderful role-play Ianto, and it finally began to make sense to me. And recently, when I started writing fic again, I decided to try and put some of that into words. This is what happened. It’s only taken me a decade or so to get there. :-D


Read it on AO3

OMG I finished a line of bingo before the deadline (just)!!!!

Title: Bruises
Fandom: Torchwood
Character(s): Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones
Rating: R
Warnings: bruises, talk of pain play
Word Count: 967
Spoilers: Set during season 2
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack is sporting bruises from another lover; Ianto reacts
Author's Note: Written for seasonofkink bingo, prompt: bites/bruises

Read it on AO3

My rounds_of_kink J/I orgasm denial fic is up!

Title: Trust
Fandom: Torchwood
Character(s): Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/s, orgasm denial, cock cage
Word Count: 4,410
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: After his return to his team, Jack is prepared to make a few concessions
Beta: karios
Author's Note: Set four days after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Written for Round 36 at rounds_of_kink, for the prompt: lesson learned the hard way and the kinks: forced orgasm or orgasm denial, humiliation, noise

Read it on AO3

In my (very gradual) uploading of fics to AO3 I have reached the end of July 2008 and the first Jack/Ianto fic I ever wrote - Enough. Set right after Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang which I re-watched a couple of nights ago and have been trawling through meta on ever since, because it really is one of THE best episdoes ever and tells us such an awful lot about, well, everyone!

And fascinating re-reading this fic in the wake of all that because I discovered that I really did have a lot of what I've now decided upon there already. The main issue is that I really hadn't done much thinking about Ianto (partly because he just didn't interest me, partly because all the over-enthusiastic shippers slamming people over the head with the pairing made me really want to avoid it at all costs) and so most of my reading of Ianto in those days was down to the relatively few discussions about him (compared to, say, the Doctor) in my flist and on the very particular characterisation and relationship portrayed by the two people playing Jack and Ianto over at the role-playing game I was immersed in, both of whom were also in my flist and I kind of saw their take on the pairing as the definitive one.

It's taken me a long, long time to move past that. RPing with my own wonderful Ianto over recent years finally got me interested in the character, and I'm now very belatedly going back and re-discovering the relationship - and the character of Ianto - for myself. And while I still don't find him particularly interesting from a sexual POV (not dominant enough, old enough or exciting enough), I am finding his character and his relationship with Jack really fascinating. It is at least as complicated as Jack's relationship with the Doctor, if not more so, and there's a lot of depth there. And now that I've finally figured out, I think, how it all started and what Jack actually sees in Ianto, I'm really enjoying writing it. :-)

Speaking of which, I have signed up for this prompt at rounds_of_kink:

Jack/Ianto - Kink: forced orgasm or orgasm denial, humiliation, noise - Prompt: lesson learned the hard way

Due on 13 June - something for you all to look forward to! :-)

And once I've rewatched Fragments, just to check up on those early J/I scenes, I'll see about getting my J/I manifesto/personal canon fic finished and posted too. :-)

So I'm writing a Jack/Ianto "how they got together (and beyond)" fic. Mainly because I've been (gradually) re-watching season 1 of Torchwood with a particular emphasis on trying to make sense of their relationship - because I've been writing Jack for 13 years, role-playing him for 11, and playing him against a fantastic Ianto for around nine of those years, and yet I realised I still didn't actually have a personal canon for how - and when, and why - they actually got together.

There's so desperately little in the actual episodes that it's no wonder that on first watch of S1, when I wasn't in the fandom, I totally missed the relationship altogether. I understand that there was a lot of stuff behind the scenes on the Torchwood website (now sadly gone) but from what I saw on screen, I got to the end of S1 without even knowing Ianto's name, let alone realising he had something going with Jack!

Then I got involved with the fandom and the J/I shippers did what the Buffy/Spike shippers had done for me previously - went way overboard and completely turned me off any prospect of liking the ship. Until I found my wonderful RP Ianto who gave me my first inklings of what Jack might actually have seen in Ianto and made me see him in a whole new light.

But I realised recently I still didn't have a personal canon for the details of how and when they got together, and it really would be useful to make a decision on that, because I do like to be consistent with things like that, in my fics and RP threads!

Hence the rewatch, and also I've been reading through some old threads and episode reviews from the actual time (which is fascinating reading with hindsight!) and it all seems to have finally fallen into place. For much of S1, because there *is* so little there on-screen, I can still make it work in any number of ways if I want to, but I think I've worked out a personal reading of it that makes sense and I can support emotionally and with facts, and that is such a relief!

As for what it is? Well, hopefully this fic (which tbh is more of a character study than a fic, like a lot of my stuff) will be done in a few days and you can find out then! :-D

OMG, I wrote a drabble! First one in almost six years!!!!


Title: New Year, 2008
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Characters: Jack/Ianto
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Torchwood S1
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack looks ahead to (yet) another new year
Author's Note: Written for Challenge 481: Festive / Festivities at tw100

New Year, 2008

D'you know, it's exactly a month since I posted a fic. I *miss* posting fic! All this exchange stuff is fun, but it takes a long time and you can't post it right away. :-(

Title: Something New
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Gun-play, object penetration, D/s
Word Count: 1,949
Spoilers: This is set during Season 1, but I'm assuming that Ianto knows about Jack's immortality (because let's face it, there's not much that gets past that guy) and that Jack knows he knows and they have talked about it. Just, not a lot.
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Ianto tries out something he's been fantasising about.
Beta: the wonderful mad_jaks
Author's Note: Written for rounds_of_kink for the prompt: Torchwood, Jack/Ianto, "Don't move. Don't open your eyes.", gun-play, object insertion, D/s.

Something New

(Link leads to my fic posted at rounds_of_kink)