Caveat Lector

Title: Nom de Plume
horizonssing Challenge: Day Thirty
Date Written: 7/31/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 500
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, OC
Spoilers: None, really.
Warnings: None
Author's Notes: Is this a real book?! Is it, is it, is it?!



Lucy is excited and nervous about her first season.
She can't seem to quell her feelings for Captain Jack.
Jack is determined to find a wife.
But secrets from his past threaten his plans - he cannot offer a girl a tainted name...


( Nom de Plume )

Title: Dangerous
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twenty-Eight
Date Written: 7/31/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 322
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto
Spoilers: Torchwood 01, DW 02
Warnings: Angst, implied m/m sex
Author's Notes: I'm playing catch-up! Lyrics are found here.


It's Bad For Me
by Rosemary Clooney


( Dangerous )

Title: Loose Lips Sink Ships
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twenty-Six
Count the Ways prompt: UNIT berets
Date Written: 7/31/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 535
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Martha (mentioned)
Spoilers: Torchwood 02, DW 04
Warnings: Boys kissing
Author's Notes: FINALLY! I have been waiting for this prompt!





( Loose Lips Sink Ships )

Title: Final Request
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twenty-Four
Date Written: 7/30/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 374
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto
Spoilers: For Season 01
Warnings: Angst, character death, mention of m/m sex
Author Notes: Uh, no idea where the angst came from.


And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long fingers,
Asleep . . . tired . . . or it malingers,
Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Excerpt from, "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
T. S. Eliot


( Final Request )

Title: Lisa Lan
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twenty-Two
Date Written: 7/28/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 714
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Ianto/Lisa, Jack/Ianto, Gwen
Spoilers: Major for Cyberwoman, Countrycide. Set post Small Worlds at the beginning.
Warnings: Angst, talk of suicide and murder
Author Notes: Title from this Welsh folk song, which is a focus in the fic. And here's how the thought process for this fic happened: a.) Ianto reading poetry aloud to Jack. b.) Ianto singing softly to Jack. c.) Ianto singing as he cleaned up about the Hub. And when I found this song, it was just perfect.


I see that from these boys shall men of nothing
Stature by seedy shifting,
Or lame the air with leaping from its hearts;
There from their hearts the dogdayed pulse
Of love and light bursts in their throats.
O see the pulse of summer in the ice.


Except from, "I See the Boys of Summer,"
by Dylan Thomas


( Lisa Lan )

Title: Coming Back
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twenty
Date Written: 7/26/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 533
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen and Martha and Francine and Mickey (mentioned)
Spoilers: Torchwood 02 and Doctor Who 04
Warnings: None
Author Notes: Waiting on the Dollhouse panel. Never read Dean Koonz, but he's funny!


But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchaned garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

- Evelyn Waugh,
Brideshead Revisited


( Coming Back )

Title: Smitten
horizonssing Challenge: Day Eighteen
Date Written: 7/25/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 826
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Tosh, Martha, Gwen(mentioned)
Spoilers: Set during Reset, so spoilers for Who and Torchwood up to that.
Warnings: Fluff.
Author Notes: A third one for now, then I'm going to do an update post as I wait between panels.


If I Didn’t Care
by the Ink Spots


( Smitten )

Title: It's So Sci-Fi!
horizonssing Challenge: Day Sixteen
Date Written: 7/25/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 694
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen, Martha, Mickey, Tosh (mentioned)
Spoilers: Series 04 of Who and Series 02 of Torchwood
Warnings: None
Author Notes: Set post Journey's End. Fic from Comic Con!


"Between an immensity of land and an immensity of sky they sat there, incomprehensible, smiling at a continent."

- Douglas Adams,
Last Chance to See


( It's So Sci-Fi! )

Title: Taking the Plunge
horizonssing Challenge: Day Fourteen
Date Written: 7/20/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 1,751
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Boys kissing, blah blah blah...
Author Notes: Number two for tonight. I think one more's coming up, then that's it for a bit.


"O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


( Taking the Plunge )

Title: Hidden Asset
horizonssing Challenge: Day Twelve
Date Written: 7/16/08
Rating: PG/K+
Word Count: 1,201
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Ianto/Lisa, OC
Spoilers: Up through Doctor Who 02, major for Cyberwoman
Warnings: Pre-series AU in which there is no Lisa hiding in the basement.
Author Notes: Bribe for cazmalfoy. I'm starting to see a disturbing trend. NOT. A. SERIES.


"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.""

- C.S. Lewis


( Hidden Asset )