Heaven And Hell 21/?
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Title: Heaven And Hell - Sequel to One Week In Cardiff.
Author: missthingsplace
Parings/characters: Jack/Ianto. Gwen. new team members.
Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood or any of the characters ... unfortunately.
Summary: Set after series 2.
Spoilers: None.
Rating: PG-13
down after writing the miscarriage and aftermath chapters i would just like to say how happy i was that people commented on how realistic the emotions i wrote seemed, they were infact very hard for me to write as i was drawing on personal experience of my own miscarriage, now nearly 20 years ago, but still there in my head and the fic bought them right to the surface again. I would like to thank </a></font></a>teachwriteslash for her encouragement from even before the chapters made it to 'paper' on the subject matter and how much her messages and comments helped me through it, Thank you.
EDIT: I just realised this is my 100th fic posted!
After finding somewhere to park Jack and Ianto ran the short distance to the cinema through the rain. The cinema was small and only had two screens, one always had the latest blockbuster and was showing the new Indiana Jones film, the other always showed classic movies and was showing Casablanca.
There was no argument, Casablanca it was. The time they had arrived was almost perfect, the film was due to start in ten minutes. They chose drinks and sweet popcorn and made their way into the darkened room, the adverts and trailers already playing on the screen. There were only a few other people in there from what they could see, two couples in the middle and a guy on his own near the front.
Jack indicated they should head for the back row and Ianto didn't argue. They settled back in their seats as the curtains closed briefly before reopening for the movie. For at least the first half an hour Jack was as good as gold, as they shared the popcorn and sipped their drinks. Then Ianto felt Jack's arm snake around his shoulder, his hand resting on Ianto's neck playing with the short hairs at the base, causing him to let out a low moan, making Jack smile.
Jack left his hand there teasing for a little while before it moved around Ianto's neck a little and stroked lazily up and down the side, Ianto was now finding it very hard to concentrate on the film in front of him. Ianto slid his drink into the holder on the back of the seat in front of him and put the popcorn on the floor before turning his face towards Jack's, he could just about make out the smile on Jack's face in the gloomy darkness.
Jack leaned towards Ianto, using the hand on his neck to pull Ianto into a tender kiss. Soft and gentle and full of love, Ianto gave himself to it completely. When the kiss broke Ianto glanced around at the others in the cinema, one of the other couples was snogging and no-one was taking a blind bit of notice. With that thought Ianto turned back to Jack and crushed his mouth against him, hard and demanding, his tongue plunging into Jack's open, shocked mouth.
Jack's shock soon turned to pleasure as his hand moved away from Ianto's neck and into the hair at the back of his head, pulling him as close as possible as they kissed. Tongues licking and caressing each others mouths as they fought for dominance. Jack's hand rested on Ianto's thigh as he silently cursed the armrest between them, Ianto's arm wrapped around Jack's shoulders. The film was forgotten now, they were lost in their kiss.
They finally broke the kiss feeling a little breathless, grinning at each other before kissing again, going from tender loving kisses to full on snogging and back again, only realising they had missed more than half the film when they suddenly became aware of the lights going up. Ianto broke away fast as he heard the movement of people standing from their seats and putting their coats back on, but no one seemed to have noticed them at all.
'I don't think I've ever seen as many half movies before in my life as I have now since I started going to the cinema with you.' Ianto laughed as they got ready to leave the cinema.
'There's something naughty about necking in the back row of a cinema in the almost complete darkness, knowing there are other people about but that they can't quite see you.' Jack told him as he stole another kiss.
'You can't even make it through a whole DVD at home without snogging my face off, or more.' Ianto grinned.
'So true, shall we go back to the cottage now and continue where we left off?'
'Dinner first, I'm starving. There's a nice restaurant in this town if I remember correctly, just down the road a bit.'
'Okay, if you insist.' Jack pouted as they made it back onto the street.
It was getting dark now as they walked in the direction of the restaurent Ianto remembered, it was still there and relatively quiet in the early evening so they were seated straight away. They ordered their main course from the menu skipping the starter and waited for it to arrive. Ianto could feel the toe of Jack's boot nudging his ankle and sliding up his calve.
'Happy?' Ianto asked.
Jack nodded. 'Yes, I can honestly say that I feel much better now. Yes, I admit that if i have too long to think I ponder over what happened and it makes me sad and I'm sure it will be a while before it starts to fade a little, but on the whole, I feel happy.'
'You still want to try for a baby, it wasn't just your hormones speaking?'
'Are you trying to say you've changed your mind?' A worried look crossed Jack's face.
'No, no, not at all. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't ... that you really want to try again after ... oh god ... I really want to be a dad, to our baby.' Ianto rambled, cursing himself for upsetting Jack.
Jack's expression slowly turned back into a smile. 'Me too.'
At that moment the waitress appeared with their meals, they ate them as they speculated as to whether Jack had fallen pregnant yet, if normal pregnancy tests would work, if it would be a boy or a girl and decided not to worry about how they would cope when it was born. This took them right through their dinner, desert and coffee and were still going over it as they paid the bill and left.
The weather had taken a turn for the worst, the wind was howling and the rain was bucketing down, they had barely got half way to the car when there was a very loud crack of lightening of thunder, followed closely by a loud and very close roar of thunder. Jack pulled Ianto into the shelter of a shop doorway and they stood there for a while watching the storm overhead. Finally it started to move away and the rain eased off a little.
'I love thunderstorms.' Jack said as they continued their way back to the car.
'Yep, I do too. Wouldn't want to be hit by lightening though.' Ianto replied as he took Jack's hand in his.
They finally got back to the car, more than a little wet and climbed in. Jack lent over and kissed Ianto full on the mouth before Ianto started the engine and they headed back to the cottage. They never noticed the figure watching them from the doorway of the pub he had just been exiting as they passed and so didn't see the look on his face.
When they got back to the cottage they stripped off their damp clothes and slipped on some of Ianto's old pyjama bottoms and after getting the fire started, stretched out on one of the sofas. Holding each other as they watched the TV, kissing softly now and then till the fire started burning itself out.
'Shall I put more logs on?' Ianto asked sleepily.
'No, lets just go to bed.' Jack said as he bent down and captured Ianto's lips in a soft chaste kiss.
'Yep.'
'What time are your parents back tomorrow?' Enquired Jack as the slipped off the sofa.
'No idea, but we shouldn't get up too late. We need to change the bed and things before they get home.'
'Talking of bed, lets go and make those sheets really need changing.'
'I think they passed that mark this morning.' Ianto laughed as he rolled his eyes.
TBC
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Date: 2008-07-10 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 03:19 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:03 pm (UTC)But who is lurking? And why must he lurk? That's not a nice word. Tells me it gonna be bad for the boys.
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:20 pm (UTC)As for the lurker, he'll be back in a while!
Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:09 pm (UTC)I realize I have been lurking for quite a bit without even a little commentito... I just want to say that this story has been amazing... it's emotionally raw and quite blunt. Tracking Jack and Ianto's emotional journey is just as satisfying as any action story. Thank you for writing this honest and satisfying story.
But oh... who is that shadowy figure? Oh Noes!
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:22 pm (UTC)I love that you like it so much *all happy and smiley now*
The lurker? Well, time will tell :)
Thank you.
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 03:23 pm (UTC)Thanks :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:43 pm (UTC)This (including the last couple of chapters - I've been away) just keeps getting better. The images are so sweet, and the level of familiarity just seems so natural and lovely.
(There's a chance that didn't make sense. I didn't get home till 3am, up at 6, and I've done my back in so I'm on painkillers. But I hope it was gobbledegook with a positive and adoring tone!)
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Date: 2008-07-10 03:47 pm (UTC)Glad you're still liking.
Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:16 pm (UTC)Loved Ianto's comment on seeing 'half movies.'
These two are just too freaking adorable.....
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:18 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:34 pm (UTC)I am glad I was able to help :-) You did such a wonderful job with something I know was hard for you!
I love every moment of this fic (except the dude in the doorway - ummmm ???)
Thank you so much for the kind words!
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:39 pm (UTC)And you are very welcome, you deserve them :)
Thanks.
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:41 pm (UTC)I'm just going to ignore that guy in the doorway.....grrrr.
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Date: 2008-07-10 04:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, best to not think about him for now ...
Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:00 pm (UTC)Have to love cinema trips though...:)
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:15 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:11 pm (UTC)Nicole
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:16 pm (UTC)Thankies :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:24 pm (UTC)How are they just so damn sweet together? It's adorable how much they care for each other <3
But oh knows! Someone lurking in the shadows *hides*. I loved how you wrote that just as a passing comment and then carried on. Makes it even more tense :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 05:25 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 06:59 pm (UTC)Anyway. Excellent chapter :) lovely fluff with a "WHAT?!" factor at the end with the lurking figure (*hopes it IS John but holds mind away from gutter*).
Looking forward too more, as always.
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:08 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:04 pm (UTC)With physics as one of my highers I can safely say those should be the other way around since light travels faster than sound.
But apart from that (which I wouldn't have noticed if it hadn't been ingrained into me last year) it was another fantastic chapter, and I'm slightly worried about this figure in the doorway. Am I going to have to swap my reading order again?
Finally, I'm very sorry to hear (read?) about your miscarriage. Even if I must have been about four years off being a twinkle in my mother's eye at the time, my heart still goes out to you.
*salutes*
xxx
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Date: 2008-07-10 07:11 pm (UTC)You won't have to change your order of reading just yet :)
It was along time ago, but you never forget completely, i just tell myself it was meant to be and if hadn't happened i wouldn't have the wonderful daughter i have now, thank you.
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Date: 2008-07-10 08:35 pm (UTC)sorry to hear about what happened, it must have been really hard to write about but it's the strength of people like you that remind me that there are good people in the world and not just the horrors you hear about
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Date: 2008-07-10 08:38 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 10:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 10:23 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 10:25 pm (UTC)Yup, their life is on a upswing ... for now *evil grin*
Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-10 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 06:26 am (UTC)Thanks :)
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Date: 2008-07-11 12:11 pm (UTC)I am also concerned about this "figure", you have, as always piqued my interest....
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Date: 2008-07-11 12:23 pm (UTC)Yeah, it had to be something like Casablanca!
As for the 'figure' time will tell ...
Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-11 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-11 01:37 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:00 pm (UTC)I never commented before, but after hearing you've been through it too...I had a miscarriage about a year and a half ago. I truly empathised with Jack. And the emotions get me right in the gut, read most of those chapters with tissues at hand.
Happy Ending: I did eventually have my son, Neil Alden Ianto (his father has no idea why Ianto's name is in there because I'm too much of a geek to tell him) about 4 months ago and he's my treasure.
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:26 pm (UTC)Thank you for commenting, i really do appriciate it when people do, they brighten my day.
Thank you.
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:16 am (UTC)((HUGS)) x x
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:21 am (UTC)Thank you :)
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Date: 2008-07-13 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-13 10:22 am (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2008-09-11 03:15 pm (UTC)I was all nice and warm and fuzzy over their day-long date and then the man in the shadows made me very nervous.
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Date: 2008-09-12 01:41 pm (UTC)Author's Note
Date: 2010-04-24 11:41 pm (UTC)Re: Author's Note
Date: 2010-04-25 08:43 pm (UTC)Now i just need her to get home from Australia safely ... she's been gone almost 6 months and i miss her like crazy!
*hugs you tightly*
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Date: 2011-11-17 07:56 am (UTC)Uh-oh! Who's watching them? *shudders*