crack_van | Pavolv's Bell by Smirnoffmule (NC-17)

Hi, I'm

valderys and I'll be your Torchwood van driver for the next month. I find this faintly ironic as I signed up long ago and had forgotten I had even done so. And it's ironic because after Children of Earth aired I stopped reading Torchwood fic - in fact I stopped thinking about it much at all. Lalalalala. Now the scars have toughened up a bit I am venturing back - just to find you some recs :)

Fandom: TORCHWOOD
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Length: 7,415 words
Author on LJ:

smirnoffmule
Author Website: Smirnoffmule's Master Fic List
Why this must be read:

Ok, Jack/Ianto is a ubiquitous pairing in this fandom, but it also happens to be my favourite and so there is going to be one or two... Pavlov's Bell is set in that classic time period where Jack has hired Ianto and doesn't yet know about Lisa. It's an intense piece,

smirnoffmule uses the training of Myfanwy to bring Jack to Ianto, it's the piece of the puzzle that finally intrigues Jack enough to escalate from flirting, and it's the one task that Ianto can still find pleasure in despite his despair and worry about Lisa. I love this fic, I'm a sucker for the stories in which Ianto is a little bit broken but still unbowed. And

smirnoffmule's prose is gorgeous!

“If you want to keep that damn pterodactyl,” he’d told Ianto with a growl as he picked through the paper mache wreckage of his in-tray, “You’re going to have to do something about it.” He met Ianto’s eyes with something like a challenge. Jack was all about eye contact, and his gaze was always intense whether he was sharing a joke or barking a reprimand. Ianto had found it difficult to cope at first with being so thoroughly looked at, but he’d figured out before too long that looking at didn’t necessarily mean seeing. He did not point out that it had not been him who wanted to keep said damn pterodactyl in the first place.

Pavlov's Bell