Golden Ratio by Hope (Mature)

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Fandom: TORCHWOOD
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Jack/Ianto, the Doctor
Length: ~11 000 words
Author on LJ: angstslashhope
Author Website: hope.oscillating.net / AO3
Why this must be read:

Accidents with alien techology and minor paradoxes are inevitable when you work for Torchwood. Sometimes that works in your favour.

Excerpt: It's an envelope. And it's addressed to him. In Cardiff, no less.

[...]

He remembers. Remembers Ianto's reaction when they had found it, Ianto's fearful desperation that he had managed to quite adeptly mask, but still, Jack knew. It wasn't often that Ianto demanded promises from him. And it was more that than anything that made Jack keep it—well, of course Jack would keep it; but made him keep it close, and—

He thought it'd been destroyed. He'd kept it in his coat pocket, but this was not that coat; Ianto must have… Must have pinched it from him, and the sound of Jack's own laughter echoing into the room startles him; he swipes a shaky hand over his brow.

And turns the envelope over. And slides his thumbs into the open edges of the flap, the paper giving easily, soft from millennia of wear, yielding to Jack's gentle urging.

Golden Ratio