Dear Readers,

Thank you so much for sticking with me in this. I'll be catching up on replying to comments this week, so a few of you may be getting a bunch of reply notifications in your emails. I LOVE YOU ALL ♥

Regards,
Rei

Title: The Summer Spirit
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: S2, ambiguous
Spoilers: none
Summary: It was a few days after the Rooftop And Handcuffs Incident, and Ianto was in the middle of double-checking the contents of the ‘In’ and ‘Out’ piles on opposite ends of Jack’s desk...
Author's Notes: ONE MORE TO GO. Shamelessly influenced by Terry Pratchett's Discworld writing.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #31.

And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

- Terry Pratchett,
Feet of Clay

( The Summer Spirit )

Title: Novel Experience
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: anytime in S2
Spoilers: none
Summary: “But mum,” protests the girl. She is blonde, scrawny, and in that interminable age between late childhood and full-blown adolescence. “What if he turns out to be some sort of serial killer? Or a rapist? What if he’s got dead bodies hidden in his flat and that’s why he’s never home?”
Author's Notes: Credit for the idea goes to zaipixie, who provided it when I was stumped by the prompt and hid in her inbox. Thanks, sweets ♥
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #30.


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...

( Novel Experience )

Title: A Hunting We Will Go
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: late S2, after "A Day In The Death" (208)
Spoilers: mild ones for "Countrycide" (106)
Summary: Death, aliens, and a whole lot of running. In short, just another Torchwood hunt in the country.
Author's Notes: This was actually written a while ago, but I decided to wait and post it in order.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #29.


Nash Point Lighthouse, Vale of Glamorgan

( A Hunting We Will Go )

Title: A Guessing Game
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: late S2
Spoilers: "Adrift" (211)
Summary: Gwen shakes her head, persisting, “Come on, I’ve figured it out. Thursday night is game night.:
Author's Notes: My mind scares me sometimes.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #27.


Rules here

( A Guessing Game )

Title: Red Hat Therapy
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: post-"A Day in the Death"
Spoilers: "Reset" (206), "Fragments" (212)
Summary: Considering her history with UNIT, Tosh knows that she has ample justification for her sad tendency to be nervous at the slightest sign of red beret.
Author's Notes: WE HAVE ACHIEVED SHORTNESS.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #26.



( Red Hat Therapy )

Title: your young sunless summer
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: post-"Cyberwoman"
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104)
Summary: But while he heartily approves of Ianto enjoying the various delights that Cardiff has to offer a young man, Jack is rather tired of inviting himself along, unsure if he’s there as a friend or a parole officer.
Author's Notes: I really, really liked this prompt. *pets new addition to iPod*
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #25.

Summertime
Mae

Summertime, summertime
brought me back to thinking you were mine all those times.
We laid it down and left it all behind, we were blind.
Oh, the summertime.

We could ride, we could ride.
Take my hand and watch the world go by.
Laugh or cry, well we need to try, get off the line, time to fly.
Oh, the summertime.

Go on ahead and let it fade away.
No looking back you know the past will stay.
It's you and me, we could get out of here.
Jump in and go and we could drive for years.
We could feel alive...

Here we are, here we are,
windows down we see a falling star.
Stop the car.
Waiting, nothing but our beating hearts, going far.
Oh, the summertime.

So feel the air, feel the air,
take the map and point to anywhere.
I don't care. Fingers through your hair,
the sky I've seen, blue and green.
Oh, the summertime.

Driving away, leaving it all behind.
Driving away

( your young sunless summer )

Title: Handyman
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: from the end of S1 to after "Something Borrowed" (209)
Spoilers: "The End of Days" (113), "Something Borrowed" (209), Doctor Who S4 finale "The Stolen Earth" (412)/"Journey's End" (413)
Summary: If there was one thing Ianto was good at, it was being what others needed.
Author's Notes: Have given up trying to keep these things short. CLEARLY A LOSING BATTLE. And when I try, the fic comes out weird (see previous entries).
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #24.

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

( Handyman )

Title: Warm under the Ground
Author: etharei
Rating: PG
Timeline: ambiguous, but better suited to S2
Spoilers: none
Summary: “You know, Jack,” says Ianto languidly. “When you invited me to ‘come downstairs and play with some alien tech’, I was expecting something different.
Author's Notes: Another one that came out kind of... strange.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #23.



( Warm under the Ground )

THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who has commented on my fics, most especially to the three most gorgeous cheerleaders in the world (mclachlan, lunachickk and rosy5000, as well as to thaddeusfavour for reccing me at torchwood_house ♥ ♥ ♥

I'll respond individually to comments soon. When I get space to breathe between writing fic.

Title: Sunday Park
Author: etharei
Rating: PG
Timeline: pre-S1
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104)
Summary: One Sunday afternoon, during his first month at Torchwood Three, Ianto found himself walking in a park next to Captain Jack.
Author's Notes: This was an experiment with character voices, and I don't really think it worked :-P
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #22.

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

( Sunday Park )

Title: The Adventure of Tea Bull and Honey Thorn
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: ambiguous
Spoilers: none
Summary: Cows are placid creatures, or so humans who seldom see cows outside of nursery books or by the rare roadside conspire to tell themselves. And under clear weather, a golden sun, and fresh green grass, they may be right. But this says nothing about bulls.
Author's Notes: This didn't actually turn out as cracky as I expected.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #21.



( The Adventure of Tea Bull and Honey Thorn )

Title: No Dramatics for Tosh
Author: etharei
Rating: G
Timeline: near the end of "Exit Wounds" (213)
Spoilers: "Exit Wounds" (213)
Summary: At least Ianto won’t have to take her far.
Author's Notes: I asked my muses for short, they gave me introspective angst. Please note that I'm not planning or beta-reading any of these, so they're not at all polished.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #20.

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

( No Dramatics for Tosh )

Title: I brought you here to heal you (2/2)
Author: etharei
Rating: PG
Timeline: after "Greeks Giving Gifts" (107)
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104), "Countrycide" (106), "Greeks Giving Gifts" (107)
Summary: He hadn’t planned on leaving anything, but there’s a man selling flowers down the street. It suits his mood, to leave such transient tokens for all the hundreds of dead; might as well not pretend that anything lasts forever.
Author's Notes: So tired... THANK YOU to everybody who commented in the first part, feedback is like an IV drip to the slowly dying muses.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #19.



( I brought you here to heal you )

Title: I brought you here to heal you (1/2)
Author: etharei
Rating: PG
Timeline: after "Greeks Giving Gifts" (107)
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104), "Countrycide" (106), "Greeks Giving Gifts" (107)
Summary: Jack dead. He’d imagined it before, even with himself holding the smoking gun.
Author's Notes: Getting... there.... Yes, I have the next part of this. In my head. Alas, that I have only one pair of hands. Title lifted straight out of "Cyberwoman".
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #18.

If I Didn’t Care
Ink Spots

If I didn't care more than words can say
If I didn't care would I feel this way?
If this isn't love then why do I thrill?
And what makes my head go 'round and 'round
While my heart stands still?

If I didn't care would it be the same?
Would my ev'ry prayer begin and end with just your name?
And would I be sure that this is love beyond compare?
Would all this be true if I didn't care for you?

( I brought you here to heal you )

Title: Of Dates And Dragons
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: after "Meat (204) and before "Something Borrowed" (209)
Spoilers: "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" (201), "Meat" (204)
Summary: Rhys Williams is a very patient man. He knows he’s a very patient man, and he’s even patient about Gwen taking advantage of his placid vats of patience.
Author's Notes: Dear muses, please create shorter fics. Thank you.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #17.


Red Dragon Centre, Cardiff Bay

( Of Dates And Dragons )

Title: eternity in an hour
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: between "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" (201) and "Meat" (204)
Spoilers: reference to "Countrycide" (106)
Summary: Torchwood is his life and life is Torchwood, so he must hold it in, hold together, hold the line.
Author's Notes: This is another that 'asploded out from its original idea. Title from the ever-popular "Auguries of Innocence" by William Blake.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #16.

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

- Douglas Adams,
Last Chance to See

( eternity in an hour )

Title: the country for city boys
Author: etharei
Rating: NC-17 to be safe
Timeline: some time in S2, though it could fit in S1 as well
Spoilers: none
Summary: No sound apart from his own labored breathing, though rushing blood and racing heart may be covering up stealthier sounds. Quite peaceful, really, all of it. Pity about the carnivorous alien stalking him for its dinner.
Author's Notes: I... did not set out to write this. Honestly. I blame John Barrowman, and Slappy.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #15.


The road from Tredegar to Crickhowell, Wales

( the country for city boys )

Title: Bikini Cops
Author: etharei
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: early S2, after "Sleeper" (202)
Spoilers: "Sleeper" (202), "Adam" (205)
Summary: “So, what’s the occasion?”
Author's Notes: I'm not entirely convinced of how canon this is; I guess it depends on how you understand "Adam". Light and short.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #14.

"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

( Bikini Cops )

Title: it lingered there to touch your hair
Author: etharei
Rating: G
Timeline: set after "Cyberwoman" (104) and before "Countrycide" (106)
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104)
Summary: “Don’t look so surprised,” says Jack with a smile. “I’ve lived with the conventions of this time longer than you have.
Author's Notes: Really, this should be called, In which the neither Jack and Ianto know quite what they're talking about, exactly, and neither does the author.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #13.

Summer Wind
Frank Sinatra

The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind

The autumn wind and the winter winds, they have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind

The summer wind
Warm summer wind
Mmm, the summer wind

( it lingered there to touch your hair )

Title: i found the arrow, still unbroke
Author: etharei
Rating: PG
Timeline: over season one
Spoilers: "Cyberwoman" (104), "Captain Jack Harkness" (112), "The End of Days" (113), a hint of "Fragments" (212)
Summary: Every friendship has its unique start, and Ianto brings out different things in people.
Author's Notes: Our motto right now shall be DO NOT THINK OF HOW FAR BEHIND WE ARE. Title is from the Longfellow poem, "The Arrow and The Song".
Disclaimer: Torchwood and all the characters and situations featured therein are the property of Russell T. Davies, the BBC and their affiliates. I’m only borrowing them for purely non-profit, recreational purposes.

Written for: horizonssing, Day #12.

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

( i found the arrow, still unbroke )