Title: In the Cold Light of Day
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack/Ianto, Gwen
Spoilers: Set after 'Exit Wounds'
Rating: PG
Word count: 9907 (total)
Summary: When Jack got agitated enough to track down something as minor as overdosed drug addicts, Ianto could be sure it wasn't a case to be shoved carelessly towards the local police department.
Notes: Written for the challenge 'hermetic'.
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Title: The Glasgow Files
Rating: Light PG
Summary: The official invitation only ran two words after giving the address and the relevant access codes: Come immediately.
Characters: Jack/Ianto, OMFC
Words: 4151
Notes: Set directly after 'End of Days', inspired by tw_wotd_fic's prompt ''portend'. Thanks to my betas aeron_lanart and elliptic_eye for fighting clichés, wrong word order and geographic ignorance ;-)
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openhanded \OH-puhn-HAN-did\, adjective:
1. giving freely; generous
2. done with an open hand

by 1593, open + handed

beseech \bi-SEECH\, verb;
beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching:
to ask earnestly; implore

c 1175, Old English bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from be- + Middle English secen "to seek"

tautological \taw-TOL-uh-guh-kuhl\, adjective:
unnecessarily or uselessly repetitive

by 1620 from tautologic, from Late Latin tautologia "representation of the same thing", from Greek tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say"

burnish \BUR-nish\, verb, noun:
1. to make shiny by polishing

noun:
1. a polish or shine

c.1325, from Old French burniss-, extended stem of burnir, metathesis of brunir "to make brown/bright, polish," from brun "brown, polished," from a Germanic source

interminable \in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
so long as to seem endless; never stopping

c.1374, from Late Latin interminabilis, from in- "not" + terminabilis

defalcate \di-FAL-keyt\, verb:
to steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one's care

c 1540, from Latin defalcere, from de- + falx/falcem "sickle, scythe"

chaff \chaf\, noun, verb:
1. the stiff strawlike part of grains such as wheat, oats, rye

verb:
1. to make good-natured fun of someone

noun:
1. worthless material; detritus

c 1000, Old English ceaf, from Proto-Germanic *kaf-, *kef-. Chaffinch (Fringilla cælebs) is Old English ceaffinc

yielding \YEEL-ding\, adjective:
1. not resisting; compliant
2. not stiff or rigid; easily bent or shaped

by 1340 from yield, Old English geldan/gieldan "to pay," from Proto Germanic *geldanan "pay," perhaps from Proto Indo-European *ghel-to- "I pay," found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic. Yielding in sense of "giving up" is c 1425 and "giving way" is by 1588.

vacuous \VAK-yoo-uhs\, adjective:
1. showing no intelligence or thought
2. having no meaning or direction; empty

by 1561, from Latin vacuus "empty, void, free." Figurative sense of "empty of ideas" is from 1848.

unconscionable \uhn-KON-shuh-nuh-buhl\, adjective:
1. not influenced or guided by conscience
2. very great

by 1570, "showing no regard for conscience," from un- (1) + now rare conscionable "conscientious" (1549), from conscioned "having a conscience."

talisman \TAL-is-muhn, TAL-iz-muhn\, noun:
1. an object, such as a ring, engraved with figures supposed to have magic power; charm
2. anything that seems to produce extraordinary results

by 1599, from French talisman, in part via Arabic tilsam (pl. tilsaman), a Greek loan-word; in part directly from Byzantine Greek telesma "talisman, religious rite, payment," earlier "consecration, ceremony," originally "completion," from telein "perform (religious rites), pay (tax), fulfill," from telos "completion, end, tax."

sallow \SAL-oh\, adjective:
having a sickly, yellowish color

Old English salo "dusky, dark," from Proto Germanic *salwa-, from Proto Indo-European base *sal- "dirty, gray."

rancor \RANG-ker\, noun:
bitter resentment or ill will; extreme hatred or spite

c 1225, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancorem "rancidness, grudge, bitterness," from Latin rancere "to stink."

qualitative \KWOL-i-tey-tiv\, adjective:
concerned with quality or qualities

by 1607 from Latin qualitativus "concerned with quality" from classical Latin qualitas "quality" and -ive suffix.

pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LEY-shuhn\, noun:
an instinctive stretching, as on awakening or while yawning

by 1611 from French pandiculation from Latin pandiculari "to stretch oneself" and French suffix -ion.

obscure \uhb-SKYOOR\, adjective:
1. not clearly expressed; hard to understand

verb:
1. to hide from view; dim, darken

adjective:
1. not well known; not prominent
2. dark, dim, murky

c 1425, from Old French obscur "dark, dim, not clear," from Latin obscurus "covered over, dark, obscure, indistinct," from ob "over" + -scurus "covered," from Proto Indo-European *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal;" source of Old Norse sky, Old English sceo "cloud," Latin scutum "shield" and Greek skeue "dress.". The verb is first recorded 1475.

narcolepsy \NAHR-kuh-lep-see\, noun:
a disorder characterized by uncontrollable bouts of sleepiness during the daytime, occasional loss of muscle power and paralysis, and hallucinations during sleep

by 1880, from French narcolepsie, coined 1880 by physician Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau (1859-1928) from combining form of Greek narke "numbness, stupor" + lepsis "an attack, seizure."

magnanimous \mag-NAN-uh-muhs\, adjective:
1. noble in mind or soul; free from mean or petty feelings or acts
2. showing a generous spirit; generous in forgiving

by 1547 from Latin magnanimus "having a great soul," from magnus "great" + animus "soul, spirit." Probably a loan-translation of Greek megalopsychos "high-souled, generous" (Aristotle) or megathymus "great-hearted."