Fic: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Torchwood, Jack/Ianto)

[hope]

Title: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Author: Hope (hope angstslashhope)
Fandom: Torchwood
Wordcount: ~11,000
Genre: curtainfic, AU, angst
Rating: R
Characters(s): Jack/Ianto, Gwen
Warnings: Angst, but with a happy ending(!)
Notes: Thanks to zortified and rexluscus for beta (and alpha!) help, and cupidsbow for listening to the story the first time around.

Mostly written before (and thus jossed by) Children of Earth, which makes it somewhat of an AU. Set post-S2.

Summary: An ordinary end to an ordinary day. Except this is Torchwood, where ends tend not to be ordinary.

Read on the AO3.

Comments

[msilverstar]

Bittersweet, then. Really good, sexwise and otherwise. I particularly like how you wove in the sense of place, the angles and colors of Cardiff.

[hope]

Thank you, m'dear! I'm very happy all the crafting came together, and glad you enjoyed :) <3

[keenquing]

Oh my gosh. I loved this. It's 2 AM and I'm recovering from a headache, so I really can't find the words to tell you why, but everything just meshed so perfectly and it was so heartbreaking and so sweet all at once. Marvelous.

[hope]

*beams* hurrah! It was 2am when I posted this, I know the feeling :)

Thank you so much!

[used_songs]

I love that moment when the story turns and becomes something else entirely, something much more harrowing and intense. Also love the depiction of Gwen.

[hope]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :) I do love writing stories about Gwen without Jack around, for some reason.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I think you might be doing yourself a slight disservice with the warning. I initially read that and thought "so not want I'm interested in after CoE" and kept on scrolling and I suspect it might be putting people off.

Which is a shame because its a lovely piece - great characterisation, gently nuanced - very nice indeed.

[hope]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Warning was given at the advice of my betas aka my test audience. They figured it was pretty angsty, and I didn't want to unpleasantly surprise people not interested in that after CoE.

Eh, headers and so forth are always such tricky things to compile.

[marita-c.livejournal.com]

Oooohhh! Loved this. Very intense, yet sweet and tender at the same time. (and of *course* Ianto would have waited...)

[hope]

:) Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[adjovi.livejournal.com]

this is just fantastic--lovely storytelling!

[hope]

Thank you! :D

[snakeling]

I liked it. I was completely blindsided by Jack's move into the future, and I loved seeing everything that had changed (and hadn't changed).

Lovely!

[hope]

Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed :)

[thedeadcat]

Even in the AUverse, I'm still going, "D'awwww, poor Jack!" :( Though... hurray for hope! And I actually am liking "Off-Center Jack". Watching him adjust into this new future would be fun! And nail-biting!

[hope]

Ahaha your icon :D

Thank you! I'm glad you like it :)

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

What a cool surprise! Not at all what I was expecting (thought it was going to be a domestic, and almost shied away), but it worked really well for me.

[hope]

Thank you! I'm glad it worked, surprise and all :) Thanks for reading.

[dil-deal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have no words. Beautiful and moving and lovely, and I was a bit afraid it would all go pearshaped by the end because of the warning but you managed to sneak in a sort of happy ending for them. What more to ask for? Thank you for writing this awesome piece.

[hope]

Thank you for reading, and for the lovely comment! Possibly I should put a "but there is a happy ending!" note after the warning, heh.

Cheers :)

[le-chapeau.livejournal.com]

Beautifull written! I really enjoyed reading this, yum :)

[hope]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[rhianona]

lovely. I like how it starts out as a bit of fluff, and suddenly takes a harsher, angstier turn. also, nice to see that in Jack's absence, Gwen and Ianto took over TW and made it succeed. Poor Jack though, having to catch up on the last two years. Still, at least he's back and they are still alive.

[hope]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. And indeed, it could have turned out much worse... Though I do love the idea of Gwen and Ianto running Torchwood ;)

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful, breathtaking. I love the anxiety Jack feels, and the toothbrush thing, that was painfully real. I had a knot in my stomach. What a lovely ending. I think you should change your warnings, I kept expecting something awful to happen, and it isn't too angsty at all, but it isn't fluff, I think it is very emotional and moving though, so God knows how you could warn, maybe a little philosophical discourse..

[hope]

Thank you for the lovely feedback!

I have poked the warnings a bit... Didn't want to aggravate any lingering angst from CoE, but then again, nothing's really as angsty as that, is it?

[specialj67.livejournal.com]

That was fab. All the dialogue was perfect, and I quite liked the switch in tone when Jack finds out what happened to him.

Your descriptions were awesome...The whole scene at the grocery after work (and what is the thing with Jack and grocery stores? I've read several stories where he gets all excited at the store. Is it from some bit of canon--like his thing with offices--that I'm unaware of, or is it a fanon thing?), Jack looking through Ianto's rugby detritus, the "oily yellow" of the streetlight at night. I love those little bits of detail--they do so much to flesh out a story and give the reader a sense of place, of being there in the moment with the characters.

[hope]

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed writing this world, and crafting out the tone and pacing, so it makes me gleeful to get a comment picking it all up :D

Cheers!

[mrsinfuture.livejournal.com]

Beautiful story. I loved the intimacy in the beginning.

Thank you for sharing.

[hope]

Thanks for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

[av-chick.livejournal.com]

That was amazing! The way you started off with it all intimate and fun, then the twist and it's all serious and you're going "WTF just happened?" Great job!!

[hope]

Hee. Thank you!!

[kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that's just gorgeous.

I think you write gesture really well; the attention to physical space is noticeable but not overbearing at the beginning, and then, of course, by the end the descriptions of when/how/whether people touch are wrenching. I'm only barely keeping myself from diagramming the entire thing.

Thank you!

[hope]

Thanks for the awesome feedback :) I worry about being repetitive and slowing down pacing too much with gesture, so yay! it worked!

:D

[illusion-hope.livejournal.com]

This was just lovely! XD For a second, when it went up on my flist, I almost balked (mainly because I was thinking of CoE when mentioned with angst lately...) but I went ahead and read it (mainly because I do like reading your stories) and I'm glad I did! :-)
I loved how you gave a rather domestic feeling to Ianto and Jack's home life, especially the unpacking the boxes (loved the rugby reference. XD). Especially how you showed the changes in both Ianto and Gwen after Jack left is amazingly good. This was lovely and in character and I really enjoyed reading it! XD

[hope]

Thank you for the lovely feedback! My timing isn't so good, I know, angst is pretty much the last thing we need now! Was determined to finish it, though :)

But, yay. I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Thanks :D

[greenapricot.livejournal.com]

This is lovely.

[hope]

Thank you :)

(icon snap! :D)

[nancybrown]

Absolutely gorgeous.

[hope]

*beams* Thank you!! This is one of the ones I'm quite fond of but got little feedback on, so it makes me very happy that you commented :D :D