REC: Fifty Things Jack Harkness Learnt... by loveslashangst (PG13)

[ficwize]

Title: Fifty Things Captain Jack Harkness Learnt After Ianto Jones Learnt to Knit
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Author on LJ: loveslashangst
Author Website: A list of her fics/
Why this must be read: I can't believe this hasn't already been recced. But, since it hasn't, let me sell it to you if you've missed it.

This is a story about grief and healing. Set after the end of season 2, it looks at Jack, Ianto, and Gwen through the very simple coping mechanism that Ianto randomly adopts – knitting.

If you're a knitter, you will love this. If you're not a knitter, you will still love this! It is in turns tear jerking and laugh out loud funny. It's bittersweet, especially retrospectively since we've seen CoE, but it reminds us that in time, all wounds eventually heal. And life moves forward, as painful as that may be.


1) Grief sits heavily on all three of them. Gwen cries from time to time. Jack tries to pretend he can handle yet another traumatic loss of people he loved. Ianto, oddly, takes up knitting.

2) Actually, Ianto’s pretty exceptional with a pair of knitting needles. (Good hands and an obsessive-compulsive nature.)

3) Jack rather fancies his striped scarf in Gryffindor colours. Ianto wears his Slytherin colours with pride. Gwen sulks incessantly about her Hufflepuff muffler.


Fifty Things Captain Jack Harkness Learnt After Ianto Jones Learnt to Knit

Comments

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

I'd throw a fit over a Hufflepuff muffler. Give me the damn Gryffindor scarf! What an insult?! LOL. Ianto ever the sly one, huh?

Thanks for the recs.

[ficwize.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm glad you liked it. That's one of my favorite ever Torchwood fics. :)

And Ianto is sly... *grins*