Hi! Sorry this is late again- my LJ cut STILL ISN'T WORKING. anyways, heres the next part of the IM series- please READ! XD
SERIES: TORCHWOOD: Where Are The Aliens?
Title: Part 1: Owen Vs. Ianto: Jack Isn’t Boss Here, I Am.
Part 2: Owen Vs. Tosh: You Act As If You Actually Gave Me A Chance.
Part 3: Ianto Vs. Jack: When It’s Me Or Gwen, Sir.
Part 4: Owen Vs. Jack: I Know I’m A Genius, But I’m Also Torchwood’s Medic.
Part 5: Ianto Vs. Jack: Suzie Costello Was Nothing On Capt. Jack.
Parts: 5
Format: IM Conversation.
Characters/ Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Tosh/Owen, implied Ianto/Owen, Gwen.
Rating: PG-13 (References to Sex, contains adult language and swearing)
Spoilers: Part 1: TW S2 ‘Meat’ and ‘Adam’.
Part 2: TW S2 ‘Adam’, ‘Meat’, ‘KKBB’ and bits of TW S1.
Part 3: DW S3/S4, TW S2 ‘Meat’, ‘Adam’, ‘KKBB’, ‘Last Man’. Bits of TW S1.
Part 4: TW S1 ‘Countrycide’, ‘TKKS’, TW S2 ‘Fragments’, ‘Adam’ and ‘Meat’ ‘Dead Man Walking’.
Part 5: TW S1 ‘TKKS’, ‘ End Of Days’, TW S2 ‘Fragments’, ‘Exit Wounds’, and DW S4 ‘Stolen Earth’, ‘Journey’s End’.
Disclaimer: Torchwood and characters do NOT belong to me. I torment myself everyday because it is true. They belong to RTD and TW production team, solely. I do not intend to make money out of this, nor will I.
Summary: The Life of Torchwood Through IM conversations: What would happen if Owen could remember the 48 hours from ‘Adam’? After that, it only accelerates- Tosh confronts Owen, Ianto finally takes up Jack on Gwen…When time runs out, and the team loses two of its members, what does it all mean in the end?
Authors Notes: This is one of the weirdest things I’ve written. But I want to give it a go. This acts as an IM CONVERSATION version of a gap fic series; filling in between the episodes and some AU ideas. It looks at most aspects of the relationships: Tosh/Owen as well as Jack/Ianto. I love doing IM’s and this is the most complex idea I’ve had for such a format. I hope you all like. This isn’t beta’d- I’m back on my own now.
Part One linked above ^
Key:
Lover_Boy: Jack Harkness
King_Of_Weevils: Owen Harper
Coffee_Master: Ianto Jones
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Gwen Cooper
Japanese_Princess: Toshiko Sato
Part Two: Owen Vs. Tosh: You Act As If You Actually Gave Me A Chance.
King_Of_Weevils: What did I tell you? That’s all you do.
Lover_Boy: *Frown* what?
Coffee_Master: JACK!
Coffee_Master: GO AWAY!
Lover_Boy: I feel so betrayed.
Lover_Boy: And I thought you still wanted to-
Coffee_Master: Jack, please. Later.
Lover_Boy: you should see the look on Owen’s face. Are you sure you weren’t having sex?
[King_Of_Weevils has LEFT the conversation]
Coffee_Master: You shouldn’t have said that, Jack.
Lover_Boy: Hey! I didn’t do anything! What’s wrong with him?
[Japanese_Princess has ENTERED the conversation]
Japanese_Princess: Hey! I just saw Owen leave his desk, and he completely ignored me.
Japanese_Princess: Does anyone know why he’s not talking to me?
Lover_Boy: Sorry. That was apparently me.
[Lil_Miss_Nosey has ENTERED the conversation]
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Hi everyone! Tosh, are you allergic to flowers?
Japanese_Princess: No, why?
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Because I saw Owen just throw yours away. You know, the one’s Owen *supposedly* left.
Japanese_Princess: he did, Gwen.
Lover_Boy: he keeps saying he didn’t. Then why is he throwing them away?
Lover_Boy: Did you two fight?
Japanese_Princess: *sad* no. For that you actually have to talk to the person.
Japanese_Princess: And he isn’t talking to me. For some reason.
Coffee_Master: Me neither. Thanks to Jack.
Lover_Boy: What? When has Owen ever gotten sick of SEX?
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Maybe he’s just jealous.
Japanese_Princess: ???
Coffee_Master: ???
Lil_Miss_Nosey: You know…of relationships. In general. Like Jack and Ianto. Me and Rhys.
Coffee_Master: Or you and Jack.
Lil_Miss_Nosey:…What?
Lover_Boy: No.
Lover_Boy: Ianto.
Coffee_Master: Never mind.
Lover_Boy: Yan!
Coffee_Master: I’m tired.
Lover_Boy: You are GOING to listen to-
Coffee_Master: I think I’ll just go drug myself on panadol and go to sleep.
Japanese_Princess: Ianto…
Lover_Boy: Yan-
[Coffee_Master has LEFT the conversation]
Lil_Miss_Nosey: What was that about?
Lover_Boy: Never mind.
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Damn it, Rhys is calling me.
Lil_Miss_Nosey: Gotta go xx.
[Lil_Miss_Nosey has LEFT the conversation]
Lover_Boy: The way it’s always going to be, in the end.
Japanese_Princess: Jack…?
Lover_Boy: In the end…they all break my heart, anyways.
[Lover_Boy has LEFT the conversation]
[Japanese_Princess has TERMINATED the conversation].
OOOO OOO OOOO
[Japanese_Princess has ENTERED the conversation]
Japanese_Princess: Owen.
[King_Of_Weevils has been ADDED to the conversation]
Japanese_Princess: Owen.
Japanese_Princess: Talk to me.
King_Of_Weevils: Piss off, Tosh.
Japanese_Princess: No. Talk to me.
King_Of_Weevils: Why are you talking to me, Tosh?
King_Of_Weevils: Why don’t you just go and shag another alien?
Japanese_Princess: I’m sorry, Owen.
King_Of_Weevils: Fuck off.
King_Of_Weevils: Hang on.
King_Of_Weevils: Why?
Japanese_Princess: I don’t know. You tell me.
Japanese_Princess: I won’t pretend it doesn’t hurt, Owen.
King_Of_Weevils: Don’t you dare get soppy and all girly on me, Tosh.
King_Of_Weevils: It won’t work with me. I just want to be left alone.
Japanese_Princess: I just want to know, Owen. Then I’ll leave you be.
Japanese_Princess: Call me whatever you like, I just want to know why you hate me.
King_Of_Weevils: Fuck off, Tosh.
King_Of_Weevils: I don’t hate you.
King_Of_Weevils: Hate myself, more like.
Japanese_Princess: What? Why?
King_Of_Weevils: Forget it. Tosh. Go home.
Japanese_Princess: Tell me.
King_Of_Weevils: Tosh, just give up.
King_Of_Weevils: I don’t need your false sympathy, pity, crap, whatever you’re playing at.
King_Of_Weevils: It’s not working, so you can stop bull shitting now.
King_Of_Weevils: I don’t need you.
Japanese_Princess: *hurt* Okay, fine.
Japanese_Princess: FINE.
Japanese_Princess: I’ll left.
King_Of_Weevils: Finally. Don’t forget your coat as you go.
Japanese_Princess: OWEN!
King_Of_Weevils: Why don’t you just go and hook up with another freezer boy?
King_Of_Weevils: I don’t want to be a part of one of your weird fetishes.
Japanese_Princess: That’s it! I’ve had ENOUGH!
Japanese_Princess: I’ve tried, and I’ve tried, and you just don’t get it, do you?
Japanese_Princess: Gwen was right all along, to you, its all just shagging, and sex and no one in the world understands me, isn’t it?
Japanese_Princess: She should know, after all, she’s shagged you.
King_Of_Weevils: Tosh-
Japanese_Princess: What, you going to tell me that you’re oh so icy cool that you can control the way you came when you fuck?
Japanese_Princess: You have no idea what we’ve been through, what I’ve done for you, but you just don’t care.
Japanese_Princess: You let yourself think the world revolves around Owen Harper, and you never stop to think.
Japanese_Princess: What about Ianto? What about Jack? What about Tosh?
Japanese_Princess: What about us?
King_Of_Weevils: Why are you saying this, Tosh?
Japanese_Princess: you’re not the only one who feels alone.
King_Of_Weevils: Why do you care? It’s got nothing to do with you, I don’t get it…
Japanese_Princess: I’m human, Owen. Just because I like computers and maths doesn’t mean I’m not, you know.
King_Of_Weevils: Sometimes…It gets too much. I start to think, start to think that…
King_Of_Weevils: If I ever let myself care it’ll just be…
Japanese_Princess: What?
King_Of_Weevils: it’ll just be another Diane. Never again.
Japanese_Princess: Or another Tommy. Another Mary. Another Estelle, another Lisa, another Eugene.
Japanese_Princess: We’re all more alike than anyone cares to notice.
King_Of_Weevils: Another Adam.
Japanese_Princess: What?
Japanese_Princess: Who’s Adam?
King_Of_Weevils: Tosh, I need to ask you something. Please just…just wait.
Japanese_Princess: Waiting.
King_Of_Weevils: If I was…different, like, different different…would you still like me?
Japanese_Princess: *confused* Different? How?
King_Of_Weevils: Like…more geeky. More...preserved. Less cynical and sarcastic, just more clever and philosophical.
King_Of_Weevils: How does that change me?
Japanese_Princess: I don’t know…I’d always like you, Owen.
King_Of_Weevils: As a friend.
Japanese_Princess: Yes, yes, as a friend, of course.
King_Of_Weevils: You’re lying.
Japanese_Princess: What?
King_Of_Weevils: Why do you like me, Tosh? You’ve had a crush on me for years. I’m not blind. It’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t get it. Why…?
Japanese_Princess: *blush* I just see you, that’s all. You’re not like me.
Japanese_Princess: You don’t keep it all inside a shell and pretend to be someone else, so that you’re liked.
King_Of_Weevils: But…remember what I said? About the geeky, less cynical, philosophical type?
Japanese_Princess: yes. I just don’t understand.
King_Of_Weevils: That’s who I really am, Tosh. I pretend. I don’t like to be me.
Japanese_Princess: ---
King_Of_Weevils: How do you like me now?
Japanese_Princess: Owen, please, stop this. You’re confusing me.
Japanese_Princess: Tell me what happened to you.
Japanese_Princess: I’m not a stranger on the streets, Owen,
Japanese_Princess: Tell me how I can help.
King_Of_Weevils: I know what we did in those 48 hours, Tosh.
Japanese_Princess: What? How? What happened?
King_of_Weevils: We were retconned. I just remember…because I’ve been working on a magic pill.
Japanese_Princess: *even more confused*
King_Of_Weevils: We did things in those 2 days, that weren’t like us…we were retconned to forget it, but I didn’t ‘cause I’d been working on a anti-retcon pill…I’d been using myself as a test subject.
King_Of_Weevils: I guess I’m more of a genius than I knew.
Japanese_Princess: Jack will kill you when he finds out.
King_Of_Weevils: I think Jack knows. By now. Tea boy would’ve told him.
Japanese_Princess: You’ll be surprised what he doesn’t tell Jack, Owen.
King_Of_Weevils: …We were so different, Tosh. You were all confident and so, so happy, and I was…alone.
King_Of_Weevils: You didn’t need me anymore, and I was alone.
Japanese_Princess: Owen.
King_Of_Weevils: It just goes to show; Jack was right- whatever you do, no matter how you try to change yourself, in the end whichever road you look at
King_Of_Weevils: You’re still very alone.
Japanese_Princess: And no one sees you for who you really are.
King_Of_Weevils: yes. That too.
Japanese_Princess: I see you, Owen.
Japanese_Princess: I don’t really think I want those two days back. I mean- flowers? *giggles*
King_Of_Weevils: what? WHAT?
King_Of_Weevils: stop laughing like that, you’re going to have brain coming out of your nose soon.
Japanese_Princess: It just isn’t very you, Owen. That Owen must have been very nice, but I like it better when he comes out to play on rainy days.
King_Of_Weevils: You are very strange, Tosh.
Japanese_Princess: I know.
King_Of_Weevils: It’s who I am, though. That man…
Japanese_Princess: But this cynical, annoying idiot that we know is ALSO you, Owen!
King_Of_Weevils: *grins* yeah. Sort of.
Japanese_Princess: Forget what you saw, Owen. And as an answer to your very long-winded question- no matter how you were or are, I think I’d always like you.
King_Of_Weevils: *shuffles* You know this crush you have on me?
Japanese_Princess: *bright red* yes.
Japanese_Princess: Crush.
King_Of_Weevils: if you look back into the convo, I said ‘it’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t understand it’…
Japanese_Princess: You like it?
King_Of_Weevils: I understand it now.
Japanese_Princess: *blush* okay.
King_Of_Weevils: I’m just irresistible.
Japanese_Princess: you keep telling yourself that!
Japanese_Princess: it’s just Mother Nature taking pity on you.
[Japanese_Princess sends a NUDGE to King_Of_Weevils]
[King_Of_Weevils sends a WINK to Japanese_Princess]
[Japanese_Princess sends a PUNCH to King_Of_Weevils]
[King_Of_Weevils sends a I’M SORRY NOTE to Japanese_Princess]
OOOO OOO OOOO
[Lover_Boy ENTERS conversation]
[Lover_Boy ADDS Coffee_Master to conversation]
Lover_Boy: Yan?
Coffee_Master: I’m sleeping, sir.
Lover_Boy: Without me?
Coffee_Master: To anyone in the world but me, that would seem a very weird thing to say.
Lover_Boy: Damn it, Yan, talk to me!
Coffee_Master: Certainly, sir.
Coffee_Master: In the morning.
Coffee_Master: All this talking makes me want painkillers.
Lover_Boy: The flu hasn’t gone then?
Coffee_Master: Nope. Obviously.
Lover_Boy: Don’t talk to me like that, Yan.
Coffee_Master: How SHOULD I talk to you?
Coffee_Master: Should I flutter my eyelashes and wiggle in my tight jeans? Would that do you?
Lover_Boy: It certainly would do me, but that’s not the point.
Coffee_Master: Oh, really, sir?
Coffee_Master: So you’d like me to be Gwen?
Lover_Boy: *stricken* that’s not what i-
[Coffee_Master has LEFT the conversation]
[Coffee_Master has BLOCKED Lover_Boy]
TBC- part three.
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