Torchwood (drabble): The Empty Child

[fajrdrako_fic]

Title: The Empty Child
Genre: Torchwood drabble
Author: fajrdrako
Characters: Jack/Ianto
Challenge: tw100 challenge: free for all, using #20: Doctor Who titles, #9 in a series of 13
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for the Torchwood episode "They Keep Killing Suzie" . Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.


The Empty Child

Ianto thought Jack slept only in his own bed. In Ianto's, he never slept at all.

Then Ianto stayed overnight in Jack's bed, and he did not sleep there, either. Or anywhere else. "I don't need to," was Jack's explanation. It seemed medically impossible, but Ianto accepted it because there were so many ways in which Jack was unusual.

Sometimes he would wake and find Jack lying frozen, eyes wide and filled with pain, like an empty child. Then he would take Jack in his arms and hold him tightly until Jack was able to touch and kiss him again.


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