A Blip In Time

Word Count: 100

Summary: Ianto watches Jack sleep.

Characters: Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness

Pairing: Jack/Ianto

Rating: G

Spoiler: None

Setting: Somewhere in series 2

Author's Note: Written for the tw100 prompt L Is For Lists. The title and the situation were stolen from the radio play The Dead Line. Kind of a companion piece to Memorizing. I don't know what the drabble rules say about quotes, but the one at the beginning of the story does not belong to the drabble itself. It's not in the word count.

Disclaimer: I'm not making money with this fanfic. The tv-show Torchwood and the characters appearing within it belong to their producers and creators. Any similarities to living or dead persons are purely coincidental and not intended.

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"I've watched you in your sleep. Did you know that? So many times. Just woken up beside you in the middle of the night and watched you."

(Ianto Jones, The Dead Line)

Jack smiled in his sleep. Ianto hoped that he was dreaming about him, but he had no illusions. He was only the most recent name added to a list titled Jack's Lovers. The day would come when Ianto would be a faded photograph in Jack's box of memories.

He didn't mind, though. He knew that Jack needed someone to love him. He only hoped that his name was at least underlined and written in bold letters, because he had a list of his own, and he knew for a fact that Jack's name would be the last one on it.

END

07/11