Fic: Frustration

[crabby_lioness]

Title: Frustration

Author: CrabbyLioness 

Characters: Jack, Ianto 

Summary:  The Courtship of Ianto Jones

Spoilers through Sleeper

Disclaimer: Property of the BBC & their people. I'm not making a penny. 

Rating:  PG

Word Count:  457

He's driving me crazy.

Okay, I admit it, I deserve everything he's doing to me and worse.  After the way I treated him I'm lucky he's taking me back at all.  I have no right to complain about how slow he's going or about him making me wait.

Wait while he marks me as his with public words instead of unseen bites and scratches.

Wait while he establishes his rights.

His right to set the boundaries.  His right to tell me what to do when it isn't a command decision.  His right to take me down a peg when he thinks I need it.  His right to yell at me when I get myself killed again.

His right to tell Gwen I'm an insensitive boob in bed?

Okay, I totally didn't see that one coming.  I'm not sure I like it.  I mean, I'm used to lovers who blab everything, but I don't know if I want us to be that way.  We're forging something different here.  That's going to be on the list of my boundaries.

When I earn back the right to set boundaries.

If it was up to me we'd skip straight to his right to nail me through the mattress, but he's setting the pace.  We haven't even kissed yet.  It's maddening.

Not that there haven't been touches.  Lingering brushes from his fingers when he gives he things, full-body rubs when he passes me too closely in the hallway, hands ghosting over my ass when no one is around.  All the things I used to do to him.  I lean in to them but he glares me back into my place.  I want to tear that bright red shirt off him and throw him over my desk, but that would be an "insensitive boob" thing to do.

I try fluttering my lashes at him and suggest that we could have a lot of fun exploring his sadistic tendencies in bed.  He smirks, and I can tell he's having a lot of fun now.

I want him so badly.  And that new confidence and sense of humor he's found?  I can come just from thinking about what that's going to be like in the bedroom!

Thank God he hasn't told me I can't wank off.  Not that it does any good.  Neither would going out to a club and picking up a one-night stand.  Besides being an "insensitive boob" thing to do, I'm tired of one-night stands.  I want someone who cares enough to yell at me when I get myself killed again.

Besides, when I look deep into his eyes, past the public mask, I can see the frustration that matches mine.   He's not going to make me wait much longer.

Is he?

 
Part 2:  Maybe

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Can I just say that I find it inspiring that you can say that so openly. I've been fostered for nearly 11 years, and I'm still feeling the clutches of my mother. This christmas was the first happy one ever, as my mother sent me the present of 'freedom' (she disinherited me), but to hear that some people survive is great, and makes me happy and hopeful that one day I'll be able to claim that too.

[deadeven.livejournal.com]

Big smile on my face.Ianto in charge,setting the pace,love it.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. :)

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Jack's getting a good case of "ask and ye shall receive."

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Yep! :D

[larielromeniel.livejournal.com]

What I really keyed in on was Ianto yelling at Jack when he gets killed again...it's something I've been giving a lot of thought to.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

I know. From Jack's POV it has to be a more comforting reaction than Ten kicking Jack with his foot and not letting anyone to hug Jack.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Heh. Brilliant. I hadn't really thought about Ianto's comments like that, but now I do, they make so much sense. 'See that? Mine. Not going to be a secret.'

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

A lot of things must change to Ianto's satisfaction before Jack gets any satisfaction. ;)

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

^__^Oh, that's marvelous and so cute, and Ianto groping him in the hallway ^__^ I love it

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[noamjen.livejournal.com]

Awww, I love this.

Such a different take on their relationship that totally fits. I love how vulnerable (sp?) , yet not weak, Jack is.

[windandsummer.livejournal.com]

Loved the very last. Nice work.~Bee

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

"Vulnerable, yet not weak" is a very good description of being in love.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

No other ending was anywhere near as good. Thank you.

[duskwillow.livejournal.com]

Love it, I could feel the UST. *g*

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

UST FTW!

[eliza2000.livejournal.com]

As much as I feel for Jack, how much fun must Ianto be having?

Mmm.

And Jack totally deservesthis, BTW.

[shirasade]

Aww, lovely... and it fits in very nicely with today's episode, too, I thought.

[flmun.livejournal.com]

Great job! The new, more-confident Ianto is truly a beauty to behold. I like how you've written Jack here. He's frustrated, but still besotted. Thanks for sharing.

[duikermeisie.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. It takes amazing courage to stand up to your family, and even more courage to keep holding your line despite their attempts to suck you back into their fiction that everything is happy and good.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

It's because he deserves this that it's so much fun!

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

I hoped it would. I think too many fic writers are jumping the gun by putting them in bed already.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

If the man hasn't learned the virtue of patience by now....

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Better still, thank my husband. He has my back.

(And wasn't there consternation on both sides of the aisle when they realized that! ;) )