Writer's Block: Too scary!!

[parked]

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Nothing out of the ordinary, I don't think, but the space under my bed when I was 5 or so was one of those terrifying places where all the things I lost went, probably because of some monster hoarding them to try and tempt me down there. I grew out of it pretty fast but still, there's something disturbing about having a big, empty space under your bed where a person can fit.


I think I've finally made up for the lost time from that virus. I really should train somebody else to handle the botany lab if I get incapacitated like that again, because some of the plants in there are sort of volatile. But, that whole thing wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been - which is something everyone else has already pointed out.

Apologies all around for acting like a fourteen-year-old with no social graces but, in my defense, I was a fourteen-year-old with no social graces. Could have been worse, though - could have been thirteen.


So, any bets on how horrible the next virus will be, to make up for this one being pretty entertaining all around?

Comments

[51stcentury]

No, you don't need my permission to be his friend. He's his own person. You do, however, need my permission to ever be let into the Hub again, as well as my permission for him to ever go out on your little escapades during work hours, so. Don't get too cocky with me. At least, not cocky in the way that you're being at the moment.

[parked]

I assumed that he'd cleared me with you beforehand, which was a mistake, and I apologize for that. I understand your position, Jack, and I'm not trying to subvert you in any way. But stop biting my head off, especially if you're going to be so heavy-handed with your innuendos.

[51stcentury]

I'm not biting your head off. I'm telling you the facts. If you don't like it, you can stay the hell away from my base.

[parked]

It's not the facts that I'm disagreeing with.

[51stcentury]

[After a pause in commenting back in which it is obvious that Jack has taken a moment aside to calm down] Look, I know you had his best intentions in mind. I appreciate that. And I appreciate that you understand that I am the captain of Torchwood, and what I have to say regarding my base and any of my employees is final. We just need to stop getting caught up in situations like these. Maybe sometime I can run into you when you're not being snuck around my home or stealing my personnel.

[parked]

That'd be preferable. I'm sorry, this is generally when I wind down after a shift. You've been getting the brunt of my exhaustion, unfortunately.

[51stcentury]

And I'm sorry that I don't have shifts, so whenever you talk to me, you are going to get the brunt of whatever it is that's going on at the time. It's been a busy couple of days down a man at Torchwood, and now we've got new things rolling in, by the sounds of it so. I appreciate you being there for him. Just, next time you steal him away, at least leave a note, or something? I mean, coming back to the flat to find the lock blasted away by technology that shouldn't exist in this century was a little off-setting, you catch my drift?

[parked]

Believe me when I say that's never going to happen again. Like I said, I didn't think about consequences much when I was fourteen. I don't steal people from their homes as an adult, I can promise you that.

[51stcentury]

You say that now, but you never know, especially not with this place. So, yes. Leave a note next time, alright? Or have him call me or something, even if the circumstances are something like he's upset with me and would rather not speak to me ever again if at all possible. I just want to make sure I know where he is, all right?

[parked]

I promise that I'll make sure you know what's going on, if anything like this ever happens again. It really wasn't my intention to make you worry.

[51stcentury]

I don't doubt that. I don't think 14-year-old you or 15-year-old Ianto really had that much of an opinion of me at all. Other than that I have an intimidating coat, apparently.

[parked]

As if you didn't already know that.

[51stcentury]

Hey. People usually have some reaction to me. And me to them. That's part of the reason I wanted Ianto out of the way. He'd never forgive me for flirting with his younger counterpart, after all. Well, yes he would. He'd just be pretty angry first, though.

[parked]

How angry is "pretty angry"? All I can think of is stern lecturing, but that might be because of the accent.

[51stcentury]

Oh, you'd be surprised. It's always the quiet ones that make the biggest outbursts, when you drive them to it. Obviously you haven't gotten him angry at you before. It's hard to do, and it's only happened a couple of times, but. I've learned to try not to get to that point, after the few times I've gotten there.

[parked]

I'll definitely try to stay the hell out of the red, in that case.

[51stcentury]

Good. Because, well. You may think I'm lying, and it's fine if you do. But I'll have warned you. It's not impossible to do. It's just really really hard. The fact that I've managed to anger him more than once, though, well. Doesn't look so good in my favor. Which is why I kept him out of the way of harm, this time around.

Hey, at least he doesn't seem to be mad at me, right?

[parked]

I believe you, don't worry. You've known him for much longer than I have.

That's definitely a bonus, though. He might be doing what a lot of people do after viruses - block out the memory.

[51stcentury]

Probably. Probably mortified that something like that had been broadcast over the community that was that personal a nature. That and he doesn't much like sharing whenever something's troubling him. Mind-reader I am not by any means, and so he's really gotta learn to tell me these things if he wants me to know. Which, I suppose in this case, he probably didn't, and that's why we've reached this in the first place.

[parked]

That's the problem with us introverts - we like keeping our problems to ourselves until they're past the point of manageable. It's too bad him keeping things to himself forced me to break the time-honored tradition of not gossiping about your friends, but it's something you should've been told.

[51stcentury]

Well. I'm glad that you did tell me. Because, like you said, it's something I should've been told, and if you hadn't, I probably wouldn't have had any idea that it had happened in the first place.

[parked]

Just know that if Ianto calls me out on it, I'm putting the blame on you and your pulling the leader card on me. That was pretty unfair.

[51stcentury]

Oh, no, feel free to put the blame on me. He usually forgives me for these sorts of things. It's something he should've told me about anyway. He'll probably just be very reserved about the whole thing, he usually is. Someone's got to teach that man that it's okay to share things with people, it's not going to kill him to share before it gets to be too much.

[parked]

I noticed that. It's tricky getting people to open up, though. Too little pressure and you get nowhere, too much and they can shut you out completely.

[51stcentury]

Yeah, tell me about it. It's a lot of work, a relationship is. Which is generally why I don't get into them, if I can help it. This one kind of just crept up on me, though. With its big blue eyes and well-tailored suits and all.