I'm going to treat you all with the Prologue AND Encounter No. 1, so I hope you like it!
This has been written in my head since I first thought up the idea for 'The 5 Introductions of Ianto Jones' purely because there's too much to explain in between the introductions than could be done just from Jack's POV. Ianto's was essential to make things gel together. Hopefully you've all read 'The 5 Introductions of Ianto Jones', but if not, you can read them in any order, I'm pretty sure they don't have to be a particular way. I tried to write them so that not too much differs, just the back story.
Comments, as always, keep me working, so I would love people's inputs on these!
I'm also considering another '10 things...' fic, like '10 ways Ianto Jones Got His Own Back' and '10 Things Jack Harkness Learnt About Ianto Jones'. If anyone has any ideas, fling 'em my way and I'll take a look! If I get enough that I find irresistable, I'll write them all (in due time).
Thankyou everyone and please enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing, it's all the work of Russel T. Davies!
The 5 Encounters with Captain Jack Harkness
That day, over the mid afternoon coffee, Gwen had been talking about how strange it was that she'd already met Rhys several times in passing before they met in earnest and started dating. Tosh and Owen had nodded along and laughed, sharing anecdotes of similar occasions (Owen usually met the girl, slept with her then forgot her until he got slapped in a club a few weeks later, but that was a different story).
Later on in the day, Jack had remarked to Ianto how weird it would be if they'd met before the painfully memorable night with the weevil hunt gone awry. Ianto had smiled and commented yes, sir, that would be very weird indeed, before leaving the Captain to his own devices for the rest of the day.
In the evening, after everyone had gone home, Ianto had, as usual, headed to Jack's office to find him. He had an unusual look on his face, which hadn't quite left the entire evening. Ianto figured that he was just thinking really hard about when they could possibly have met. The thing that made it so funny for the young man was that he could remember every encounter with Jack as if it had happened yesterday.
