mixed post: Lorne, Martha, Torchwood

[likesthecoat]

[Filtered to Lorne]

Your package arrived today. I have no idea what to do with the rods but I'm sure I can figure it out. The mead will have to wait until I'm off-duty again.

Martha sent me a journal the other day with some photographs of her own, and I've put your pictures in there as well for the time being. Next time you send me a picture of you, I hope you're more than a background figure. (Sheppard looks exactly how I imagined, right down to the perma-bedhead.)

I'm sorry I was an arse yesterday. I do get a little jealous sometimes--or more realistically, envious, because they get to spend time with you and I don't. And all this happening here--it's shaping up to be much more than it initially appeared, and we're all under some stress. That's no excuse, of course.

When things are back to normal you and I can have a good long talk, I hope.

[Filtered to Martha]

I haven't forgotten your playlist: I'm working on it, but won't have access to my music files for a bit.

[Filtered to Jack, Gwen, Tosh and Owen]

The other day I received some dragon's beard candy from Hakkai. I've put the box in the kitchen, and you're welcome to help yourself. He suggests you let it melt in your mouth rather than chew it.

Comments

[sato-toshiko.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ianto. I could really use somthing to take my mind off work for a moment. I'll try some in a minute.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

There's sake, too, for when we can have a drink. But I figured I'd keep that put aside for the time being.

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Hey don't worry, you said there was a small emergency at work and thats quite a bit more important. *kiss*

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being so understanding :).

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I mean i could demand my mix tape with a fist raised in fury... but would it help?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

You could, but I'd probably laugh at you.

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Oh Ianto, always so mean to me...

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

I know. Remember I don't have any sisters and so my first instinct is to treat you like one of my brothers--just without the wrestling.

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as much fun as it may be to wrestle with you Ianto, I don't think it's quite in the same vein. ;)

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely not.

[hisdarklady.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to nod solemnly and agree with you or to go "hey wait a minute!", for the moment, I think I'll settle for a mixture of both.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

*smiles serenely*

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

[ooc: I'm assuming that, even with a mixed-filtered post, comments would be screened, so I'm not using the "private to" graphic here.]

I figured, if nothing else, I can show you what to do with the rods when I come. Mostly, I just wanted to be able to send you something from where I am (something that would last longer than the alcohol).

I'm usually the one taking the pictures, so even being in the background is impressive, but I'll see what I can do for next time.

You weren't an arse. Honestly. I'm envious of everyone who gets to see you all the time too. I hope things get back to normal soon.

You're still safe though, right?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Yes, I think so.]

I felt like a jerk when I signed off yesterday. There was work that needed doing but I felt like I just left you hanging, and I couldn't be . . . I don't know. Sometimes I just don't know what to say about anything.

We're still safe. I'm quite safe. Doing research, making phone calls. And I'm not saying that so you don't worry.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's okay. You shouldn't ever feel like you need to apologize for doing your job. It gets crazy, and you have to deal with it. I understand.

And we can have that conversation when you get the chance. Don't worry about it.

I'm glad you're safe.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

I do worry. I've never done a relationship online--it's so different. I can't just pop round to see you when work is done; I can't take you out; I can't do anything but talk to you, and when I run out of things to say I worry that you think I'm bored.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

I haven't either, so we're both on the same page there. I know that you have other things you have to do. You can't just spend all your time talking to me online. You've got work and friends and a life all outside of this.

I don't think that you're bored when you run out of things to say. Though I do wish we could do something together in those times when we have nothing to say. I mean, if we could talk on the phone, we could just be on the phone with each other, even if we didn't say anything.

I'm not helping much, am I?

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Just on the phone, listening to each other breathe?

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

...or listening to each other do other things.

There's a sort of connection over the phone at least. You know the other person is there, and you're together even if you're not really. I'm not explaining myself very well, and I'm starting to sound like a bad romance novel.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

Oh . . . relaxing.

That's true: hearing someone's voice is quite a connection.

[rockscientist.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I would call it relaxing necessarily...although I do tend to be fairly relaxed when it's over.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

. . . I didn't want to come out and say "listening to each other wank."

Although I just did.

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[morethanteaboy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And like I told Tosh upthread, there's sake for later.

[harpermd.livejournal.com]

[nods] much later, I think.