Title: A Kiss and You're Gone
By: Amy
Pairing: Jack/Ianto
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: challenge 115 - poetry.

 
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, “Do not weep for me, 
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country—I now go back there, 
I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.”
Walt Whitman, Salut au Monde. 6.
 

Jack forgave him with a heartbreaking kiss.

Ianto didn’t feel he deserved absolution – he’d betrayed Jack. Again. But there it was, and they’d all witnessed it. He felt lighter inside – almost…happy.

He, Owen, and Toshiko strolled across the Plass with coffee in hand, laughing and sharing easy banter.

Ianto’s skin prickled when he caught the barely-discernable whooshing in the distance. His stomach churned with dread.

A distraught Gwen met them in the Hub. “Jack’s gone! Something’s taken him!”

Anger exploded through Ianto. He’d once been Torchwood One – he recognised that sound.

He also knew his Captain.

Jack – what the fuck?