TITLE: Hope
AUTHOR: Demon Faith
PAIRING: Jack/Ianto
SPOILERS: 1x13: End of Days
NOTES: Written for: THE DEFAULT ICON DRABBLE CHALLENGE - Write a drabble (100 words exactly) based on your current default icon. No changing it! Just write it as it comes; no beta-reading or mulling over. Any fandom or no fandom at all.

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It's snowing. It never snows in Cardiff.

But he walks though the park, indifferent to muggers and everything iced and glistening and beautiful. It's not a world he can believe in anymore.

The others are all getting on with their lives, smiling, laughing, ignoring the empty office and the void in the very air. He can't ignore it.

Then, he stops. Kneeling, he touches at the flower, poking its head up above the snow, surviving.

Hope.

Without warning, he suddenly believes again, sudden warmth around his heart. He'll wait and Jack will come home.

Smiling, he returns to the Hub.

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