Your Face Is Turned, 7/9

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[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Yowza!

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[chicleeblair.livejournal.com]

I got out of bed when I remembered that this would be posted today. Consider yourself the reason I'm getting my butt to class.

On another note, I like this, although in a way it makes Ianto's death seem even sadder, if he knew.

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

LOL consider yourself the reason I'm NOT getting my butt to class.

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

OMG LOL you're going to kill Ianto! And you're making us happy while you do it! WHAT CONTROL DO YOU HAVE OVER OUR MINDS SAM HUH?

Also, I love how Ianto can go from sexing up Lo to accepting that he's going to die like the good brave soldier that he is and then back to figuring out what to buy for dinner. Oh SAM. Words just can't express how much I love reading everything you've ever written.

PS: Awesome not-really-there-threesome is awesome. Hoping you write some type of follow-up with MOAR PORN PLZ kthxbai.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Who says I'm going to kill Ianto? You'll have to read and find out :)

Ianto is very good at partitioning....

[nemesis.livejournal.com]

I would have desperately loved to have come up with something better to say than OH NOES and OH NOES WHAT NOW but



but

I think I am just stuck on that last part and going OH NOES WHY IS TOMORROW NOT HERE YET PLEASE LET THIS BE OKAY only with a few more OH NOES thrown in for good measure

D:

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL, well, I'm glad I could cause such suspense! Although I have to admit it won't be alleviated until Friday, when the final chapter goes up.

[bittervillager.livejournal.com]

The second read through of that ending brought tears to my eyes. What a horrible choice and how eloquently written.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[keeperofqkeys.livejournal.com]

Awww, poor Ianto :-(. That entire conversation with Jack at the end there... and him realizing that Levy really isn't "his" Jack, not any more. So sad.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I think he has in some ways known Levy isn't "his" Jack, but it's the first time he's really articulated it.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

There's something that's terribly heartbreaking about this. Ianto is so magical, so lovely, and still so human.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully it won't be quite so heartbreaking in the end :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lullabelle_/]

I totes just marathon read this whole thing last night, and just -- damn. Wow. Can't wait for tomorrow's chapter! :D

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying it!

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I actually quite like Levy. He's matured in ways that Jack and, of course, Lo haven't.

It's a pity that the story doesn't really involve him except as a catalyst.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I find that, as much of a bastard as Levy can be, I like him too. I found myself wishing I could write him and his adventures a bit more, though I do give him his own scene and a bit of backstory in chapter eight. I feel for him; his life is Distinctly Not Easy.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Eight or nine days ago. Would that be, oh, about when Ianto and Lo first had sex? Methinks Ianto has made himself a little too memorable.

I think I see where this is going. Especially with a prior reference to a Jones. And Ianto's Torchwood credentials working for the first password but not the second. And Torchwood disagreeing with the Time Agency about whether to have Levy fix the problem.

[margeauxmay.livejournal.com]

i have a lot of speculation in my brain that sounds like this!

[margeauxmay.livejournal.com]

I think what I like best about this story (and many of your stories) is that it's not all easy-peasy linear narrative, with obvious if-then actions. I enjoy trusting you as a writer, trusting that you've carefully crafted the parts and pieces so that it's a satisfying story, regardless of the happy-ending aspect of it. (I mean, I love a happy ending as much as the next girl, but sometimes that's not the story that needs telling.)

Granted, I'm bursting with OH NOES and WUT?!?!? and wild speculation right now, but it's in all the best ways; I don't know where this is going, but I *know* it'll be good and worth the wait! (But, oh Friday, PLEASE HURRY.)

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you feel that way. I try to make it -- readable but not easy, if that makes sense; perhaps "complex" is a better word. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail -- good to know I succeeded here :)

[stardust9121.livejournal.com]

I just got back from vacation to find seven chapters of fic waiting! Excellent. It's been a really satisfying read so far, but now that I've gotten so drawn into these characters, I have to actually, you know, wait between chapters.

Also, a Samfic that ends in death and/or angst? I don't buy it. :D

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Glad you've been enjoying it! :)

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

"Don't fucking apologise," Ianto snapped. "I'll be your good soldier and I'll save your life, Jack, because I like Lo and what happened to him shouldn't have happened to anyone. I will make him what you are. I'll go back to my time and smile at you like I don't know I'm dying and I'll die when I'm supposed to die, because there are things that are more important. You taught me that. So don't apologise to me."

Jack closed his mouth.

"Now leave," Ianto added, and he was actually stunned when Jack stood and tucked the folder under his arm and left, swiping his porterminal for payment as he walked out the door. Ianto sat over his coffee for a while, then bent his head and rested it in his hands.

AUUUUUUUGGGGGGGH. Punch me in the heart, why don't you.

Still, I recall a passing reference in a previous chapter to a -- I think the term was "gentleman adventurer"...?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Heart punching a specialty!

I did mention a gentleman adventurer Jones -- then again, there are a lot of Joneses in the world...

[air-ocean.livejournal.com]

Poor Ianto. He just got all relaxed, and now THIS. He's super level-headed about this, although I would expect no less from him. Still, this is a sad choice, not really a choice at all. Poor brave Ianto - I hope this has a pleasing resolution. Hey, if he could be transported 3000 years into the future, I'm sure they'll think something up to keep him alive:)

Also,

"nudity was an effect Jack Harkness tended to have on people" - should be put on a T-shirt!

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Vacations are hard! :D

Ianto is having a bit of a rough time of it, but he is at least sensible enough to know that if the choice is between him and the universe, the universe comes first. That's Torchwood, after all. That being said, sometimes the choice isn't what people think it is...

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

Threesome! Yay. I was wrong - this is what the story is really about.

Hey, check this out: famous MacArthur grant-winning author self-publishes his latest book on Lulu. http://bit.ly/9Cl4Yt

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

YEAH! More self-publishing, I am for it.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

This... isn't a Fix-It is it?

I wasn't really expecting it to be, but I really wasn't expecting the CoE Tie-In. Gah. Pain :(

But it's good pain, at least.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I don't want to spoil for Tie-In versus Fixit, at least not publicly (if you have issues with CoE feel free to email me and I'll let you know privately) but I always want people to bear in mind that I like happy endings :)

[sqyd.livejournal.com]

I think the suspense might kill me before Friday. If it does, I blame you.

I'm wondering if Levy is telling everything, or still holding something back. Has he lived linearly from the 21st century to the 51st, or did he hop ahead?

And what's going on with 21st century Jack? Did he get drunk? Have more memories came back to him? How did he forget in the first place? Was it part of the 2 years the Time Agency supposedly stole from him. Did Levy had a hand in that? I bet he did!

I'll trust you won't break my heart. Right?

P.S. I have a multitude of issues with CoE.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Sorry! *unrepentant grin*

I did leave the 21st century hanging a bit. I don't know if Jack ever got drunk and thought about it; I didn't write it in, but he probably did, and probably all it did was give him a temporal hangover. :) As for how he forgot in the first place -- well, it's been a hundred and fifty years. I'm thirty, and I can't remember the last name of the girl I was head over heels for when I was fifteen. Things slip away, y'know?

I do try not to break hearts :)

[anyjen.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh, damn. Damn, damn, damn.

I knew it was too good to last. >_<

...is it Thursday yet...?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Well, you may have to wait till Friday for full resolution, but hopefully tomorrow's chapter will be interesting :)

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

I remember back when I thought you'd actually kill one of your favourite characters. Good times. Well, not that good, more like oh, sniffles, heartbreak oh you BASTARD, I DID ALL THAT CRYING FOR NOTHING?

Of course, one of these days, you'll actually kill someone, and I'll be taken completely by surprise.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's always so hard wondering whether to reassure people or leave it a mystery....

[debitha.livejournal.com]

"And nothing at all under his date of death. For all this paper could tell him, he was still bloody well alive."

Hmmm, the mysterious Mr Jones...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

*enigmatic look*

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Oh I think ripping time and space apart to save Ianto might just well be worth it you know..

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Well, we think that, but then we don't have the power to rip time and space apart -- and probably just as well, really.

[phineyj.livejournal.com]

Crumbs! Just when we thought it was safe. Might have known holidays never end well for Torchwood.

Paperwork was supposed to make everything make sense.

What a marvellous Ianto thought.

I love all the details in this - the technology, the food, the hoverbuses...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Holidays never even START well for Torchwood! :D

[timberwolfoz.livejournal.com]

...eeep.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

:D

[ravenja1170.livejournal.com]

what a beautiful, stunning story!
And I shouldn't listen to John B. singing "Unusual Way" while reading this *sniff* But the lyrics fit somehow ...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Glad you're enjoying it!

[penny-sieve.livejournal.com]

Wow! That last part just came and hit me like a 4x4!!

But I still want to marry this fic and have it's babies and live happily ever after with it because I'm so in love with it :P

If chapters 5 and 6 made me fall utterly in love with Lo, this chapter reinforced my Ianto!love, not that I ever stopped ♥ him.

Brian Levy, OTOH, jury is still out...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Aww, I like Levy. Poor dude has the hardest job in the galaxy, and he has three of them...