Overview of fic for Tardis_bigbang

[silver_sun]

As most of you probably know i've signed up for the Tardis_bigbang fic challenge. So the other evening I sorted out all the notes i'd made and wrote an overview of what I'm planning on writing.
So three hours and 3700 words later i've got my overview writen, at least now I've got an idea of what happens when and a way of working out if I'm really behind on what part I should be getting finished.

The story follows Ianto over a year at Torchwood and his growing relationship with an omc. I just hope my omc, David Parry, is something like a realistic person and not some dreadful male Mary Sue. Opinions on storyline and David's character are welcome. 

So here is the overview.

Starts in mid October 2009 in the tourist office– finishes mid October 2010 on a beach near Llandudno.

Ianto is locking up the tourist office now that Gwen, Owen and Tosh have left for the night, it is about 11pm, only Jack and Ianto are left in the Hub.

Ianto thinking of the times when him and Jack alone in the Hub would have only meant one thing – now it doesn’t, not since Jack cheated on him – not that they were exclusive or anything, it wasn’t so much that Jack had slept with someone else as the who and when of it. The who in question being Owen, and the when being when Ianto had gone up to London to help salvage some of the archives from the remains of Torchwood Tower. That was four months ago, Ianto has been pretty much sans sex since then.

The door is shoved open and a breathless, terrified young man runs in and grabs at Ianto’s suit, begging him to help, asking him if this is Torchwood.

Pressing the call button to alert Jack to the fact they have a guest, Ianto locks the door and escorts the man to the tourist office’s backroom.

The young man is soaking wet, bruised, dirty and shivering almost uncontrollably. Ianto wraps a blanket around the man’s shoulders and asks him is name.

The man doesn’t answer but looks wildly around the office, not really daring to believe he’s safe, eyes darting everywhere before staring fixedly on the calendar.

"Please tell me that’s not right, that calendar’s not right." He looks panicked.

Ianto realises now that there is a high probability that the man has fallen through the rift, asks what his name is again.

"David." He looks desperately at Ianto for reassurance, dark eyes silently pleading for help.

"It’s all right David. You just need to stay calm." David looks like he’s in danger of hyperventilating in to Ianto.

"Calm? I’ve just lost seven months of my life, how can I be calm?"

Ianto presses the call button again and wonders where the hell Jack has got too.

Asks David how he’s heard of Torchwood, asks David his surname. David Gethyn Parry.

David heard via his grandmother and grandfather, who had worked for UNIT back in the sixties and seventies.

Ianto asks whether David had heard that Cardiff was on a rift. David nods, gran had joked with him about it. Says he needs to phone his gran, she’ll be so worried that she hasn’t heard from him for seven months.

Ianto points out that it’s nearly midnight and David’s gran might be asleep, would ringing her this late cause her more worry than if he left it a few more hours and phoned in the morning.

David nods shakily, and asks what he’s going to be able to tell her. Ianto says that if she’s still got her UNIT clearance then David will be able to tell her everything.

David is very relieved, saying that alien abduction and time travel were probably the only valid reason that she’d accept for him missing her seventieth birthday celebrations.

David explains that he was grabbed walking back from his part time job at a bar by aliens. Their ship was in the Bay, they gave no indication of why or where they were taking him. They were powering up their ship when David escaped and jumped into the sea. They didn’t bother going after him.

David seems a little calmer now that he knows he’s safe and Ianto is relieved that at least this should be a relatively easy case to sort out.

Asks to take a few details. David is a student at Cardiff University, in his final year of a BSc engineering course. He lives in a student house in Adamstown, with his two housemates Dan and Chris.

Then Ianto asks for his birth date. 17/8/1979. Ianto can’t keep the look of shock of his face, there is no way that David is thirty, the fact that he’s a final year at uni suggests early twenties.

"David, what year is it?"

"Oh god no." David takes a couple of choking, shuddering breathes, "no, please, it’s 2001, please." He’s started to shake again.

"I’m sorry, it’s 2009." After a moment Ianto places a hand on his shoulder, trying to let him know that he’s not alone.

David buries his face against Ianto’s shoulder and sobs.

They are like this when Jack arrives in the office dressed in only tee-shirt and trousers, braces hanging loose, hair wet from the shower. At least it explained why it had taken Jack so long to put in an appearance.

Jack tries to take control of the situation, but David is too distraught to give him any real answers.

Jack and Ianto almost carry David down to one of Owen’s treatment rooms – these were a relatively new addition, put in after Gwen finally got Owen and Jack comprehend the fact that most people didn’t like undergoing any form of medical anything sitting or lying on an autopsy table.

Jack tries to talk to David while Ianto phones Owen, makes them all hot drinks and finds dry clothes for David.

Owen arrives checks David over, says that all he needs a couple of days rest, that he to get warm, have something to eat and get some sleep, other than that he’s fine.

Ianto stays at the Hub that night. He drops in on David in the morning and brings him breakfast and says that he’ll sort him out some information about what has been going on in Cardiff and the rest of the world in the last eight and a bit years.

David is grateful, but by the time Ianto comes back he has fallen asleep again.

Ianto gets on with his usual jobs and talks to Tosh about the Rift readings for the previous evening. They can’t find any definite reading that is David’s travel through the Rift.

That afternoon when David has woken up again he asks if he can call his gran. After clearing it with Jack, who says something about misplaced trust in UNIT, but agrees on the fact that Mrs Parry was part of UNIT in its glory days as he calls them.

David can get no answer at the phone number, it no longer exists. Ianto agrees to trace what the current phone number for David’s gran’s house is and to check if she still lives there.

17 Sea view Terrace Llandudno is now owned by a Mr and Mrs Griffiths. Mrs Parry had been moved to a nursing home, still in Llandudno in mid 2007, but that’s all they know.

Contacting the social services proves slow, and although he can’t find any record of her death Ianto doesn’t want to give David the information until he has something definite to tell him.

The next day is chaotic, and Ianto spends most of it out of the Hub with Tosh trying to deal with a bank’s computer network that had somehow acquired an alien computer virus – it turns out to be the work of a disgruntled employee who had heard about it from a friend of a friend in some pub.

When Ianto gets back to the Hub he makes some sandwiches for himself and David and heads down to his room. It’s empty.

Owen informs him that he’s dropped David at the hostel on St Mary’s Road and yes he remembered to give him a starter pack thing, that they gave all the Rift refugees, a hundred quid to buy other bits that he needed and all the forms that he’d need for signing on the job centre and a phone number to call if he needed any further assistance.

Ianto feels somewhat bereft, he’d liked David, felt sorry for the young man. Owen nabs the sandwiches.

Ianto decided that after he’d finished that evening he’ll drop in on David, make sure he’s settling in okay.

However a hour and a half later a Naarixian travel glider crashes in to the bay and any thought of free time to do anything was suddenly out of the question.

It takes most of the rest of the night to come up with cover stories for what was going on and it was late afternoon on the following day that glider was secured.

The four Naaraxians on board the glider were unhurt if very confused and until Tosh and Jack managed to fix one of their translation devised unable to really communicate.

The Naaraxians were basically a group of four college friends who’s hired the equivalent of a canal boat and had gone on holiday together before heading off to further education.

They are collected the following morning by a representative of the hire company, and taken back home.

The rain that had hampered the rescue of the Naaraxians and the salvage of their ship had continued unabated and results in the flooding of the lower archives.

Ianto goes home briefly to bring a set of spare old clothes to the Hub and gets to work sorting out the damage.

It’s a job he does almost entirely on his own as Tosh is manning the phones, computers and front desk while Jack, Gwen and Owen hunt down the weevils who’d been driven from the sewers by the rain.

This takes two days.

Ianto checks the post and social services have replied and informed him that Ellen Parry is still alive and is a ward of state, as she is no longer mentally and physically capable of looking after herself and has no contactable relatives. She is a resident of Meadow Grange nursing home, Llandudno.

Ianto thinks about phoning David and passing on the information then realises that he doesn’t have a contact number for him apart from the reception desk of the hostel.

It’s almost a relief in a way, it’s an excuse to go and deliver the news in person.

The hostel it a dump, the night manager is unhelpful and Ianto is appalled that Owen thought it was acceptable to leave anybody here.

David’s room is cold and damp and smells of mildew. David has an appalling cough and is feverish and shivering.

Wrapping David in his coat Ianto packs David’s few possessions and walks him to his car. When Ianto tells David that he can’t stay at the hostel he says that he’s got nowhere else to go.

Ianto says that he’s taking him home with him. David tries to apologise for being so much trouble, he’s not very coherent and Ianto sits him in his car with the air con on while he goes back inside and berates the night manager and tells him to expect a visit from housing standards very, very soon.

 

David collapses when he tries to walk from Ianto’s car to the front door of Ianto’s house. Ianto ends up picking him up and carrying him inside and laying him down on the sofa.

Ianto calls Owen, who says that David has flu and chest infection. Tells Ianto that he should be very grateful to him for the fact that he makes sure that they are all up to date with flu jab and such, so he probably won’t end up catching it. Owen leaves Ianto with instructions to keep David cool, make sure he drinks plenty of liquids and a prescription for a course of antibiotics that could be collected from the local chemist in the morning.

Ianto calls Jack and tells him that he’s taking a couple of days off to look after David and he taking not taking no for an answer – after all he’s worked everyday for the last week and a half, often not going home.

After the pandemonium of the last few days Jack agrees, telling Ianto to actually try to get some rest. Ianto thinks the chance would be a fine thing.

 

David’s getting better after a few days, although the cough it still there and leaving him a little breathless and tired. Ianto is back at work – comes home to find that David has cooked for him.

Now that David isn’t likely to give all and sundry the flu Ianto tells him he’s managed to trace his gran. That she’s in a nursing home in Llandudno and that although he doesn’t know the exact details, it was because she was unable to care for herself.

On the Sunday Ianto drives David to Llandudno to see his gran. She’s had a stroke and is barely aware of anyone’s presence. David is silent on the drive home.

When they get back to the house David asks to be left alone for a while.

Ianto understands the need to have somewhere to fall part in private and the fact that the very last thing that you usually want is people offering their sympathies and telling you that they are there for you – whatever the hell that means.

David appears just before Ianto is going to plate up dinner, Ianto just asks him if he’d like some coffee and if pasta was all right and that there was rugby on the TV, Wales versus Ireland.

Ianto can see David’s gratitude and doesn’t ask him how he’s feeling, the lost is plain to see.

They watch TV, David tells Ianto that he’s never been much of a one for rugby, preferring cricket, and that he was in the second eleven for Cardiff university.

David falls asleep against Ianto’ s shoulder, Ianto is tired as well, closes his eyes just for a moment.

Ianto wakes to the sound of the dustcart and the rumble of wheelie bins. David is curled against him, an arm tight about Ianto’s waist, mumbling something about a mechanical engineering practical.

David is embarrassed when he wakes up, apologising for holding on to Ianto, saying the he wouldn’t have done it if he’d been awake and hurries away to his room, not emerging until Ianto has gone to work.

David is awkward around Ianto for the next couple of days after that, avoiding any situation where he might end up in close contact with him.

Ianto is confused by David’s behaviour as one hand David seems to enjoy his company, but on the other seems scared to get close.

Outlines of a couple more cases at Torchwood.

Late November. Ianto comes home to find David very drunk and upset sitting on the floor of the living room.

Is momentarily angry that there is beer seeping into his carpet, then realises that something is very definitely wrong, David has been a model house guest and wouldn’t do something like this without reason.

David tells him that the nursing home called and informed him that his grandmother had suffered another stroke and had died on the way to hospital.

Ianto drinks with him, offering to drive him to Llandudno the next day and that he’d help sort out any legal paper work if David wants him to.

David is too distraught to even be thinking that far ahead and after a few more drinks confesses to Ianto that it has only been Ianto’s kindness that has stopped him self from throwing himself in the Taff or walking out in front of a bus.

He is sobbing, for everything that he’s lost for the fact that he has no life, no friends, no prospected. Ianto holds him, stroking his back and hair as he cries.

David kissing him takes Ianto entirely by surprise, it a wet, sloppy, desperate kiss that is probably, on the face of it at least, one of the least appealing that he’s ever received.

Ianto briefly kisses him back, before pulling away and telling David that he has to stop. David is scared he has ruined the only friendship he’s got, and begs Ianto to forget it.

Ianto tells David that the only reason that he wants to stop is that David is drunk and emotional vulnerable, and Ianto would feel like he was taking advantage of him if they did anything more.

David expresses disbelief that Ianto is gay, Ianto tells him that he isn’t, but he is definitely bi.

Ianto makes David drink plenty of water, and they sleep in the same bed, Ianto’s bed. Ianto holding David, spooned against him, reminding him that he isn’t alone.

Ianto helps David take care of the funeral arrangements, and goes to the funeral with him.

By December they are still both sleeping in Ianto’s bed, although they still haven’t progressed further than kisses.

Christmas and David is feeling low again, he has nobody. Ianto says that he can come with him to his sister’s for Christmas day. David isn’t sure, but Ianto says that if David doesn’t go, he’ll not go either, as he can’t bear the thought of David being alone at Christmas.

They go to Rhian and Luke’s house for Christmas dinner, they don’t stay that late and when they get back to Ianto’s David asks where they are going.

Ianto says bed, David says it’s still early and asks if Ianto is feeling okay. Ianto realises he needs to take the initiative and says that he was hoping David would join him and that could sleep later, but first he wanted to show David how much he cares for him. Ianto doesn’t use the word love.

Their first lovemaking is a little nervous, neither has been with anybody for some months and neither is particularly experienced. Ianto settles with giving David a massage then mutual hand jobs.

Tired and sticky they fall asleep happy.

Life is good- they spend new years together. David gets a part time job at a garage in the Bay and begins a taking an OU revision course in engineering, ready to go back to Cardiff uni in September.

A few random Torchwood cases, and a date, David makes an unfortunate comment about mad wives in the attic or basement. Ianto tells him about Lisa.

Valentines day. A piece of happy, fluffiness before it gets dark again.

In early March people are turning up dead with metal/computer implants. Some of these are similar in style, although not it proves in construction, to cybernetic implants.

Ianto is on edge and working hard, it all comes to a head when they raid a surgery that has been set up in a warehouse where people are getting their expensive upgrades.

Tosh gets hurt and Ianto blames himself.

Jack takes Gwen home, Owen goes to the hospital with Tosh. Ianto writes the preliminary report and walks the five miles home in the pouring rain trying to get his head back in order.

David tries to comfort him, but Ianto tries to push him away, scared that if David gets too close he’ll just end up getting hurt.

With the team temporarily a person down, and Ianto’s own mental state not being at it’s best, he works himself to the point of exhaustion and collapses in the Hub.

Jack calls David to let him know what has happened. David is at the garage, and not far from the Hub.

David has a furious argument with Jack over his treatment of Ianto and finds out that Jack was one of the people that Ianto had had a relationship with. The team find out that Ianto is in a fairly serious relationship with David.

David looks after Ianto, tells him it’s the least he can do after all that Ianto has done for him. Ianto allows himself to be seen as vulnerable by David.

When Ianto goes back to work at the Hub after a weeks leave David goes with him. David had managed to impress Owen – no easy task, and Gwen had given Jack a very hard time over Ianto working himself so hard.

While David is at Torchwood he continues his OU studies, and takes on some of the projects shelved since Suzie’s departure.

Things work well, David is an accepted member of the team. Snapshots of cases and socials across the summer, including David’s birthday.

In late August there are the same odd rift readings as the night David appeared, and with the limited information that David could supply about the aliens they manage to get a fix on the location of the alien ship.

There is a botched raid and Ianto and Gwen are taken captive. Jack and David are frantic, knowing just what could happen to them, that they may never see them again.

They track the alien ship to an old factory in the docks. There is a Jack all guns blazing shoot out and Ianto, Gwen and the other people are released.

David goes to greet Ianto, notices an alien taking aim at him and shoves him out of the way, getting hit in the process.

They think it’s a stun weapon until a few minutes later David collapses.

Owen tells Ianto that David is dying, the alien weapon has causes massive tissue damage that he can’t stop and can’t reverse.

Ianto in shock tells David, and decided that he’ll be there, be strong for David as long as he’s there and once David is gone, he’ll join him.

Ianto tends David, trying to keep his spirits up, but he doesn’t eat, and barely sleeps and plans for his own death.

Owen realises, sees the look in Ianto’s eyes, know that feeling, that look – he should, it was the one he wore as he stepped in the weevil cage.

Tells Jack, Ianto blanks him. Jack realises that the only way to save Ianto is save David.

Jack tells Owen to do all he can, then goes to get what he hopes will cure David.

David is being kept alive by machines by the time that Jack arrives back. Jack is injured, and barely upright when he hands Tosh the vials of slightly sparkling serum and tells her to get Owen to add it to David’s drip.

David recovers. Ianto thanks Jack and tells him that he’s very grateful but him and Jack can’t be together, that he loves David now, but Jack will away be a very good friend. Jack tells him to hang on that love and never let go because he deserves it.

 

Epilogue

One year to the day after David arrived in Cardiff David and Ianto walk hand in hand on a deserted beach near Llandudno on a blustery October day making plans for the future.