Drabble: In The Family.

[silver_sun]

Title: In The Family
Characters: Gwen, Ianto.
Challenge: Women's History for tw100
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Contains mention divorce and adultery that happened more than a century ago.




“Working late?” Ianto said handing Gwen a coffee.

“Not exactly. My mum's doing the family tree and got stuck, can't find some old divorce papers. Turns out my Great Great Gran had an affair with a soldier and Great Gran was the result.”

“Would have been quite a scandal.” Ianto looked at the computer. “Would you like a hand?”

A few minutes later Ianto was into the National Archives.

“That's it. Parry 1902.” Gwen pointed at the screen. “Scroll down. Wait... Oh bloody hell.”

They stared open mouthed at the screen.

Co-Respondent: Captain Jack Harkness.

Comments

[mcparrot.livejournal.com]

Heee. Still doesn't beat the one where Jack is Gwen's birth mother though.

But still funny.

[silver_sun]

Thank you :) I've not seen that one.

[jo02]

I'm so taking this as canon now :)

[silver_sun]

:)

[iantojjackh.livejournal.com]

Eww that makes heir flirting really really creepy.

[silver_sun]

I was thinking that Jack didn't know about the connection either. He had a brief affair with a woman with the surname Parry over a hundred years ago, who quite possibly didn't want anything to do with him afterward, then he was out in India by 1909 and presumably off fighting in WW1 shortly after that and he lost track of her and the child.

He's going to be as shocked as Gwen when he finds out and very very relieved that they didn't do anything more than a little bit of flirting.

I have should probably put something to say that this is set in the later half of series 2 after Something Borrow where the Jack Gwen flirting seems to have pretty much disappeared from the show.

[iantojjackh.livejournal.com]

Figured he didn't know, but still us being in on it just adds to the ick factor and it didn't help that I wrote a Drabble where they were married.

[twcardiff.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.:-) I feel like this is canon now.

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Whoops! That's an eye-opener! Perhaps where Jack's from such things are not taboo, but I'm sure Gwen will be glad they never acted on their mutual attraction!

I can't help but wonder how many other descendents Jack has running around out there he might have... erm, crossed paths with?