If you could, how would you do it? (CoE Spoilers)

me too!
although, a pre-cyberwoman clone means he'd have to grieve all over and that could get... angsty
but it would def be interesting

OMG SOMEONE WRITE THIS

Oh yes, someone PLEASE write the Ianto!clone fic. It sounds SO AWESOME omg.

Anybody who wants, please run with the clone idea (and that includes if there's anybody from the BBC reading this ;-)

My big problem with working any of these story lines is that it went WAY beyond Ianto's death in ep five. There's just so much to deal with. It's like my favorite toy has been broken, and even if it's fixed, I'm always going to see these cracks and feel the sticky bits where the glue squished out between the joins.

Even though I've come up with a couple of concepts to "bring Ianto back", I haven't been able to figure out where to go from there. There's just so much hurt.

Until I figure out what to do with it, I'm choosing to ignore it in my fic writing. I'm not saying I won't work with some of my ideas, but that I can't work with them until I know how to sort through everything.

To bring Ianto back and have Jack just bounce right back feels wrong, as if the sacrifices were all useless and random. AND, despite what I think of that, if I'm working with post CoE, then I have to deal with the sacrifices as serious and painful.

I agree with this, but I don't think any of the ideas suggested here have Jack bouncing right back. In fact, I think a lot of them would spell doom for the J/I relationship.

The idea I'm chewing on right now involves the Valiant.

Think about it: when time turned back, everything on Earth reset to the way it was before, whereas everything on the Valiant remained the same. So, if you were on Earth when the Toclafane descended and went on board the Valiant at any time during that year, and stayed, there would be two of you, one who would go back to Cardiff and chase down Blowfish, and the other...

Yeah, well, that's one idea anyway. I've actually got this whole complicated storyline involving Harriet Jones, the Time Agency, and Torchwood Four that I'm working on, but I don't expect it'll be done anytime soon.

So... has anyone claimed the clonefic yet?

I'm itching. But the pressure, it's scary.

HanuuEshe, your sig makes me laugh every time I read it, which is every time I see it.

I agree with this, but I don't think any of the ideas suggested here have Jack bouncing right back. In fact, I think a lot of them would spell doom for the J/I relationship.

Yeah, and while Jack might be happy to see Ianto alive, I could also imagine him being torn with guilt and having difficulty facing Ianto. Not only would he still blame himself for any harm that came to Ianto, but he would probably be ashamed to admit his decision to kill Steven.

You know, this idea was doing nothing for me, until walking to work today I realized that using that idea would effectively make Ianto, who was a lying liar who lies, Jack's conscience. And in life, he sort of was anyway. Except when he wasn't.

And wow, that is so fucked up and elegant.

i started an owen fic like this way back after 'exit wounds'
but i could never quite get the right balance between owen and ianto, so it never went anywhere

although, i suppose if i tried it with jack...

Pretty please all of you do these?

I had six plans for this, but a couple have been lost along the way:

1) Involves my Mary-Sue, who was created for this very purpose (well, not this one, but a similar fixit). She's young and messed up and has the TARDIS in her brain and is slightly psychic. She's also immortal. She arrives from Cardiff, where she has been retrieving the bit of TARDIS from the Hub, wires that into the machine and is able to use her own mind rather than Stevens. And guess what? She's so worried about Jack, that when the TARDIS takes over her mind in a Bad Wolf-y way, it picks up on how much she wants Jack not to lose Ianto.
Involved Alice telling Jack that she was going to find Ianto and tell him to get out of there whilst he still could (Jack told her about him on Monday) and he told her that it was too late.
Ianto proposes to Jack (they were having 'WTF, I'm alive?' sex... I can't help it), Jack doesn't entirely believe that Ianto will still be alive in the morning, he thinks it's a dream. When he is, he tells Alice, who is still not speaking to him because she realised that he was going to sacrifice Steven. She does find Ianto and tells him to leave, but Ianto ignores her (doesn't know he's immortal, just ignores her).
Alice doesn't come to their Civil Partnership ceremony. Jack is hurt.
I think Steven dies of something that Jack could have cured, when he's about 16, and Jack blames himself for driving Alice away. But that's getting complicated.

2) Similar, but slightly different, Jack uses his own TARDIS powerz, he has just enough psychic ability to poke the 456. They detect the poking and rip his mind apart, releasing the TARDIS, which pushes time very slightly back in 1963 so that the 456 never found Earth.
As a result of one of those children surviving, Ianto died at Canary Wharf. The TARDIS figures this as wrong and brings him back then, so that he survives. The world shifts into the parallel'correct' version where Jack collapses across the table in the boardroom with his mind ripped apart and two realities existing in it. The Doctor detects the temporal screwing (minds out of the gutter please) and turns up, and has to rebuild Jack's mind. And tell ianto that he's a temporal anomaly and wasn't last time they met.
Cue lots of Ianto looking after a very confused and broken Jack in a time suspended room in the TARDIS.

3) Remember Tommy? Yeah, well, there was another of him in cryogenic suspension at Torchwood, just waiting for 2024 (pick a date, any date) when he was needed to save the world. (Not Tommy himself, you understand, just a similar situation).
Anyway. Time is falling apart because he's not there to fix it. Jack has been picked up by the Doctor, and they are both taken there by the TARDIS. The Doctor tells Jack that time has been out of joint since 2010, Jack is still refusing to tell him what made him run away and be all dark and anguished. Doctor tells Jack that they have to put right whatever happened, Jack tells him to take him to 2010 and he'll deal with it.
Future!Jack intercepts Rupesh and gets himself blown up instead of the Hub. but, of course, he can't stop there. He goes to Frobisher and tells him that he knows what's going to happen, and he knows how to put it right. Tells him he has to get Torchwood to help.
Future!Jack sacrifices Steven (unless I can get away with using Jack's mind again... or the actual TARDIS). If he does, then Past!Jack gets to hold Alice and tell her that he never would. If I can get away with it, Steven finds out that Jack is immortal and with Ianto, asks if that makes Ianto his Uncle Ianto.
Future!Jack leaves, saying that he has to go back to Future!Ianto.

4) Playing with the 'Ianto is a lying liar who lies' but he's sort of telling the truth. Ianto's father was a master tailor, or one of them was, but that was back in the 19th Century. One of his clients paid in sexual favours and they never saw each other again, well, not until Ianto turned up to a Weevil hunt. Another father also took him to the Electro. Current father worked at Debenhams.
He didn't tell Jack that he could reincarnate, because he didn't know for certain that he would, and didn't know if Jack would want him back with a different face. However, in his next reincarnation, he's in the Bay when the Doctor turns up to refuel and persuades him to take him along as a companion. They find Jack somewhere and Ianto has to rescue him. Ianto's first time in this body then probably happens (he's about 17, and Jack's not 100% comfortable with that.)
This one is my favourite, I think.

5) Parallel universe Ianto. Will depend on if RTD brings Rose back or not. If he does, then I'll bring Ianto and Ricky's boyfriend through too.

6) Jack has a dream of CoE... But it then really happens, and he has to tell Ianto what he dreamt about so that they can stop it.

7) Completely unexplained, just a phone call between Jack and Rhiannon and then Ianto and Rhiannon. He's just alive.

Did I say I'd lost a couple? I meant gained lol