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Title: Conversational Japanese
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gilascave 
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.
Warnings: Imprisonment
Commentary: There is something horrfyingly hilarious about his fic. On the one hand, there is nothing funny about being in a confined space for a long period of time. On the other hand, getting just a bit too comfotrable with your cellmate can be kind of funny. Jack's observations at the end are both touching and utterly Jack, and the punchline with have you laughing on the floor.

"Six months, fourteen days," Ianto said, counting the hash marks twice to be sure.

"You would think they'd have rescued us by now," Tosh said, conversationally. Ianto still had to roll her words through his brain a couple of times, separating out the Japanese sounds into words he knew. He was fairly good at filling in the meaning of words he didn't know, and Toshiko rarely corrected him anymore.

"Perhaps they've been killed in horribly nasty ways," Ianto offered. He grinned when Toshiko rolled her eyes.

"You're getting very fond of morbid humour, Ianto."

"I've decided that's my coping mechanism this month. Morbid humour. Next month I think I'll go with singing every song I can remember in order to pass the time."

Toshiko looked at him with barely disguised horror. "You can't sing."

"I know lots of songs," Ianto said. "I'm sure I can carry on for an entire month."

"No, I mean - I've heard you sing. You can't. You sound like a Welsh frog that's being squashed by a large boot."

Ianto blinked. "That's quite the image."

"If you sing I'll be forced to kill you," Toshiko continued, calmly. "And then I'll have no one to talk to or play igo with and when they rescue me I'll be insane and it will all be your fault."

Ianto had to parse three times, asking for clarification for 'no one to talk to' and 'your fault' before he could reply. "So, no singing, then?"

"No singing."



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