Title: Iantowood
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Ianto, background side pairings
Categories/Genres: action, angst, casefic
Length: Epic, 300K+
Warnings: canon typical violence, torture (non graphic), consensual semi-graphic sex

Author/Artist on LJ: jovialien
Author/Artist Website: on a03 (http://archiveofourown.org/users/jovialien/profile)

Summary: Jack is a broken waste of a man in the years following Ianto's death in CoE, so John Hart decides to go back and fix it.

Review:
This series is, without a doubt, one of the best fanfics I have ever read. I stayed up way too late every night for a week reading this. And it was sooo worth it.

It starts a few years after the events of Children of Earth, Jack is back in the future and back with John Hart, but he's a shell of the man he used to be; destructive and useless. John decided to do something about it and goes back in time to save Ianto's life. The story that follows is SO much more than just a CoE fixit, it tells an incredibly nuanced and well paced story of how the world recovers after undergoing such a horrific experience. The story is primarily told from Ianto's perspective and we get to see him slowly grow into this badass man who finds himself in charge of Torchwood and having to deal with the political consequences of the world.

Jovialien jumps perspective, which gives the story a real sense of breadth and completeness. All the main people are there, Gwen, Jack, John, Martha but it's the secondary and original characters that the author shows her expertise through. Minor characters from CoE - such as Lois and Johnson - are given backgrounds and have a real role to play in the story, in addition to the original characters plopped in to help tell the story, all of whom you genuinely care for. The Jack/Ianto romance is full of angst and pain and love. The author stays to canon with Jack leaving at the end, and the story explores the pain that Ianto felt at being abandoned. Jack comes back not to the innocent boy he left, but a man who is confident in what he wants from life.

I've reread this story so many times. You can see my disgusting comments on the ao3 pages if you read it. I like gush all over the damn thing its so good. Just go read it.

Iantowood (http://archiveofourown.org/series/24612)