Recommendation - fanwork

Get Loved, Make More, Try to Stay Alive by dsudis 
Jack/Ianto, R, written 2008.  Spoilers through Torchwood s2 and Doctor Who "Journey's End."
This is my new personal canon for the end of Torchwood.  This is a brilliant look at Ianto's personality.  This is lovely and heartbreaking and hilarious.  This is the only mpreg story I will ever recommend.  RTD, this is how a Torchwood agent like Ianto lives and dies.

Recommendation - published work

Hero by Perry Moore

Thom is a teenager, a basketball player, an okay guy.  He has seizures sometimes.  Thom's mom disappeared a while ago and his dad never manages to get ahead at work - everyone blames him for a disaster that happened a while ago.  Thom's dad hates superheros and gay people.  Thom thinks he's probably gay and something weird is happening to his body that might...possibly...be the first signs of super powers. 

Structured on the superhero genre, this YA novel is an amazing addition to the capes-and-tights mythos.  Despite the presence of a few openly queer superheroes in mainstream comics now, most representations of sexual minorities are tragic, stereotyped, or both.  Hero is a valiant remedy to that, letting the reader into the main character's head as he struggles with his sexuality and his burgeoning powers, a privilege that the comics medium can not really support.  Beyond the soul-searching, though, there are plenty of adventures and conflict in the true super-heroic style, as Moore pays heed to the tropes on which he draws.

Perry Moore mentioned that he may, possibly, be heading up a television series based on Hero!