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Title: Off the Record
Author: rustydog
Characters: Gwen, Ianto
Rating: PG
Notes: Set after series 2. Written for tw100 challenge #176 Journalism


( High journalistic standards, is that what they're calling it these days? )

Title: AWAC (Absent With A Caravan)
Author: rustydog
Characters: Ianto, Jack
Ratings/warnings: G, no spoilers
Notes: Written for tw100 challenge #146 Torchwood Four and for "S" in my alphabet prompt table.


( Ianto always found interesting things in the archives. )

Title: A Pocketful of Mumbles
Author: rustydog
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: alien, Ianto, Jack, Gwen, Tosh
Rating/warnings: PG; spoiler for a non-plot detail from Children of Earth, if you squint
Words: 900
Notes: Unbeta'd. Written for Day Ten of consci_fan_mo. I've taken slight liberties with the Millennium Centre venues, but hopefully they'll forgive me. Lyric prompt by donutsweeper:

I am just a poor boy
Though my story's seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest
~ "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel

( He was having the worst day ever -- and that was before he met Torchwood. )

Title: What Once Was Lost
Author: rustydog
Characters: Toshiko, Gwen, Jack, Ianto, Owen
Rating: PG
Spoilers: vague references through 2x11
Words: 6979
Beta: donutsweeper
Notes: Written for "K" in my alphabet prompt table here.
Summary: The Hub is suddenly the Lost Property Office of time — which might be okay if half of the property didn't belong in a zoo.

( It must be a Monday. )

Author: rustydog
Rating: PG overall (most are G)
Notes: Three drabbles and one final double drabble on the theme of "water." Drabbles written for writercon100.

(Previously: Wind Quartet, Earth Quartet and Fire Quartet.)


Water Quartet
1.
Title: Something in the Rain Tonight
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Gwen/Rhys
Note: Set a few hours before 1x01 "Everything Changes."
Summary: It would be so easy just to stay here where it's warm and dry...

( Read more... )


2.
Title: Liquor of Life
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Characters: Nine, Jack, Rose
Summary: Rose really doesn't want to know.

( Read more... )


3.
Title: Swirls
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Ianto
Summary: There's always blood.

( Read more... )


4.
Title: The Quiet Inside a Cloud
Fandom: Classic Who
Characters: Seven, Ace
Summary: The Doctor wants to show Ace the sky.

( Read more... )

Title: To Know You
Author: rustydog
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Rating: G
Notes: Written for tw100's challenge #113 - Alternate Endings. Assumes an alternate ending for 1x07 "Greeks Bearing Gifts" and concerns 1x08 "They Keep Killing..."

( When Tosh didn't destroy the pendant, the temptation was too great. )

Title: How the Light Gets In
Author: rustydog
Characters: Gwen, Jack, Ianto
Rating/spoilers: Rated PG, set post-2x13 “Exit Wounds”
Word count: ~4900
Betas: donutsweeper and mad_jaks, who are speedy and helpful
Notes: This is a sequel to the winter solstice fic I wrote last year, Mid the Tallest Dark, and uses an alien device introduced in that story, but I think you can read it without reading the first one.
Summary: Toshiko still has a few tricks up her sleeve.


There is a crack in everything;
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen

( 'Did the alarm siren just play Jingle Bells?' )

Title: Magpie Augury
Author: rustydog
Characters: Jack, Owen, Gwen, Toshiko, Ianto, Suzie, Myfanwy
Rating: overall PG (parts 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 - PG, all others G)
Spoilers: (parts 1, 2, 8) 2x13 "Exit Wounds"; (part 10) 1x13 "End of Days" and 2x01 "KKBB"
Betas: mad_jaks and donutsweeper
Notes:
* This is a series of ten drabbles written in honor of tw100's one hundredth weekly challenge and crossposted at consci_fan_mo.
* In North America the counting/fortune telling rhyme usually refers to crows, and stops at seven, so before I discovered the various magpie versions, some of which do go to ten, I had added the last three lines myself.

"Magpie Augury"

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told
Eight for the ancient
Nine for the young
Ten for the word on the tip of your tongue

Something Old ( G | Spoilers for 2x13 )

Light of the Sun( PG | Spoilers for 2x13 )

Sally ( G | no spoilers )

The Hunted ( PG | no spoilers )

Heirloom, Full Moon( G | no spoilers )

Mementos ( PG | no spoilers )

Secret Shame ( G | no spoilers )

Millenium ( PG | vague spoiler for 2x13 )

Infant Mortality ( PG | no spoilers )

Older, Wiser ( G | spoilers for 1x13 & 2x01 )

Title: Down the Well Again
Characters: Myfanwy, Ianto
Rating/warnings: rated G, no spoilers, probably needs a crack warning
Notes: Written for tw100's challenge #93 - Plot Reverse. The plot is an oft-used scenario from the late 1950s TV version of Lassie. I am so glad there were still reruns playing in the 80s. Best after-school snack show ever. :)


( At least it wasn't quicksand this time. )

Eleven drabbles written for tw100 challenge #90, "Beatles song titles" and put here for archiving purposes. I've arranged them so that the three more serious ones are first and the lighter ones come after.

Title: Kittens and Fairies
Characters: Estelle, Moses
Beatles song title: "Leave My Kitten Alone"
Rating: G
Notes: Spoilers for 1x05 "Small Worlds."

( Estelle is angry, and repents. )


Title: Party of Four
Characters: Jack, Gwen, Ianto, Rhys
Beatles song title: "You're Going to Lose That Girl"
Notes: rated PG, set post-"Exit Wounds"

( Take a picture )


Title: In Spite of All the Danger
Characters: Rhys/Gwen
Beatles song title: "In Spite of All the Danger"
Notes: rated PG, set after 2x04 "Meat"
Summary: When the adrenaline dies down, Rhys reflects.

( Married, with children )


Title: Late Night Email
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Beatles song title: "I Am the Walrus"
Rating/warnings: rated G, no spoilers
Summary: "The time has come," the Walrus said...

( '...to talk of mamy things' )


Title: Me and My Monkey I
Characters: Owen and team
Beatles song title: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
Notes: rated PG, no spoilers

( Jack thought a lab monkey was a bad idea. )


Title: Me and My Monkey II
Characters: Ianto
Beatles song title: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
Notes: rated PG, no spoilers

( Good job you put clothes on your monkey, if the rest of him looks like his face, poor bugger. )


Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Characters: Owen, Jack
Beatles song title: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Notes: rated PG13 for metaphor, set pre-series

( Some instruments aren't meant to heal. )


Title: Enjoy Being a Girl (With a Gun)
Characters: Alice Guppy
Beatles song title: "Ain't She Sweet"
Notes: rated PG, character introduced in 2x12 "Fragments"

( The element of surprise )


Title: Aphrodesiac
Characters: Myfanwy, Ianto, Gwen, Owen
Beatles song title: "Cayenne"
Notes: rated PG, no spoilers

( Capsaicin has a slightly different effect on pterosaurs. )


Title: This Moment to Arise
Characters: Team
Beatles song title: "Blackbird"
Notes: rated G, set just after 2x04 "Meat." There is a legend that St. Kevin allowed a blackbird to nest in his hand and didn't disturb the nest until the chicks flew away. I almost want to call this drabble "What Would Sarah Jane Do?" :)

( Somebody's babies )


Title: Do It in the Road
Characters: Gwen/Owen
Beatles song title: "Why Don't We Do It in the Road"
Notes: rated PG13

( No one will be watching us )