Double Drabble: Impossible Task

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Title: Impossible Task
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 653: Impossible at tw100.
Spoilers: Set after Ianto’s section of Fragments.
Summary: There’s a lot more to the archives than Ianto realised.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




When Ianto had offered to organise Torchwood’s archives, he hadn’t realised what a ridiculously impossible task he was setting himself, mostly because when Jack had been showing him around the Hub, it had been something of a whirlwind tour.


“Armoury, med bay, cold storage, firing range, archives…”


Ianto had been given a brief glimpse of one large, messy room, then dragged off to see the Weevils and a couple of other aliens in the cells, which Jack expected him to feed and care for.


“I could carry out maintenance work around the Hub as well, do the filing, maybe even tidy the archives so you can find things. No offence, but it looked a bit messy down there.”


Jack had nodded. “Good idea. The rest of us never have the time; we do what we can, but it’s been decades since we had an archivist.”


Unfortunately, Jack had failed to mention that the area designated the archives wasn’t just a single room, but a whole series of interconnecting rooms and passageways, lined with shelves, and piled high with boxes and crates crammed with the accumulated junk from over a century of Rift activity.


“And I volunteered to sort it out.”



The End

Comments

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

What a task, but no one better than Ianto as Jack will find out. I feel for him though, as I had to do something similar, on a very much smaller scale, with a history of Glasgow collection of books. Found an Audoban that had been missing for years, and had somehow crept in

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Ianto will get the job done. Eventually.

That must still have been a fascinating project. We had some Audubon books in the university's collection, housed with a lot of other ornithology books in a special collection, locked cabinets in a locked room. Working in the biology section of the science library, I had access to that room. =)

Thank you!