Drabble: Instant Coffee Blues

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Title: Instant Coffee Blues

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ianto, mentions Jack

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 310 – Caffeine at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Ianto and Jack’s dinner date doesn’t end well.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: Title from Guy Clark’s song of the same name.

Ianto was appalled. How could such a swanky restaurant be so backward in one vital respect? If he were a restaurant critic, he decided, he would definitely not recommend eating there.

The food had been excellent, the ambience pleasant and welcoming, the service faultless, the staff polite and the standards of hygiene beyond reproach. Even the prices were reasonable. He and Jack had thoroughly enjoyed their meals.

Then they’d made their one mistake; they’d ordered coffee.

It had been served in elegant cups, along with after dinner mints, but even beautiful presentation couldn’t disguise the fact that it was instant!

The End

Comments

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The prompt for this week was caffeine, so all my drabbles are coffee-related. that's just the way it works! I've done a coffee one for FAKE too (not posted yet) - I've decided to try to do a FAKE drabble each week using the torchwood drabble prompt of the week, whenever it works for the fandom.

Thank you!

[awieatti.livejournal.com]

Ah okay, that makes sense :D
I'm looking forward to the FAKE drabble(s) ;)

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I'm hoping to post the Coffee one later today - the kitten one os done, but I think I want to write a sequel to it so I'm holding that back until the other one is written, then I can post one after the other.

I'll let you know what the Torchwood drabble prompt is each week if you want, then you can see if it inspires a FAKE drabble.

[awieatti.livejournal.com]

Alrighty, I'm looking forward to the kitten drabbles! :D

Yes, that would be great, thanks! One can never have enough prompts for drabbles :)

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Well, don't know if you can do anything with this week's for FAKE - In honour of St Patrick's day, we have Leprechauns! o_O

I think I can manage for a Torchwood drabble or two, but FAKE? Ummmm.... I'm struggling here, lol!

Still haven't written the second kitten drabble, I got sidetracked last night. Wrote a drabble for Torchwood with one of my saved prompts, then had an idea how I could use it for FAKE and wrote that instead of the kitten one. Not that I mind, the more drabbles the merrier! I think I have 4 written for FAKE, ready yo post when I can fit them into my posting schedule. Might get one up today, might not, depends whether I have enough time among everything else I need to do =)

[awieatti.livejournal.com]

Leprechauns?! xD No problem, I think I have an idea for a drabble...

Don't rush it, I'll just wait patiently for the kitty ;)

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Can't wait to see what you get from Leprechauns and FAKE!

[awieatti.livejournal.com]

Haha, I bet :D I will probably upload it today. ;)