Double Drabble: Courting Disaster

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Title: Courting Disaster
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Gwen, Jack.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 687: Dock at tw100.
Spoilers: Adrift.
Summary: Ianto waits for Jack and Gwen to return from Flat Holm.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




Ianto stood on the dock, staring out across the water towards Flat Holm Island. He’d known pointing Gwen towards the place Rift abductees were housed and cared for was the only thing he could do, but that didn’t make him feel any better about it.


Gwen would have never given up, and her obsession had been interfering with her assigned work. There’d been every possibility she might put her own or someone else’s life at risk because she was too distracted to pay attention. Jack had understood that too, but had been in an awkward position, having told her several times to drop it. If he’d backed down after that, he would have lost any semblance of authority over her, she would have thought she could get away with anything. That had left the ball firmly in Ianto’s court.


Jack had called a while ago, saying they’d be on their way back shortly, so Ianto had come out to meet them. From what little Jack had told him, things hadn’t gone well; Gwen had been angry and upset, refusing to listen to reason, and now she wanted to take Jonah’s mother out there. That had disaster written all over it.



The End

Comments

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

That episode was the perfect illustration of how self centred and unfeeling Gwen was. Even after seeing how damaged the victims were, she wanted to inflict that pain on Jonah's mother. I think she actually had a well developed sadistic streak

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I just never brought into her reasoning. It was only going to give Jonah and Nikki false hope, damage Jonah more than ever, and break Nikki's heart. Gwen just wanted to prove she was right,

Thank you!