Drabble: Urban Redevelopment

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Title: Urban Redevelopment

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Jack, Ianto

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 316 – Reverse Fandom – How I Met Your Mother at tw100

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Jack’s been having fun.

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

A/N: This will probably be my last drabble for this challenge. I don’t have any more written and tomorrow I need to post two of my bingo fics, the first two parts of my big AU series. There will be seven parts altogether, of wildly varying lengths. So, apologies if there’s no drabble for a couple of days. I hope to resume drabbles on Thursday.

Stepping into Jack’s office early one morning, Ianto found his lover watching CCTV on his computer and grinning.

“What’s got you so happy this damp and dreary morning?”

“Come and see this!”

Ianto joined Jack and leant over his shoulder. The screen showed a nearby building site, where a load of sand had been delivered the previous day. The builders were standing around it scratching their heads, bemused and unsure how to proceed. Sometime during the night, someone had got past site security and turned the building sand into sandcastles.

Ianto laughed.

“Bored last night, were you?”

“Couldn’t resist it!”

The End

A/N2: Title used was ‘Sandcastles In The Sand’

Comments

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

It can happen *hugs* :)

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It was the second time in one day too, LOL! Sometimes I can't tell 'm' from 'n' and I had the Tim Man in one of my fics *headdesk* Can't wait for my new glasses!

And then LJ made me split one story into three parts and kept taking the line breaks out every single time. I must have put them back in at least 10 times, took an hour and a half to post one story here. Yesterday was a tad frustrating. Plus my CD player broke so I didn't even have music. Forget Friday the 13th, apparently it's Wednesday the 25th I need to worry about o_O

Hoping to get things right today! Wish me luck, I'll probably need it ;)

Thank you for pointing it out though, I really hate making silly mistakes, I pride myself on my spelling, it's one thing I know I can do. Sadly, my hands can't spell as well as my brain can.

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know that I have some issues with my grammar sometimes (English as second language), so I always try to get things beta'ed, however short. Plus the odd spelling mistake, no doubt *lol*

*hugs*

[bk_forever]

Sometimes betas miss things too, and I'm speaking as a beta. There have been times I've missed things I should have caught. The simple fact is, no matter how many times something is read through, or by how many pairs of eyes, some things still get overlooked.

I usually only use betas for some of my longer fics, and not for drabbles, but I usually do several edits on everything I write and still manage to miss silly things. I posted a drabble once and then realised I'd left the 'r' out of Thursday.

I would never have guessed you're not a native English speaker, you're English is better than that of a lot of people who claim English as their first language.

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *grins*

Maybe it's partly because I use English a lot (read, write, speak and also when thinking), and maybe partly because of spending my fist few years in USA (parents studied there). Grammar bits (the 'to', 'from' etc. bits especially) are still somewhat clumsy when I write stuff, though.

(edit: up here we also don't dub stuff, which helps - only movies for kids are possibly dubbed)

[bk_forever]

Well, anyone can get in a knot with those. The rules of English grammar seem to have more exceptions than actual rules. I'm a native English speaker (who is horrendous at any other language) and I often wonder how anyone who wasn't brought up speaking the language ever manages to learn it. When I think of all the words that sound the same but are spelled differently and all the words that can mean two or three completely different things, I think English must have been invented by a bunch of lunatics. Half of it defies common sense.

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

*nods* My language (Finnish) is also quite tricky to learn, and has its own quirks (like spelling the word right, because adding a letter
*can* change things - 'tuli'/'tulli'/'tuuli' (fire/customs (like encountered while traveling)/wind) or 'lakkaa satamasta' ((when it)stops raining/(to go get)shellac from a harbor)).

[bk_forever]

I'd definitely never manage to learn Finnish, I couldn't even master French at school and that's supposed to be easy, lol! Languages are my weak point. if I hadn't learnt English from birth I don't know what I'd do!

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Here we have to take at least one language besides one's own. We always have to take Swedish... and Swedish-speaking minority has to take Finnish. I took, besides Swedish and English, also French (though I re-started it once *lol*). My sister took more, and my parents can speak also several. My Swedish is clumsy and basic, and I use French only to read comics, which was my goal for taking it anyway XD

[bk_forever]

We had to take French at school. I had lessons for 5 years and I was still useless. It was so long ago now that I've forgotten most of what I learned anyway. I always wanted to learn languages, but my brain just doesn't seem to have any aptitude for them. Sad really.