Drabble: Lashing Out

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Title: Lashing Out

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ianto, mentions Tanizaki, Lisa and Jack

Rating: PG

Spoilers: Cyberwoman.

Summary: All Ianto’s plans are coming unravelled.

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

A/N: For one of the prompts I didn’t get around to using for tw100’s challenge 316 earlier this year. I’ve dug them out again to supplement the prompts I got from my f-list, just because there are still loads I wanted to use. Prompt at the end.

Tanizaki was supposed to help Lisa; now he’s dead and Ianto’s panicking. Everything’s falling apart, all that planning for nothing. He hides the body, even though there’s little point.

Lisa’s out of control, everyone knows, and Jack has a gun to his head. The day can’t get any worse. Why should he keep quiet any longer?

“I clear up your shit. No questions asked and that's the way you like it. When did you last ask me anything about my life?”

It’s a low blow, but it hits its mark; they all look guilty.

It only makes him feel worse.

The End

A/N2: Prompt used is ‘No Questions Asked’

Comments

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I like this.
I like how you used the present tense for a change.
It gives it momentum and a sense of inevitably- like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

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Thank you! The tense tends to choose itself automatically, I very seldom try to change to a different tense when an idea strikes. This one just had to be in the present, which I love writing in, I don't think it would have worked otherwise.

(I have quite a few pieces written in present tense during Contest Week on fic_promptly, which I still haven't posted. I'll get there eventually, when tw100 drabbles stop eating my brain!)