Ficlet: Tosh Reincarnated

[bk_forever]

Title: Tosh Reincarnated

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Tosh, Team Torchwood. Alice & Steven mentioned

Rating: G

Spoilers: Exit Wounds, CoE

Summary: Tosh has been reincarnated in a very strange way.

Word Count: 432

Written For: james’s prompt ‘Torchwood, Toshiko, reincarnation isn't supposed to work like this, she thought’ at fic_promptly.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters. They belong to the BBC.

Tosh is pretty sure reincarnation isn’t supposed to work like this; then again, she’s Torchwood, or was before Gray killed her, so maybe the rules are different. Not that it matters, she’s not about to look a gift horse in the mouth. She didn’t want to die anyway, and now she’s alive again, after a fashion.

The weirdest part, possibly, is that she remembers what happened after she died, or at least the things that happened in Jack’s office. If she could blush, she’d be scarlet. She’d always suspected Ianto had a kinky side, but the memories she’s acquired in her new existence leave no doubt whatsoever. He’s also amazingly flexible.

She ‘remembers’ other things too: the explosion that destroyed the Hub, for instance. It’s clear in her ‘mind’ even though at the time she must have been locked away in a morgue drawer. The blast ripped a hole in the fabric of time and space, tore into the Rift itself, threw her bodily into the void. Or threw her body into the void. Same difference, now she thought about it. Something else ended up in the void too, and somehow they combined. Her awareness is everywhere now, she can see all of space and time, and where she can see, she can go. There are timelines that need fixing, enemies that need defeating… She believes she’s up to the task.

So she plucks Owen from Turnmill just before the room he’s in is flooded with radiation. She materialises in Thames House in time to snatch Ianto before he can be exposed to the 456’s virus. Jack still has work to do; she’ll collect him later, after she’s dealt with the 456.

She’s brilliant of course; she doesn’t need to use a child to turn the 456’s signal back on the ship it originates from. Jack rescues Alice and Stephen, gets them to safety and helps deal with the aftermath. Gwen and Rhys help too, and they meet up with Tosh and the others on a hilltop a few months later. Gwen is tempted to go with her friends, her team, but she’s heavily pregnant by now and married, and anyway, someone should stay behind to hold the fort.

Farewells are said, and Tosh promises they’ll all visit as often as they can, but they have a whole universe to explore. Closing her door, she starts up her time rotor.

“Where shall we go first?”

With a wheezing, groaning sound, she dematerialises, taking her friends out into space.

No, reincarnation probably isn’t supposed to work like this, but she couldn’t be happier.

The End

Comments

[milady-dragon.livejournal.com]

That is freaking awesome! I love Tosh not only as a TARDIS, but melding with the coral from Jack's office! And she manages to save everyone! I would adore more of the team's adventures in time and space. Pretty please?

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Tosh is a TARDIS oh wow!! great idea and great story.

[bk_forever]

*grins* Thank you! She needed to be reincarnated and it just suddenly came to me that she'd make a brilliant TARDIS!

[bk_forever]

This is possibly going to be the next big project after I finish Through Time and Space, but I'm not going to start until I get that finished (another 10 chapters or so to write, probably), because the two ideas are similar and I don't want to get more confused than I already am. Maybe I shouldn't have posted this one yet, but I love the idea so much and the person who left the prompt years ago never commented, and I just REALLY wanted to know what people thought of it so I took the plunge!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[hsmichael.livejournal.com]

Now this is what reincarnation is supposed to be. Getting to travel anywhere in time and space with just a thought and remembering everything... May I come too? I can be the cook, while Ianto makes the coffee and hot cocoa (I'm not much of a coffee drinker).

I'm sure Tosh also saved the coffee machine. I mean, how else is she going to get all the delicious caffeine Ianto concocts.

[asia27.livejournal.com]

Only you could do this; for the Library!

Brilliant, wonderful and a very satisfying ending :D

[bk_forever]

Thank you! There's a possibility I might continue this or expand it at a later date, I just love the idea of Tosh the TARDIS!

[bk_forever]

I suspect everyone is going to be surprised by what Tosh has rescued! Torchwood's computer mainframe? The archives? Myfanwy? After all, Tosh is bigger on the inside now (in a way, she always was), there's room for everything that matters to her friends!

I'd love to hitch a ride with her too.

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Best fix-it ever! Tosh would make a wonderful TARDIS. She's intelligent, sensitive and moral. With Team Torchwood to help her out the world is going to be a much better place once they get going!

[asia27.livejournal.com]

OOOooohhhhh more Tosh Tardis! Especially with Owen, Jack and Ianto :D :D D

After you finish that other one, Ianto and his Tardis I can see that little Tardis piece having broken in half and 'rescuing' both Tosh and Ianto; either way, I love your solution!

[bk_forever]

They're two very different 'verses because in Through Time and Space, Ianto died in CoE and went through the events of House of the Dead, while in the Tosh-TARDIS 'verse, Tosh saves Ianto and prevents Jack having to sacrifice Steven. Both sets of events can't exist in the same universe and if Tosh changes events in Through Time and Space, then all the good Ianto and Jack do in that series won't have happened.

I'll see what I come up with once TTaS is done, which will be a while as I still have a lot to write. *grins*

[bk_forever]

Thank you! I think you're right, Tosh already had a lot of TARDIS qualities when she was human, now she can use them tom the benefit of the entire universe!


Glad you liked it!

[asia27.livejournal.com]

.....oooookkkkkkk......

Timey wimey wibbly wobbly....

I think you just explained Miracle Day and its anomalies too ...

goin' back in my box now...

[bk_forever]

ROFL! Yep, Miracle Day is the result of a paradox. Don't worry, Tosh will sort things out so that it b=never happened!

[musicaluvr.livejournal.com]

Oh... this is fantastic - TARDIS!Tosh is the absolute tops and a wonderful fixit for all of the things that went wrong with TW after Day 4....

I love, love, love your idea.

I can hardly wait for the remaining chapters of "Through Time And Space" and then TARDIS!Tosh. *sets up camp in front of computer and waits*

Oh.... is it posting time yet

[bk_forever]

Thank you! Tosh would make a wonderful TARDIS, because she's brilliant and brave and caring!

There's a long way still to go with Through Time and Space, but I'll try to get the next chapter up soon, and I need to get started writing another one too, I only have 5 days left on this challenge! o_O

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Oh this is a fantastic twist to the story, I like this and kind of wish there was more XD Lovely <3<3

[bk_forever]

I'm hoping to expand and continue it at some point, I love the idea of Tosh being a TARDIS! But I need to finish Through Time and Space first.

Thank you!

[jedi-harkness.livejournal.com]

Oooh, brilliant! :D

[bk_forever]

*grins* Thank you! I'm hoping to extend this someday =)

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

Yay for Tardis Tosh!
Weirdly, this fic really works :-)

[bk_forever]

It's amazing how sometimes the most outlandish ideas work!

Glad you liked it =)

Thank you!

I'm off to bed now as I'm not well. Sweet dreams!

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

Sweet dreams. I hope you feel better soon!
*hugs*
I'm going to try for an earlyish night tonight too.

[bk_forever]

Thanks *hugs* I haven't gone quite yet because I forgot there was a CD I wanted to bid on over on ebay. So, got that and now I'll answer a few more emails and turn in.

Sleep tight!