Fic: A Gift From The Rift
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Title: A Gift From The Rift
Author: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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Characters: Jack, Ianto, Tosh, Gwen, Owen
Rating: G
Word Count: 560
Warnings/Spoilers: None, just a bit of harmless fluff.
Summary: Ummm, something new falls through the rift?
Disclaimer: I still don’t own Torchwood, or the characters. Pity, that.
A/N: Yes, I know I should be working on the next Nosy-Verse fic! Blame timelordshines for this one, she challenged me to use this silly made up word (I came up with it while making up a planet name for her) in one of my fics. She also said it made her think of a small pig, so….
A small rift event had occurred in Bute Part, and since it was a very slow, very dull day with absolutely nothing else happening, the entire team had piled into the SUV to investigate. When they reached the coordinates, they found a small… something, huddled under a rose bush.
“Well look at that!” Jack exclaimed. “It’s a shrodlet, I haven’t seem one of those in I don’t know how long!”
“It’s a whatlet?” Owen was trying and failing to keep a straight face.
“Shrodlet. Don’t worry, they’re completely harmless. You can put your weapons away. They’re very popular as pets on Benobus 9, as I recall.”
Tosh crouched down for a closer look. “It’s adorable!” The little creature blinked up at her and whistled faintly.
“Poor thing,” said Gwen sympathetically, leaning over Tosh’s shoulder to look. “It must be scared.”
To be honest, it didn’t really look scared, just a bit bewildered, like it had settled down for a nap and then woken up somewhere completely different.
Jack stooped down and carefully scooped the small creature up. He held it out to the girls. “Go ahead, pet it, it can’t hurt you. The worst it can do is give you a nasty suck. They don’t have teeth,” he explained.
The shrodlet wiggled its little snout at them. It looked rather like a small piglet, but with a longer, more mobile snout and small pointed ears. At the other end was a stubby little tail that waggled almost as much as its snout. Also, it was a rather fetching shade of lavender. Tosh petted it gently, discovering it was covered in short, soft fur like velvet.
“It’s so soft! No wonder they’re popular pets.”
Gwen petted it too, cooing at it.
Ianto was frowning. “If they don’t have teeth, what do they eat?” he asked, reaching out and idly tickling the shrodlet behind a small, pale purple ear.
“Nectar, honey, stuff like that. Mashed fruit too. Anything soft and sweet will do.”
“Can we keep it?” asked Tosh, lifting the creature out of Jack’s hands and holding it close.
“Don’t really have a choice, do we?” said Owen. “Can’t send it back where it came from.”
“I’d better stock up on soft fruit then,” Ianto grumbled good naturedly.
Jack grinned at him. “Get some of that runny honey while you’re at it. If the shrodlet doesn’t like it, I know what we can do with it,” he said with a leer.
Ianto rolled his eyes. “Of course. Anything else, sir?”
“No, I think that’ll do for now.”
“Is it a boy or a girl?” Gwen wanted to know.
“It’s light coloured, so it’s a female. The males are several shades darker,” Jack told them.
“I think I’ll call her Velvet,” Tosh decided, “I’ve never had a pet! I’ll look after her, Ianto, you won’t have to do anything.”
“They like warm, humid conditions so Ianto and I will help you build it a pen in the hothouse. It’ll be safer in there anyway, we don’t want Myfanwy mistaking it for a snack. Ianto’s very handy at building things,” Jack added.
Chattering away happily to each other, the team headed back towards the SUV with the new Torchwood resident. It was good to know that the rift could occasionally hand them something that didn’t want to eat them or conquer the world!
The End
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:16 pm (UTC)I love it! I was grinning from start to finish. :-)
The Shrodlet is adorable! And it is really well written with everyone so in character.
And I only threw down the gauntlet last night... I should challenge you more often, get you writing more fic :-)
This doesnt have to be a standalone... it could fit into your nosey verse - give him someone to play with....?
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:36 pm (UTC)I've had Shrodlet on the brain since last night (sounds a bit painful, that!) and since I've been feeling a bit crap all day, I figured I'd try to relax and write something. I kept thinking of things and jotting down notes until it took over this evening and I wrote it quite quickly, I was surprised! Now if I could just get started on the Nosy fic I'd really be getting somewhere!
Glad you enjoyed it, since you wanted me to write it, lol! Now back to Nosy...
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:52 pm (UTC)I want a shrodlet! *goes off to find cat...*
Hope you are feeling better and the writing helped you to relax.
You'll get there with Nosy, just keep working at it.
I'm busy working on three fics at the moment for my hc_bingo. When I get stuck on one I just move onto the next before going back a bit later when inspiration strikes. I'm not sure any of them are really hitting the prompts properly though. I'm trying to keep them closely linked to episodes, but not be too obvious about which bits I choose to use.
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Date: 2012-08-29 09:20 pm (UTC)I'm so slow.
I've tried writing several fics at once but I just end up confusing myself, which is strange because I can read any number of books/fics at once and not get them mixed up. I'm just weird.
Good luck with the bingo prompts! Having a prompt to write to is a bit restricting in a way, because of it having to fit. I guess that's one of the reasons I don't use prompts, I can't make my brain think along defined lines, it just goes off on tangents and I end up nowhere near where I started. Grasshopper mind! Even when I'm just thinking to myself, I keep losing track of what I was thinking about.
Still feeling crap, so I'm reading Message In A Bottle. I really like the Torchwood Four team, there should be a TV show about them, lol!
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:23 pm (UTC)I also have serious need of a Shrodlet now.
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Date: 2012-08-29 08:40 pm (UTC)Shrodlets are cute - I just invented them, but I want one too! Tosh will be devoted to her new pet.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Date: 2012-08-29 09:42 pm (UTC)it really "looked" lovely with your description and I am sure she will give back as much love as she will get!
thanks for this!
you are on the roll, my dear J!!!!!
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Date: 2012-08-29 09:51 pm (UTC)I'm glad you liked this!
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Date: 2012-08-29 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 11:04 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed!
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Date: 2012-08-29 10:44 pm (UTC)I wish I could do fluff as well as you do.
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Date: 2012-08-29 11:07 pm (UTC)I sometimes wish I could write something other than fluff, but everyone else does smut and angst etc. so well, so I just stay in my little corner supplying fluff to anyone who needs it. Glad you enjoyrd it!
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Date: 2012-08-29 11:19 pm (UTC)That was beautiful, Velvet it's adorable!!!
Loved it!!!
Hugs!!!
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Date: 2012-08-29 11:23 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed it =D
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Date: 2012-08-30 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:47 am (UTC)Glad you enjoyed =)
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Date: 2012-08-30 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:50 am (UTC)Tosh will take very good care of her indeed, but she'll have plenty of help and I'm sure the rest of the team will keep sneaking into the hothouse to play with the shrodlet!
Glad you liked!
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Date: 2012-08-30 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:55 am (UTC)Just proves I CAN still write short fics if I try, lol!
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Date: 2012-08-30 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:57 am (UTC)They will, even Owen! He'll be spending much more time in the hothouse 'tending his plants' now. Of course everyone will know he's really playing with the shrodlet, lol!
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Date: 2012-08-30 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 10:04 am (UTC)Yep! Another new pet! I haven't decided yet if this is part of the Nosy-verse; at the moment it's just a short one-shot, but they may cross over at some point in the future.
Did you see the new Nosy fic a few days ago?
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Date: 2012-08-31 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-31 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-31 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-30 09:54 pm (UTC)Well, Tosh has claimed it so she gets to name it, and it already has a species name - he'll probably just call it the purple piglet, lol!
Haven't decided yet whether or not this one will be part of the Nosy-Verse - some people are in favour of Velvet being a playmate for Nosy, but it's so tiny I worry about it! Think guinea-pig sized! On the other hand, Nosy is gentle and would be very protective... I can't decide, but I have other Nosy stories to tell first so I don't need to make a decision yet!
Thanks for reading, glad you enjoyed it!
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Date: 2012-08-31 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-31 03:36 pm (UTC)Cute is what I do - I leave the angsty stuff to others who are far better at than I am, lol!
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Date: 2012-08-31 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-31 09:19 pm (UTC)Thanks for reading, I'm glad you enjoyed =D
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Date: 2012-09-01 06:31 am (UTC)I love Tosh. I really do, but my sarcastic inner voice said, "Mhm. Yeah."
But the little critter does sound cute.
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Date: 2012-09-01 09:40 am (UTC)Thanks for reading and commenting, I'm glad you liked it!
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Date: 2012-09-04 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-04 04:34 pm (UTC)Glad you liked it =)
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Date: 2012-09-05 10:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-05 11:25 am (UTC)Everyone wants a shrodlet. I want one too!
Glad you enjoyed!