Drabble: Final Chance
Oct. 12th, 2012 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Title: Final Chance
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Characters: Ianto, mentions Jack
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 255 – Sink or Swim at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
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Spoilers: Fragments
Summary: Getting a job with Torchwood Three proves difficult.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or any of the characters.
A/N: I wrote this at practically the same time as my friend timelordshines wrote her drabble Last Chance – in fact when I wrote it, I gave it the same title, I think we must be sharing the same brain. Anyway, she posted hers first so I changed my title, although part of me wanted to call it Last Chance: The Prequel because they just fit together so well!
He’d stalked Harkness for weeks, waiting for the right opportunity to present itself. Rescued him from a weevil and got the brush off.
Stalked him some more, offered him coffee, which obviously met with his approval. Got the brush off again. What did it take to impress the guy? Something different, something new.
When he stumbled across the Pterodactyl, managed to lure it into an empty warehouse using chocolate, he knew it was his final chance because he’d never find something to top this!
Waiting by the road in the rain, he steeled himself. This was it. Sink or swim.
The End
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Date: 2012-10-12 12:58 pm (UTC)It's so funny how you and Timelordshines both took the prompt in such similar ways. Something similar happened with me and Captain91 and the "Moving Mountains" challenge. So weird to see the idea you're still hashing out appear in the comm posted by someone else! LOL.
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Date: 2012-10-12 01:23 pm (UTC)Even Jack couldn't resist the chance of catching pterodactyl! It was a real stroke of luck that Ianto found her, otherwise he might never have got the job!
I loved the scene and felt it fitted the prompt, but although I wrote them back to back, I got the other drabble finished first so it was posted first. I now have a third drabble for the prompt which I intend to post on Sunday. Drabbles are taking over my brain! =S
Thank you =)
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Date: 2012-10-12 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 02:08 pm (UTC)Thank you =)
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Date: 2012-10-12 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 03:39 pm (UTC)Thanks, Glad you liked it!
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Date: 2012-10-12 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-12 03:04 pm (UTC)Love it!
Great minds think alike obviously hehe.
Thanks for linking mine in. Just going to go edit mine to include a link to yours now that it is up, since they really are two parts of the same story :-)
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Date: 2012-10-12 03:44 pm (UTC)I read them both together last night - anyone would think we'd sat down together and planned it! It's what the word Serendipity was invented for!
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Date: 2012-10-12 04:10 pm (UTC)You are an expert in writing drabbles by now, J!!! keep the good work!
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Date: 2012-10-12 05:46 pm (UTC)I still think of myself as a learner drabbler, I fight the word count every time and have to spend ages pruning and re-phrasing things, but I'm enjoying it and it means I have something to post while I'm working on the longer stories. I just hope
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Date: 2012-10-12 11:29 pm (UTC)Excellent, my dear!!!
Hugs!!!
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Date: 2012-10-13 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-14 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-14 12:03 pm (UTC)Will be posting an Owen one later today. I hope.
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Date: 2012-10-15 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-15 06:44 pm (UTC)Thank you, glad you liked it!