Drabble: The Price Of Betrayal

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Title: The Price Of Betrayal

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ianto, mentions Jack, team

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 275 – Scent at tw100

Spoilers: End Of Days.

Summary: Ianto counts the cost of the team’s actions.

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

Ianto clutched Jack’s coat to his face and breathed deeply. It smelled of Jack, that warm, tantalising aroma Jack had always said was 51^st century pheromones.

Jack.

Tears stung Ianto’s eyes as grief threatened to overwhelm him. Jack had told them he couldn’t die, but now he lay lifeless in the morgue, the life force drained from him as he sacrificed himself to save the world.

It was all their fault. They’d let themselves be deceived by visions of loved ones long gone. Their betrayal had cost Jack his life.

Ianto’s half-healed heart shattered inside him.

He should’ve stopped them.

The End

Comments

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Poor Ianto.
I just want to hug him and tell him everything will be ok and Jack will come back.

Very clever to use that scene as a way in to talk about betrayal in this prompt.

[bk_forever]

Thank you. I was desperate to use that scene but somehow it came out a lot different than I'd imagined when I first had the idea. The betrayal part just came out of nowhere, but it worked far better than my original thought.

[timelordshines.livejournal.com]

I love that scene.
Ianto's pain is just so raw.

[bk_forever]

It really is, I just waned to hug him.

It was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the prompt, but ended up being the second drabble I wrote because I was watching a nature documentary and something came into my head that I just had to write, even before the documentary finished.