Drabble: Elusive Butterfly
Apr. 26th, 2013 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Title: Elusive Butterfly
Author: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Ianto, Owen
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 281 – Lepidoptera at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif){kind=small}
tw100
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Catching the alien is sometimes a bit unpredictable…
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
Just to be different, this time the Rift spat out the alien equivalent of a butterfly – 30cm across, four lacy, pastel coloured wings and tentacles for legs.
Chasing it proved exhausting and fruitless, until…
“Oh, well done! You caught it! I think it likes you.” Jack sounded half impressed, half jealous as he ushered Ianto into the SUV.
“Not a word from anyone, or you’ll all be on permanent decaf!” Ianto snarled stepping into the Hub a short while later, the alien perched at a jaunty angle on his head like an Easter bonnet.
Owen fell off his chair laughing.
TBC in 'Adhesive Butterfly'
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Date: 2013-04-26 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-26 02:02 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-04-26 01:54 pm (UTC)Maybe it would enjoy hanging out in the alien greenhouse? They could start a Torchwood Butterfly Garden.
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Date: 2013-04-26 02:08 pm (UTC)Perhaps alien butterflies like coffee so Ianto is irresistible! And now he looks Oh so pretty and Jack is jealous, lol! It's a good thing the SUV has tinted windows...
Thabk you!
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Date: 2013-04-26 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-26 02:36 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-04-26 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-26 08:01 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-04-26 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-04-27 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-27 03:22 pm (UTC)Sequel to this one will hopefully be up tomorrow. So far i've ended up with 5 this week....
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:30 pm (UTC)Loved it! I could just picture this huge beautiful alien butterfly on Ianto's head. :D I must read the sequels!
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:39 pm (UTC)I once had a large dragonfly hitch a lift home with me, so I decided to give Ianto a pretty alien butterfly, lol!
This series is going to continue, I'm working on the fourth one and there are others planned!
*hugs* Hope you're doing okay!
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Date: 2013-05-05 10:05 pm (UTC)Things are better than they were. Michael and I are getting along better again.
I've had two nerve blocks. The last one was more painful even with the happy drug they gave me, but it did keep my bits numb longer. The right side wore off in about 8 hours, but the rest maybe a day and I think there is less pain on the left side. It seems to be intermittent pain now, which is good news. I wonder if that bad spot on the right will ever go away. Oh well, not giving up. I have one more nerve block to go on the 20th of this month, then in 3 weeks he will check my pain level again.
I am "again" trying some new drugs for pain and bipolar disorder. Did I tell you about the "Topamax" mood stabilizer I tried. It was great at first, I felt better and it made me lose weight, which "never" happens to me on these meds. I always gain, but...my hair started falling out! I had to stop it immediately or I would have been bald by now. My hair is thinner now and I cried. I read it should thicken back up in a few months. Even with a perm, my hair is very fine. I did not read anything about hair loss when I researched the drug, but when I put in the name later + hair loss, I found all these forums and message boards of women talking about their hair falling out in handfuls on this drug! This drug company should be sued! Some doctors are awful enough to tell women not to worry about it and buy a wig. They can bite me! What if it was "them" going bald. They might feel different. You should see the list of side effects, they are a mile long. I also got numbness and tingling in my hands and face. Not good!
So far the new drugs are doing ok I guess. Starting to get dry mouth with one and the other one maybe making me a little bitchy. They said that was common on Keppra.
I hope you are doing ok. I read something about your rabbit having teeth surgery. I'm sorry I have not replied to them yet. I hope Misty is doing well. :)
♥
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Date: 2013-05-05 10:45 pm (UTC)Oh, that sucks! Hair loss should be listed as a side effect, that really isn't funny. Telling sufferers yo buy a wig is just really callous and unfeeling. Insensitive doctors are the worst.
Misty seems to be doing okay. He has a post-op check-up next Wednesday. I'm feeling a bit rough and need a good night's sleep, so that's what I'm going to do now. I'm shattered!]
*Hugs tight* Love ya! ♥
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Date: 2013-05-07 02:16 am (UTC)I'm glad Misty is doing well. I hope you got a good nights sleep. I maybe up late watching a show with Michael. I haven't decided yet. These meds make me so sleepy. I hated not being able to sleep, but now I am drinking coffee at 7:30 at night while helping Alex with his homework. GEEZ! I try not to take the 2 new ones until I am about to get into bed for the night. So far so good, no bad dry mouth yet or rather it got better after last night, no idea why?...when you get that side effect from Nortriptyline it doesn't go away until you stop taking it for everyone from what I know. I am only on 10 mg though and I am reducing my antihistamine slowly since my hives are under control with the Plaqunil. That would be one less drug drying my mouth out though I still think I need to stay on a small dose of it just in case. I have pollen allergies anyway and it is awful right now since Spring has arrived....I'm blabbering again...
love ya!
Deb.
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Date: 2013-05-07 10:11 am (UTC)I hope the low dose will keep your symptoms away.
It's sunny here today, but cold wind and rain are forecast for the rest of the week. Wonderful! It's Misty's check-up tomorrow and I'll probably get frozen and wet, while today it's warm.
Still feeling exhausted and not too good, not looking forward to tomorrow!
Hopev you're okay! *hugs*
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Date: 2013-05-07 08:44 pm (UTC)Weird the weather. It is May and we had to turn the heat back on last night and I was just going through my shorts last week to see what I could wear and then it got cold! So strange. I heard it snowed somewhere in the states, I forgot where, normal for me.
I'm sorry you are so tired. What happened? Did I miss something? Probably did or forgot. I hope you feel better soon. :) How's the bunny. Still good?
love Deb. ♥ :)
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Date: 2013-05-07 10:03 pm (UTC)Bunny's due for a check-up tomorrow - if I feel well enough to take him. Feeling a bit rough the last few days. Ah well, I get more bad days than good, I know that. Just have to live with it I guess.
*hugs* Stay warm! ♥
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Date: 2013-05-09 02:32 am (UTC)I hope the bunny check-up went well if you got there. I know you love Misty, like I love my kitty cat, Neo.
I hope you are feeling better by now. I understand, as you know, about having more bad days than good ones.
Sorry I have not been around, but off and on the last few months. I got to where I just couldn't even get myself to go online and even read much of what was going on with everyone at Live Journal or anywhere. It wasn't that I didn't care, just so depressed and busy. You would not believe all the doctors I have been to in the last year. My hopes smashed a lot, but things are looking up a bit more now. Not cured, but the hives are gone now that I am on Plaqunil. I may have to stay on it for years. No idea?
The girly problem has proven more difficult, but I am in much less pain now than last year this time. I am so thankful for my physical therapist. She has helped me maybe more than any of the doctors I have seen. She knows a lot about my problem and all the things to try and to do to help it get slowly better. The GYN, Dr. Neives, who I am seeing now, communicates with her about all the patients that see him and her. They are sort of a team. Their buildings are right across the street from each other. He is amazing too and has "cured" some women with Vulvodynia. I don't want to get my hopes up, but of everyone I have seen, he has helped me the most. He has common sense and is not afraid to try new things "carefully" of course. We are trying everything except surgery, he knows that really scares me. In many cases, it doesn't work either and sometimes makes things worse. It depends on the woman. Strange disorder, we all have. He also doesn't treat me like I am crazy, like that so-called "Vulvodynia" specialist I saw in Nashville, TN. What a waste of time and money! Oh well. That's life.
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Date: 2013-05-09 10:45 am (UTC)Misty did very well at the vet, he goes back at the end of July to see whether his teeth are still growing or not - I hope they won't be, he's been through enough in the last year too. Having dental surgery 4 times in 10 months is so unfair to him but it had to be done.
We're back to howling gales again here, and the wind is cold. It will probably rain again. Yesterday wasn't too bad while I was out, a bit of light rain but not enough to get me more than damp going between the entrance to the vet's and where I'd parked. The road surfaces are atrocious though, you could break your axle on some of the potholes if you're not careful. I wouldn't want to cycle along one of the roads, it would be way too dangerous.
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Date: 2013-05-05 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-05 11:49 am (UTC)Thank you =D
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Date: 2013-05-05 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-05 01:19 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-05-05 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-05 05:19 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-05-06 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-06 08:57 am (UTC)I like doing undignified things to Ianto ;)
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Date: 2013-05-06 02:10 pm (UTC)Ianto gets absolutely no respect, even when he goes above and beyond for TW. Hahahahaha! Loved it. :)
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Date: 2013-05-06 02:14 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-05-06 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-06 06:04 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2013-05-11 07:40 pm (UTC)I think Jack has the merit of not laughing. In fact it is because he is jealous!!!
poor Ianto. but in a way it's a compliment: the butterfly went on what is beautiful.
LOL
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Date: 2013-05-11 08:02 pm (UTC)Jack won't have to be jealous for too long...