Challenge 918 - Watching and waiting
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m_findlowTitle: Watching and waiting
Character: Owen, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 918 - Denial at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Ianto is hoping he doesn't have to take more drastic measures. A double drabble.
Jack had always been very careful when it came to the rift. Even though they had this amazing machine that could control it, bringing things, or sending them back, through time and space, he never used it. Not once. Never even contemplated it, let alone say it out loud.
Suggesting that they should use it now to bring Jack and Tosh back from 1941 was madness. Jack would never have authorised this, not knowing that they didn't have Tosh's full set of equations. Even with them it was a massive gamble. Jack wouldn't let them sacrifice the safety of the city in the present day just to get them back. He knew better than any of them what terrible consequences they might unleash.
Ianto quietly slipped the gun from his desk drawer and slipped it into the back of his belt, keeping one eye on Owen as he raided Jack's office, breaking open the safe and unlocking the secure archive. He hoped he wouldn't have to use it to stop Owen from doing the unthinkable. It would break his heart never to see Jack and Tosh again, but he would deny Owen from opening the rift if he had to.
Jack had always been very careful when it came to the rift. Even though they had this amazing machine that could control it, bringing things, or sending them back, through time and space, he never used it. Not once. Never even contemplated it, let alone say it out loud.
Suggesting that they should use it now to bring Jack and Tosh back from 1941 was madness. Jack would never have authorised this, not knowing that they didn't have Tosh's full set of equations. Even with them it was a massive gamble. Jack wouldn't let them sacrifice the safety of the city in the present day just to get them back. He knew better than any of them what terrible consequences they might unleash.
Ianto quietly slipped the gun from his desk drawer and slipped it into the back of his belt, keeping one eye on Owen as he raided Jack's office, breaking open the safe and unlocking the secure archive. He hoped he wouldn't have to use it to stop Owen from doing the unthinkable. It would break his heart never to see Jack and Tosh again, but he would deny Owen from opening the rift if he had to.
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Date: 2026-05-24 10:52 am (UTC)