Torchwood: Fanfic: Wooly woes

[m_findlow]

Title: Wooly woes
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Gwen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 300 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for randi2204's prompt "Any, any, nobody needs to know about the yarn stash....even if it is growing at an alarming rate" at fic_promptly
Summary: Gwen's developed a bad habit

She looked lovingly into the bag at the colorful bundles of joy, before quickly coming to her senses and thrusting the bag under the bed. This had to stop. She really should say something to someone, but how to begin? It must have been something at work, she was sure of it, but what she couldn't say. All she knew now was that she couldn't stop herself, no matter how she tried.

It had been innocent enough at first, spotting them in the shop window on her lunch break. They were just so colourful and soft, that she'd slipped inside and bought them before she'd even stopped to realise what she'd done. Looking at the red and blue balls of yarn, she remembered that she didn't even know how to knit. No matter, she could always pick it up. Her mum was a deft hand with a needle.

The next day she returned and stared through the shop window, before going in and picking out a few more nice colours. Then she went back again the day after, and the day after that.

They'd been easy to hide away at first, a bag in the bottom of the wardrobe, and another in her side drawers. Then she'd had to get more inventive, tucking them under her socks, stashed between piles of linen, even nestled behind cans of soup in the bottom of the pantry. The whole flat was teeming with balls of yarn. If Rhys decided to come home and spring clean, she was done for.

She pulled one out from under the bed, a bold magenta, and stroked it like a kitten. She could control her urges, she knew she could, and they weren't hurting anybody. No one had to know about them yet. They'd be her little secret.

Comments

[jo02]

I don't know how or why but I think Gwen is under some alien influence.

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes I rather suspect so. I also worry that their flat will be over until with balls of yarn before she says anything!

[bk_forever]

Alien mind control, definitely. Maybe the balls of yarn are alien creatures exerting their influence over Gwen in order to be given a safe place to breed, or hatch, or metamorphasise...

(Or maybe Gwen just finds wool as irresistible as I do. You should see MY stash!)

She should ask Jack or Ianto to teach her to knit ;)