Beginning Notes: badly-knitted, I honestly don't think that cleaning-up after the inmates and fetching coffee is a step up from data entry. But then again in my head canon Ianto was never truly comfortable with field work, never developed that addiction to the adrenaline rush that the others did. Beside this is Torchwood and even the data entry was important, being able or unable to search through past incident reports could mean the difference between life and death. Much like Toshiko made that translation programme to assist with identifying alien objects, I imagine Ianto continuing with data entry to assist the field operations. Also data entry is mind numbing and something had to have stopped him from shooting Owen and Gwen (which some would argue is very important).
Title: The In Between Places
Author: Daashi
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: n/a
Pairings: n/a
Rating: 13+
Genre: Drabble, Supernatural
Warnings: n/a
They come from the in between places, the places that cannot be found anywhere or anytime.
They invade the rooms of children, chasing the smell of new death and the sound of a fleeing soul.
They hover above the dead child, with the flutter of wings the child takes breath with a hiss and is now replaced by new life.
This new child, this changeling, will live among us. It will watch us, observe us, judge us.
In a whirlwind of death and destruction the human form will be burned away, leaving behind nothing but the other.
They come from the in between places.
~End
Word: Between
be - tween (preposition) : in the space separating (two points, objects, etc.)
(adverb) : in the intervening space or time, in an intermediate position or relation.
End Notes: The first time I watched Small Worlds, I was immediately reminded about the stories of fairies I was told as a child. The stories where they enter a child's room and steal their breath and then their form, becoming changelings.