Beginning Notes: Drabble 2 of 3 29/07/14
This is the last of the badly-knitted words.
Title: A Contiguous Incident
Author: Daashi
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack Harkness, OC
Pairings: n/a
Rating: 13+
Genre: Drabble
Warnings: This is a future fic of Jack's past. Prepare for confusion.
Agent Jaxon* was not a happy being, not happy at all. First Verya** completely loses it after that time loop that they spent 5 years in collapsed. Which then forces the Time Agency to send zer to rehab for narcotics, alcohol and sex. That left Jaxon without a partner. The Agency assigned zer Ioannes***, the biggest stick-in-the-mud dainsy+ that the Sol System ever produced. And now they have cancelled the first leave he has received in 9 months.
"Jaxon, why haven't you changed into the period correct clothing yet?"
"I've just arrived, I travelled here immediately after receiving the message."
"The brief was brief, wasn't it."
"Yes."
"I'll give you the details as you change."
"Fine."
"Standard Time Tourist, went to Khray in the 43rd century. Created a rather serious Contiguous Incident."
"What happened?"
"Ze++ had a run in with one Liam Lukeson, the man who spurned Annia Bod-Lye and prompted zer muder spree."
"The the Murderess of L'landry Bay. So ze doesn't exist any more, that's the deal right."
"Bod-Lye would have become a murder no matter what. This tourist just changed the person ze fixated on. The situation is that we now have a reality where individuals who were didn't die when they should have and individuals who shouldn't have died when they did. We have already seen the ripples outside of the Time Shielding, and two Agents who were descendants of Bod-Lye's new victims disappear from reality."
"Shit!"
"Ready yet? Time is wasting."
Not only is Ioannes a stick-in-the-mud dainsy, ze is still at that stage where ze finds time jokes funny. So annoying.
~End
* Jaxon is Jack Harkness
** Verya (pronounced Vera) is John Hart
*** Three words; Spatial Genetic Multiplicity, I imagine Ioannes to be the spitting image of Ianto Jones.
+ Dainsy; a future slang term that is a combination of dandy and daisy, which means 'a pompous individual prone to fainting'.
++ Ze/Zer or Zi/Zir is something I have come across in another fandom (I believe it was the Mass Effect fandom) where those words were used as gender neutral, gender ambiguous or bi-gendered pronouns.
Word: Contiguous
con - tig - u - ous (adjective) : adjacent in time
End Notes: For those wondering about the naming of Time Agents, I feel that the Agency would assign codenames to their Agents, which would have been taken from one of their names.