The Torchwood Drabble Files

by badly-knitted

A collection of Torchwood drabbles that continues to grow. Thanks to everyone who's making this possible. You're greatly appreciated, so I'm reinstating an old game - the writer of every 100th review gets to request a drabble/ficlet of their choice. Still using a T rating to cover anything I might write, just to be safe.

2105. Easily Identifiable

Title: Easily Identifiable

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Ianto, Tosh.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 676: Toy at tw100.

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: For once the Rift has dropped off an item that easy to identify.

Disclaimer: I don't own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: Double drabble.

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Many things that fell through the Rift were difficult, even impossible, to identify just by looking at them. Sometimes it took Tosh weeks of study to even come up with a working theory of what something might have been designed to do, even if she couldn't explain why anyone would want to design something with such a purpose. The device that turned everything it touched to glass was one such item; the only things not affected were those that were already glass. Aliens were weird.

That was why it was such a refreshing change to get something that could be immediately identified.

"It's a cuddly toy!"

Ianto nodded. "That's the conclusion Jack and I came to. Bigger than we're used to though; you can imagine the looks we got carrying it back to the SUV.

Tosh couldn't help giggling at the mental image of Jack and Ianto lugging an eight-foot-tall plush creature through Cardiff on a bright, sunny afternoon.

The thing was vaguely humanoid, with a head and body, but only one eye above a rhinoceros-like horn, three legs, and tentacles for arms.

Ianto studied it. "If it's to scale, I wouldn't want to meet the child it belongs to."

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The End