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.

2816. Unofficial Motto

Title: Unofficial Motto

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Ianto, Jack.

Rating: PG

Written For: Challenge 853: Accident at torchwood100.

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Torchwood Three suffers a lot of accidents.

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

A/N: Double drabble.

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If Torchwood One's motto had been 'If it's alien, it's ours', Ianto decided that Torchwood Three's must be 'Accidents happen', because honestly, he'd never met a more accident-prone bunch, and strictly speaking, at least half the time, the accidents weren't even their fault. Alien tech did what it did, and although Jack was generally reasonably strict over correct handling of unidentified, and in some cases unidentifiable, objects, that didn't guarantee cooperation from the objects themselves.

The best he could claim about Torchwood Three's safety protocols was that attempts had been made to cover all foreseeable eventualities. For everything they were unable to predict, they just had to cross their fingers and hope for the best, which wasn't ideal, but nobody was perfect, and at least the Cardiff branch, unlike Canary Wharf, hadn't been ground zero for a battle between two unstoppable alien armies.

So far.

To be fair, while there were frequent accidents, none that Ianto had so far witnessed had been catastrophic, either to the team or innocent bystanders, and none had resulted in any permanent damage, at least nothing that wasn't fixable.

"You broke the SUV's axle?"

Jack winced. "Speed bumps and gravity generators, not a good mix."

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The End