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.

2809. Too Many Choices

Title: Too Many Choices

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Jack, Ianto.

Rating: PG

Written For: Challenge 852: Type at torchwood100.

Spoilers: Nada.

Summary: Trying to get Jack to make up his mind can be frustrating.

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

A/N: Double drabble.

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Shopping with Jack, especially at the supermarket, or the office supply store, but for different reasons, tended to stretch Ianto's patience to the limit. If he let his lover pick whatever he wanted, Jack was apt to throw half the store in his shopping trolley, far more than they had either the budget or the space for. But if he told Jack to choose, say, three packets of biscuits, he could easily spend twenty minutes trying to decide which types he wanted, and it was the same with crisps, chocolates, cakes, even fruit. He'd dither, going back and forth between different options, unable to make a decision. It was like shopping with a toddler.

The best way of dealing with it was the either/or method. "Do you want Chocolate Hobnobs or Jaffa Cakes? Cadbury's Twirl, or Wispa? A multi-pack of crisps, or one of Quavers?" Two options, he had to pick one but couldn't have both, and everything else on the shelves was out of bounds. It didn't always work, but it simplified the process.

The main problem was that Jack liked everything. He could be decisive when necessary, but the smaller, everyday decisions had a tendency to overwhelm him.

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The End