Entries tagged with fandom: torchwood

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Origin of the species, Madame Vastra, Jenny, PG

Title: Origin of the species
Author: rthstewart
Fandom: Dr. Who/Torchwood
Rating: PG
Characters: Madame Vastra, Jenny
Warnings: None
Prompt: (159) I have never found a human friend to whom I would dare tell all I know; the human heart is too small to bear it. -- Gertrud of Helfta (c.1256-1302), German nun, author and translator.

Author's Notes: Thanks to the lovely and helpful

metonomia for the beta.

Summary: If birds evolved from dinosaurs, and humans from apes, homo-reptilia did not strain credulity over much. The job posting did mention reptiles and foreign travel.

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kirsteena In Memoriam (Torchwood, Toshiko Sato, PG)

Title: In Memoriam
Author:

kirsteena
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Prompt: Prompt #49:
Someone, I tell you,
will remember us.
We are oppressed by fears of oblivion
yet are always saved
by judgment of good men. -- Sappho
Word Count: 3859
Summary: Jack, Gwen and Ianto discover something she has left behind.
Author's Notes: Thanks to the wonderful

verdant_gt for beta reading.

( In Memoriam )

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Flight feathers and three feet of black silk

Title: Flight feathers and three feet of black silk
Author:

redsnake05
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: R
Warnings: Character death
Prompt: 134) Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. -- Octavia Butler (1947-2006), African-American science fiction author.
Summary: Jack thinks he sees Tosh everywhere, and perhaps he does. She is content to categorise and compartmentalise.
Author's notes: I am indebted to

used_songs for her excellent beta skills.

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They Still Write Poetry in the Fifty-First Century (Toshiko Sato, Torchwood, G)

Title: They Still Write Poetry in the Fifty-First Century
Author: golden_d
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt (not used): Wherever fate demands me...I will go. -- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga (1814-1873), 19th-century Cuban author.

Summary: “Today I looked out,” she reads, “and I saw my name among the stars.”
Author's notes: Thanks to my betas, 51stcenturyfox and forrent, who answered my cries for help and reassured me that space linguistics was worth writing about. You rock!

( They Still Write Poetry in the Fifty-First Century )

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it (Torchwood, Suzie Costello)

Title: Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it
Author:

used_songs
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: swearing, dark themes, death
Prompt: Prompt: 72) I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace. -- Josephine Baker (1906-1975), African-American expatriate singer, dancer and actress.
Summary: Suzie Costello has come back and she has no intention of leaving.
Author's Notes: Thank you to my betas

blue_fjords ,

redsnake05 , and

santousha who helped make this fic what it is.

( Truth )

Current Mood: hopeful

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In A World She Never Made (Charley Pollard, PG)

Title: In A World She Never Made
Author:

biichan
Fandom: Big Finish Doctor Who audios, crossed-over with Torchwood
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all but the latest Charley audio from Big Finish and for S2 of Torchwood
Prompt: 67) Time...is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Summary: Stranded in the twentieth-first century, nearly eighty years after she ought to have died, Charley Pollard begins to make a new life for herself. (

st_aurafina,

persiflage_1 and

ionlylurkhere were my betas.)

In A World She Never Made

Current Mood: calm

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FIC: Ink, Paper, Brush, Stone, Toshiko Sato, PG-13

Title: Ink, Paper, Brush, Stone
Author: redsnake05
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character death
Prompt: 77) By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up. -- Eve Babitz.
Summary: Walls hedge Toshiko Sato in. Where will she find escape?

Beta read by the lovely

used_songs.

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