cause of death: Torchwood

nine!

I just really liked the way this scene looked so I decided to draw it, it's a little crooked, because every time I sit down to paint, I just can't draw a face that looks like the original, I don't even know why😔 It might look fine on a pencil sketch, but when I pick up paint, it all goes wrong

After Hours

Torchwood isn’t the typical office. It doesn’t exactly observe normal business hours. In fact, it is quite common for Canary Wharf to accomodate employees around the clock.

Ianto Jones is used enough to late nights at the office when his job demands it, and so he doesn’t think twice about staying a bit after hours to finish some urgent reports. It isn’t until he’s finished with them that he realises the place has gone entirely silent. Odd, but he shrugs it off. All he needs to do now is drop off those reports in Acquisitions and he’s free to go home.

Lisa Hallett had plans for the night. She was going to have food delivered, change into her comfiest clothes, and finally watch that DVD Pippa got her for her birthday. She’s finishing up her shift when Ianto stops by to hand over some reports. A little awkward, after their failed first date, but a quick glance confirms that she’s the only one still on the clock for once, so it’s not like he can approach someone else.

The stilted small talk and mild awkwardness is the least of their problems, however, as they’ll come to realise when they try to leave. Something’s triggered an alarm and the entire floor is on quarantine until the threat’s been dispatched. Their attempts to call other departments for help don’t get them very far: there’s something blocking the phone lines. That’s when the lights turn off abruptly to be replaced by the dim red glow of the lockdown emergency lights. Who decided to have red emergency lights, anyway? Ianto is going to file a complaint about it tomorrow.

But, first thing first. Cut off from the outside world, Ianto and Lisa need to work together to identify the threat and eliminate it if they don’t want to be trapped in there all night. Or worse, for the rest of their lives.

Created for the @torchwoodfanfests Big Finish Challenge!

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but considering the general theme of the audio: killing the person you love more than anything, (very quintessential Jack: “I’m going to be the death of him. It’s how it always ends.” Even Norton said he got as far away from Jack as he could because he knew it could only end one way), it’s very possible that Jack was referring to the fact that, even after all this, Ianto is uncertain about Jack’s feelings for him and kind of brushes it off whenever it comes up. 

Jack says in the audio that there are so many people he would want to kill because he’s been in love so many times, but he thinks about killing Ianto the most. He dismisses all of them because of Ianto. Jack never says that he is so fixated on killing Ianto because Ianto is his current lover or because Ianto is closest in proximity; the virus makes him want to kill Ianto because, as we know from the House of the Dead, Jack is especially in love with Ianto. Ianto is one of the most important people Jack has ever meant (I mean, he gave up all of time and space with the Doctor who he waited over a hundred years to find, just to be with Ianto and Torchwood).

Ianto, however, doesn’t see it that way. To him, it’s just the virus, and Jack only wants to kill him because he’s the only one around to be killed. He sounds surprised when Jack first says that he’s the one that really matters to Jack, that Jack wants to kill him more than anyone else. Every time Jack says he loves him, Ianto immediately says that it’s just the virus because he doesn’t think Jack would ever actually say that to him. It breaks his heart and he doesn’t realize how true it is, that Jack is only trying to kill him because he loves him. 

After all is said and done, Jack is trying to apologize because he genuinely feels bad because his greatest fear (and most painful reality) is that he’s going to be the reason Ianto dies, and that was very nearly realized that day. Ianto was in lockdown with an immortal hellbent on killing him. Few people could survive that and Jack is just so grateful that Ianto did because when he said “I don’t know what I’m gonna do without you”, that wasn’t the virus talking. That was Jack, knowing he couldn’t fight the virus, and already grieving. 

So I really think when Jack said “You don’t know” that that’s what he was talking about; that Ianto doesn’t know just how much Jack loves him and now he might never know, because Gwen and Rhys have a similar conversation. Gwen tells Rhys that the only one she was thinking about when she was infected was him, and Rhys is kind of like “hey at least it was me and not Jack” 

because even though Gwen tried to kill him, it was because the virus makes you want to kill the person they love the most, the last person they’d ever want to kill. Rhys knows that it was because Gwen loves him more than anyone else that the virus made her want to kill him.

Sunset by silver_penny (T)

In Cardiff, something is starting to move in the shadows.

No, scratch that. That’s not quite right.

In Cardiff, the shadows are starting to move.

When Andy Davidson stumbles onto a Torchwood investigation, he really does try to walk away. But it’s not long before he and Owen find themselves knees-deep in a mystery involving an empty housing development, a malfunctioning electric system, flying kitchen appliances, and really far too many skeletons for a Tuesday afternoon.