Double Drabble: Keep Searching
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badly_knittedTitle: Keep Searching
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badly_knittedCharacters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 909: Dog, at
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torchwood100.Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Trying to find one man who could be anywhere in the universe was never going to be easy.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble. Set in my Through Time and Space ‘Verse.
Ianto had known that trying to find something lost somewhere in all the endless expanse of the universe was never going to be a simple task, and yet, if it had been an object, finding it might have at least had some possibility of success. As with anything lost, the best place to start was the last place you remembered having it, followed by every place you’d been since that moment.
But what he’d set out into the universe to search for had not been a mere thing; the subject of his search was a man, with a mind and a will of his own, and apparently an overriding desire to lose himself as thoroughly as possible. Not that Ianto blamed Jack, not after everything he’d gone through, but tracking down someone who was no doubt moving from place to place himself added another level of complexity to the task, turning something difficult into a near impossibility.
Still, Ianto had no intention of giving up, no matter how disheartened he might become. What a systematic search had so far failed to achieve, maybe sheer dogged persistence could accomplish. All he needed to do was to keep searching, forever if necessary.
The End
But what he’d set out into the universe to search for had not been a mere thing; the subject of his search was a man, with a mind and a will of his own, and apparently an overriding desire to lose himself as thoroughly as possible. Not that Ianto blamed Jack, not after everything he’d gone through, but tracking down someone who was no doubt moving from place to place himself added another level of complexity to the task, turning something difficult into a near impossibility.
Still, Ianto had no intention of giving up, no matter how disheartened he might become. What a systematic search had so far failed to achieve, maybe sheer dogged persistence could accomplish. All he needed to do was to keep searching, forever if necessary.
The End
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