FIC Torchwood (drabble) - Future Present

[fajrdrako]

Title: Future Present
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Toshiko, Jack, John
Challenge: tw100, challenge: kiss, kiss
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for Torchwood 2x01, "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang". Cross-posted to my LJ and to tw100.


Future Present

Toshiko didn't believe in time travel. It was conceptually impossible - fine for science fiction, absurd in reality.

Then she met Jack Harkness, who knew too much about the future.

His lover, John Hart, called them both "Time Agents", and laughed about it.

Time Agents. The words echoed in her brain as she noticed the glint in John's eye, the cockeyed smile, the flirtatious glance he gave each of them. "Worse than Jack," said Owen, but they were two of a kind, Captain John and their own Captain Jack.

Time travellers. Men from the future.

Toshiko's heart pounded with excitement.

Comments

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

:-)

It would be thrilling, particularly those two. And yet as far as we know she never asked them anything about it.

They would have knowledge of and access to so much tech that it would have made her the happiest geek in the world.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

as far as we know she never asked them anything about it.

Now, that might be a good story theme. My interpretation of the situation: Jack made sure that Tosh (and the others) got no opportunity to ask Captain John anything. And when they asked Jack about things afterwards, he gave them vague and unrevealing answers.

it would have made her the happiest geek in the world.

It certainly would!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

oh someone please go back and save tosh then take her on adventures through time! please!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

someone please go back and save tosh then take her on adventures through time

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Neat. Jack is a nickname for John, so they're both named John, actually.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Jack is a nickname for John, so they're both named John, actually.

Which emphasizes the "two of a kind" aspect. I like that.

[of-too-minds.livejournal.com]

Excellent character piece of Tosh. It makes sense she'd be fascinated by the technology of time travel.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It makes sense she'd be fascinated by the technology of time travel.

She wouldn't be able to understand it right off, and that would make it a challenge to her.

Besides - who wouldn't be intrigued by time travel? I certainly would be!