Trying to Communicate, by copperbadge (PG)

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Fandom: TORCHWOOD
Pairing: gen (reference to Jack/Ianto)
Length: approx. 1,500 words
Author on LJ: copperbadge
Author Website: Sam the Storyteller
Why this must be read:

...Really, no one has recced this?

Perhaps my predecessors assumed that everyone has already read it. There is strong evidence for that. Hell, Gareth David-Lloyd has apparently read it. As of this post, the story has twenty-five pages of comments. There is a reason for that: it is hilarious.

There were oily marks beneath the desk, and he bent to examine them; as he did, something landed lightly on his back.

An ordinary person would have shouted and straightened instantly, but Torchwood training and two years with a grabby boss had taught better. He simply froze.

"Owen," he said, and Owen swung around, gun pointed in his direction. Ianto squeezed his eyes shut. "There's something on my back."

"Y HALO THAR," something said, somewhere above him.

Ianto briefly wondered if he were hallucinating.

"Is it," he asked carefully, "by any chance -- "

"A cat," Owen said flatly.

"There's a cat," Ianto said. "On my back."

"Hello moggie!" Owen said. "Where'd you come from?"

"IM IN UR BASE -- "

"And it's talking."

" -- SITTIN ON YANTOE."

So, for the benefit of the unhappy few who have not yet read this, and for future Torchwood fans...

Trying to Communicate

Comments

[tiki-92090.livejournal.com]

Hi, lovely rec even though I've read it already, so I read it again.

Just wondering, where did you hear it that GDL read it?

Thanks.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

In a con report (http://purplephoenix03.livejournal.com/351241.html), we learn that Gareth was asked, “Does he read fanfiction? No, not really, though he has read the one about the talking cat...” Not definitive, but highly suggestive.

[tiki-92090.livejournal.com]

oooh! cool! Thanks so much!

[elizabethhelena.livejournal.com]

I don't read Torchwood fic very often, so I am one of the unhappy few who hadn't read it. So, I greatly appreciate your rec.

I had never seen this....

[(Anonymous)]

I love Torchwood, I love I can has Cheezeburger and I love fan fiction....and now I must show this to my son and together we will tell our cat all about it...

Thank you so much for this rec where can I have been?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Just THINKING about this story makes me smile. Great rec.