Title: Mutual Service
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: very slight Jack/Ianto
Rating: PG-13 for themes
Notes: AU. Some dialogue taken from They Keep Killing Suzie.
When some misplaced technology triggers a custom-coded lockdown, Torchwood quickly realises the quickest way to open up the Hub again is to get the program's creator to shut it off. The only problem is that Ianto Jones is dead.For those interested, 51'30'18N 00'01'16E is the location of Canary Wharf in latitude and longitude.
Title taken from the suicide note of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart,' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one." Cheerful, I know.
( For once it is a slow week for the four members of Torchwood Three. )