Drabble: Illusive Alien

[badly_knitted]

Title: Illusive Alien

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Ianto, Owen

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 300 at tw100

Spoilers: None.

Summary: Some aliens prove harder to catch than others.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: For the square Swan/Deception

Comments

[tardisjournal]

Ha, ha! I think Owen needs to take a break--he's clearly working too hard if he missed that. Good thing detail-oriented Ianto was on the case as well. :D

Yay--another series from you with fun titles, a la the "Elusive/Adhesive Butterfly" series. I can't wait.

[badly_knitted]

In Owen's defence, it's the middle of the night and he wasn't looking at the number of legs, that didn't occur to him. He was looking for a more obvious clue, it wasn't the only swan there.

Not quite a series as it only has two parts. So far. I suppose it's always possible that will change. The other part, though, is part of my second run at the challenge so you'll have to wait to see what happens until I finish posting my first run. Probably, I should have posted this one last but... Well, obviously I didn't, lol!

Actually, this one started off as an accidental second fill for the Swan/Purple square - the fake swan was originally purple - until I realised that the shape shifting alien idea had been penciled into my Swan/Deception square. I was going to leave it, but then I would have had to come up with another idea for the square so I gave it three legs instead. A tripod swan, lol!

Thank you.

[akawho]

LOL! Sure Owen hasn't been drinking on the job? Hard not to notice 3 legs...

[badly_knitted]

I don't know, it's night in a poorly lit park, several swan's mingling - would you be counting their legs to see if any of them had extras? It's not the first thing that would come to my mind and in a group, it often looks like they have the wrong number of legs anyway, lol!

There was no guarantee that the alien WAS pretending to be a swan. It could have been impersonating a duck or a goose, or it might not even have been there anymore. That's the trouble with shape shifters, you don't have any idea what you're looking for. Ianto of course notices details like that. ;)

Thank you.

[too_beauty]

I wish I had Ianto's eyesight! mine is quite poor!

[badly_knitted]

So is mine, but Ianto (my version anyway) has perfect eyesight and sees everything!

Thank you.

[owensheart]

Haha u need to be more observant Owen. Great drabble

[badly_knitted]

He does try, but counting legs isn't something he does automatically. Should we be worried that Ianto notices immediately? Does he count legs everywhere he goes?

Thank you.

[ericadawn16]

hehe

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

I'm hopefully posting the follow-up to this one later today.