picowrimo | Pico, Day 28

I've worked on Chapter 7 like a demon today, since tomorrow we'll be busy with my uncle's funeral and all the social stuff surrounding it. I've all but finished it, save for the last fighting scene. I'm optimistic that I'll manage to get the chapter ready for posting before this pico session ends.

Excerpt:
Sandra gives him a look of mock disgust. “You’re annoying, you know that? Have always been. You and your smug I-know-everything attitude.”

“Thank you,” Ianto returns, straight-faced. “I’ll take that as a compliment. The thing is, though: I do know everything, at least where alien species are concerned. It was my bloody job at One as a junior archivist.”

Sandra frowns doubtfully. “Did One ever come across these catfish people?”

“No,” Ianto admits, “but I read up on 22nd century aliens while with the Doctor. I was… interested.”

“And with that freakish memory of yours, of course, you haven’t forgotten a thing,” Sandra grumbles. “It’s not fair.”

Ianto shrugs. “We all have our gifts. I could never get into alien technology to understand it from within the way Suzie did… and you do, I presume.”

“Yeah, and a fat lot of good did it do her… or me,” Sandra replies flatly. “Getting obsessed with that fucking glove and killed for it… twice.”

“It’s always dangerous to tinker with things beyond our understanding,” Ianto agrees. “Well, come on then; the captain’s waiting and we’ve got to go down seventeen levels.”

Kudos for an all-but-finished chapter! I love Ianto's confidence in the extract.

He learned a lot from the Doctor. Plus during his training in the distant future.

More great progress!

Ianto shrugs. “We all have our gifts...

Calm. No false modesty.

Not a hint of it. Ianto is done being the coffee boy.

Yay!

Good scene, it really shows off the two characters. Congratulations on getting so much of it done this month!

I hope tomorrow isn't too hard on everyone.

I increasingly enjoy writing Sandra & Ianto scenes. And yeah, this month was good, considering that I was away in Linz for a week.

You've done so well, got so much more done than I can boast.

I like Ianto's dialogue, it is dry and sharp.

Ianto is the embodiment of dry snark, both in and out of canon.

“It’s always dangerous to tinker with things beyond our understanding,” Ianto agrees.

So says a man who learned that the hard way!

I'm sorry to hear about your uncle, I hope the funeral goes as well as these things can.

Ianto did learn that the hard way indeed.

Thanks for the condolences. I'm not particularly shaken, myself, but for Mum it's hard to bear; he was her only sibling.

“It’s always dangerous to tinker with things beyond our understanding,” Ianto agrees.

So says a man who learned that the hard way!

I'm sorry to hear about your uncle, I hope the funeral goes as well as these things can.

Oh, yes! People tend to forget that Ianto is one of the only 28 people - out of 800+! - who survived Canary Wharf, and that with his sanity more or less intact.

They seem to be acknowledging that they both have useful skills for this mission.

That they do. The funny thing is, Ianto goes on better with Sandra (the clone) than he ever did with Suzie (the original).

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