REC: VIZZINI'S RULE by BUTTONONTHETOP

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Title: Vizzini's Rule
Author: buttononthetop
Genre: AU, Angst, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Smut, Action, Episode Related, Gap-filler, Missing Scene
Rating: NC-17
Other/Implied Pairings: Ianto/Lisa, Mary/Tosh, Owen/Gwen, Rhys/Gwen, brief Ianto/OMC
Summary: When a job went wrong, go back to the beginning.
Status: Work In Progress
Length: Multi-chapter / ?? TOTAL (62)
Word Count: TBC
Warnings: general spoilers for Torchwood S1, including 2x11 "Adrift," 2x12 "Fragments," Doctor Who S2 finale "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday," Character Death
Comment or Excerpt from fic: I can't believe I forgot to rec this fic! U.U Anyways, this is the author's take on TW S1 and (hopefully) eventually S2! It mostly follows canon events, but the author modifies it enough to be AU, especially the beginning chapters... and it's a BRILLIANT fic and long as hell! *_____*

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EXCERPT:

When a job went wrong, go back to the beginning.

Good advice, Ianto had always thought. And no job had ever gone as wrong as completely and as spectacularly as Torchwood. How many last days at a job were filled with destruction, tears and blood? But how to go back to the beginning, he had wondered. Torchwood was gone, burned, might as well salt the earth and walk away.

But Ianto hadn’t been able to let go for the simplest and most dangerous of reasons – love. Lisa was still alive and he had sworn to save her... He woke with tears... again. Lying there, unable to summon the strength... he let his mind wander. What to do, where to go, who to trust, how to find help… And then Vizzini’s rule crept into his mind. Go back to the beginning…Torchwood…the beginning… And Ianto knew what he had to do.

Torchwood. That meant Torchwood Three. That meant Cardiff…and Captain Jack Harkness.

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