Drabble: Clarity
Title: Clarity
Author: 
badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Lisa
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 292 – The Billboard Hot 100 at 
tw100
Spoilers: Cyberwoman
Summary: Ianto finds clarity as he thinks about the events leading to Lisa’s death.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Song title = drabble title. It’s just easier that way.
Lisa was dead, callously murdered.
Except that hadn’t been Lisa. Not because she’d stolen another woman’s body, but because not even her mind had been her own by then.
When had that changed? When had Lisa ceased being the woman he’d loved? When had she stopped fighting, fallen to the cybermind?
After Tanizaki helped her breathe on her own? Before? Had there even been anything left of her once the conversion began?
Ianto didn’t know.
One thing was certain; it hadn’t been Lisa rampaging through the Hub, but the thing that killed her.
He understood.
Not murder.
Neutralising a threat.
The End
Well done.
Yes, but I think he must have realised or he couldn't have forgiven Jack so quickly.
Love how you got inside his mind and followed his thought process to realisation and forgiveness.
It had to happen in order for Ianto to move forwards, otherwise he would never have forgiven the team - let alone Jack - and found peace and love again. He must have been seething with rage at first, but the more he thought about it, the more it became clear that the team had done the only thing they could - eliminate a threat not just to themselves but to the world. At that point, he had to start wondering just when Lisa stopped being Lisa and whether there had EVER been a chance of saving her. It's a hard thing to face, that he may have been duped by the cyberman right from the start. In the end, I think it would have been easier for Ianto to forgive Jack than to forgive himself.
Thank you.
Great drabble.
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We never saw it on the show, but Ianto must have realised at some point that Jack and the team had done the right thing, otherwise he would never have been able to forgive them for killing Lisa.
K
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I felt like he had to have a moment like this where he recognises the truth, otherwise he'd never be able to forgive the team and find happiness with Jack.