Fanfic: "Afore the Dawning of the Day"

Title: "Afore the Dawning of the Day"
Author: Aeshna
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG-13; gen, AU
Warnings: Character death
Word count: 2,784
Characters: Jack Harkness, Lisa Hallett
Summary: Apparently Ianto had been doing more with his time than filing, washing coffee cups and disposing of the occasional dead body.
Spoilers: Major for 1.04 Cyberwoman
Disclaimer: Not mine, no matter how many DVDs and toys I buy! Everything here belongs to RTD and to Auntie Beeb, who already has my licence fee.
Archive: Sure, whoever wants it – just let me know where it ends up!
Notes: And now for something a little different. This one has been lurking around in my brain ever since I saw Cyberwoman, resisting all efforts to exorcise it in drabble form. I have no trouble with the idea that the Torchwood crew could miss Lisa down in the depths of the Hub – I work in a massive originally-Victorian-but-constantly-updated collection of buildings with vast numbers of corridors, sub-basements and storerooms (we even have pterodactyls!) and if I wanted to lose something large for a few decades I don't doubt that I could – but a nagging bunny wanted to know what might have happened had things gone differently and Jack found her before Doctor Tanizaki showed up....

Thanks as always to my wonderful betas, mimarie and jwaneeta – any remaining weirdnesses are all mine. Feedback of any variety is much appreciated but not compulsory – I'll post anyway! I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn....

Am claiming this for the 100_situations fanfiction challenge, prompt "Chance".

Podfic: an mp3 recording of this fic is available at the Audiofic archive here. Many thanks to jadesfire2808 for recording it!

( Afore the Dawning of the Day )