The thing he misses most is the having of a name, and he's had a lot of them. || Difficult to read because of how perfectly the narrative captures the quality of senescence; worth the struggle.
When it becomes clear they're not going home, a novel glimpse of history turns into the grim reality of World War II...Tosh takes a job as a translator, and Ianto goes to war. || The ending is too abrupt, but I love this glimpse of an AU.
...she'd never believed in the Wilby that existed in her mother's memory, the Wilby where Mary MacKenzie had set a record for knitting the world's longest scarf...and little Walter MacDonald had climbed the water tower to rescue a stranded pelican.
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