Author's Note: Written for Torchwood, Ianto/Jack, Tithonus. Detour from Children of Earth, set maybe fifty and then a hundred years after it would have happened.
Spoliers for the season finale. Plus, I'm also working on the premise that the Machine actually is sentient in its own way, and that it might just be alert enough to be able to help protect the one who is, for all intents and purposes, it's father.