Katie. He’d tried to save her. He’d risked everything to get her help. He’d cried and begged but in the end she was still dead. She had died of something he couldn’t control, something that he couldn’t stop and however he tried to forget that was what he remembered. Torchwood changed him, patching over his …
Category: Drabbles
Aug 08 2014
Talking
Talking “No one thought we would last, I was too messy for her always dropping stuff and leaving it. Used to drive her mad.” “Did that change?” “Yeah when I moved in, I’d always had rituals I suppose cleaning just became a new one.” “How long did you two go out for?” “3 years. Lived …
Aug 08 2014
Tears
Tears Sometimes the tears come and she doesn’t even know what she is crying about. It’s like a wave of tiredness and grief that has no relevance to anything around her arrives. She thinks that she is losing her mind. Then she remembers. Sometimes the tears come and she sees the past. Memories of …
Aug 08 2014
Ice Cream
Ice Cream He liked his ice cream hard always eating from the inside out daintily rolling tiny coils on to the tip of the spoon. She only ate it soft waiting for it to melt and slowly scooping out the edges, in huge squishy blobs, as it melted. Eventually they would meet on the …
Aug 08 2014
Dragons
Dragons When Tosh first arrived at Torchwood she was claustrophobic, prisoners’ mental health hardly being top of the agenda in UNIT’s maximum security compound. The level between the archives and the cells contains a housing block, a remnant of stricter times; Tosh lived there for a time healing. To her the dragon had always been …
Sep 19 2010
Captain, My Captain
Captain, My Captain The captain’s gone. He’s our central point, the one we all cling to. The collective sanity. Torchwood without Captain Jack, the thought’s laughable. Who the hell’s going to lead us? The ex cop terrified of failing, the geek who can’t be alone more than 24 hours, Tea boy still shaking with PTSD …