The Ragged Girl

Title: The Ragged Girl
Characters: Owen
Word count: 100
Challenge: tw100 prompt: Random title generator. Title generated "The Ragged Girl"
Rating/Warning: 15 - refers to child abuse and OOC character death
Spoilers: Set during Fragments
AN - I got six titles from the generator so decided to do a drabble for all of them, each from the POV of a different character. It's amazing what you can do on a bus journey...

She’s the one that haunts him.

They say there’s always one. One life lost that sticks in the mind. The one you can never shake off.

You try hard to save every life while accepting that some are meant to die.

But when that little ragged girl went limp on the table he knew he’d never save enough. Her broken body, shrivelled from neglect, refused to respond to the drugs, hands or machines that desperately tried to restart her heart.

It was her ghost that turned Owen around and made him say “yes” to the American in the big coat.

Dreams of the Dreaming

Title: Dreams of the Dreaming
Characters: Gwen
Word count: 100
Challenge: tw100 prompt: Random title generator. Title generated "Dreams of the Dreaming"
Rating/Warning: PG
Spoilers: None
AN - I got six titles from the generator so decided to do a drabble for all of them, each from the POV of a different character. It's amazing what you can do on a bus journey...

The clock strikes half past five and she turns off her computer, picks up her bag and waves goodbye to her co-workers. As she leaves the Hub she looks forward to another lazy evening at home with Rhys.

Gwen starts awake, her legs alternately numb and aching from the cold and being bent into one position for too long. She looks at her watch; 3.16am. She sees Owen grinning at her in the half light.

“Falling asleep on a stakeout Cooper? Tut tut. What were you dreaming about to make you smile like that anyway?”

“I was dreaming the impossible.”

Absent Truth

Title: Absent Truth
Characters: PC Andy
Word count: 100
Challenge: tw100 prompt: Random title generator. Title generated "Absent Truth"
Rating/Warning: PG
Spoilers: None
AN - I got six titles from the generator so decided to do a drabble for all of them, each from the POV of a different character. It's amazing what you can do on a bus journey...

He gets phonecalls in the middle of the night; sometimes gets dragged from work. He gets requests for information, requests for help, requests for silence.

He gets teased, he gets laughed at, he gets fun poked at him. But sometimes he gets defended, stood up for, protected.

He gets brushed off, included, left behind, relied upon, abandoned.

He gets beaten up, bruised, bloodied, emotionally battered. He gets picked up, thanked, anonymously recommended for bravery.

He gets explanations, stories, placated.

He gets all of this and more from Torchwood. But what he really wants, and never gets, is the absent truth.

Thorn in the Years

Title: Thorn in the Years
Characters: Ianto
Word count: 100
Challenge: tw100 prompt: Random title generator. Title generated "Thorn in the Years"
Rating/Warning: 15 - one naughty word and themes
Spoilers: For Cyberwoman
AN - I got six titles from the generator so decided to do a drabble for all of them, each from the POV of a different character. It's amazing what you can do on a bus journey...

He wonders if he would be doing this if it wasn’t for the guilt. Would he be fighting this hard to save her if it was just for love?

He did love her. He loved her more than he had words for. And that made his actions even stranger.

Why had he done it? How had he found himself fucking the new temp in a cheap hotel as Cybermen invaded the building he should have been working in?

It was the first time he’d cheated. The one thorn in all their years of roses.

And it had saved his life.


After writing this, I was inspired to write a follow-up drabble: The Importance of Being Ianto

The Importance of Being Ianto

Title: The Importance of Being Ianto 
Word count: 100
Rating/Warning: 15 - one naughty word and themes
Spoilers: If you don't know the shows you won't get it.
AN - I wrote this as a companion piece Thorn in the Years. Really need to read that for this to make sense.

“So you understand what you’ve got to do?”

“Yeah. I’ve got to find some guy, get him to come to the hotel and keep him entertained for a while.”

“Not just any guy, this guy.”

“Oh, he’s cute.”

“Spray this on.”

“Perfume?”

“A very special kind of perfume.”

“And why at that exact time?”

“Listen love, I’m paying you to fuck, not to ask questions. I’ve already got you the temp job, you’ve got the easy bit.”

“But why this guy? Why this day?”

“Because this little piece of eye-candy is way too important to be in that building today.”