The Ragged Girl

[jooles34]

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.

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

*sniffle*

You capture what I think lies at the heart of Owen very well.

[jooles34.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, I'm glad youthink I got this right.

*hands over tissue*

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

feels spot on

[jooles34.livejournal.com]

Thank you, so pleased you think so.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Perfect. I've always felt that Owen's backstory was full of things like this. He was extremely damaged long before the aliens took Kate.

[jooles34.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much. So pleased you think this works.

[samueljames]

Oh God, poor Owen.

[jooles34.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

OH wow...so powerful and so sad!

[jooles34.livejournal.com]

Thank you again. Pleased you think this worked.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Such pathos. Wonderful.