jooles34: (OwenSad)
jooles34 ([personal profile] jooles34) wrote2010-07-22 09:41 am

The Ragged Girl

Title: The Ragged Girl
Characters: Owen
Word count: 100
Challenge[info]
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.


[identity profile] aeron-lanart.livejournal.com 2010-07-22 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
*sniffle*

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

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much, I'm glad youthink I got this right.

*hands over tissue*

[identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com 2010-07-22 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
feels spot on

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you, so pleased you think so.

[identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com 2010-07-22 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, thank you so much. So pleased you think this works.

[personal profile] samueljames 2010-07-23 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh God, poor Owen.

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

[identity profile] thrace-adams.livejournal.com 2010-07-23 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
OH wow...so powerful and so sad!

[identity profile] jooles34.livejournal.com 2010-07-27 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you again. Pleased you think this worked.

[identity profile] rustydog.livejournal.com 2010-07-31 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh. Such pathos. Wonderful.