Lying, a Torchwood Drabble

[book_junkie007]

Title: Lying
Author: Book_Junkie007
Pairing: implied Rhys/Gwen
Rating: G
Wordcount: exactly 100 words
Warnings: Set post-CoE to during the first episode of Miracle Day
Notes: Thanks to my Twitter peep Laffers18 for reading it over for flow and potentially awkward wording. She rocks!

Summary: Gwen keeps lying to herself.



She tried to tell herself she didn’t need him. She tried to tell herself she was fine on her own.

She was lying.

She needed him because he gave her life purpose; he gave her a sense of being able to fix the world when it couldn’t fix itself.

She spent the months in hiding knowing there was more; more to life and to helping others, than hiding with her husband and beautiful daughter.

Then one day, he came back into her life with a bang, or more precisely, a bazooka and a Jeep, and she couldn’t have been happier.



On A03

Comments

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Bravo! That is so very Gwen (and Jack) with all the self-deception involved.

[book-junkie007.livejournal.com]

Thanks! They are truly the masters of the unsaid, and I love it. I would have liked for them to have become a couple over the course of the show, but the unspoken sexual tension is just as good.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Probably better. Look how the so-called canon slash relationship turned out.

[book-junkie007.livejournal.com]

I found it awkward from the start: I saw the kiss between Jack and Ianto during End of Days and wondered where the heck they had the build up to it. It seemed like it came out of nowhere. I also don't find Ianto that interesting, which may have contributed to my interpretation.