[Torchwood: Miracle Day] "Run For Your Death" (PG-13)
Author's Note: Written for < lj user="tw100">'s Challenge #291 - On the Run. Set between the last two episodes; featuring Esther Drummond and Jack Harkness.
Late night driving, somewhere on a Minnesota back road, just the two of them, the radio on low, Esther at the wheel, Jack dozing in the back seat.
Esther allowed herself the luxury of a slightly choked chuckle.
"Hm?" Jack asked, sleepily. "Something I said?"
"No, I was just thinking."
"Care to tell me?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Just a TV show I used to watch as a kid, about a guy on the run from the police."
"Ahh, 'The Fugitive'?"
"Yeah, it's silly but... it got a bit too real for me."
"Fun to watch, but tough to live?"
"Yeah..."
Late night driving, somewhere on a Minnesota back road, just the two of them, the radio on low, Esther at the wheel, Jack dozing in the back seat.
Esther allowed herself the luxury of a slightly choked chuckle.
"Hm?" Jack asked, sleepily. "Something I said?"
"No, I was just thinking."
"Care to tell me?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Just a TV show I used to watch as a kid, about a guy on the run from the police."
"Ahh, 'The Fugitive'?"
"Yeah, it's silly but... it got a bit too real for me."
"Fun to watch, but tough to live?"
"Yeah..."