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shadowbyrd

Insomnia [fic]

Oct 01, 2008 14:41

Title: Insomnia
Author: shadowbyrd
Rating: PG - 13
Pairing[s]: Jack/Tosh
Prompt: 33. Worried for otp_100
Spoilers: Takes place after Countrycide, allusions to Fragments.
Summary: Jack and Tosh after the cannibals.

( The hallway floorboards creaking didn’t wake Tosh up; since tucking herself in around eleven she’d barely been to sleep, nervous energy from the Beacons still shaking through her. )

dw/tw, otp_100, torchwood fic, spread the love, jack/tosh, fic, torchwood

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shadowbyrd November 12 2008, 18:32:25 UTC

it shows Jack isn't near as oblivious to everything on as he so often appears to be

Now that you mention it, that's one of my least favourite things about Torchwood!Jack (or indeed canon!Jack as some insist on calling him).

Glad you enjoyed it.

mylenn November 6 2008, 20:42:09 UTC

Jack is just looking our for his team! And yay for Tosh for kickin' ass (or being ready to in any case)!

shadowbyrd November 12 2008, 18:35:06 UTC

This is why we don't see her kicking as much as ass on the show - she's been bludgeoning Jack off-screen!

notevery November 6 2008, 20:42:34 UTC

That was really lovely--very sweet, subtle and striking. It's always hard to integrate what we learnt in Fragments with previous episodes, but I love the way that you did it here. Beautiful fic!

shadowbyrd November 12 2008, 19:19:31 UTC

Thanks!

*shoe scuff* I'm rather ashamed that it took me as long as it did to draw these two events together. Forget all the traumatised&beaten!Ianto and shot!Gwen, how bad an episode did Tosh have when she finally got home? Thinking about it like that, the sense of isolation in GBG just gets worse and worse.

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Re: Here from Torchwood House shadowbyrd November 12 2008, 19:20:32 UTC

*headdesk* Thanks for that. Shall go away and change it now...

Thanks for reading.

jadesfire November 7 2008, 09:41:00 UTC

[here via torchwood_house]

I love the dynamic you've caught here, Tosh being quite capable of looking after herself, but willing to let Jack help out anyway, and Jack worrying about his team without going all mother-hen on them. The gentle humour and real affection comes through so strongly.

Beautiful.

shadowbyrd February 18 2009, 01:05:11 UTC

(Sorry I've been late getting back to you. I lose)

When I think about the two of them they're always very reciprocal; in CJH Jack spends half the episode assuring Tosh he'll look after her, and following the J/r!J handporngrab she re-assures and comforts him. Their last look at the end of Exit wounds I always read as each trying to be strong for the other and re-assure them that it's all okay.

They had a nice best-friend vibe in some episodes. I wish it had been plumbed a bit more, especially since we've seen how that relationship began.