Drabble - When You Run
Title: When You Run
Author: szm
Rating: G
Characters: Suzie, Jack
Pairing: none
When Jack looks up the new girl is at his doorway.
Suzie, been at Torchwood two weeks.
She looks at him for a long moment; it makes Jack feel more uncomfortable than it should. “Yes,” he says finally.
“To or from?” she asks. Jack looks confused. “When you run,” she clarifies. “Do you run to or from?”
Jack thinks of a man with a quicksilver grin, who knows everything, even knows Jack. He thinks of a girl who taught him what it was to be brave, who smiled like the sun.
“To,” answers Jack. “What about you?”
Eyes glitter with something dark. “From,” she sighed. “Always from.”
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Sequel - After She's Gone
Author: szm
Rating: G
Characters: Suzie, Jack
Pairing: none
When Jack looks up the new girl is at his doorway.
Suzie, been at Torchwood two weeks.
She looks at him for a long moment; it makes Jack feel more uncomfortable than it should. “Yes,” he says finally.
“To or from?” she asks. Jack looks confused. “When you run,” she clarifies. “Do you run to or from?”
Jack thinks of a man with a quicksilver grin, who knows everything, even knows Jack. He thinks of a girl who taught him what it was to be brave, who smiled like the sun.
“To,” answers Jack. “What about you?”
Eyes glitter with something dark. “From,” she sighed. “Always from.”
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Sequel - After She's Gone