Fic: Torchwood (drabble) - Fidelity

[fajrdrako]

Title: Fidelity
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Gwen/Rhys
Challenge: tw100, challenge: episode tag
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Episode tag for Torchwood series 1, episode 10, "Combat". Cross-posted to my lj,to outside_bf, and to tw100.


Fidelity

Gwen slept like an innocent babe, but Rhys couldn't sleep.

He'd shaken off the drug she'd given him, and remembered her words vividly. She'd cheated on him, like in a cheap western song. She'd been with someone named Owen. Not Captain Jack Harkness, as Rhys had imagined. Some other man.

Would he ever be able to trust her again?

Did it matter? All that made her Gwen, all that made him love her, was still the same. She loved him. She meant to stay. He could forgive.

But something had to change.

This decided him.

It was time for marriage.

Comments

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Oh, Rhys. ::cuddles him::

This is very poignant.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Rhys? Yeah, I suppose I have. [g]

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Rhys, bless him. He's made out of solid earth, that man.



You need to change your character list.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Rhys is wondeful; I love writing about him. Glad you enjoyed it.

And thanks for catching the error in my character list. Oops!

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

wonderful POV, had never considered the idea that he could shake it off too!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I figured that if Gwen could, then maybe Rhys could too. And this would hit him pretty hard - he'd have reason to remember.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Rhys is, hands down, the best guy on the show.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well... I won't ever dispute that Rhys is wonderful. Lucky Gwen.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ending kills me!

I do love Rhys.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yes, I love Rhys, too. How could I not?

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Long time ago I read a little story in a paperback anthology. It was about a man who liked his loose'n'easy pastimes. He made a deal with the devil in order to get limitless financial solvency, I believe. His part of the deal: the devil wanted to come get his soul as soon as mistress was unfaithful to him. The fellow said no way. Argued the devil up to the length of time that ten mistresses, in order, would stay faithful to him. It was an amusing little story. The first two had no reason to be faithful, so he moved on to a girl right out of the convent... who was unfaithful as soon as a con artist told her that he'd kill himself if she did not sleep with him. It went on, well told, until the very end... the devil comes in, announcing that the tenth one had cheated on him, and the fellow brushes him off, saying: "She isn't my mistress. I married her. She's my wife now. Tough."

Saying something to me about how if you love someone enough to want them in your life permanently, as your spouse, then you love them enough to let them have freedom. At least, that's my thought. And I'm comfortable with it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That story is a wonderful counterpoint to my drabble. I love it.

And it's just another reason to love Rhys.