FIC: Torchwood (drabble) "Woman of Ice"
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fajrdrakoTitle: Woman of Ice
Characters: Jack, Toshiko
Challenge: tw100 random titles
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for "Greeks Bearing Gifts". Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100. From the Random Title Generator.
Woman of Ice
Toshiko crushed the pendant.
It was the first step to healing, Jack knew. Tosh had loved Mary; he'd killed her. A necessary death. He'd met Mary's type before. Insatiable, sociopathic, preying on the lonely and shy. Tosh was the prefect victim. So he had made the end irrevocable. Painful though it was, Tosh would learn the lesson she needed: don't trust too easily. Don't let your heart be stolen.
It was easy to love unwisely. He'd done it... too often. Love carried a high price. Only the cold-hearted were immune from the pain, and Tosh was not a woman of ice.
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Date: 2007-05-30 03:40 am (UTC)[an aside: "Tosh was the prefect victim." -> "...perfect..."]
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Date: 2007-05-30 10:51 am (UTC)Funny how I always have so much to say about Jack - even when my lens is aimed elsewhere.
You cast a positive light on an action of Jack's that can be interpreted as pretty classic Torchwood high-handedness.
I almost wrote it that Jack had actually returned Mary to her home planet, but told Tosh he'd killed her so that Tosh could make a clean break, emotionally. Decided not to do that - at least not in his particular drabble - because it's a little too revisionist, though it strikes me as a Jack-like thing to do.
Poor, poor Jack. Does he really want to be so cold-hearted?
Jack is full of interior conflicts.
Thaks for the comments. I am, as always, delighted that you liked it.