Challenge 700 - Unfixable
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m_findlowTitle: Unfixable
Character: Owen, Tosh, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 700 - Glass at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Some things can't be fixed. A double drabble.
'Whose stupid idea was it to have this much glass around here?' Owen complained, pushing the broom across the floor angrily, forcing the shards to tinkle in his wake.
Tosh was silently following after him with her own broom, trying to gather up the bits that Owen missed, or which had escaped in his sweeping fury.' There was no telling that this would happen,' she replied to him, breaking her silence. 'No one knew what opening the rift would do.'
'A bit of broken glass hardly compares to unleashing Abbadon,' Ianto added, lowering to his haunches to sweep the fragments into his pan. A silence hung between the three of them as the rest of what he meant hung in the air unsaid. A bit of broken glass hardly compared to having lost Jack, all because they hadn't followed orders. It should've been them who paid the price for their misguided insolence.
'It can be fixed,' Tosh said, cringing even as she said it, realising that what really mattered could be fixed. All they could do would be to pick up the pieces and try to atone for their actions with what they did next. They owed Jack that much.
'Whose stupid idea was it to have this much glass around here?' Owen complained, pushing the broom across the floor angrily, forcing the shards to tinkle in his wake.
Tosh was silently following after him with her own broom, trying to gather up the bits that Owen missed, or which had escaped in his sweeping fury.' There was no telling that this would happen,' she replied to him, breaking her silence. 'No one knew what opening the rift would do.'
'A bit of broken glass hardly compares to unleashing Abbadon,' Ianto added, lowering to his haunches to sweep the fragments into his pan. A silence hung between the three of them as the rest of what he meant hung in the air unsaid. A bit of broken glass hardly compared to having lost Jack, all because they hadn't followed orders. It should've been them who paid the price for their misguided insolence.
'It can be fixed,' Tosh said, cringing even as she said it, realising that what really mattered could be fixed. All they could do would be to pick up the pieces and try to atone for their actions with what they did next. They owed Jack that much.
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