Challenge 917 - The truth hurts

[m_findlow]

Title: The truth hurts

Character: Tosh, Owen

Author: m_findlow

Rating: PG

Length: 200 words

Content notes: None

Author notes: Written for Challenge 917 - Trip at torchwood100

Summary: Tosh is learning the hard way that the truth can really hurt. A double drabble.


‘Thanks for that rambling trip to nowhere, Tosh,’ Owen said, turning his attention back to Gwen.

Tosh felt her cheeks grow hot. It wasn't so much Owen's words that hurt as it was the realisation of what the alien necklace had shown her.

She'd always thought that with Torchwood she'd found the one place where she fitted in completely. One place where she wasn't an outcast for being smart.

Instead she was seeing it all clearly now. Torchwood was no different to anywhere else. They still thought she was a nerd and getting in the way of their normal lives where people still fell in love and had affairs with each other. She wasn't one of them. She still didn't fit in.

Thanks to the necklace, she'd been on a trip of her own to discover that people were entirely selfish and egocentric. She'd expected to discover there was more to people once you heard their true feelings and thoughts. That people were deep and complex, full of intriguing observations and ideas. That there was a kind of unspoken love that was hidden beneath the surface.

She'd never felt so unworthy of being in their presence as she did now.

 

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Oh Tosh, those two aren't worth your time. You're so much better than they are, you deserve so much more than you get!