Challenge 525 - Lost in pain

[m_findlow]

Title: Lost in pain
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Owen, Ianto
Rating: PG
Challenge: 525 - Lost at tw100
Notes: Owen is all too familiar with the pain of loss. A double drabble.

'Arm out,' Owen instructed. 'Need to take a blood sample,' he said, readying the elastic tourniquet and uncapping the needle.

Ianto deftly remove the cufflink and rolled up his sleeve, proffering his arm to Owen, all done in complete silence. He looked away as Owen inserted the needle, the dark red blood slowly filling the ampule.

Owen watched him carefully as the tube filled. He didn't normally mind his patients being quiet during their routine check-ups, since they mostly only complained at him, but Ianto hadn't said a word all day as best he could recall. Not that Owen could blame him after everything that had happened. He'd felt the same when he'd lost Katie, though he wouldn't admit it.

'How're you doing, Ianto?'

'Fine.' Owen was impressed by how nearly convincing that sounded.

'Sleeping okay?'

'Yep.'

Owen removed the needle. 'Hold that,' he said, pressing the cotton bud against it while he finished marking the sample.

'And you feel generally okay? No aches or pains?'

'Nothing.' He didn't even look at Owen when he said it.

Liar, Owen thought. You just lost everything you cared about and probably wished Jack had retconned you all the way to kingdom come.

Comments

[bk_forever]

Not that Ianto was likely to admit how bad he feels to Owen, or to anyone else. He probably feels he's already caused enough problems.

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

And Owen isn't the sharing type either.