Challenge 625 - Shared despair

[m_findlow]

Title: Shared despair
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Gwen, Ianto
Rating: PG
Challenge: 625 - Dash/dashed at tw100
Notes: Flat Holm Island has dashed the hopes of all it touches. A double drabble.

Gwen heaved a sigh as the mug was set right in front of her. Even a mug of Ianto’s amazing coffee wasn’t going to make her feel any better. Her head was too full of that howling scream. It was like it had lodged itself in there permanently, torturing her.

'I wish you’d never shown me,' she murmured just loud enough for him to hear.

Ianto let out his own sigh as he sunk down into the chair next to her. 'There are plenty of days where I’d agree with you,' he replied. 'There are lots of things that are easier not knowing.'

She nodded, wrapping her hands around the warmth of the mug. 'Nikki Bevan is never going to be able to forget what she saw. I’ve dashed any hopes she had that she might be reunited with her son. She’s going to grow old and die remembering what happened to him now. I gave her that burden.'

'And I gave it to you,' he said.

She turned to face him. 'Doesn’t it kill you knowing what’s happened to these people?'

'A little bit each day,' he admitted. 'But now we’ve got each other. That’s got to be better.'

Comments

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If Gwen had let it drop when she was told to, Nikki and Jonah would both be better off.