Double Drabble: Fervor
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jupiter2932Title: Fervor
Author:jupiter2932
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Characters: Owen Harper, Owen Harper's Mom
Notes: Written for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100 challenge 797, Grate.
His mother takes religion up again when he's thirteen.
She goes back to it in phases on and off, clinging to the ritual with a fervor rare in their Manchester neighborhood for months on end before dropping it overnight and going back to Sunday mornings with loud game shows and a glass of wine. She drags him along and berates him if he acts like they've ever been away, pinching him if he looks sullen during Mass.
She makes him go to the youth group with a pad and pen and checks to make sure the notes he takes are good enough; there's hundreds of pounds taken out of the household budget to join religious classes she abandons halfway through; and there are furious, screaming bouts, like when he mouths off to Father Stephen in Confirmation for being a dick about Laura Taylor about getting pregnant at fifteen but not saying shit to Mark Hughes even though everybody knows he's the father.
It's like a revelation some years later when he's doing readings for his first-year psychology course and sees the description of bipolar II disorder.
It all makes sense then, from that distance.
But as a kid, it grates.
Author:
jupiter2932Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: PG
Word Count: 200
Characters: Owen Harper, Owen Harper's Mom
Notes: Written for
torchwood100 challenge 797, Grate.His mother takes religion up again when he's thirteen.
She goes back to it in phases on and off, clinging to the ritual with a fervor rare in their Manchester neighborhood for months on end before dropping it overnight and going back to Sunday mornings with loud game shows and a glass of wine. She drags him along and berates him if he acts like they've ever been away, pinching him if he looks sullen during Mass.
She makes him go to the youth group with a pad and pen and checks to make sure the notes he takes are good enough; there's hundreds of pounds taken out of the household budget to join religious classes she abandons halfway through; and there are furious, screaming bouts, like when he mouths off to Father Stephen in Confirmation for being a dick about Laura Taylor about getting pregnant at fifteen but not saying shit to Mark Hughes even though everybody knows he's the father.
It's like a revelation some years later when he's doing readings for his first-year psychology course and sees the description of bipolar II disorder.
It all makes sense then, from that distance.
But as a kid, it grates.
