a fundamental pause

[jupiter2932]

Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Tosh
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Notes: Written for torchwood100; challenge 799, wind



She goes back to the plaza a week after Mary dies.

It's quiet, on a morning before work, but now and then a pedestrian scurries across it, hands jammed into pockets and head ducked low, fighting the wind that gusts through the space, whipping its way out of the tunnel created by office buildings all round.

It's dark; too early for anyone without a miserable opening shift to be out.

No surprises here, she thinks.

But a girl in a Maccie's uniform, passing, stumbles then and laughs, and the wind carries it over.

It breaks on Tosh like fresh water.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Poor Tosh, she feels adrift after Mary, perhaps full of questions that have no answers, and doubts about everything that happened, what was real and what was just an act designed to win her cooperation.

[jupiter2932]

Yeah, it's a shame we couldn't see more of Tosh's fallout after the episode, but she was really manipulated in the episode, and also--I mean, it was the first time, apparently, she'd had a relationship with a woman, which would be its own big thing alone, and on top of that, dealing with Mary's death. It was a lot.

[badly_knitted]

And she didn't feel she could talk to any of the team about it because she'd seen into their minds *hugs Tosh*