To be a flower-keeper is profound responsibility

[jupiter2932]

Title: To be a flower-keeper is profound responsibility
Author: jupiter2932
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating: G
Word Count: 200
Characters: Owen/Tosh
Notes: Written for torchwood100, challenge 801: Flowers
Summary: It starts with the orchid Owen gives her on their first date.


It starts with the orchid he gives her on their first date, really.

Tosh already keeps a couple of house plants; the green vibrance of living things in her home is something she finds necessary after her experience with UNIT. But her plants are hardy things, the sort you find when you google 'houseplants hard to kill.'

That's necessity, because anything delicate would struggle to survive her working hours and the exhaustion she brings home with her on her days off.

But she makes an effort for the orchid.

It's a little silly, maybe, to be fussy over something just because Owen gave it to her, but Tosh thinks they've earned some silliness in their lives after everything they've been through.

So she tends the orchid as best she can, downloads advice from old Reddit threads, and manages to keep it alive for a month.

Then one day she and Owen are out, running errands together—their first time meeting up outside of a date—and Tosh's eye catches on a begonia.

Owen's set it in his trolley before she can protest.

By the time they move in together, they have to find a place with room for her garden.