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Tweak says, "who called a thousand of us?!"

Toshiko Sato (brainsandbeauty) wrote in parabolical,
@ 2008-04-05 22:51:00

Entry tags:

claire bennet, gwen cooper, toshiko sato

Warning: Torchwood Finale Spoilers
Who: Toshiko Sato and Gwen Cooper.
What: Spoilers for Finale.
Where: A street in L.A.
When: Evening. Before the hurricane.
Rating: TBD.
Status: Started.

Tosh couldn't stop sobbing. Owen was dead. Again. Only this time there would be no resurrection glove...risen mitten...whatever they were calling it this week. Nothing to bring him back. Nothing to bring back. And now she was here in this place. On some unfamiliar street. And the gunshot wound hurt so much, but she pushed that to the back of her mind. She knew she was dying but it didn't matter. She'd done her job. She'd stopped the meltdown. And at what cost? She'd lost him. She'd listened to him scream and finally resign himself to death. She'd listened as he died. He'd told her it wasn't her fault, but she couldn't help thinking there must have been something she could have done. Anything. She leaned back against the wall outside the building where she'd found herself, keeping her hands pressed to her stomach, her arm still in pain from where she'd broken it.

She didn't know how she'd gotten here from the hub...maybe a trick of the rift. But apparently the Doctor was here. And Ianto...which meant Jack and Gwen might be here as well. She just hoped that they were alright. She didn't think she could bear it if any of them were hurt because of Gray. Losing Owen had been too much, and she couldn't lose anyone else. Not like Owen. No matter what he'd said, she still blamed herself. Maybe in the next life she would see him again and she could apologise. For failing him. Because she couldn't bring herself to believe Jack's stories about the black. There had to be something more.

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twgwen
2008-04-06 03:31 am UTC (link)

Gwen had walked into the HUB looking for Tosh but found nothing but signs of a struggle and blood. The blood was all over. It didn't leave a very good feeling in the pit of her stomach. She swallowed hard and felt a small of anxiety in her throat knowing whatever happened here just as easily could have been her. Having found no evidence that Tosh was in the HUB, she decided to take to the streets with the GPS device that would track her phone if she had it with her. Locating the phone she followed through the streets into the night, shivering as she went. The cold wasn't what made her shiver, it was the thought that Tosh might be out there alone and hurt. Finally she thought she heard a noise so she stopped and strained her ears as she pulled her gun out just to be on the safe side, "Tosh?!"

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brainsandbeauty
2008-04-06 03:44 am UTC (link)

At first she thought she was imagining it. Gwen's voice. But why would she be imagining Gwen of all people? It wasn't anything against the other woman. They just all had some level of hero-worship for Jack. If she was going to imagine someone coming to her rescue, it would be him. Or Owen...but that was just too painful right now. She looked around, hand still pressing against her stomach in a vain effort to stem the flow of blood. "Gwen?" she managed to gasp, not really in any state to move. She needed another pain killer. She needed to die and have the pain end. She needed this all to stop somehow.

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twgwen
2008-04-06 03:49 am UTC (link)

Looking around, Gwen followed the voice until she found Tosh laid up against the wall. "Tosh!" she yelled running over to her and falling to her knees before her. "What happened?" she asked, urgently, noticing how Tosh was holding her stomach and there was blood stemming through her fingers, down her clothes. Tosh looked out of it with her eyes starting to glaze over. They looked like they were about warm over as if she were about to die. She had to snap her back into reality. "Tosh! Does anyone else know your here? Jack? Ianto? Anyone? Have you taken anything?" she asked, meaning painkillers.

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brainsandbeauty
2008-04-06 04:03 am UTC (link)

Tosh blinked dazedly, trying to process everything that Gwen was saying. She gritted her teeth against the pain and answered slowly, wishing it wasn't getting so hard to fight. "Gray," she explained. "I was...talking Owen through fixing the reactor...he...he shot me." She was on the verge of tears again at the memory. "Owen...he's sealed in at the nuclear plant...I couldn't...he's dead Gwen. Owen's dead. I couldn't save him..." She shook her head. "No...nobody...didn't know where I was." She held out her free hand, showing Gwen the syringe she'd used to inject herself with the painkillers. "Had to keep a clear head to guide him through everything." A lot of good that had done.

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twgwen
2008-04-07 04:43 am UTC (link)

As Tosh rattled on about things she tried to listen but she was much more worried about her current wound but as she got to the point where she talked about Owen and him being stuck in the nuclear plant and dead, she stopped briefly. She swallowed. "Oh honey, I'm sure you did everything you could, everything," she said, not knowing what else to say and praying, wishing silently that Jack was with her now as he always had the right words. "I'm going to get you help, I swear it," she whispered to her, trying to think desperately what she should do. Frantically, she got her radio from her pocket and pressed the talk button, "Ianto?" she called out, trying to make contact with him but getting nothing back. She cursed this entire situation silently and turned her attention back to the dying woman.

"Okay, here is what I think we should do, first, did you manage to make anymore of the painkillers with you once you left the HUB, Tosh?" she asked.

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brainsandbeauty
2008-04-07 08:27 am UTC (link)

It didn't matter if she'd done everything she could. She was supposed to go to the nuclear station, not Owen. She could have done something there, and then maybe nobody would have died. But she couldn't keep dwelling on that. "He's dead, Gwen," she whispered, still crying, and of all of them, Gwen would understand the pain she was feeling right now. She forced a small smile. "I know you will." She didn't think Gwen would be able to do anything about her injury, but she wasn't about to tell Gwen that. She didn't want her thinking she'd given up.

She shook her head. "I just had the one," she said. The pain wasn't really so bad anymore. She was actually rather numb to it at this point. "Is Jack alright? And Ianto?" She needed to know that they were alright.

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twgwen
2008-04-13 05:48 pm UTC (link)

Gwen wasn't really sure what had happened to Jack yet but she wasn't going to tell Tosh that, especially not in the condition she was in. So she did the only thing she could think of, she lied. "Jack's fine, we found him and he's back at the HUB, helping Ianto sort out what happened right now, but once I get him on the radio, you know Jack, he will be marching in here like the calvary," she said with sad, fake smile. She wasn't going to tell her how everything was just crap and gone to hell and they didn't know anything more than before about Jack.

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some_kinda_hero
2008-04-08 04:45 am UTC (link)

Claire needed to clear her head after the sudden 'bombs' that had been dropped on her lately; Molly being older, Elle saving her, Sylar being here, etc, the list went on. Though LA wasn't exactly safe, she still wanted the cool air.

If Claire hadn't been looking over her shoulder every so often, she would have missed the two girls just off the street. The one was clearly covered in blood and immediately Claire crossed over in a run to see if she could help. "What happened, is she okay??" Her subtle Southern accent broke through in her concern. She stood over Tosh, afraid to touch her until she understood the situation more fully.

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twgwen
2008-04-13 05:53 pm UTC (link)

Gwen looked up at the footsteps she heard approaching. In one fluid motion, she jerked her gun from her holster and whirled around to point it at the .... girl .... in front of her. "Who are you?" she asked, stiff and ready for action, any sign that this new stranger was a threat. This wasn't a time to give leeway. The city was in chaos. Her other hand moved to Tosh, to again give herself the assurance that she was still there. "It's okay, I'm here, Tosh."

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