FIC: Torchwood (drabble) - Mourning Mary

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Title: Mourning Mary
Author: fajrdrako
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Captain Jack Harkness
Challenge: tw100, challenge: episode tag
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Episode tag for Torchwood series 1, episode 7, "Greeks Bearing Gifts". Cross-posted to my lj, and to tw100.


Mourning Mary

"You shouldn't be alone," said Jack, who walked her home. Tosh had no strength to argue. She poured herself a nice stiff scotch, but her hands shook. He steadied her.

"I don't understand why she wanted to kill me," she said. "I loved her."

"There's no sense in it," he said. "Just bad luck."

Jack held her, quietly comforting. She'd always held him in awe: her mysterious saviour, a dangerous hero. She hadn't known he could be kind. Perhaps no one was ever what they appeared to be.

She cried herself to sleep, and he was gone when she woke.