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hohaiyee.livejournal.com posting in antigwenallies Oct. 18th, 2009 05:49 pm)quick and short
Title: If you do the crime
Characters: Gwen and Tosh, Team
Summary: Falling to your lowest point, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't come back. Gwen had wanted to retcon Rhys about her affair, but some mistakes can't be undone.
Rating: PG-15, kids, don't read this without consulting your parents.
Warning: Read this to see Gwen and consequences...but it's from Tosh's POV and it's kinda sympathetic.
The night that Jack had dropped Gwen into the special cell in the prison first set up by Torchwood One, he was still in a hissing mood; "Well I guess you are lucky after all, that you never got around to learning as much about Torchwood as you should have had." The traditional treatment for someone like Gwen, was a bullet to the head, or whatever alien weapon they needed testing on, back in the days of Alice Guppy. What Jack had kept on the book, for people like Gwen and Suzy who were retcon resistant, was and should have remained the bullet.
Somehow though, all of them couldn't do it, not even Owen, the most disgusted of them all because he had thought she was better than that, at least. With his gun still lined up to take a shot through her heart, Ianto had made the understated plead for her case that "it wasn't her intent". Owen said, "fuck intent", and then he let his unloaded clip drop to the floor, and threw his gun across the room before storming out.
It got even more quiet. It wasn't that Toshiko wasn't dangerous (when who she loves was threatened, the world ceased to matter), but she hated more, the recklessness of a person who had caused harm, than the reckless person who had no malice. Men have more compartments than machines...how could the woman who had sheltered them with her own body in Brecon Beacons, for all her frustrating green flaws, be the same woman who would drug her partner to cover up an affair?
It wasn't that Gwen had never been shown the dangers of Retcon, they've all just had a reminder this month, serial killer (weapon) Max. Retcon worked not only by obscuring memories, it made the mind more open to suggestion. It worked best if the drugged could go under before realising that they had been drugged, god knows what conclusion the drugged could have drawn, retcon coursing through their veins in the high of so much negative emotions.
Tosh was too involved in this, as they are all, to draw a just conclusion, but Gwen's death would be as irreversible as what she did to Rhys (and the last time Tosh had seen Gwen broken down like this, it was at Brecon Beacons). So Tosh lowered her gun, because 'Gwen must pay for what she did, but not this'.
Jack had grabbed Ianto and Tosh out of the conference room by their elbows, and as they exit they could hear Gwen slamming herself onto the table, for whom did she weep for (more), Tosh did not know.
Each piece of Torchwood's heart, kept their own sets of secrets, because they could all come and go, except for Jack. What they all knew of Jack, what they've learned of each other, they did not share in fullness with another (because secrets must be earned). Maybe one day their new teammates will learn of Gwen, if they didn't die first, but what they were all told again and again, was the consequence of using their powers to protect to hurt (...and she was never, ever, found). Even if you'd only intended to take advantage, not hurt as much as you did, it's still hurt.
Whenever she remembered (could not forget, fighting down the nausea that would not go away), Toshiko would make the time to visit Gwen, if the others did as well, Gwen had never told her, but she always asked about Rhys, and Toshiko thinks, 'if only you had thought about him, before', but truth about love ones was a kindness that Tosh could never deny Gwen, and she tells Gwen that "He still thinks of himself as a teenager, but the counseling is finally helping."
AN: After Suzie, Jack sets out to keep a much stricter track of the retcon pills, so Gwen has to comb through Owen Harper's misc. cupboard for the Retcon he had not got around to refiling yet. The dosage that Gwen gave Rhys, was originally intended for Ianto, if the probation thing had not worked out. Janto fans are encouraged to read the level of Jack's anger, as partly him seeing what Ianto could have been like if Jack had retconned Ianto.
ＥＴＡ： ｓｏｍｅ ｆｉｘｅｓ， ａｎｄ ｗｈｙ ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｆｏｒｍａｔｉｎｇ ｓｏ ｗｅｉｒｄ， ＮｏｔｅＰａｄ ｄｏｅｓｎ’ｔ ｃａｎｃｅｌ ｉｔ ｏｕｔ
Title: If you do the crime
Characters: Gwen and Tosh, Team
Summary: Falling to your lowest point, sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't come back. Gwen had wanted to retcon Rhys about her affair, but some mistakes can't be undone.
Rating: PG-15, kids, don't read this without consulting your parents.
Warning: Read this to see Gwen and consequences...but it's from Tosh's POV and it's kinda sympathetic.
The night that Jack had dropped Gwen into the special cell in the prison first set up by Torchwood One, he was still in a hissing mood; "Well I guess you are lucky after all, that you never got around to learning as much about Torchwood as you should have had." The traditional treatment for someone like Gwen, was a bullet to the head, or whatever alien weapon they needed testing on, back in the days of Alice Guppy. What Jack had kept on the book, for people like Gwen and Suzy who were retcon resistant, was and should have remained the bullet.
Somehow though, all of them couldn't do it, not even Owen, the most disgusted of them all because he had thought she was better than that, at least. With his gun still lined up to take a shot through her heart, Ianto had made the understated plead for her case that "it wasn't her intent". Owen said, "fuck intent", and then he let his unloaded clip drop to the floor, and threw his gun across the room before storming out.
It got even more quiet. It wasn't that Toshiko wasn't dangerous (when who she loves was threatened, the world ceased to matter), but she hated more, the recklessness of a person who had caused harm, than the reckless person who had no malice. Men have more compartments than machines...how could the woman who had sheltered them with her own body in Brecon Beacons, for all her frustrating green flaws, be the same woman who would drug her partner to cover up an affair?
It wasn't that Gwen had never been shown the dangers of Retcon, they've all just had a reminder this month, serial killer (weapon) Max. Retcon worked not only by obscuring memories, it made the mind more open to suggestion. It worked best if the drugged could go under before realising that they had been drugged, god knows what conclusion the drugged could have drawn, retcon coursing through their veins in the high of so much negative emotions.
Tosh was too involved in this, as they are all, to draw a just conclusion, but Gwen's death would be as irreversible as what she did to Rhys (and the last time Tosh had seen Gwen broken down like this, it was at Brecon Beacons). So Tosh lowered her gun, because 'Gwen must pay for what she did, but not this'.
Jack had grabbed Ianto and Tosh out of the conference room by their elbows, and as they exit they could hear Gwen slamming herself onto the table, for whom did she weep for (more), Tosh did not know.
Each piece of Torchwood's heart, kept their own sets of secrets, because they could all come and go, except for Jack. What they all knew of Jack, what they've learned of each other, they did not share in fullness with another (because secrets must be earned). Maybe one day their new teammates will learn of Gwen, if they didn't die first, but what they were all told again and again, was the consequence of using their powers to protect to hurt (...and she was never, ever, found). Even if you'd only intended to take advantage, not hurt as much as you did, it's still hurt.
Whenever she remembered (could not forget, fighting down the nausea that would not go away), Toshiko would make the time to visit Gwen, if the others did as well, Gwen had never told her, but she always asked about Rhys, and Toshiko thinks, 'if only you had thought about him, before', but truth about love ones was a kindness that Tosh could never deny Gwen, and she tells Gwen that "He still thinks of himself as a teenager, but the counseling is finally helping."
AN: After Suzie, Jack sets out to keep a much stricter track of the retcon pills, so Gwen has to comb through Owen Harper's misc. cupboard for the Retcon he had not got around to refiling yet. The dosage that Gwen gave Rhys, was originally intended for Ianto, if the probation thing had not worked out. Janto fans are encouraged to read the level of Jack's anger, as partly him seeing what Ianto could have been like if Jack had retconned Ianto.
ＥＴＡ： ｓｏｍｅ ｆｉｘｅｓ， ａｎｄ ｗｈｙ ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｆｏｒｍａｔｉｎｇ ｓｏ ｗｅｉｒｄ， ＮｏｔｅＰａｄ ｄｏｅｓｎ’ｔ ｃａｎｃｅｌ ｉｔ ｏｕｔ
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The way I see it, after Suzie, Jack keeps count of all the Retcon, so Gwen had to steal it from Owen's office, looking through is misc. bin. There was several retcon pills Owen didn't refile yet, and one of them was the retcon pill originally intended for Ianto, the dosage set for a few years that would have wiped Ianto's memory of Torchwood One as well, if the probation thing didn't work out...and she didn't read the label too carefully.
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Rhys reminds me of Ianto