Drabble: For Love Of Family

[badly_knitted]

Title: For Love Of Family

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Tosh

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 257 - Between the Devil and the deep blue sea at tw100

Spoilers: For Fragments

Summary: Family means everything to Tosh.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.

A/N: Beta thanks to timelordshines , without whose insight I never would have finished this one. I’ve tinkered with it some more since though, lol!

Tosh checks the blueprints, measures, snips pieces of wire and solders connections, feeling a sense of awe as she sees what she’s building take shape.

She shouldn’t be doing this, she knows she shouldn’t; it’s against the law, stealing blueprints to build a weapon. She doesn’t even know for whom she’s building it or why they want it so badly.

Deep down she knows she’s committing treason, knows she will pay for her crime. She can’t let that stop her though. Her mother’s life is at stake and family is everything.

She’ll do whatever it takes to save her mother.

The End

 

 

Comments

[amphigorym_2011]

Beautifully done. What we knew of Tosh, her family must have been tremendously important to her if she was willing to commit what amounted to treason. And, as Jack pointed out to her when he rescued her from the UNIT jail to work for Torchwood, the plans had been shelved because they didn't work. It was her genius that allowed her to make the modifications that caused the gun to work, and I think she ever forgot that if not for him figuring out that Torchwood needed someone like her, she would have probably just wasted away in prison.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. Tosh is tremendously loyal and I believe Jack earned her loyalty not just for getting her out of the UNIT prison, but also for never treating her as if she were a prisoner once she was working for him, beyond the restrictions UNIT imposed. Even after her five years were up, if she hadn't died I believe she would have remained at Torchwood, because wehere else would her skills and her genius be so appreciated and used for the good of all, protecting people?