Drabble: Memories Of Katie

[bk_forever]

Title: Memories Of Katie

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Owen, mentions Katie

Rating: G

Spoilers: Fragments mainly

Summary: Owen mourns Katie.

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

A/N: For one of the prompts I didn’t get around to using for tw100’s challenge 292: Billboard Hot 100 last year. I’ve dug them out again to supplement the prompts I got from my f-list, just because there are still loads I wanted to use. Prompt at the end.

Young, beautiful and so full of life, Katie had been everything to Owen; his reason for living, the only person who loved him just the way he was, though he never understood what she saw in him. She said he was honest; he cut through the bullshit and took no nonsense from anyone.

Now she was dead, killed by an alien in her brain, and he was in Cardiff, working with a bunch of weirdos who hunted aliens.

He picked up the whiskey bottle. All he had left was Katie’s memory; he planned on drinking to it all night long.

The End

A/N2: Title used is ‘Drink To That All Night’

Comments

[asia27.livejournal.com]

I totally agree but Owen has one other problem here. His oath as a doctor, I feel, hampered his recovery from Katie's loss too. It's hard for a caregiver to let go, especially when one is trained in the medical field. Losing my beloved Nana absolutely crashed my nursing training, as it happened during the holiday break. I couldn't face dealing with my chosen area of Geriatrics after losing her, but eventually it led me into other areas. I agree about Ianto too; there's no way, withe that massive amount of destruction and hearing those screams of conversion, that he could not have realized at some point that Lisa was already dead and he simply had an automaton with him. It had to be horrific for Owen to see that the surgery would not have saved Katie, no matter what was done.

[bk_forever]

I hadn't though of looking at things from the doctor POV, but you're right. Poor Owen.

I think with Ianto, the realization was probably subconscious; deep inside, he knew, but he was too driven by his need to save her for it to really register until after the cyberwoman was dead.

[asia27.livejournal.com]

Um, I actually had the thought that in a way, all three - Jack, Ianto and Owen - are suffering in their own way from the loss of a loved one. For Jack, it was his brother and we know about Katie and Lisa. All three of these guys are tragic in their own ways and really deserved better. (Course, I was thinking that after having a bout with a toothache and monster headache...)

[bk_forever]

It's still a perfectly valid thought, they HAVE all lost loved ones, and then Estelle dies, which is another blow for Jack. They'e all been through so much =(

Hope the toothache and headache are gone.