Drabble: Odd One Out

[bk_forever]

Title: Odd One Out

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Tosh, Team Torchwood, the Doctor.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 349: Banana at tw100

Spoilers: Tiny for Something Borrowed.

Summary: Tosh is feeling left out.

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

A/N: 100 words exactly, first try! Yay! And for the record, I share Tosh’s problem, so I can empathise.

Tosh stood off to one side of the Hub, sipping her rum and coke, watching as the Doctor and the rest of the Torchwood team toasted each other with banana daiquiris. She felt left out, isolated from her friends, which was stupid; she’d done as much as anyone to help save the day, and she knew she wasn’t being deliberately excluded from the celebrations, it was just…

She sighed and sipped her drink again, wishing she could have what everyone else was enjoying. Why did the Doctor have to be so enamoured of the one fruit she was allergic to?

The End

Comments

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I sort of liked the movie...in the same way that I'm sitting in the trash bin for the entire show, so...whatever.
My father's similar. He's fairly slow, at least compared to everyone else, let alone me, but he makes lots of tiny errors. I used to stand behind him while he was working on briefs (he's a lawyer) and point out when he spelled 'the' wrong. I must have been horrid to have around then lmao.
I've never gotten much in to E Readers so I don't read those at night basically ever. I used to read books at night a lot, but now with my loft bed...I can't turn my lights off once I've gotten in or anything like that. But I guess, I do a great many things in the middle of the night, since I'm nearly always awake then anyway!!

[bk_forever]

I have a light by my bed that I can turn on and off, but it usually gets left on most of the night. I wake up so often it's nice to be able to pick up a book and read until I doze off again. Being alone in the house, the light is comforting.

I'm not an e-reader person. I've got one, but I almost never use it. I like real books =)

I'm a beta so I've trained myself to pick up mistakes, but I still miss silly things in my own fics!

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

Oi, I can't sleep with the light on. Some "natural" (as natural as you can get in DC - it's not like I'm not risking being woken by flashing lights regardless) light in through the window, sure, but nothing too bright.
I have my iPad which I sometimes use but it's too clunky to keep in bed with me. I'm hugging my sleeping buddy (my favorite and longest-owned, as in since before I was born, stuffed animal) and rolling around and all sorts of weirdness. I'm sure I'd end up breaking it or shoving it away to endure the eight-foot fall to the floor.
Most of my training's just the regular, honors english class, type training. I'm quite good at realizing errors, thankfully! I've never been a beta for a fic, but I'm certainly one of the first that fellow students come to for peer editing!

[bk_forever]

I have a lot of nightmares, so the light helps. It's not bright, but for me it's better than being in the dark.

I have a long-serving stuffy that shares my bed, poor, battered old thing that he is.

I took the plunge and offered to beta for someone long before I started writing. Betaed for quite a few people now and I have two regulars. English was always my best subject!

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

Seems like how I'll eventually get into a beta. I'm sure it's just a matter of time lol.

Yes, well, Sleepy Bear is not particularly old nor battered, but we are ten pence from twenty years!!

The light affects my nightmares, too, but in the way that unless I'm entirely desperate I can't fall asleep at all when there's any good amount of light.

[bk_forever]

I'm glad I can sleep with light, especially at this time of year when it starts getting light out at around 4am. I don't have curtains. I like to see the moon.

Give Sleepy Bear time, he's aging gracefully =)

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

She really is. I've been rather protective of her, so she's done well. Hanging in here with me! :)

That's quite good, then, if it gets light that early! I like to see the moon, but not when I am trying to sleep.

[bk_forever]

Moon, stars, night sky... so much better than boring curtains, though I'm thinking of getting curtains for during the day when the sun is too bright!

My bear Walter was rescued from a jumble sale by mum. He was all grungy and horrible, but a spin in the washing machine brought out his fluffy side. My own childhood bear is stuffed with straw and not very cuddly, Walter, on the other hand, can cuddle very well indeed.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

I have quite a few stuffies that aren't the best cuddlers, but Sleepy Bear's always been good. She's very small - just a head, and then a baby blankie sorta thing connected to it, and arms - so I can actually hold her inside my arms.

[bk_forever]

That sounds cute and snuggly!

My bed hugger is kind of a glove puppet like a furry hand with eyes and a tail. The tail is ideal for holding, lol!

Most of my stuffies are still in storage. I miss them.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

She is! I'd get a picture but I don't feel like getting up right now so I won't. But I'll put one up later.

My parents *ahem* strongly encouraged me to donate many of the ones I once had. I still have quite a few. Upwards of ten, I think. They're all (save for Sleepy Bear) at the foot of my bed.

[bk_forever]

My dad used to be like that, so when my parents divorced, mum and I started buying stuffies. I had to donate a lot a few years ago when we needed to get the house re-wired because there were just too many to put in storage with everything else. I hated doing it, but even after parting with a lot, I still have more than I know what to do with. I still want them home as soon as possible though.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I eventually have a regular bed (unless I get a wicked cool spaceship bed or something) I'll have to figure out what to do...

[bk_forever]

I still have the single bed I've had all my life, just with a better mattress! Which could do with replacing, I need one a bit softer.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

I'll probably get a different mattress when I get a different bed. I'd like something a bit softer too. But I don't even want to think about a) trying to get this mattress off my goshdarn loft or b) asking my father for the money for a new mattress, so that's gonna wait until own-apartment time.

[bk_forever]

Decent mattresses aren't cheap. I'd love a memory foam one, but... Don't think I can afford that.

[clarahow.livejournal.com]

Very true, unfortunately.

I sincerely doubt I'll be getting a car, though, so I'll be able when the time comes to dedicate a greater percentage of my income to something like that...I don't know if there's anything I could recommend to you tho.

[bk_forever]

I can get a mattress, just not a really expensive one. I have as car too though, they're expensive to run, lol!