Author's Note:
This was written by the lovely Taamar! More notes at the end. Enjoy!
9. Cosmopolitan
It was the first night Tosh had off in a week, and she'd gone to the bar where she'd first met Mary. It was a weeknight and the place wasn't crowded. Tosh preferred it that way; she could sip her Cosmopolitan in peace and watch the few patrons and think. She was considering the pair of girls in the corner (girlfriends or girlfriends?) when she heard someone sit next to her. Gwen. Tosh sighed. So much for her night away from work.
"Weird today, wasn't it?" Gwen began.
"Hmm? Oh, the boy. I suppose. I wasn't really paying attention, to be honest." Gwen had got stuck on the death of a civilian, and while the rest of the team was going about their actual job, she had been working on her so-called 'case', which was only connected to Torchwood in the most peripheral of ways. Gwen was like that, her heart so big she cared about everyone. Then Tosh remembered what she had heard from Gwen when she'd been wearing the pendant, and her lips thinned.
While Tosh was thinking about the other women's harsh inner thoughts, Gwen ordered a cosmo of her own and kept talking. "And then he was there. Pushed me out of the way to save my life. Isn't it amazing?"
"Look, I don't have many nights off, and I'm sort of here to get away from work. Can we not talk about this?"
Gwen's face fell. It was like kicking a puppy. Tosh didn't dislike Gwen, not exactly, but they really had nothing in common except work. Still, as the only two women on the team, maybe Tosh should try harder to connect.
"Talk about something else, maybe?" she offered. "Something random? Like shoes?"
"I liked your boots the other day," Gwen said, her bright, open smile returning.
Not the most auspicious of beginnings, since those had been the boots Tosh had worn with her jeans tucked in the morning she had been listening to everyone's thoughts. It's nothing, she told herself, we all think unkind things. It's not like she says them out loud.
"Thanks," she said. Tosh had never had many friends, but Gwen Cooper was reaching out to her. Maybe it was time to try something new.
Author's Notes, Take Two:
I wasn't going to write a drabble for Random Shoes because to be honest, I'm a terrible TW fan and never finished watching it! But my brilliant and amazing beta stepped up and wrote one so the set is complete! Kudos and Applause for Taamar, please, who suggested a Gwen/Tosh drabble and wrote a lovely moment for them. Thank you! She's also throwing some great ideas at me for the next few as I was getting a bit stuck and not sure who I wanted to go with. The next one is quite a bit longer than all the others, so I hope you enjoy it. And the one after that was all her idea and a brilliant one at that so I hope you love it as much as I do. Thank you for reading!
