Stimulus: TWLOHA
Spoilers: Just after Cyberwoman
POV: Yours?
Dedication: Becky and Hannah and Rosanna and Pip and all the other lovely people who wrote love on my arms.
Disclaimer: I do not own Torchwood. I do own a fantastic set of friends who, today, covered my arms with the word 'love'.
AN: Today is a very special day, ladies. Today is TWLOHA day. You'll find out what it is in a minute but if you feel I haven't described it satisfactorily I'm putting a link on my page. I hope that tonight you will be inspired to grab a pen, a friend and some hope and scrawl the word 'love' on their arms.
-x-
Gwen announces quite cheerfully on that day that it was TWLOHA day and promptly pulls out a marker pen and insist that they present her with their arms.
The reply to this is as follows.
Huh?
TWLOHA day – more commonly known as To Write Love On Her Arms day, Ianto explains – was first started when a young, depressed addict by the name of Renee tried to kill herself by carving the words 'Fuck Up' into her arm. Her friends took her in when the treatment center would not. They kissed the scars and took away the razor and then, with hope in their minds and prayers in their hearts, they wrote love on her arms.
Tosh holds out her arms with a tear on her face.
Owen is next.
Then Jack.
No one notices the way Ianto withdraws with quiet words of ink poisoning and do they know how bad that was for them?
That night Jack finds the scars that decorate Ianto's wrists. He kisses them all hello and in the morning he will kiss them all goodbye. And when Ianto wakes up with an empty bed and the word 'love' written in Jack's messy scrawl across his arm, he will smile.