The Torchwood Drabble Files

by badly-knitted

A collection of Torchwood drabbles that continues to grow. Thanks to everyone who's making this possible. You're greatly appreciated, so I'm reinstating an old game - the writer of every 100th review gets to request a drabble/ficlet of their choice. Still using a T rating to cover anything I might write, just to be safe.

14. No Good Choices

Title: No Good Choices

Author: badly-knitted

Characters: Jack

Rating: G

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

Spoilers: Vague for Small Worlds

Summary: It falls to Jack to make the hard choices.

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

A/N: Thanks to all my readers, reviewers, favouriters and followers - I've had more than 2,500 hits on my stories this month already, I'm amazed my little fics are proving so popular. Apologies for not having anything longer than a drabble to post recently, I'm not feeling too well and my brain isn't cooperating. I also have some betaing that I need to do, and Real Life to contend with (the joys of being a responsible adult), so I haven't had as much time to write recently. Hopefully I'll get some other things written soon.

Sometimes there just weren't any good choices, only bad, worse or catastrophic, but that didn't make such decisions easier to make or to live with.

He reminded himself she wasn't really a child anymore, had ceased to be that when she was chosen. Not entirely human, no longer suited to this world. She wanted to go with them, where she belonged, where she fit.

But she still looked like a child; she had a mother who would grieve her loss.

In the end it wasn't even a choice. Let this one go, or let the entire world suffer the consequences.

The End

A/N2: The first thing that came to mind for this prompt was Small Worlds. I thought a lot of other writers would have had the same idea, but thankfully everyone has come up with something different so far. Hopefully I will be able to come up with a second drabble for the prompt, I do have some other ideas, but I'm struggling a bit. Still, I'm pleased with the way this one turned out. Hope everyone enjoys it!