for justprompts... Ten Reasons...

Ten Reasons to Go.

10. I might get to grow old one day.
9. Children. I do want them, really.
8. A desk job would be lovely, when I'm older.
7. Weekends off!
6. I could stop lying.
5. No more retconning my parents. Perhaps that counts as lying.
4. No more chasing the bloody weevils through the bloody sewers.
3. Maybe I would never have to watch my friends die again.
2. They would make me forget. You can't miss something you don't remember.
1. Rhys. Maybe if I left I could save Rhys from what I have become.

Ten Reasons to Stay.

10. Eugene, and Jonah, and all the rest who would be forgotten. I remember them.
9. It's nice, sometimes, to have a secret.
8. The freedom it gives me, to know I make a difference.
7. The running. Torchwood keeps a girl fit, it does.
6. Ianto's coffee.
5. Tosh and Owen. I meant it, that I would go down fighting, like them.
4. I think I am saving Rhys, by being here. Somehow.
3. Someone has to chase the bloody weevils.
2. They have taken so much. I won't let them take back any of the memories, even the pain.
1. Jack Bloody Harkness.

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Muse: Gwen Cooper, Torchwood
Prompt: Ten Reasons to Go, Ten Reasons to Stay
Verse: Open/Canon
Word Count:209