Half Life

Mar. 11th, 2011 07:33 pm
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Author: Aviv_b
Title: Half Life
Written for [info]tw100, Open challenge - Equinox
Rating: G
Characters: Owen
Disclaimer: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
Summary: 
 After Jack brings him back from death, Owen is even stranger than he was before.

A/N:  This is an Open Challenge meaning you can use any prompt from the past for a story - Equinox was a prompt from 2007.


He exists halfway between the living and the dead.  A zombie.

 

He can work but can’t sleep. Or eat, or shag or even take a piss. But if you play Thriller on Jack’s phonograph, he’ll moonwalk around the Hub, steps light as air.

 

His teammates don’t seem to notice. Maybe he was already dead when he joined. Maybe he died quietly when Diane left through the rift. Maybe they’re half dead themselves.

 

Only the Weevils feel the change in him. Half in awe, half in fear, they bow to the creature that is halfway between the light and the dark.

 


Date: 2011-03-12 02:08 am (UTC)
cookiegirl: (Jack&Gwen - Adrift)
From: [personal profile] cookiegirl
Ooh, very powerful and vivid. I love the image of Owen moonwalking! :D The third paragraph is so sad and touching too. x

Date: 2011-03-12 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks - I think Owen was already dead (emotionally) even before his first death.

(If you saw this on TW classic - there's another drabble posted just ahead that I couldn't post there.
Edited Date: 2011-03-12 03:55 am (UTC)

Date: 2011-03-12 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sassysailorgirl.livejournal.com
LOL @Owen moonwalking! Lovely drabble!

Date: 2011-03-12 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks - moonwalking seems so right for Zombie!Owen.

Date: 2011-03-12 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xrai-namere.livejournal.com
This was brilliant.
I loved that third paragraph, and it does ring true. *hugs Owen, then Aviv*

Date: 2011-03-12 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks so much. I think Owen was pretty much living a half life from the moment Diane left. After that, he really didn't have anything to live for.

And thanks for the hug - here's a sweet kitty for you.

Date: 2011-03-12 03:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xrai-namere.livejournal.com
KITTEH!!!

Thank you. :)

Date: 2011-03-12 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
I know you loves the kittehs! Here's the other kitty for you (you really should check out some of the entries under my 'cat' tag - some are about rescues but the ones about my kitties are LULarious (if I say so myself).

(If you saw this on TW classic - there's another drabble posted just ahead that I couldn't post there).

Bus full stop.

Date: 2011-03-12 06:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teamrodent.livejournal.com
So is Owen's favorite group "The Zombies"? ;)

Re: Bus full stop.

Date: 2011-03-12 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
YOu got it!

Date: 2011-03-12 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toshiani007.livejournal.com
Wonderful fic!!! I love Owen's moonwalk!!!

Date: 2011-03-12 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Can't you just picture him that Michael Jackson video?

Date: 2011-03-12 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] toshiani007.livejournal.com
Of course, adorable, dancing in the cemetery!!!

Date: 2011-03-12 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nomorewords.livejournal.com
(read this on tw_classic)

That was lovely. Sort of poignant. Love Owen's moonwalking, and Jack having a phonograph :)

Date: 2011-03-13 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Owen would have some killer zombie moves and Jack would have to have a phonograph. How else could he play all his records from the 1940s?

Date: 2011-03-12 11:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bk_forever
Moody and sort of poetic. Owen was a complicated character even before he died, he's even more complex now!

Date: 2011-03-13 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks! Yes he is. I cn see him moonwalking for amusement much like his uh upchuck scene with Jack, but he's pretty cynical and morose as well.

Date: 2011-03-13 05:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com
Nice look at Owen. Great insights and even a smile.

Date: 2011-03-13 05:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks! Glad you liked!

Date: 2011-04-03 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com
bittersweet, but gorgeous and sum him up brilliantly

Date: 2011-04-03 11:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com
Thanks - Owen has always been a bit of a cipher to me.

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