m_findlow: (Jack mad)
m_findlow ([personal profile] m_findlow) wrote2023-02-05 08:33 pm

Challenge 746 - Bad language

Title: Bad language
Character: Jack, Owen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 746 - Curse at [community profile] torchwood100
Summary: Jack can only stomach so much of Owen's potty mouth. A double drabble.


Jack caught Owen’s less than dulcet tones emanating from behind him where he’d been left to inspect their newest alien corpse. Jack had spent a lot of years living in Wales and was accustomed to the colourful language often spouted in anger or in drunkenness - in both English and Welsh. Owen outdid all of them with his long and loud list of obscenities. He could have made a few sailors blush with words like that, and Jack should know.

‘Owen!’ he yelled out, the language grating on his nerves. ‘Could you possibly keep your cursing to a minimum, or at least an inaudible volume? The local primary school is right next door. I don’t need some teacher coming out here and giving me an earful.’

‘Yeah, well, if you were doing your job, there wouldn’t be any little kiddies around to hear it,’ he sniped.

‘I’m not evacuating an entire school just so we can recover a corpse. They’re okay so long as we keep them inside their classrooms, but the glass isn’t soundproof, so, you know, if you could…’

‘What? Be sweet and polite. Oh, look sir, I’ve found a jolly interesting barb here that’s stuck in my hand!’
 

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