Challenge 791 - Secrets
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m_findlowTitle: Secrets
Character: Jack, Owen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 791 - Hide at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Jack has things that no one can know. A double drabble.
‘Ah!’ Jack sighed as the coffee slid down his throat, hot and bitter, just how he liked it. ‘It’s so good to have everything back to normal again,’ he added. After the year he’d had, even a semblance of normal would have suited him down to the ground. Cardiff was, he’d come to realise, right where he was meant to be.
‘Normal,’ Owen muttered sardonically. ‘Yeah, if you say so. Just so long as you don’t have any other psychotic ex-boyfriends hiding in the cupboard ready to come and make our lives a bloody misery.’
‘John’s not so bad,’ Jack said. Well, truthfully he kinda was, but always in the “I’d kill you but then I’d have no one to play with” kind of way.
‘Bastard shot me, remember?’ Owen reminded him. ‘If I see him again, he’s getting a thank you bullet from me. Probably one from Ianto as well.’
‘No more exes,’ Jack promised. ‘I’m an open book. Nothing to hide. Ask me anything.’
‘Okay then, tell us what you’ve been doing for the past four months with that Doctor of yours.’
Jack’s smile dropped. ‘Ah. Can’t really talk about that.’
Owen groaned. ‘Don’t know why I bother.’
‘Ah!’ Jack sighed as the coffee slid down his throat, hot and bitter, just how he liked it. ‘It’s so good to have everything back to normal again,’ he added. After the year he’d had, even a semblance of normal would have suited him down to the ground. Cardiff was, he’d come to realise, right where he was meant to be.
‘Normal,’ Owen muttered sardonically. ‘Yeah, if you say so. Just so long as you don’t have any other psychotic ex-boyfriends hiding in the cupboard ready to come and make our lives a bloody misery.’
‘John’s not so bad,’ Jack said. Well, truthfully he kinda was, but always in the “I’d kill you but then I’d have no one to play with” kind of way.
‘Bastard shot me, remember?’ Owen reminded him. ‘If I see him again, he’s getting a thank you bullet from me. Probably one from Ianto as well.’
‘No more exes,’ Jack promised. ‘I’m an open book. Nothing to hide. Ask me anything.’
‘Okay then, tell us what you’ve been doing for the past four months with that Doctor of yours.’
Jack’s smile dropped. ‘Ah. Can’t really talk about that.’
Owen groaned. ‘Don’t know why I bother.’
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Date: 2023-12-17 11:11 am (UTC)