Drabble_weekly Challenge 397 - For the good of all

[m_findlow]

Title: For the good of all

Author: m_findlow

Rating: PG

Length: 300 words

Content notes: none

Author notes: Written for Challenge 397 - Here we go again at drabble_zone

Summary: When Jack goes without the whole team goes without. A triple drabble.


Owen and Tosh sidled into the hub, each pretending to ignore the way their shoulders kept bumping together as they moved down the narrow dark corridors from the tourist office entrance, all the way to the lift and down into the bowels of the hub.

Tosh moved towards her desk, removing her handbag and crossing paths with Ianto as she did so. When he didn't stop to place a perfectly timed mug of coffee on her desk, she found it strange. Ianto was always there with coffee the moment they arrived.

'Morning, Ianto!' she said brightly. 'Any chance of a coffee?'

He smiled but it was a half grimaced effort. 'Sorry, Tosh. No coffee today, I'm afraid.' He kept on walking, clipboard in hand so that he didn't have to make eye contact with Owen, disappearing quickly towards the archives.

Owen groaned, slapping his jacket down. 'Here we bloody go again.'

'What?' Tosh asked.

'Another sodding row,' Owen explained. 'Teaboy's refusing to make coffee for His Lordship because they're not talking. I don't even wanna know why.'

'But how come we don't get any?' Tosh asked. She could understand that when Ianto and Jack were at loggerheads, Ianto's sometimes refused to make Jack coffee as punishment. A caffeine war of attrition, of sorts, but the rest of them hadn't done anything wrong.

Owen rolled his eyes. 'Some supposedly benevolent move so that Jack doesn't take it out on us. Last time Jack tore strips off Gwen simply because she was carrying her mug when she went to see him.'

'That's awful!' Tosh exclaimed. 'Why would Jack do that?'

'That's what happens when you deprive him of coffee. He becomes a foul, irritable monster.'

'Well, that's not going to help matters, is it?'

Owen shrugged. 'I didn't make the rules, Tosh.'

 

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Ianto will not back down. Maybe next time Jack will accept his decaf punishment and not escalate things. (This just works so well as a sequel to your last coffee-related drabble, I can see it happening *grins*)

[m_findlow]

Thank you. I hadn't even thought about last week's entry so it's pure coincidence that one follows the other! Maybe I'll have to think about this week's and whether I can connect it as well.

[badly_knitted]

You never know!

Hmmm... I've picked out Build for the next challenge so maybe not... Then again, if anyone can work out a way to do it, my money would be on you.

Oops, that's the next tw100 challenge, getting my drabble communities mixed up! You might be able to do something with the Change prompt.