Challenge 834 - Element of surprise
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m_findlowTitle: Element of surprise
Character: Jack, Owen, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Length: 200 words
Content notes: None
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Summary: Owen has messed up the mission on account of turning up to work unwell. A double drabble.
Ianto frowned as a dejected looking team arrived back at the hub, very clearly empty handed. ‘I thought you were supposed to be after some kind of alien?’ Jack had been thin on details, simply giving Ianto orders to text everyone out of their beds and straight to the hub to help him deal with it.
‘We were,’ Jack replied, looking vexed, ‘and we almost had the thing. Then some muppet,’ he turned and glared at Owen, ‘went and scared the thing off with his ridiculously loud man-sneeze. We tried for ages to find it again but it clearly scarpered and has gone to ground.’ He spared Owen another withering look. ‘It could take weeks for it to surface again.’
‘Oi, it wasn’t my fault alright?’ Owen said, wiping his sleeve across his face. ‘Told you I was sick and not gonna come in today, but no… Get your arse to the hub or you’ll have all the free time in the world, you said.’
‘You always fake being sick.’
‘Yeah, well this time it wasn’t fake.’ He sniffed loudly. ‘Stupid alien probably caught my cold.’
Jack smirked. ‘Well, it should be easy to find now. We’ll hear it coming.’
Ianto frowned as a dejected looking team arrived back at the hub, very clearly empty handed. ‘I thought you were supposed to be after some kind of alien?’ Jack had been thin on details, simply giving Ianto orders to text everyone out of their beds and straight to the hub to help him deal with it.
‘We were,’ Jack replied, looking vexed, ‘and we almost had the thing. Then some muppet,’ he turned and glared at Owen, ‘went and scared the thing off with his ridiculously loud man-sneeze. We tried for ages to find it again but it clearly scarpered and has gone to ground.’ He spared Owen another withering look. ‘It could take weeks for it to surface again.’
‘Oi, it wasn’t my fault alright?’ Owen said, wiping his sleeve across his face. ‘Told you I was sick and not gonna come in today, but no… Get your arse to the hub or you’ll have all the free time in the world, you said.’
‘You always fake being sick.’
‘Yeah, well this time it wasn’t fake.’ He sniffed loudly. ‘Stupid alien probably caught my cold.’
Jack smirked. ‘Well, it should be easy to find now. We’ll hear it coming.’
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Date: 2024-10-13 09:59 am (UTC)