Challenge 864 - Handle with care
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m_findlowTitle: Handle with care
Character: Owen, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 100 words
Length: 100 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 864 - Measure at ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
torchwood100
torchwood100Summary: Some things you can't afford to get wrong.
‘Be careful with that,’ Jack warned.
Owen held the pipette over the beaker of liquid. ‘I am being bloody careful, but I could do without all the distracting nagging,’ he added.
‘You want a one night hangover effect,’ Jack explained. ‘Get the measurements even slightly off and we’ll have people whose last recollections is of the 1981 Eisteddfod. Too much alkalinity and you’ll fry their brains instead.’
‘I did have to pass chemistry to become a doctor, you know,’ Owen huffed. ‘And this isn’t my first time brewing up a batch of retcon.’
‘Never hurts to have a second opinion.’
‘Be careful with that,’ Jack warned.
Owen held the pipette over the beaker of liquid. ‘I am being bloody careful, but I could do without all the distracting nagging,’ he added.
‘You want a one night hangover effect,’ Jack explained. ‘Get the measurements even slightly off and we’ll have people whose last recollections is of the 1981 Eisteddfod. Too much alkalinity and you’ll fry their brains instead.’
‘I did have to pass chemistry to become a doctor, you know,’ Owen huffed. ‘And this isn’t my first time brewing up a batch of retcon.’
‘Never hurts to have a second opinion.’
