Challenge 440 - Sticky situation

[m_findlow]

Title: Sticky situation
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Owen, Jack, Ianto
Rating: PG
Challenge: 440 - Roof at tw100
Notes: Owen is having trouble diagnosing the problem. A double drabble.

Owen looked up to find Jack standing there.

'You'll get your bloody report when I'm done with it,' he moaned, sick of being nagged.  

'No,' Jack mumbled, sounding a bit like he was drunk, or having a stroke.

Owen looked at him.

'What's your problem?'

'Ny nung ees nuck noo na oof uh I now.'

'What?'

Jack huffed and tried again, slower this time.

'Ny nung ees nuck,' he said pointing at his mouth.

'Yep, still no idea,' Owen replied. 'Ianto! He's talking alien again,' he yelled across the hub, effectively summoning the young man.

'No, he said his tongue is stuck to the roof of his mouth.'

'Oh. And how did this happen?'

'Nee nozen I salt.'

'Well, whose fault was it, then?' Ianto replied, seemingly fluent in nonsense.

Jack mumbled a few more incoherent sounds before Ianto silenced him.

'I've warned you about eating stuff that comes through the rift, but no, what would Ianto know?'

'Ni norni.'

'So you should be. Owen, can I leave you to sort this out? Some kind of alien taffy, probably past it's use by. I'd give you a sample, but he ate it all.'

'We couldn't just leave him like that?'

Comments

[bk_forever]

'Ni norni.' Awwww, poor Jack, I could hug him! *pets poor, forlorn, very sorry Jack* He really doesn't mean to get in these silly states. Good thing Ianto can translate Jack in any state.

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

Part of him was hoping it would fix itself, but another part is glad that this might teach Jack a valuable lesson. If nothing else, having to put up with grumbling lectures from Owen should be punishment enough. :)

[bk_forever]

We can hope - or Ianto can. Poor boy has to put up with a lot of the weird scrapes Jack gets himself into.