Challenge 449 - Owen Harper: Ladies man

[m_findlow]

Title: Owen Harper: Ladies man
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Owen, Jack
Rating: PG
Challenge: 449 - Skills at tw100
Notes: Even a charmer can have his bad days. A double drabble.

Jack didn't need to see it from across the other side of the room. He could hear the sound of the slap on the other end of his comms, Owen clutching the side of his face. Yeah, that would've hurt.

For all his self confidence, Jack knew that his talents for charming his way in to, or out of, anything had their limitations. True, few people could do what he did, and his 51st century pheromones played their part, but it was equally true that some were simply immune to them. The key was to be able to pick them.

There were bars and there were bars. This was the latter kind; the kind Jack didn't frequent. Its staff and clientele were as like to quash his advances as they were to reciprocate, but they needed to know what people had seen here last night. He'd thought perhaps the barmaid might take a shining more towards Owen's slightly rougher edges. Some girls went for that. Just clearly not this one. Maybe she was an Errol Flynn kinda gal after all.

'Thanks for taking one for the team,' Jack said, as Owen approached. 'I'm guessing she didn't see anything?'

'Piss off.'