Drabble_weekly Challenge 98 - Can't let go

[m_findlow]

Title: Can't let go
Fandom: Torchwood
Author: m_findlow
Characters/Pairing: Owen, Jack
Rating: PG
Challenge: 98 - Nostalgia at drabble_weekly
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none
Summary: Everything on Jack's desk has a function and reason for being. A double drabble.

Owen sighed in frustration, trying to find a spare inch on Jack's desk that wasn't covered so he could put down the tank containing their latest specimen. He should've told Jack to come to him, rather than the other way around. At least he had room for it.

'Problem, Owen?' Jack asked.

'Yeah,' he said, finally dumping it on a stack of reports for a lack of better options. 'What is all this crap, anyway?' he asked.

Jack looked at him with an offended expression. 'It's not... crap,' he said, forcing the word out. 'It's nostalgic.'

'Nostalgic?' Owen said, looking skeptical. 'It's junk.' He picked up a square boxy item and examined it. 'What's this supposed to be?'

Jack snatched it back, setting it gently back down. 'It's a camera. You know, back when they had real film?' It had cost him a small fortune back in 1920. He could still remember standing on the beach at Blackpool taking pictures of happy couples and blazing sunsets.

'Yeah, well, can't exactly take a photo and text it straight to your mates with that, can you?' Owen said.

Jack shrugged. 'Never had to worry about that. We didn't have mobile phones, either.'

Comments

[bk_forever]

The olden days had there problems, a lot of them, but life was simpler and less reliant on technology. That said, I wouldn't want to go back.

[m-findlow.livejournal.com]

There are definitely some advantages to modern tech (like Google maps saving me from many a family row getting lost on holidays) but somehow we managed without all that tech, too and we were just as happy. I only got my first mobile phone at nineteen when I started uni so I could call ahead to get a ride from the train station home. People will laugh at us when we say all they did was make calls and send texts. We didn't need them otherwise.

[bk_forever]

We didn't even have a phone in our home back when I was a kid, and only a black and white TV with three channels. My mobile phone does do texts but I don't know how. i rarely even use it as a phone. *looks sheepish* I can never remember how.