Challenge 514 - Breaking out

[m_findlow]

Title: Breaking out
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Owen, Tosh, Jack, Ianto
Rating: PG
Challenge: 514 - Allergy at tw100
Notes: The team's newest visitor seems to have a problem with Jack. A double drabble.

'It's definitely got something to do with you,' Owen declared, trying his best to soothe the small creature on his autopsy table that had flushed an angry red.

'Me?' Jack said.

'Well, it doesn't break out in a rash when any of us go near it.'

'Perhaps it's your wool coat,' Tosh suggested. 'It could be allergic to natural fibers.'

'It doesn't have a problem with Ianto,' Jack replied.

Owen huffed. 'What's that got to do with anything?'

'Ianto, correct me if I'm wrong, but that suit doesn't not look synthetic,' Jack said, appealing to their newest team member.

'Pure wool,' he beamed.

'Then it's your aftershave or something,' Owen said, ticking possible causes off his list.

'He doesn't wear any,' Ianto replied, before clearing his throat, realising his misstep in revealing that piece of information.

'Fifty-first century pheromones,' Jack said proudly, not caring about the admission. 'I suppose they could be responsible.'

'How do you get pheromones from the fifty-first century?' Tosh asked.

Jack shrugged. 'No different to how anything alien gets here, he said. And I've been a lot of places.'

'Sounds like a good way to get out of having to look after this thing,' Owen grumbled.