Challenge 601 - Veiled insults

[m_findlow]

Title: Veiled insults
Author: m_findlow
Characters: Suzie, Owen
Rating: PG
Challenge: 601 - Insult at tw100
Notes: Owen is never sure if Suzie is being serious or not. A double drabble.

Suzie leaned over the railing of the medical bay and intensely watched Owen as he worked.

'Can't perve on my arse when I'm wearing my lab coat,' he called up to her, sensing her eyes on him.

'More's the pity for people like Jack then,' she replied, denying her own interest in him.

'Run out of real work, have you?'

She leaned further over. 'Just wondering what makes a person want to make a living out of cutting people up and pulling out their organs.'

'It's a tapeworm,' Owen corrected her, referring to the thing he'd been extracting from the poor bloke they'd found floating in the Taff like an inflatable ring. It was half an inch wide and so far he'd measured at least two metres of it that he'd pulled out into a bucket.

'You didn't answer my question,' Suzie persisted.

Owen huffed and leg go of the alien worm. 'Not sure if you meant it as an insult.'

'So?'

'Cause it's less of a pain in the arse than being on the run from the police for being a serial killer. And I get paid for it.'

Suzie yawned and ho-hummed. 'Not quite as much fun, though.'