Challenge 635 - Old-fashioned

[m_findlow]

Title: Old-fashioned
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 635 - Log at tw100
Summary: Jack prefers his own methods for finding things. A double drabble.

Jack made a vexed sound as he flipped through the growing mountains of files on the wide desk in front of him. At this rate he was going to become buried under them as he stood to retrieve yet another armful of them from the filing cabinet. Its drawers hung open, pillaged of their contents. Ianto was going to murder him.

‘I'm going to murder you,’ Ianto said, appearing in the doorway and verbalising the thought.

‘Later,’ Jack promised him. ‘I'm sure we used to keep a log or something,’ he muttered, keeping his focus on pawing through the latest pile, sending pages flying from their covers, fluttering across the desk and onto the floor.

‘You could've just asked rather than make such an absolute mess,’ Ianto chastised him. ‘A log of what, by the way?’

‘I'll know it when I see it,’ Jack replied, tossing aside three more files that didn't meet his requirements.

Ianto sighed. ‘I'll leave you to it then, shall I? I'll just be over here with my computerised system of everything we've got down here, scanned and indexed, pretending you're not turning my archives upside down.’

‘Sure thing,’ Jack said.

Ianto groaned. Subtlety wasn't working.

Comments

[bk_forever]

Jack, if you went through things carefully and systematically instead of just tossing them aside, you wouldn't make such a mess and wind up being served decaf for eternity.