Challenge 635 - Trampled on

[m_findlow]

Title: Trampled on
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Owen, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 635 - Log at tw100
Summary: Owen has stumbled across what they're looking for. A double drabble.

‘It's not anywhere, I swear,’ Owen said, grumbling and cursing his away across the uneven ground.

‘You're really not an outdoors person, are you?’ Jack said, grinning with delight at being out in the fresh air, his coat flapping in the breeze as he made strides over a narrow creek.

Owen trudged after him, unsuccessful in finding the same stones Jack had used to skip across, instead splashing and soaking his shoes. And you wonder why, he muttered. They'd been out here bloody hours looking for whatever alien had dropped through the rift, but so far all Owen had uncovered were blisters, sweat and an increasing dislike for nature.

He banked left, tired of following Jack. Plus he was finally getting some residual rift energy traces on his PDA. He stopped as the signal peaked and looked around. Still, nothing.

‘Owen! Move!’ Jack yelled.

‘What?’

‘You're standing on it!’

Owen looked down at his feet. ‘There's nothing here! It's just a log.’

‘The log is the alien, you idiot! How many logs do you know that have eyes?’

Owen peered more closely and suddenly there were a dozen eyes blinking back at him as he yelped and fell off it.