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Title: Powerless
Character: Tosh, Jack
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 648 - Scratch at [livejournal.com profile] tw100
Summary: Tosh can tell there's more to this case but nothing they can do. A double drabble.

Tosh heaved out a sigh as she clicked the folder full of files and moved it into a separate archived section on their computer servers. She felt bad that all that research was just going to be filed away never to be looked at again, but she had instructions from Gwen, and Jack above her, to lock it all away. It was cold consolation to all the families who would never know what had happened to their loved ones.

In the quiet dead of the hub this late at night, Jack's boots echoed loudly despite his light footfalls until they were right behind her.

'All those missing people,' she murmured. 'We've only just scratched the surface of it all, haven't we?' She looked up as Jack so that she could try to read his expression. His face was carved like stone but his eyes told her all she needed to know.

'We just don't know,' he finally said. 'Hundreds… thousands… for as long as the rift has existed here. We'll probably never know just how many.'

'So we bury it?' She didn't want to sound confrontational when he looked so tired and defeated.

'We fight the battles we can win.'

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