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Title: Delayed impact
Character: Jack, Gwen, Tosh
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 655 - Needle at [livejournal.com profile] tw100
Summary: Jack thought he'd taken an easy, painless hit. A double drabble.


At first there'd been no pain at all when the energy weapon had hit Jack in the leg. It was rather anticlimactic, getting shot and having it not hurt, not even a tiny bit. Instead, his leg had just gone totally numb underneath him, and like a house of cards in a gentle breeze, he'd gone down without the slightest of effort.

'That's all you've got?' he demanded to know from the gun-wielding alien. 'Clearly you didn't do your research on this planet before you got here.'

The rest of his team arrived seconds later, saw Jack lying on the ground with the alien pointing its weapon at him, and then shot it dead with foot old fashioned metal jacket bullets. Sometimes futuristic technological advances just couldn't beat traditional low tech weaponry.

Gwen and Tosh helped Jack to his feet and then, just before they reached the SUV, Jack howled out in agony. 'Sweet goddesses!'

'What is it?' Gwen asked. 'What's wrong?'

'Argh!' Jack buckled and went down again despite them both trying to hold his weight. 'Pins and needles!' he cried out, as feeling began to return to his leg with a vengeance. 'Oh, God! Somebody just shoot me!'
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