Challenge 668 - Sluggish

[m_findlow]

Title: Sluggish
Character: Jack, Gwen, Owen
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 668 - Slow at tw100
Summary: Jack's latest visitor is taking its good sweet time. A double drabble.

Jack leaned an elbow on the open window of the SUV, staring out into space. This had to be the most boring assignment of all time. He might well drop all the way off to sleep.

'Can't you go any faster?' he called out the window, watching his team doing all the heavy lifting on this job. There had to be some perks to being the boss, even if mind-numbing boredom was also a consequence.

'We're going as fast as we can,' Gwen called back.

'For all the use that is,' Owen added.

'So hurry it up anyway!' Jack barked. 'I'm getting old here!'

He huffed out a breath. Stupid alien slug thing. No amount of pushing and prodding it toward the back of the van Ianto had brought to collect their latest visitor was helping. It had one speed setting and that was excruciatingly slow. He'd have picked it up and shoved it in if it weren't the size of a small hatchback. As it was, all they could do was encourage it to keep moving in the van's general direction.

The twenty-first century was when everything changed, but they'd be stuck here until the twenty-second at this rate!