Double Drabble: A Brief Note

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: A Brief Note
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Tosh, Jack.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 714: Work at torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Tosh finds the Hub deserted and on emergency power. What happened?
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
Tosh arrived to find the Hub apparently deserted, everything powered down, and the only lighting the eerie red of emergency power. She looked around warily, wondering if the Hub had been breached, but if it had she would have received an alert on her phone. Perhaps there’d been a power failure. The Hub was old, it wasn’t unheard of for something to short out, although that seldom happened now that Ianto was taking care of maintenance.
 

Crossing to her workstation, Tosh noticed a strange box-shaped device sitting on her desk, and as she got closer, she saw it had a bright pink post-it note stuck on the top, bearing a message in Jack’s handwriting.
 

Tosh,

Turns out this is incompatible with the Hub’s systems. See if you can find a way to make it work. If you need me, I’ll be in the lower levels, helping Ianto replace all the fuses.

Jack
 

Smiling to herself, Tosh shed her coat and hung it up. Well, that explained the emergency lighting and the silence; Jack had managed to blow the Hub’s fuses, putting mains power offline. Ianto wouldn’t be too happy about that.
 

Still, it meant she had an interesting new project!
 
 

The End
 
 
 

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Another case of Ianto saying, "I think we should take this slowly," and Jack replying, "It'll be fine. Trust me!"?

[badly_knitted]

It's sort of a sequel to one from a few weeks back, Compatibility Issues. Jack never actually said 'Trust me' this time, but Ianto was right there and didn't stop him plugging the device in. In retrospect, he probably should have said something...

Thank you!