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Title:Enter the phone book.
Author:Keenir
Summary:Remarks have results.
Spoilers:Episode 3 of season 1 of TORCHWOOD, the spin-off of DR WHO.
Author's note:The last word in this story was almost Brisbane.
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Coming in to work one fine morning, Owen found a phone book on his desk. Picking it up, "What is this?" Owen asked everyone present, as he wanted to know.
"Looks like a phone book," Gwen said.
"Thank you, freckles. Seriously."
"Gwen's right," Jack said. "You saying its not a phone book?"
"No, I'm not saying its not a phone book," Owen said. "I'm just tryin' to figure out why I've got a phone book instead of my computer!"
"Did you say or do anything," Ianto asked, "that might be construed as a request for a phone book?"
"No, I didn't construe anything. Although..." deliberately trailing off, looking at Gwen's legs.
"As if," Gwen said. "Come to think of it, you did say something about phone books."
"What? When did I..." and trailed off as he at last did remember. "But I never said I wanted a phone book. I just said the information was in the phone book."
"Americans have a saying," Jack said. "Don't complain you get what you asked for."
It puzzled Gwen that Jack hadn't said 'we Americans have a saying.' "What?"
"It's been a while since I heard it spoken." Sitting down at his desk, "Hey, Tosh left a note," and he read it to himself: Yes, twas I who put Owen's computer in the storage closet. I'll be taking today off, unless there's an emergency. Toshiko. To the others, "Okay, don't forget, we have to get ready."
"For what?" Gwen asked.
Jack looked at Owen. "You didn't tell her?"
"Why do I have to tell her everything?" Owen asked.
"Well, you did snog."
"So did you."
"No, she gave me a peck on the cheek. Trust me, I know a snog when I hear one."
"You heard it?" Gwen asked. "How can y-"
"Trust me, they heard you snogging over in York."
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The End
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