WHO: Jack and Ianto
WHAT: making progress?
WHEN: now-ish? time is weird in this place
WHERE: his room
Jack sighed. He wasn't actually tired, mostly because he couldn't seem to get tired these days. If he'd been a normal man, though, he'd have been utterly exhausted. The alien tech was inside his head. All right, fine, he'd had unwanted visitors
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Jack opened the audio link on the terminal instead. "Hey there Mister Jones. Do me a favour. Pull up chart seven thirteen four two point six." Jack glanced at the screen to make sure it was the right number. "Yeah, six. Rotate thirty degrees clockwise, fourteen degrees near right, and shift account for four thousand light years along fourteen degrees eight seconds. Actually... no, four thousand eighteen."
Jack waited a moment, but not long, because this guy was obviously good. "Got it? Now get a monitor to bring up the view from the window in quadrant six. What do you think?"
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"I've been through six thousand of these. I never actually... believed I'd get sick of the stars." Jack stood up and hefted the bananas out of the way. Just because he didn't actually need them didn't mean he was giving them back. "Where's that fucking headset? Damn bananas." Oh, screw it. Jack sat back down, closed his eyes, and needed the headset to appear on the desk in front of him. When he opened his eyes, the view was exactly what needed. He picked it up and situated it on his ear, and the audio feed instantly jumped. "How's that? Can you hear me?"
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Ianto wasn't going to call him Jack again.
"Loud and clear, Sir."
Right back where he'd started from.
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