Double Drabble: Panic

[bk_forever]

Title: Panic
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Jack, Gwen, OCs.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 624: Alarm at tw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The Rift has dropped something off in a crowded club.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




Jack raised his voice over the babble of panicked voices. “No cause for alarm, folks! The experts are here now; we’ll handle this. Just stay calm and remain where you are.”


He reassurances fell on deaf ears; people were desperately trying to get out of the crowded club, pushing, shoving, and screaming. Some of the braver clubbers were attempting to take matters into their own hands, throwing bottles, glasses, and chairs at the cause of the commotion, for all the good that seemed to do.


One woman threw a stiletto-heeled sandal, gripping the other in her hand to use as a weapon in case she was attacked, while the people who didn’t have easy access to the doors were clambering onto tables, or the bar.


Jack and Gwen pushed their way through the fleeing people, trying to see what they were dealing with; all Tosh had been able to say was that it was alive and approximately football sized.


Then Jack saw it, and made for the nearest table, scrambling onto it, Gwen right behind him.


“Though you said you’d deal with it?” a woman shouted.


“I don’t do spiders!” He tapped his bluetooth headset. “Ianto? We need your help!”



The End













 

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I just saw a small one in my backyard this morning.

[bk_forever]

I'm okay with small garden spiders (of course ours aren't s dangerous as some where you are), it's the house spiders that freak me out!

Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I just found out it was a red back spider! Those are dangerous!*doubled checks on internet*

I have to find ways of sweeping the house spiders out outside. Why do they have to be named that?!*freaked*

[bk_forever]

Eeek!

I have empty containers with lids in every room so if I see a spider I can catch and contain it until I can take it outside.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I also use containers, slidering them across the floor. I seriously need a catcher but haven't looked into it yet.

[bk_forever]

Maybe you should start You have some nasty spiders around, the kind you don't want to get too close to.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The website pictures freak me out though. Except for the Daddy long legs. There are pretty harmless. They spin around really fast if I try to touch them gently with a stick.

[bk_forever]

Well you'd probably react if someone poked you with a stick.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I was hoping it would latch onto the stick. Sending it outside. I usually just let them be. But I didn't want my cat's near it at the time.

My father use to deal with the big bad spiders.

[bk_forever]

Spiders aren't always terribly bright.

My dad was the spider wrangler before he left. After that, my sister and mum took to yelling at me to deal with them. Never mind that I didn't like them either.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I never really thought of it that way. Too busy being freaked out by most of them. I've only heard of the peacock spiders doing a mating dance. But that's more of a instinctual thing, I suppose.

Gee. That sucks that you got the "honorary" title of dealing with spiders passed onto you. That wasn't fair. :(

[bk_forever]

Mum and my sister were useless with spiders, and a lot of other creepy crawlies, so I guess because insects didn't bother me they just assumed I could handle the spiders too.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Okay.

My mum use to be curious about dragonflies in the garden when she was a kid.

[bk_forever]

I had a dragonfly land on me many years ago while I was in town. I had to walk all the way home pushing my bike so I wouldn't disturb it. It was just perched on my belt buckle for a good hour and a half, probably longer. I wasn't timing it. So beautiful.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Aww. That sounds like a lovely childrens story.:)

[bk_forever]

And yet it's all true!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

It could be called: The Dragonfly On My Belt Buckle.

It has a nice ring to it.:)

Beats: The Big, Black Dog, That Followed Me Home One Day.*own story*

Mines a long title.

[bk_forever]

Or just 'Dragonfly'. Not that I plan on writing it.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Much better. It was just a fun thought.:)

I just looked up the subject matter. Amazingly, not all are children's books.;)

[bk_forever]

Yes, fun, but I couldn't spin a story from it.

I am not surprised.

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

I'd have been out of there pronto, a real arachnaphobe. One of my cats was a real hunter would even jump into an empty bath if she spotted one

[bk_forever]

House spiders freak me out but I'm okay with garden spiders these days. Still, anything that big and you wouldn't see me for dust!

Thank you!