Across the Pond (Drabble, DW100 Challenge #109)
Cross posted to Time & Chips and DW100.
Minor spoilers for TCI
“So what exactly is Torchwood?” the President asked.
Harriet Jones hesitated, then took a thoughtful sip of her Earl Grey tea, and a bite of her blueberry muffin.
She was reluctant to answer, and playing for time, and the President knew it.
A deep grinding sound came from nowhere, and a strange blue box solidified out of thin air right in the middle of the Oval Office. Out stepped a cheerful dishevelled man in a brown suit.
“Who are you?” asked the President, startled.
“Let’s not start that again,” said the man.
“What?”
“This isn’t Abbot and Costello you know.”
Minor spoilers for TCI
“So what exactly is Torchwood?” the President asked.
Harriet Jones hesitated, then took a thoughtful sip of her Earl Grey tea, and a bite of her blueberry muffin.
She was reluctant to answer, and playing for time, and the President knew it.
A deep grinding sound came from nowhere, and a strange blue box solidified out of thin air right in the middle of the Oval Office. Out stepped a cheerful dishevelled man in a brown suit.
“Who are you?” asked the President, startled.
“Let’s not start that again,” said the man.
“What?”
“This isn’t Abbot and Costello you know.”