Title: The Music Box
Author: CoffeeMagic
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Summary: A little one shot I thought of in the middle of writing a longer fic.

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"It's a music box"

"This is a complex alien device."

"That plays music."

"Excuse me. I have been working on this for nearly two hours now. I think I know more about it than you."

"And in that two hours you found out...?"

"Well, not that much yet, but that doesn't mean I won't!"

"I'm telling you it's a music box."

"Are you tryin' a piss me off?"

"No, I'm tryin' to save you spendin' another pointless two hours tryin' to work out what it does."

"Fine smart arse, you open it."

"It doesn't open."

"Well then what the fuck are you on about sayin' it's a fuckin' music box? How can you play it if you can't open it? Hmm?"

"You sort of throw it."

"Throw it."

"Yes."

"Throw it."

"Well, bowl it really."

"You really expect me to throw this new discovery across the hub just because, for some reason, you think it'll play music."

"I'll do it if you don't want to..."

"Fuck off I found it."

A haunting metallic ringing with a strangely hypnotic melody filled the hub.

"Any other great mysteries you'd like me to solve for you?"

"Don't you have some coffee to be making?"

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