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Double Drabble: Disillusioned

Title: Disillusioned
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Suzie, Jack.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 616: Thrill at

tw100.
Spoilers: Set pre-series.
Summary: Suzie has become disillusioned about Torchwood.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

Back when she was recruited to Torchwood, it had all been so exciting and new. Suzie had been filled with awe and wonder at each new discovery but as time had passed the thrill had worn off.

She’d started to realise they never got anything really good. They got Weevils and Hoix, both species willing to eat whatever they could get their claws on. They got bits of unidentifiable tech, most of it broken beyond hope of repair. They got random objects from earth’s past, none of which were worth anything, and they got junk, the discarded refuse of a thousand worlds. The Rift should be charged with littering.

Where were all the wonderful things she’d expected to discover, the technology that could change the world? Where were the aliens from advanced civilisations who could provide the people of earth with cures to all known diseases, eliminate air pollution, and provide clean sources of energy?

Jack was no help; he kept talking about timelines and how they had to be maintained. He said changing the future would be catastrophic, but he was wrong. They should be using what they found to make the world better, otherwise what was the point?

The End

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Colin Fisher: All friendship is fleeting and ends in abandonment so, why not spend a few good hours with you guys until it all falls apart.

It was nice that Fisher invited Sweets and Hodgins to see an exclusive showing of Avatar after he won tickets.:)

Fair enough.

"Afterwards Cam relents and tells Michelle about what happened, Michelle becomes upset and threatens to let Finn "have it", but Cam convinces Michelle to forgive him".

Fair enough that Michelle wanted some space and time away from her mum, (I've been there myself). But If it had been someone else instead of Finn, Cam would have been none the wiser. The storyline would have been Michelle lying to her mother about a secret relationship.

However, Finn proved his worth to Cam and she inturn advised Michelle not to stay mad at him. Overall, I believe it was a learning curve for Michelle. She's a teenager and still learning how to deal with grown up issues.

He's a character who struggles with depression and you don't see that often enough on TV.

Michelle was still finding her way in life, she's been very protected growing up but she has to be able to make her own mistakes. Finn was just the sweetest guy.

Yes. He was. Although Brennan doesn't like Psychology, she manages to get along or at least be less inclined to judge others in that regard. Cam seemed perplexed by Colin.

"Booth is against the idea of Brennan having Fisher's children because if that were to happen, it would be like "giving birth to the spawn of Satan."

I had to disagree on Booth's description. Especially after Brennan mentioned in the past that people use label her as being too weird.

Relationships look like hard work to me. I believe you have to know yourself enough to avoid hurting others or be prepared when things go awry.

Edited 2020-09-03 10:27 (UTC)

Brennan is too pragmatic to rely on psychology. She believes what she can see and touch and quantify.

All the best people have a degree of weirdness.

Relationships ARE hard work, which is why so many fail. People want it to be easy so when it gets a little bit difficult too many these days give up. They're not willing to put the effort in.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : There are no such things as zombies. Just an island superstition.
Dr. Jonah Amayo : And now you've managed to insult an entire culture and their belief system.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : She does that to everyone.

I'd wonder how she'd handle someone like Rick Castle. The one thing they have in common is writing books on murder.

Yes. A creative benefit. It's such a shame that in high school being different AKA "weird" is something perceived as wrong. Some people think I'm weird.*shrugs*

Of course relationships take effort but when someone lies, expects their partner to change or takes the other one for granted. It's no surprise that it doesn't work. I'm not a relationship expert, so I just go by what I've witness.

Edited 2020-09-04 06:41 (UTC)

She's very blunt, says what she thinks, and she's literal minded.

She'd probably criticise his books and he'd get offended.

I'm weird, and I like it. Weird people should stick together. I didn't want to be a sheep. Everyone at school thought I was weird because I didn't like the things they liked.

Tat's what couples counselling is for, to help people communicate better.

Brennan: You don't get rid of books, Booth. That's crazy.

Yeah. He'd get along better with Angela. She helped Brenan with the "romance" part of her books.

I use to get bullied by the "mean girls". I was like Willow minus the amazing maths skills. I didn't have the confidence to tell them off.

Castle: Oh my God, could my ex-wife be LokSat? Because in a lot of ways that could make a lot of sense.

Yep. It's better than speculating, blaming or giving up altogether.

I'm having to get rid of some of mine now I've read them.

Angela's so lovely who wouldn't get along with her?

I was bullied too.

Anyone who gives up on a relationship as soon as they hit a rough spot is too immature to be in a relationship in the first place.

Same here. I listen to audiobooks.

Angela: Brennan is really lucky that she's my friend or I would totally make a move on you.
Booth: Great, I really don't know how to respond to that where I come out looking like a good guy.

She's relatively a people person, but won't stand for rude behaviour. Telling Dr Wells not to be "a douche".

A reason not to take things personally. I didn't have that knowledge back then.

Yep. They don't learn from the experience. Placing blame somewhere or on someone else.

Edited 2020-09-05 11:05 (UTC)

I don't, I'm old school. A book should be made of paper and have pages. The one I'm reading at the moment has 646 of them.

I wish I had that kind of confidence.

People need to accept that they're sometimes the one at fault.

I was like that in high school with my mystery/thriller books. I still read books but for academic purposes. The audiobooks are for my insomnia. The problem is I doze off halfway though.

They say fake it, till you make it. Sometimes I tried that and some people didn't like it.*sighs*

Exactly. It's better than being arrogant or regretting that kind of behaviour afterwards.

Edited 2020-09-06 09:27 (UTC)

I read in bed at night, and fall asleep over my book. I can't sleep if I don't read first. It's relaxing. Listening to something would keep me awake, and anyway, I like the feel of a book in my hand.

I use to think that too. But I was curious about guided mediations and whatnot. If it's a soothing voice and there's no ad's it works. It started out with me just having soothing sounds in the background when I'm doing something else. I wished I had thought of it sooner for noise cancelling purposes.

I guess its all about going with whatever works in your best interest.:)

The only sound I want to hear when I'm in bed is my clock ticking!

I find noise very distracting, which is bad because my computer has become very noisy as it's got older *sigh* Sounds like a lawnmower!

I can never sleep on planes unless I'm really tired. So I don't use the white noise of a plane. It feels like I'll contradict myself.

Your computer is noisy? Maybe you need an upgrade. My laptop gets overheated because theirs no fan on the bottom.

I do, but I can't afford to replace it. What little money I have coming in goes on the household bills. Computers are expensive.

True. I had a TAFE teacher who preferred doing all her online work on campus because she didn't own a computer. Then there are those who use the public libraries. It's only convenient to have your own one during social distancing. If I get to retire my laptop. I want a smaller more portable one.

I can't go out anyway, so I'm stuck. I need my computer.

I see.:(

Mick St John: If I hadn't become a vampire, I would have missed out on the Internet, TiVo, World of Warcraft, and GPS.*Short-lived series: Moonlight*

The way we operate today is different to how it was, say twenty years or ago. Give or take.

Edited 2020-09-10 08:03 (UTC)

The world keeps changing, not always for the better.

David Bowie: Time may change me. But I can't trace time.

Kind of how Suzie saw things.*my runabout way of getting back to the summary of this drabble.

I suspect Suzie has a pessimistic streak.

Suzie: This is sick.
Jack: You started it.

Torchwood did have a "glass half empty" aspect to it.*shrugs*

I didn't understand how both Suzie and Gwen were the only two who could "control" that glove. Empathy? Really?

I know! Both Tosh and Ianto had more empathy. It was more likely a hunger for power that was the deciding factor.

Everyone else was scared of the glove and I don't blame them. Jack tried, but the plot of convincing us all of Gwen's specialness made center stage...

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