Double Drabble: Disillusioned

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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













 

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

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.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

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.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

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.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.:)

[bk_forever]

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!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

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.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

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

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

The world keeps changing, not always for the better.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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.

[bk_forever]

I suspect Suzie has a pessimistic streak.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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?

[bk_forever]

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

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

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...

[bk_forever]

They should have been scared, knowing what the glove did to Suzie.

Gwen was nothing special, she was just susceptible to the glove's powers.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Gwendolyn Post: I have the Glove, and with the glove comes the power!

I forgot the glove idea came from a Buffy episode!

Ianto: This glove is different to the other one. Maybe different gloves do different things?
Martha: How many are there?
Ianto: Two. Well, they tend to come in pairs.

The second time round, Jack was desperate to get Owen back, while Gwen was hesitant to use it. So, yeah, whatever Rusty wants to do with said characters...*shrugs*

[bk_forever]

I'd forgotten that too!

RTD changes the rules as he goes. I doubt he even remembers what they are from one episode to the next. Plot holes and inconsistencies everywhere. Let's just hope he never gets the chance to do a Torchwood re-boot because it would be all Gwen all the time, with Jack adoring her. Oh, wait, that's what we had first time around.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

It happens.:)

Jack was momentarily mortal during Miracle Day. The way RTD was shipping Jack/Gwen was like Tenth Doctor/Rose. I just didn't like it.*shrugs*

[bk_forever]

It was so stupid making Jack mortal, and I never thought Jack and Gwen should be together. Why should practically she have every man on the show?

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I was fed up with seeing Jack "dying" again and again. It literally was overkill. He is already from the future. That's he's edge right there, but no! It was all part of what brought him back to life blah, blah, blah.*mini-rant*

It's a given unfortunately. Sure Jack has a soft spot for Gwen, but she really overdid the "make him jealous" side of things. At least we saw that Ianto was the exception to the rule.