Fic Of The Week - Week Twenty Three

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Another week, another fic and for this week I've picked an early fic by the wonderful  lone_star_woman . So early, in fact, it isn't even on her journal, which means we must venture into the uncertain terrain of ff.net to find it!

The Thing About Love is just 12 shortish chapters and can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4175466/1/The_Thing_About_Love  It's rated T and described as Hurt/Comfort/Romance.

Here's what the author has to say...

Author's note: This is AU Torchwood because the idea of dead Owen depresses me when there's so much fun to be had with live Owen, especially with his confused relationship with Rory. Basically, I reworked the story that inspired An Excellent Boyfriend into something that I am more comfortable with.

For those who want to read them, the short fic An Excellent Boyfriend can be found near the bottom of the author's ff.net Profile Page here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1483299/lone_star_woman , along with the story which introduces the character of Rory, Uncle Jack Harkness (quite long at over 18,000 words).

Hope everyone enjoys reading!

Comments

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

It seems like the welts are not as bad at night less red and some go away, but I have still been itching. I feel like I look hidious, just call me "The Elephant Woman!" lol! I hate mornings, they are the worst then, probably because I get hot under the covers. I just sleep with a sheet on me now. Even with my Benedryl they look awful and the medication only helps a little now. I must be getting worse. I am taking more Benedryl everyday it seems like. Thank you for the careful hugs. I can use them. :D

I'm glad you got some good deals on Ebay. I used to love to shop there. It was fun watching and bidding, trying to outbid someone at the last minute if it wasn't too much that is. Sorry you missed your nap, but it sounds like you had fun buying your thread for your cross stich.

I never really watched Stargate on TV. I did like the movie though. Maybe I just didn't give it a chance.

Did you see the season finale of NCIS? You are probably not on Season 9. I wish you were. It left us at a very sad place. I won't tell you unless you want me to...lets just say we lose a cast member, but none of the ones we really love, the main team, thank goodness....well I did love the actor, but I would have been crushed if it had been one of the main team.

I hope your migraine goes away and that you are sleeping well right now.

We went out one last time, Michael, Alex, and I, to walk on the beach. It was actually cold, the wind was blowing like crazy, but it has been stormy most of the day.

I wish you could have been here too. Maybe you could have encouraged me to go out sooner with Alex and you to enjoy it. I feel like we wasted a lot of time inside and that Alex didn't get to play with Robbie enough. Maybe next year if we go I won't be ill and we can get out more and stay longer. I really love walking on the beach and it was just too painful most of the time because of my bits and being on my period. Pads chaff me sometimes. Wonderful! I know I told you that before too. TMI again! I never got to swim in the ocean because of the stormy weather today. The waves were really crashing into the banks and it was very cool by the time I went out. I would never have expected cool weather in June down here so close to the sun. O_O I think it was the wind too. It was blowing us away. LOL!...like I mentioned above.

We've been packing and I have to get up early to get out of here by 10:00 a.m. so I am off to bed.

Talk to you when we get back home.

love Deb. &hearts :)

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I'm a complete Stargate SG-1 addict - not quite as addicted to it as to Torchwood, but it destroyed me when Daniel was killed off. Of course, he got to come back again and contrary to RTDs beliefs, it did not cheapen his death. It was amazingly and movingly done, and very funny too! I adore Daniel almost as much as I adore Ianto. Michael Shanks is another really good actor. The early episodes of season one aren't particularly brilliant, but it picks up towards the end of Season 1 and starts to get really good. The main characters are a lot of fun and there are laugh out loud moments in practically every episode. One of my favourite series ever.

Not sure what season of NCIS we're on but I thin k next week's will be episode 18, so I have a few to go until the end of the series. It could be series 8 or possibly 9, not sure.

Sorry you've got to head home, but I hope despite everything you all enjoyed yourselves (with the possible exception of Michael!) Good luck with the packing and I hope your itches go away soon. I've just got over 5 mosquito bites and that was vbad enough, i can't imagine what you must be going through. The heat definitely doesn't help when you're itchy.

*hugs carefully* Love, J xxx

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

You know that is the way I am with a lot of shows I really love now. I will see a little of them and think I will never watch that and then sometime later I will see them and start getting into them and then I am hooked. I think, why did I not like this before? A lot of shows seem to get better with time. I feel that way about NCIS. I saw some from the first two seasons and could see how they have improved since then. It seemed like a different show in some ways. No wonder I didn't think I would like it, but even then I have seen some that I thought were pretty good even without Ziva and McGee. I didn't know when the show first started he was not on there yet. I just love him too, the computer geek. For some reason I just love computer geeks now and people used to make fun of them. Just about everyone has a computer now and needs someone like McGee or like my Michael who can help us out. lol!

You will probably know what season you're on if you look at McGee. He used to be kind of fat and I believe on season 8 he started losing weight and you could see him lose more every week though I watched them back to back because Michael downloaded the whole season. I have never watched them in real time, only different ones on re-runs on a different channel. I know I have told you this before.

Oh I am sorry about your mosquito bites. I hate them. I want to scratch my skin off and that is very bad. In a way these welts seem like mosquito bites, bunches of them that I want to scratch constantly, but like mosquito bites that is the wrong thing to do. It only makes it worse. I hope you have some kind of anti-itch cream to put on them. You poor thing. I feel for you too.

Yes, heat is the worst. I usually wake-up with more welts from being under the covers even with just a sheet on me. I am going to try to live with taking only one Percocet a day instead of two and try to get off them. I hope I can take the pain from my bits. It is more likely we think,that the percocet is causing the hives more than the antidepressant, but I won't know until I stop taking them. If it doesn't work it is probably the antidepressant which means I will have to stop taking it. I don't want to because it really helps my depression and somewhat with my bits pain. lol! I just don't know if I have healed or healed at all, and I may die without the percocet. I'm tired of this. Whine complain.....I am hurting right now because of my period during the vacation. I think the pads and all the movement on the beach has irritated me again. Makes no scense to me if the problem is on the inside, but again my GYN. said she saw some redness when I saw her the week before my trip. This is crazy!

Thank you for the hugs and putting up with my complaining. I hope you are ok. Did your migraine ever go away? I sure hope so. They are the worst!

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Thankfully my migraine has gone (for now) and I've been able to spend a pleasant afternoon doing cross stitch while listening to, and half-watching, 6 episodes of Stargate SG-1. I have now finished Season 1, which ends on a cliffhanger, and I can hardly wait to start Season 2, hopefully tomorrow while I stitch some more.

I think we must be on season 8 of NCIS, because I have noticed McGee is looking quite trim, he's lost his puppy fat. Guess our boy is growing up!

Yeah, I've got lotion for mosquito bites - I get them every year, but they don't usually itch for as long as they have this year. I probably need to get a fresh bottle of lotion, the one I've got is too old now. Either that or we have Super-Mosquitos this year. I hate them! They're one of the few living creatures I will go out of my way to kill at every chance I get. They're sneaky though, so it's not easy to catch them.

Hope you do alright with reducing your meds, side effects are such a pain. I'd hate to be itchy like that all the time. Hopefully you're healing.

I'm gonna flop here and read for a bit before bed - I was late to bed last night because of indigestion, so I feel shattered. Talk to you soon *careful hugs* Love J xxx

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your migraine is gone and I hope it stays gone.

I know you must enjoy your Stargate episodes. I love buying the DVD's of my favorite shows and watching more than one at a time. I used to do that all the time with my DVD's of The X-files. I need to get them out and watch them again. I wish I had enough money to collect all the NCIS DVD's, but they are expensive and there are a lot of episodes as you know. I'm glad they are going for a 10th season. I have them to look forward to this fall, but I am not hurrying time. Fall means Christmas comes soon and that is a very stressful time for me. It shouldn't be, but it is unfortuately. I have 4 seasons of "House" on DVD and I would like to have the rest except maybe this last year. The show has really gone downhill and I am sad about that. I really love the first five or six seasons. Not sure which season they are on now. I would have to look it up. Do you have Stargate TV shows on DVD? I'm so glad Daniel (I don't know who he is of course) got to come back. Yes, of course they could bring back Ianto. RTD is stupid! Even Spock in Star Trek three came back from the dead. He was still Spock and maybe even better. I laughed so much at Star Trek 4 about the Whales. Spock was hysterical, he had no idea he was funny. :D That was my favorite Star Trek movie though I loved most all of them.

Yes McGee started losing weight in 8 I think and is still very thin in season 9. He is almost too skinny, but he looks good. I hope McGee is eventally goes through stuff that really help him grow up like they did with Tony. I still hope that he and Abby get together. I think they would make a perfect match.

I'm glad you have lotion for the mosquito bites. I think they get worse every year. There seems to be some kind of mutant giant mosquitos this year. lol! The bites are worse and stay itchy longer, in my opinion. My mom gets bit all the time working in her garden. I don't know what they have been eating to get so bad! Yes, mosquito and fleas are the worst. I don't know why they are here except to torture us and our poor pets. I put flea medicine on my cats every month to keep them off of them. Stupid things! (the fleas not the cats) lol!

I hope you enjoyed your reading and are resting well right now.

I see my Nurse practitioner tomorrow afternoon to see about my pain meds and my hives. I want to see if she thinks I should get off the pain meds to see if my hives go away. I started reducing them tonight, but I hurt a lot so.........?

Talk to you tomorrow.

love ya!

Deb. ♥

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I have almost all of Stargate SG-1 on DVD (got the first 6 seasons all in one go on offer in a local shop one year, got them home and watched the lot in less than a week and a half, and then was desperate to get season 7! There are 10 seasons (I think I'm right about that) and 2 made for TV movies that finish the story off. I'm still missing one of the movies, but I'm watching a couple of copies on ebay, so eventually I'm sure I'll get it. Daniel is amazing, he manages to die several times, but he 'ascends', then finds loopholes to get back, usually showing up naked =D The first time he didn't remember who he was or anything, it was very moving. It just shows how easy it is in scifi to bring someone back without cheapening their death (and Daniel's sacrifice was heartbreaking and powerful, unlike Ianto's death), so RTD could have easily given us Ianto back, he just didn't want to. I think it was a sort of payback because we weren't supposed to like Ianto, we were supposed to adore Gwen. Of course, even getting rid of all the competition didn't make people like Gwen, it just doesn't work that way.

I loved the early seasons of House, he's so cranky and clever. It hasn't been on TV over here for years though. I don't love it enough to buy the DVDs though, I seldom buy TV series on DVD if they aren't scifi. I don't have room for everything, never mind enough time to watch them!

Good luck with your appointment! *hugs* Talk to you later! Love, J xxx

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

Another old post, trying to catch up in the wrong order. lol!

I was asking about Stargate in my last post. I'm glad you have collected all the seasons. You watched them all at once like I did with TW seasons 1&2. One on one night, the other the next night. I watched my X-files episodes every day until I was done-through season 7 like I said before. Mulder being gone and only on the last part of that stupid season 8, I didn't really want to buy it. Most to the stories were really stupid. I got so MAD at Chris Carter who did the show same as RTD did TW. He totally messed up season 8! David Duchovny with Gilian Anderson (Scully) made the show great! Take either one out and it just doesn't work. + like Gareth, David (Mulder) was great at throwing in funny stuff and his way of delivering a line, perfect! Scully was the serious one. Maybe someday I will buy Season 8, maybe. Season 9, he was gone all together. I do wish I had the final 2 hour episode of the show where he came back. I am not sure if I can buy that or if it is included on the Season 9 boxed set which would suck! That would be the only thing I would want to watch. I should never talk about X-files, I get too emotional. lol!

I'm writing the rest of this on the next post, I was kidding before, but they really did say I wrote too much again. LOL! I wonder why?.....*whistles* *looks innocent*

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I saw some of the last 2 seasons of the X-Files, but not all. I still like the earlier, monster-of-the-week type stories best, I got a bit lost with all the conspiracy stuff! Still, it was a good show and I liked David and Gillian, they acted well together. I liked the first X-Files movie too, but I didn't see the second one. I heard it wasn't very good.

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I saw the second X-files movie at the theaters and even bought it, but they are right, it was not all that good. I don't remember a lot about it except it seemed like Scully was in it more than Mulder. He had left the FBI I think, and was living out somewhere in a house, he had a beard through the first part. Ick! He shaved it off later. The only really great part was when he kissed Scully at the end of the film. The first one was a lot of fun! I have that one on DVD too. :D I've watched it many times.

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PS. I got into the alien stuff first for some reason, then later I found I really liked the monster stuff more. Of course I always wanted Mulder and Scully to get together. :D

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I didn't really mind whether they got togerther or not as I was watching more for the scifi than anything else, I just enjoyed how the characters worked together, their skills complemented each other and they were a team.

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

Part 2. LOL! Thank goodness for cut and paste! :D

I hope you get your other movie off ebay. I bought some of my boxed sets of X-files off of there for good prices. I would love to do that with NCIS, that is the only other non-scifi show I would buy, right now anyway. lol! I'm too broke to buy much of anything now. I used to have more money. Oh well.

LOL! about Daniel showing up naked! He must be gorgeous. I should check out the reruns if I can find them on a channel here. We have enough channels, surely it plays somewhere. Yes, in sci-fi anything is possible and RTD should know that and probably does, but just wants to do things his way, not pleas the fans which is stupid. You do that here and a show is cancelled usually. You have to listen to what the majority of the viewers think. It was so obvious, I'm sure that Ianto went from teaboy to someone everyone fell in love with, maybe more than Jack because of his houmor and his sweet heart. He was so dedicated to his friends and would die for Jack and in a sense I think he did. :( I do think he died with Jack trying to save the world. He was very brave when he said in COE. The Jack I know would "fight!"...and then Ianto took his own gun and set out with Jack to take on the 456. He was a hero in that sense, but RTD didn't have to have him killed off or if he did like you say, he could have been brought back, still Ianto, maybe even better. I know they could have written it that way if they wanted to. RTD seems to see things in total opposite as the hopeful future our Gene Rodenburry saw them. There was always hope even when it looked impossible and our heroes usually saved the day in the end. Kirk usually had a hidden plan that we didn't know about and saved everyone. I just loved that! ...and Spock came back like I said before, he had to rediscover himself a bit, but he was actually more human than he had ever been. Makes me cry thinking about it...he also was very funny when he had no idea he was. I would just die laughing at him. I also really loved the Scotty the miracle worker enginer!....Ok, I am going on about Star Trek like I did X-files. BTW. This usually means I'm feeling better. lol!....I "really" digressed and LJ is not going to let me post this much again. lol!

I don't know why RTD. could not see that just about everyone hated Gwen and loved Ianto! How could he say that Gwen was the "heart" of TW. He just made that up because he knew he screwed up would be my guess and he is determined to stand by what he said. I watched the last TW they did and except for some moments with Jack and even Gwen being a badass, it really sucked. Jack was still Jack, all fit, he worked out and lost weight, but I actully think he was softer looking and more handsome in the other seasons.

"House" I know is not Sci-fi, but I really loved the show for awhile. All of them I got as presents, I had no money at the time to buy them either. Not sure when or if I will buy the last ones I liked. Too in love with NCIS right now and I would love to have all the "Dr. Who" seasons with Jack in them. I have never really seen all his story, just bits and pieces on Youtube. I did buy the one where he was with Gwen and Ianto, set before COE. I wanted to fill in the whole there. I really like those two shows.

Shutting up for a bit. lol!

Love ya! ;)

Deb.

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Yeah, Star trek showed a hopeful future but all RTD wants to show is his own twisted version of reality where the heroes are always doomed to fail and everyone is stupid. RTD has a warped view of people and relationships too. I think he genuinely believes that Gwen is the perfect woman because he just doesn't see any of her faults. It's insane!

[debmommy22.livejournal.com]

I think you pretty much summed up my LONG post in a few sentences! LOL! You are absolutely right! RTD is a dumbass!....whoops!
*evil grin*

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I was concise o_0 That's rare for me! I'm usually more long-winded but I was very tired last night and wanted to get to bed earlier. For three nights in a row I hadn't got to bed until gone 2.30 am. Last night I managed 1 am, which I guess is earlier though still not early enough.

I don't get RTD - it just seems he wants to make everyone depressed, like he gets a sadistic joy out of telling everyone we're doomed and nothing can ever save us. I watch TV to be entertained, not depressed.

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It was like you read a long article and wrote a quick summary of everything I meant. lol! I wish I could do that. I just like to run-off at the mouth. lol! I am like that too in sometimes I am just too tired or in my case feeling so bad that I just can't type much. Sometimes I can't think straight and wonder if I make a bit of sense.

I'm so sorry you have not been able to sleep. I'm glad you got a little more sleep last night. I feel awful without enough sleep. I didn't get enough last night because, guess what?!...my rash came back, it is not the pain meds! It is the antidepressant and no one believed me or didn't want to believe me! GEEZ! It was the last med I was put on and I had taken pain killers for weeks with no rash or anything! Now I have to slowly get off of it. This is one of those BAD antidepressants to get off of too, and I didn't know it until I looked it up last night, and even once you stop taking it all together, I read you can still have withdrawl symptoms. Bad ones like dizziness, crying, worse depression than before your put on it! Michael said he had read that, but so wanted me to be better that he didn't tell me. At first I was mad at him, but I put him through so much. I was in such a deep hole of depression with the pain and worry that I wanted to die. I read last night also that some people can develop a rash from Pristiq. One person had the exact same symptoms I got! It is considered a "severe" reaction of course and I have to stop taking it. It was like I was being poisoned for weeks because it got worse every morning. Today was not as bad I am guessing because of the strong steriod shot I got yesterday + the steroid pills from Nancy and the Benadryl. I am taking a stronger perscription form of Benadryl now. Oh and the right side of my face started swelling a little last night around my eye, but it got better thank goodness!

Big problem now is Nancy gave me enough of the crappy pain killer for 4 weeks and they don't help the pain. I don't have enough of the percocet that helps me until I see her again, so if I can't get a referral to the pain clinic then I will have to reschedule and see her sooner.

I am seeing a new Psychiatrist next week for my meds while Dr. Marshall is out and I hope he will give me the same mg of Ativan that I am used to. Most doctors won't give the higher mg out. I hope he believes me. I might take a bottle and show him what I take.

Well back to the post...lol! Yes I hate that negativity from RTD. We're doomed!...and I don't like that he implies there is no after life or if there is one, it is in some scary black void that we are lost in. Sounds more like being in some kind of Hell. I try to ignore that, but it bothers me in some of the shows. I believe I read RTD is an atheist which would explain it. 0_O I'm glad Owen was with us through the second season, but for most of it he was the walking dead which I thought was ridiculous! What was that about?! O_O

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Oh No! Good luck with coming off the antidespressant - maybe it won't be too bad as you haven't been on it that long. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Good luck with your appointments too.

The way I see it, Jack only sees the blackness when he dies because he's not going to be there long. I think it's the place you go to wait until it's certain that you're not going to be revived, then you get to move on to the afterlife. Suzie stayed there because she was so insane and disillusioned it never occurred to her that she could move on. That's my theory anyway ;)

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I like your ideas on the afterlife and Jack. That makes me feel much better. I have decided RTD can write it anyway he likes, but that they are not showing the whole picture. No one really knows what happenes, even Jack until they really go onto it, like you said. I was like you, coming up with my own ideas of how that worked so I could still watch the shows and not be upset or depressed at his dark view of the afterlife. What hopelessness! I don't believe that our lives are so insignificant that we would go through all this only to die and disappear into dust. Why would any of us want to go on knowing that we had nothing to look forward to but darkness or just blinking out into nothingness. How can he be into sci-fi, knowing all the vast expanse of space that exsist and all the gallaxies and think there is no afterlife and that there is no higher power who made it. There is no way, I believe, that space and all of us are just some kind of accident. How can we come from nothing, someone had to start it. Who made the first atom?...it did not just appear from nowhere. I don't know how RTD or anyone could think there is not someone extraordinary and all powerful that made all this. I feel so tiny; I really don't know anything, it is all too huge for me to even begin to understand. I know though that I/we are not tiny in God's eyes which gives me so much comfort and hope.

Ok, stepping down off soap-box....lol! :D

I can write nothing or be a blabber mouth depending on my mood. lol! I am having some pain, but at the moment I am doing ok. I have no idea what I will be like later or tomorrow.

Let me know how you are doing too. I love hearing about what is going on with you too. Are those mating Ladybugs still around? LOL! Funny, I just thought of them.

love crazy deb*

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I think the Ladybugs have passed their mating frenzy, now they're just enjoying life (when the weather is good) and hiding away when it's cold and rainy.

I know what you mean - I can't believe everything just came into being without some outside help. Of course, I also find it impossible to believe that earth is the only inhabited planet with intelligent (well, sometimes anyway) beings. I'm certain there must be more than just earth.

I don't know what the afterlife will be like (I hope it's not all sitting around on clouds while playing harps) but I'm sure there is something after. I still don't want to die yet though - there are still a lot of things I want to do in this life first.

*hugs* Love, J xxx