Title: What Never Should Be: Ghost Machine
Chapter Four: A Much Anticipated Reunion
Author: blucougar57
Summary: Disharmony and conflict threatens the Torchwood Three family when ghosts surface from the past. (Sixth story in the "What Never Should Be" universe.)
Rating: T
Warnings: None, as yet.



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Title: What Never Should Be: Ghost Machine
Chapter Two: Late Night Confessions
Author: blucougar57
Summary: Disharmony and conflict threatens the Torchwood Three family when ghosts surface from the past. (Sixth story in the "What Never Should Be" universe.)
Rating: T
Warnings: None, as yet.
A/N: Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding. Things are starting to get back on track now, where health and other issues are concerned. Still pottering along, but I am on holiday for two weeks now, which helps. I really hope to get at least one more chapter of this written and posted before I have to go back to work, and I really want to get stuck in and write the Jack/Gage reunion.....



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It occurred to me how long it's been since my last update, and I thought I need to do everyone the courtesy of at least letting you all know the basics of what is going on at the moment.

I have been working on my fics, both new and old. My problem is that I write more fluidly with a good, old-fashioned notebook and pen, but then I tend to procrastinate when it comes to typing up the handwritten stuff.
Currently, I have an update almost ready to go for "Futurus Redemptor", and the first chapter of the new installment in my "What Never Should Be" series is written and just needs to be typed.

My procrastination, I'm afraid, has come back to bite me in the proverbial.

A week and a half ago, my father collapsed and had to be taken to hospital. It was determined that he needed a pacemaker, and thankfully that all went smoothly. The fact that he is an insulin dependent diabetic with a family history of heart disease gives us even more reason to be thankful to God, because any surgical procedure presents an even higher risk than normal for him.

Anyway, we figured he was on the mend and the worst was over. Right? Wrong.

The following Monday, I experienced escalating stomach pain which eventually landed me in hospital. I was there for the next three days before being allowed home, and I am looking at a rather slow recovery with a number of follow-up specialist appointments.

At the moment, I can't sit for too long at a computer, so getting my updates out is going to take even longer than I hoped. I want to reassure everyone that they are coming, though, and hopefully as soon as I can stand to sit in front of my computer for more than ten minutes at a time.

So, I am truly sorry to anyone who might have been waiting on updates from me. I will do them as soon as I am able, and hopefully that will be sooner rather than later.

I need to vent, so please bear with me. It's been a bitch of a week, it's only Wednesday, and its not going to get any better. So, here we go....



I know this is technically old news by a good month and a half, but I just stumbled onto rumours that the character of Jack Harkness might be recast for the anniversary episode/s of Doctor Who. Has anyone heard anything more about this, than just rumours?

Quite honestly, I can't see anyone other than John Barrowman as Jack, unless they cast a much younger man to perhaps play Jack as a young man in his pre-immortality days. Otherwise, I just can't envisage anyone being able to give Jack the vibrancy and life that JB is able to give him.

Okay, I admit I am biased. I love JB, and any fan will know how much he loves Jack, as his own original character. I can't imagine it not hurting badly to see someone else taking on that character. Really, if this is what Moffat is going to allow to happen, then I would rather give Doctor Who a miss altogether. I just really do not want to see someone else as Captain Jack, and I intend to email the BBC to make my opinion known.

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In other news, apparently footage of our illustrious Prime Minister Julia Gillard ripping Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a new one in Parliament has gone viral and drawn international attention.

For those unaware of what it's about, our two glorious leaders were having a verbal spat over the issue of whether suspended Parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper should be sacked from the position, and Gillard told Abbott that he didn't need an inquiry to see misogyny, he just needed a mirror. She yelled at him across the floor of Parliament for a good fifteen minutes, and reduced him to utter silence.

Now, I would like to point out that I can't stand Abbott. I think he's a smug, nasty little man who is more attack dog than politician, and he has a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease. He is forever saying the wrong thing at the wrong moment, and this came hot on the heels of one of our idiot shock jock radio personalities making a moronic and highly offensive comment that the PM's recently deceased father 'died of shame'.
Not acceptable, and Abbott should have had more sense than to regurgitate that turn of phrase yesterday.

However, those who think Gillard is wonderful and a beacon of light for women everywhere because she verbally slammed Abbott for his idiocy need to see her rant in context, and hopefully realize that she wasn't actually championing the female cause against misogyny everywhere.

1. Gillard was defending her decision to vote against the removal of Peter Slipper from the position of Speaker.
Why was there a vote? Well, it's come to light that apparently Mr Slipper is of the opinion that female genitalia looks like "shell-less mussel meat in a bottle" - an opinion that he shared via text to a former male advisor who is currently taking action against Slipper for alleged sexual harassment. Various other vile opinions about the value of women in general, and some women specifically, were similarly shared.

So, Gillard berated Abbott (her political rival) for being a misogynist, in defense of a man who crossed the floor to take the job of Speaker and give Gillard an extra vote in Parliament, and who has since resigned formerly from that position after publicly admitting that his texted comments about women and female genitalia were indefensible.

Was she championing women against a proven misogynist? Debatable.
Was she defending her very slim Parliamentary majority by declaring her public support for Slipper? Absolutely.

This is a very convoluted matter. All I ask is that anyone who is currently idolising Julia Gillard for her verbal outburst at Abbott take a moment to look at the bigger picture. Abbott is a dinosaur who needs to be replaced, but Gillard's intentions are hardly pure-white, either. Both of them are a disgrace and an embarrassment to Australia, and the sooner they're both voted out, the better off we'll all be.

Title: A Different Shade of Darkness
Chapter Thirteen: Summoning the Doctor
Author: blucougar57
Summary: In the wake of his untimely death, Ianto Jones accepts a deal that will change his life forever.
Rating: Strong T, for now.
Warnings: Spoilers for The Series That Never Was (AKA, Children of Earth); brief description of torture
X-over: Torchwood/Doctor Who/Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter books.
A/N: Next chapter – Jack and Artemis.


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I've had a few requests, so since I lost all my files when MegaUpload was shut down, I've re-sorted my main stories/series, and put them into pdf files and winzipped them.

Here are the links, for anyone who wants them.


What Never Should Be: The Series



Ashes & Dust



Another World: The Series