[Locked to Winter] [Locked against other members of Torchwood]

[twdenmother]

[[OOC: Yes, this is addressed to one of Leona's whores who isn't actually played by anyone. This would probably be a good time to mention that I'd be incredibly grateful to anyone who could bring him in as an NPC. I can do it myself, if needed, but that would be a bit muncesty, so if anyone's feeling like playing a pretty albino Glaysa as an NPC,

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[twdenmother]

As far as the CLF goes, I've been giving it some thought. As much as I hate to take the easy route and lay everything at Mr. Flagg's feet, given that we know he was engaging in psychic manipulation, it's interesting to me that CLF activity only really began when he started campaigning.

We'll see whether or not that theory has any basis in fact, though, now that he's dead. If it picks up again, I'll call it coincidence and leave it at that. If it doesn't...

It would be nice to go outside again.

And yes, fleas in the coffee. It wasn't the best of days. It got better, at least, thanks to a woman who had the brilliant idea of extreme cold to help ease the bites, so I wound up standing in a walk-in freezer and sharing a bottle of whiskey with her. Not my usual coping mechanism, I'll admit, but it did make the day substantially more bearable.

As far as the dolphin goes... Even if the Organization wasn't quite firmly out of favour with Torchwood at the moment, I wouldn't want to bring him there. If I go back -- if -- I don't want anything there to remind me of him.

Yes, J -- apparently, that's what he's going by now, just J -- has gone and turned into a dolphin. I was always, always irrationally fond of them, too, so this has to be some sick cosmic joke on all of us. Funny how neither he nor I are laughing.

If I was more vindictive, I'd be enjoying the fact that he's slowly suffocating under his own weight. Instead, I'm frantically trying to find him a tank.

...Actually, failing any better options, I might just be able to improvise something. It won't be perfectly water-tight, and I can't make it big enough for him to be truly comfortable, but it'll keep him from organ damage, at least. Put it in one of the toilets upstairs that's near him -- drains in the floors.

[Private]
[A few quick sketches follow, illustrating double and triple layers of thick plastic tarps, and a very rough support system cobbled together from various items already in the tower, with lots of question marks and notations about adhesive substances, and a quick notation of, "FUCK, need to lock this."]
[/Private]

I really shouldn't care so much about him, but I don't know how to stop. Even knowing everything I do now, even when sometimes I think I hate him.

Only sometimes, though.

Perhaps it might help if I knew him better -- him, not Jack Harkness or John Thane. Of course, that's unlikely to happen for a multitude of reasons, and we're back to me acting the adolescent girl.

I'll stop now, before this becomes even more ridiculous.

...I'm sorry about Ms. Dalton. Even if you didn't know her personally, it must have been difficult.

Nothing's come after me so far. I expected something would, when I learned what happened, but so far, there's been nothing.

...That raises some rather interesting questions about why, exactly, nothing has. I've been trying not to think about it, but perhaps I should. Perhaps I should also be writing to Ms. Sandric. But not now.

Now, I have an improbable makeshift tank to assemble. Let's hope it doesn't burst. Or collapse. Or disintegrate. Or get ripped to shreds by an angry dolphin.

And there you are, a little taste of Torchwood -- this really is the sort of thing we deal with all the time, just not usually our former boss.

[no_daylight]

That does make a disturbing amount of sense. I suppose if he had the power to pull blinders on the entire city, removing those blinders from the eyes of the mundane wouldn't have been that different.

Our solution to the fleas involved quite a long time spent in tubs. My face still itches, and by the end we were more wrinkle than skin and skimming dead lice off the surface of the water, but it was more pleasant than itching all day. And I imagine significantly warmer than a walk-in freezer, whiskey or none.

...I can't fault you for caring, Ianto. Show me a man who's never cared for something he perhaps shouldn't and I'll show you a man who's likely never cared for something he should.

I wish I could ease some of that frustration for you. I will say this: after everything, I can't imagine that you deserve another chance any less than he does.

[twdenmother]

I have no words for how much I envy you right now.

And... thank you for that. For everything. You've done a great deal to ease the frustration just by being there and listening, trust me.

I wish I could see you.

[no_daylight]

We'll keep the water warm and think of you fondly.

I wish I could see you, too. Hopefully Gwen will see her way to letting you go on Wednesday.