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It's Saturday night, in the library, with the lead pipe....

Spoilers for Doctor Who episode 4.07: ( The Unicorn And The Wasp )

3a. Okay, it was a funny episode regardless of the excruciating bits. :D

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R just got home and shanghai'd me to tell me the story of his adventures in Las Vegas.

I'll give you the highlights, shall I?

"So I was standing there like a douchebag, a douchebag in a suit."

"He, seriously, he was with a supermodel, I'd tell you which one if she'd taken off her clothes."

"I didn't know anyone yet so I fell into this pattern of walking purposefully everywhere, as if I was just looking for someone. But I did it strategically."

"So he took me to meet these guys, Larry and Gary, and I thought it was a joke..."

"I had two Manhattans because I couldn't find anything better to do."

"And then he asked me, what's your experience in hospitality, and I started to say I spent a lot of time in clubs but that seemed wrong."

"Is that macaroni and cheese? Can I kill it?"

And then he left again to go to a blues club.

Someday I'm going to write a book.

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Studies, and by "studies" I mean "personal anecdotal experience", have shown that Sunday is the worst day to post fanfic. I don't know why this is, but comments tend to be few and far between, with a second wave on Monday morning after everyone's got to the office, had their coffee, and procrastinated doing their work.

And yet somehow I always end up posting on a Sunday night.

New fic, intensely meta, and I'm not sure how well it works yet. I'm considering this a sort of rough draft, and would appreciate people pointing out any bits where they are not fully following the sequence of events, because it's part-fanfic, part-script, part press-release, and part behind-the-scenes interview. Also it invokes both Torchwood and Doctor Who and while you might find it interesting in an objective sort of way if you haven't seen either show, I can't imagine it will be much fun unless you've seen at least Torchwood and know a little bit about the Whoniverse.

On the other hand, please be prepared to release you preconcieved notions about character and plot arc and most definitely casting.

Have I made enough excuses? Oh good.

Title: Second City Torchwood
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: When Mayor Daly's special investigation unit, Torchwood, steals Chicago PD Officer Gwen Cooper's crime scene, she decides to find out everything she can about them. But she may get more than she bargained for when Captain Harkness -- who isn't even American! -- sends his errand boy Ian to scare her off.

Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Story Notes

David Tennant has confirmed that he has been cast for a 20-episode season of the new television sci-fi drama, "Torchwood". He is said to play a time-traveling immortal trapped in 21st-century Chicago, who protects the Earth from alien threats with the help of several human companions.

"Torchwood" is set to air in America starting in the fall of 2007, under the executive production of Edgar van Scyoc, best known for taking the helm of American drama Studio Sixty after its disastrous first season and steering it back to success. The show's head writer is Great Britain's own Ellis Graveworthy, a mainstay of European television drama writing for the past ten years.