Thank you very much; I'm glad you're enjoying it and thanks for the kind words. It seemed to take me about twelve years to write (not really, but it seemed like it...) and I was sort of forcing myself to continue at about the 3/4 mark, but everything seemed to fall into place and it got easier again towards the end. I rank Torchwood as a bit of a guilty pleasure tbh, but I was fascinated by the glimpses of retro-TWood we got in a couple of the Season Two episodes... bring back Gerald and Harriet, I say!

I don't think TWood can ever have been a secret in Cardiff, the way they carry on and the weird stuff the Rift keeps throwing up. And it amused me to think of ways Gerald could be mean to Jack, while at the same time actually needing him to solve the case for him...