When I did my Charles-Delaware-Trollish just-for-fun version of stories and plots had DS continued, I did one about a return to present-day PT. The vortex reopens, but when Barnabas looks through the doors he sees only an empty field. PT Collinwood is gone. He also sees Angelique - his Angelique - now a completely reconstituted force-for-good somehow being trapped there (of course, they're both in love). She appears confused and frightened. To rescue her, he passes through. Since she isn't aware of all those irritating, little problems her now-deceased PT version caused and not knowing exactly what is happening or where she is, and considering the fact that Quentin, Maggie and others have spotted her, thinking she's their Angelique back to create more trouble, she's a hunted woman. Anyway, Barnabas tries to figure things out. Quentin (and Maggie) are thrilled to see him again. Barnabas also manages to "smooth" things out regarding who this Angelique is. However, things aren't rosey. Quentin had the burned-out remnants of Collinwood razed to the ground. He and Maggie, along with Daniel, now live in the Loomis House. Things are tense between the couple, both claiming that the other is trying to gaslight each other. Roxanne shows up, hoping to rekindle their romance, only to discover he's in love with his own Angelique. It's all a mess. Barnabas decides to solve the mystery of who is the culprit and who is the victim - is it Quentin or Maggie? He discovers the truth, especially as things begin to turn deadly. It is Daniel who's doing it. Driven to insanity by what had happened several years earlier, wanting revenge for having been denied his mother a second time, he seeks to destroy his father and step-mother. He's packed off to a hoo-hoo house (the PT version of Wyndcliffe?), Quentin and Maggie are reconciled and decide to move away from Collinsport, probably to New York City, and Barnabas and Angelique return to Normal Time, leaving behind a despondent Roxanne promising that someway, somehow, she will again find Barnabas.
Gerard