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Ficathon story #8 (and new WIP): The Light of a Fading Sun
Tazmy and Kodiak beta'd the first few chapters of this a loooong time ago, but I figure it's far enough along now to start posting.
This isn't entirely a ficathon story, but I realized that one of the last remaining ficathon prompts would fit beautifully as a plot development in this story, so rather than writing it as its own story, I decided to combine them into one.
Title: The Light of a Fading Sun
Rating: A fairly strong T/PG13
Spoilers/Warnings: This is an AU version of events diverging around the Siege. It contains heavy plot spoilers through Season 3's "Sunday". This is also somewhat darker/heavier than what I normally write, though not without its friendship moments.
Summary: Perhaps the only thing worse than blowing up 5/6 of a solar system is not blowing it up at all. Following the Siege, the characters drift apart ... but in their AU universe, the events on Doranda will have far-reaching and unexpected consequences. And theirs may not be the only universe affected.
As usual with my WIPs, it'll be posted in chapters on ff.net and then posted on my website when complete. Here's the link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3407293/1/
If you would like to know what the ficathon prompt is that I'm using, you can click under the cut to see it. It's a plot spoiler, though. The prompt that I'm using is: "A hostage situation on Atlantis involving John and Rodney."
This isn't entirely a ficathon story, but I realized that one of the last remaining ficathon prompts would fit beautifully as a plot development in this story, so rather than writing it as its own story, I decided to combine them into one.
Title: The Light of a Fading Sun
Rating: A fairly strong T/PG13
Spoilers/Warnings: This is an AU version of events diverging around the Siege. It contains heavy plot spoilers through Season 3's "Sunday". This is also somewhat darker/heavier than what I normally write, though not without its friendship moments.
Summary: Perhaps the only thing worse than blowing up 5/6 of a solar system is not blowing it up at all. Following the Siege, the characters drift apart ... but in their AU universe, the events on Doranda will have far-reaching and unexpected consequences. And theirs may not be the only universe affected.
As usual with my WIPs, it'll be posted in chapters on ff.net and then posted on my website when complete. Here's the link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3407293/1/
If you would like to know what the ficathon prompt is that I'm using, you can click under the cut to see it. It's a plot spoiler, though. The prompt that I'm using is: "A hostage situation on Atlantis involving John and Rodney."
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I'm already so sad after this first chapter! Deliciously sad. But you're so talented that I know you're going to weave this into a fantastic and moving tale. Just like "That Which is Broken." I can't wait to see what happens next!
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In all honesty, I avoid most post-Trinity stories as well -- although in my case, it's mainly because I don't like how either Rodney or John are characterized in them. And I hope that this one doesn't read as too much of a "victim Rodney" story because I'm really trying hard NOT to do that; if anything, he's the victim of himself.
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You really promise? I just ask, because right now it's so painful to read. The angst!! And the tension between military and science team in general and John and Rodney in particular.*meeep*
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*grins again*
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Once again, I am in awe of your writing. And I know you have a life and all and I hope I'm not being too much of a nag, but PLEASE write more as quickly as you can. I can't wait to find out what happens next!
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And since I'm now switching between computers, heads up that I'm friending you to keep up with this story and others you write.
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Coz, not only a brilliantly written fic (and I just expect no less from you, simple as that) but also - OMG! - that conversation a few of us had a while back about weird characterisations for Sheppard and McKay in season 2 and making their interactions way more broken following Doranda and making John far more of a bastard to Rodney than he has ever been on the show - you went and made it into a completely believable AU. And then you went and dropped the "real" John and Rodney into the mix to show how completely not like them the whole thing was.
DUDE! I bow befoe the awesomeness that is you!
And any fic that makes me channel both Carson Beckett and Dean Winchester in the same post has gotta be awesome. Right?
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Anyway, carry on, Awesome One!
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Of course I know what you're talking about. The story kinda started out as a catharsis sort of thing after reading one too many uber-angsty Trinity tags: "So! Rodney and Sheppard aren't friends in Season 2, eh? I'll show you a season 2 where they're not friends!" But of course I had to come up with a rational chain of events that would have ended with that, and one thing led to another, and I couldn't KEEP writing them as not-friends; it would have killed me. I really didn't think in the beginning that it could possibly develop into a readable story, but then, unexpectedly, it did.
I'm especially glad that the AU characterizations are working for you -- because I'm trying to make the whole thing as much Rodney's fault as John's; not just because I have no interest in writing emo-Rodney, but because Rodney's *not* a victim and Sheppard's *not* a bully in any universe. It's fun (in a twisted kind of way) to make things spiral out of control, one step at a time off a very tall cliff, with our Sheppard and McKay for balance.
And your review made me giggly and happy, because I feel like I'm really achieving what I wanted with the story. Thanks!
any fic that makes me channel both Carson Beckett and Dean Winchester in the same post has gotta be awesome.
*laughs*
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LOL! I can *so* see that in the story. Not that the story doesn't work on its own without that added dimension, but as I read I started thinking "Ah, *THIS* is what she means by 'AU'. They really aren't the guys we know." And then when the guys we *do* know turned up - well, I was just in awe.
And the "Rod" thing? Doubley awesome!
Oh, and the channeling Dean thing? I actually called one of my brothers "dude" the other day. It's *NOT* a way that we usually address each other and he stared at me for half a second - and then launched into a 2 or 3 minute monologue in which every third word he said to me was "dude". So, okay, we're not exactly the Winchesters, but some sibling things are well nigh universal, are they not? ;-)
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