Friday: Lasts
It’s brumeier, back for the last day of hosting this week. Thank you so much for making this a great week, full of great prompts and fills! To wrap things up, today's theme is LASTS! Prompts can be anything, so long as they’re related to lasts (last place, last chance, things that last, etc).
Just a few rules:No more than five prompts in a row ( Read more... )
Just a few rules:No more than five prompts in a row ( Read more... )
Topher typed rapidly, and the pod she’d been in closed, filled with liquid. The other pod hissed open with a familiar flare of blue light, and the man came awake with a gasp.
“What happened? Is John all right? I can’t feel John. John!”
Traci went to his side immediately. “It’s okay, Brian. John’s fine. He’s just sleeping.”
Brian blinked at her. “...Traci?”
She nodded, beaming, and he reached up, smoothed a hand over his face. Traci handed him the little hand mirror, and he stared at himself for a long moment.
“Is this what I think it is?” he asked.
“Your very own body.”
Brian lifted his gaze to her, looked at her for a long, long moment. And then he stepped in and kissed her.
“O-kay. Didn’t see that one coming.” Topher ducked his head and typed rapidly. “It’s going to be a long time, guys. Growing each clone takes -”
“We’ll stay with you,” Rodney said firmly. “To the end.”
At the end of it, each former imprint was standing around John’s bed, hands joined, watching as Topher shut down the machines keeping him alive. Rodney, jittery in his new body, didn’t dare look at the old one, lying still on the other bed, a sheet pulled up over its head. Evan held one of his hands, and Joe held the other, and he squeezed them both tightly when Topher typed in the awakening sequence for the final time, and the pod hissed open.
“Wait,” Rodney said.
Topher lifted his hands away from the datapad. Rodney reached out, slid the black wristband off of old John’s wrist, revealing the famous tattoo, and slid it onto new John’s wrist.
“Hit it.”
Topher tapped away, blue light flared, and John blinked a few times, rubbed his eyes. He yawned.
“Rodney? What’s going on?”
John opened his eyes fully and stared.
“Hi, John,” Traci said.
“What the hell did I drink last night?”
“No drinking involved,” Julian said. “None at all.”
John fixed his gaze on Rodney. “Is that - how old are you?”
“Biologically? Twenty.” Rodney smirked.
John scanned the former imprints’ faces. “And am I -?”
Rodney nodded.
“But Joe and Evan -”
“Are happy as we are, thanks,” Joe said.
John took a deep breath. “What does this mean?”
“This means,” Rodney said, “that I love you, John Sheppard, and we can do whatever we want with our lives. No Dollhouse. No Wraith. Just us.”
John swallowed hard. Then he nodded, stood up, and pulled Rodney in for a kiss.
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And Rodney and John get to start over together, which is so awesome! Although I do like that Evan and Joe opted out - hitting the restart button isn't for everyone.
Brian and Traci! Squee!
In fact, squee all around on this one. You say crazy, I say LOVE IT!!! Everyone gets a happy ending! Yes!
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And I wanted the imprints to have their own lives finally.
Yeah, Brian and Traci. :)
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