FIC: In the Waiting Room (SGA/Quantum Leap crossover)

[fydyan]

Title: In the Waiting Room
Author: fydyan
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/Quantum Leap
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Summary: The woman in the waiting room was blonde and beautiful, and wasn't reacting at all the way she was supposed to.

Comments

[trustanti]

Yes! Oh, yes, yes, yes, this is wonderful, I love Quantum Leap crossover fic and this was done absolutely beautifully. I think I've always been much more interested with the poor soul stuck talking with Al in the waiting room than I ever was with anything Sam did - sure, Sam's got all the adventure, but I always wanted to know how people were reacting. And to have Cadman just not tell! And be an ideal Atlantis/Daedalus-person, just very cool with everything but also very adamant about not telling, because these people must be trained to expect people to try to forcibly extract information from their heads, like has happened to most of the characters so far. And awesome Al reactions!

And, hee, I'd love to see Sam's side also, with him doing his best not to let anyone know, and an entire team of people who are quite ready to accept various forms of possession as an option if one of their people starts acting a bit funny.

Cadman and Al's voices seemed absolutely spot-on to me. This was lovely! Thank you so much for posting it. (And, really, I wouldn't worry about the Quantum Leap canon. SGA is such a mess as it is, and has, canonically, infinite alternate universes where anything is possible, including a Leap program that ran a little longer or popped up a decade later.)

Yay!

[fydyan]

Wow, thank you for this great feedback! I think the waiting room has awesome storytelling potential. I was tempted to put McKay there, just for the spectacle of having Al have to stop him from taking Ziggy apart.

I'm really glad to hear that you thought the voices were on target. It was my first time writing in either fandom, and it's so easy to get that kind of thing wrong. Especially when one is a show you haven't seen in a dozen years.

The only other Quantum Leap crossover I have read is Legion's massive Storm Series, which is a crossover with the Sentinel. Do you have others you could recommend?