The Captain and the Colonel's Daughter (Remix of Threadbare)

[majorsamfan]

Title: The Captain and the Colonel's Daughter (the "Threadbare" remix)
Author: majorsamfan
Original story: Threadbare by vickyocean, which set Sam and Jack in the old west in the late 1800s when the Goa'uld invade
Fandom: SG-1
Ratings/Warnings: PG / violence described but not in detail
Words: ~2,325
Notes: With thanks to thekatebeyond, audrich, ssmith_12 and two non-eljay friends for beta (it was

Comments

[majorsamfan]

First of all, I had somehow deleted my assignment email, and was contacted by Minx as to what was up the day after it was due. As soon as she sent it, I remembered you were my assigned remixee, but I don't know why I deleted the email before.

So then I went to the site and read everything there but Graceland (your safe fic) - well, at least the first chapter or two. I honestly was planning to do a different one until the day I sat down to write it, I realized I hadn't read the first one. I read it, and immediately it occurred to me that I could remix it to Jack's perspective and maybe flesh out that one line that said he had saved her life.

I'm so glad you liked it. "Playing in someone else's sandbox", as they put it, can be tricky even when you have their permission.

Had I worked on it when I was supposed to (when it was assigned), I might seriously have done another one of them. Or I might have written a lot more on this one. I grew up watching shows like Wagon Train, Rawhide, the Rifleman, The Wild Wild West, Branded and The Big Valley - and a LOT of movie westerns!

I don't think you specified where they were, so I just thought it would be fun to pick Colorado since this was the period when statehood was debated, and "moving west" meant the Northwest Territory or California. Of course, Kinsey's Mercantile kind of conflicted with "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". ;p

Anyway, again, I'm so glad you liked it. I'm glad the word "excitement" came so quickly after "all flail-y" too! :D