various stories that didn't get written for the gen ficathon
My prompt was AU, Endings and Beginnings. There would be italics here and there, but I didn't feel like doing all the coding. If any of these strike your fancy, please tell me. I'll be more likely to finish them at some point if I know someone wants to read them.
( the one where John was an ancient Ancient )
( the one where John was an ancient Ancient )
Wait a little bit, and it will probably happen. My big project this summer (aside from work and figuring out how to function as something other than a student) is going to be clearing out my very full WIP file, which includes these even though they're technically not "in progress".
especially the one where John talks to Helia. I really like . . . everything about that conversation. Their right to be there. His choice to be human. His responsibility to his people. That last line. So good!
*looks shifty* There's actually a fair bit of bleed-through in that conversation, which is one reason why I wound up putting that story to the side--I couldn't tell whether it was John speaking, or me speaking through him. But yeah--at least one of us needed to talk about that stuff, and it's always bothered me how careless (and stupid) Helia & co. were, and how the expedition simply left without even an argument. I know they had reasons for doing so, but still.
Though I also enjoy your other AUs where he's something like three-quarters ancient and sleeps only a few hours a night.
Which is most of them, even if that particular fact doesn't appear in the story--until we hear otherwise, my canon is that his mother was an Ancient, and that when he was young, Patrick Sheppard was charming and beautiful and good--and that when his wife died, the better part of him died with her. (But Rob, the USAF flight instructor who grew up on a farm and taught his son to love the sky, will always be my personal canon.)
(The John Sheppard Ten Things ficlet you wrote a while back is a personal favorite!).
Mine too! Largely because it was an unexpected gift: until I sat down and wrote it, I hadn't realized how much I "knew" about John. And even though canon has contradicted some of it, the John described there is my John, the one that occasionally hangs out in my head and likes to trash talk canon!Sheppard and his inability to keep Atlantis secure. Or to ever show up anywhere with the appropriate amount of backup. ^_^
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