[Terminator/SCC] Convergence - Teen - John Connor, Kyle Reese

[indiefic_scc]

TITLE: Convergence
AUTHOR: indiefic
FANDOM: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
CHARACTERS: John Connor, Kyle Reese
RATING: Teen for language.
WARNINGS: Spoilers for the whole Terminator universe.
DISCLAIMER: Don't own 'em. Don't know who does.
TIMELINE: Set in 2027, but spoilers for all.
SUMMARY: despite a lifetime of planning, it somehow

Comments

[gega_cai]

Oh my.

Because I love Kyle so much and you managed to PERFECTLY seam The Terminator-Kyle with TSCC-John, I'm going to go all nerdy on you and express how I enjoyed these moments:

Derek was the key John had been missing for so long. Derek knew Kyle. He affirmed for John that Kyle was a real live, living, breathing man and not some fairy tale his mother invented.

This. This is why the show works for me. I was hesitant to watch the show but when Derek Reese was introduced, I was sucked in because the show was connecting the emotional dots that makes me love Terminator in the first place.

"...Probably KIA."

John shook his head. "They'll turn up."

“That’s not likely."

John shrugged. "Unlikely or not, they'll turn up."

McManuss frowned. "It's really creepy when you do that. Sir."

Really, that's a powerful thing for him to remark because it is highlighting the personal and tragic details that only Connor (and the reader) know all to well. Yeuh.

Where Derek was loud and brash and gratingly bitchy with his dry wit and biting sarcasm, Kyle was unnervingly soft spoken and almost painfully earnest.

Why aren't you writing for the show, indie? lol This is exactly how it should be (and is, in my mind). They touched on that when Sarah said (Kyle) had "kind eyes" But, it seems like they may have forgotten that which attracted Sarah (and me lol) to Kyle.

And finally:

But many, many nights as he was drifting to sleep, Sarah whispered Kyle’s message against the shell of his ear like a prayer.

Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.

Kyle read the passage several times and then folded it and put it in his own pocket. “Is this really real?” he asked quietly.

John nodded. “It is.”

What a way to bring it on home, so to speak. The idea that she, basically, snuck in the intimate idea that Kyle really was this fairy tale-father-hero in more ways than one (as you wrote it here) and then for Kyle himself to ask if it were real. It's like they're both on the same page now (as John intended) because John had to deal with the reality of a phantom future he's been running from and toward his whole life and now it is Kyle's turn to do the same.

Loved this. Mucho gracias!

[indiefic]

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback!

They touched on that when Sarah said (Kyle) had "kind eyes" But, it seems like they may have forgotten that which attracted Sarah (and me lol) to Kyle.

Indeed. I am still sooooooo apprehensive of them showing Kyle on T:SCC. Even if it is just a Sarah hallucination or Derek memory. And god forbid they do more than that ... I give them a lot of leeway because the Derek character could have been awful and he turned out to be beyond awesome. But the casting alone of the Kyle character. UGH. I am not, not, not into Kyle the stupid little brother at all. And I'm afraid that's where they're going.