Amarantine - Chapter Ten - Future

[speckleberry]

I'M SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG!!!!Title: "Amarantine"
Chapter: 10 of 10 - Future
Rating: PG
Pairing: John/Elizabeth
Genre: Romance/Angst/Drama
Summary: "He didn't have forever, but you do. And you wonder time and time again, if that makes a difference."
Author's Note: This is my first Atlantis fic in quite a little while, and it feels nice to come

Comments

[anuna_81]

Oh my darling, this is so PERFECT! How can something make me cry and make me happy at the same time? I can't even type right.

That's the perfect circle, sweetie, my absolutely favorite thing in story telling. I thought you were going to give us something John/Elizabeth heavy but how perfect is this?? It's so fitting and Meredith just deserves it and I think this, this is the only right way to end this story. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Nothing could be more symbolic, in the best possible way.

And how much I love that John and Elizabeth had their happiness. This line: because you'd given birth to Gillian out of a want to have as many children with John as your body could stand - it just tells so many things about what their relationship was/is like. And I love that; that kind of unselfish, devoted love and giving. And after what Elizabeth has been through, it rings true.

And then these bits here -

You laugh, thinking over all the trade agreements you've drawn up in the past few years and wonder how free health care had become a crucial part of interplanetary relations.

That's something our real world should consider, especially when you think how many people need health, and can't find it simply because they've been born in a wrong place at the wrong time.

And then this too -

"Ah, the O'Connells. Marta, Andrew and Caleb O'Connell. They just arrived from the Earth Beta site on the Amistad this morning."

You screw up your nose. "Terrible name for a passenger ship."

along with - Though, straightening your mind with the thought of how that story ended, you think that perhaps it's fitting. Because the slaves of the Amistad found their freedom on a new shore.

I can't tell you how much I love you for this. *hugs* I LOVE YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH, and you make me feel so loved. Thank you ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

[speckleberry]

It's so fitting and Meredith just deserves it and I think this, this is the only right way to end this story. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Nothing could be more symbolic, in the best possible way. - I was so worried about that. I was worried people were going to want something J/E heavy. But I realised that I don't like that, in competition with something subtly beautiful. I like things to be simple, like the image of John playing with Meredith's toes and just...trusting Elizabeth's judgement. That, to me, is far more beautiful than snogging. There really isn't a comparison (and I really need you to get through all the LTM eps so I can share with you, EXACTLY WHAT EFFING BEAUTIFL IS! Seriously, you'll be floored)

I'M SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO HAPPY THAT THE ENDING IS EVERYTHING YOU WANTED. I will be honest, and admit that I was scared people weren't going to recieve this kind of ending well. You know I like to be different, this story is testament to that. But a lot of the time, while I'm different, I round it out with what people kind of want/expect. This time, I tried to break away from that. I wanted to do what I wanted, something special and touching and so very simple that it's beautiful. I really hope that I accomplished that. I really do.

And while this was epically about John and Elizabeth, loving each over across time (totally an in-joke, across fandoms, lol) I also wanted to make it about something more which is where Meredith comes in. I don't know when she became so special...but somehow, it just mattered to me. Because this wasn't a J/E fic...so much as it was an homage to how great Elizabeth could have been. How beautiful her story could have become. (And I could honestly go on and one, but I'm more interested in how you liked this, so I'll shut up, lol)