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Slept for a whopping 9 hours last night (bliss!) and I wake up to THIS? orange_crushed, whose stories I cannot recommend highly enough, wrote me SCC fic for my birthday. Orange's characterisation of John is amazing, an AU John in the future who shares a history with Cameron, who is married to Kate, a warrior-philosopher and a leader who has never lost his empathy with the enemy.
The night watch, by orange_crushed (TSCC; John and Cameron, AU)
He walks at night, when he should sleep; they all do from time to time, restless without the sound of television and radio, refrigerators, the humming they knew as teenagers that wove itself into their skin. They pace and they fiddle with the straps on their fatigues, they drink hot water with one teabag to every three cups. When he passes them, they look up but they don't speak- they nod their heads, they let him move, alone, as a ghost is allowed to move. He is their leader, their keystone, the center of the arch that bridges them. At night he walks and feels the trembling in the earth, and wonders when he will fall.
The night watch, by orange_crushed (TSCC; John and Cameron, AU)
He walks at night, when he should sleep; they all do from time to time, restless without the sound of television and radio, refrigerators, the humming they knew as teenagers that wove itself into their skin. They pace and they fiddle with the straps on their fatigues, they drink hot water with one teabag to every three cups. When he passes them, they look up but they don't speak- they nod their heads, they let him move, alone, as a ghost is allowed to move. He is their leader, their keystone, the center of the arch that bridges them. At night he walks and feels the trembling in the earth, and wonders when he will fall.