Mind War fic: Loss

[selenak]

Title: Loss
Author: Selena
Rating: PG, I guess.
Word Count: 747
Spoilers: For Mind War, and for a fifth season character's existence. Some background from the novels, but you don't have to know them to understand this

Comments

[muffinmonster]

I've got to admit that I don't really remember Anne Mallory (ah, the shame!), but I enjoyed this gapfiller nevertheless :) And cudos for mentioning Sandoval Bey, I love(d) that character. I really need to write a fic about him someday...

no need to be ashamed...

[selenak]

...poor Anne only made a brief appearance, in the Beta chapter when he's meeting Lyta (as an intern) the first time and tracks down the serial killer. They are presented as being on a first-name basis, though, and he does call her a good cop, and says they worked together well before. I could have used an OC grieving for Kelsey, but why bother?

Sandoval Bey: oh, please, write a story! I loved him, too, and the relationship with Bester, and the utterly wrong lesson young Al drew from it when Bey died because that contributed to the tragedy of both characters.

(There is an AU for you: what would have happened if Sandoval Bey had not gotten killed?)

Re: no need to be ashamed...

[muffinmonster]

I'll definitely put the Sandoval Bey story on my to-do list *g* Not sure about that AU though; I'd say that the whole future (or present) of the Psi Corps would have been changed majorly (completely?) if he had lived (and continued to be Alfie's mentor)... Hmm, I guess that needs some more thinking. First I'll have to (finally!) finish my reply to the B5 - 5 things challenge *cough*

but Bester...

[selenak]

...is not the Psi Corps. So even if Sandoval Bey had continued to live and influence him, the Corps itself wouldn't have changed, unless you mean the two of them could reformed it from within.

For Bester personally, of course, the changes would have been enormous. Whether or not he would have reacted differently in the case of Elizabeth Montoya, I'm not sure of, but he would have at least confided into Bey with his dilemma. There definitely wouldn't have been any necroscans. Etc.

Re: but Bester...

[muffinmonster]

but Bester is not Psi Corps

Well, I'd say that depends on your point of view *L* Actually, I think that he influenced the current Psi Corps quite a bit. I don't know how many fractions exist in the Corps, but I'm sure that Bester's is quite big and powerful. Hell, he even killed a director at some point! So, I think that a major change in Bester's past (and thus his personality and views) would affect Psi Corps as well.

Hrm. The more I think about this, the more I feel like writing it. I'm just afraid that this will be one of those stories that become trilogies, and then never-ending ;)

Re: but Bester...

[selenak]

The director assassination was a top secret thing, though, and he didn't even tell his protegé at the time (thank God, since this was Byron.)*g*

I've no doubt he was pretty high up in the Psi Corps hierarchy, but clearly NOT without rivals ore superiors - hence the "because I don't have that kind of autority" in Ship of Tears when asked why he didn't just order Carolyn released.

Speaking of Carolyn, err, look what Theatrical Muse made me do...

Re: but Bester...

[muffinmonster]

Sure, but to be able to organize such a thing (just think of how he mentioned planting those moles decades ago), he must be pulling strings behind the scenes pretty much everywhere.

I agree with you that he must have superiors (and rivals of course), but I think that at least unofficially he is a very, very powerful man in the Corps. Maybe he had to lay low in recent years, because he decided to oppose the whole Shadows fraction (which I think the director belongs to as well), but his connections surely remain.

I think I'd like to write a TM character myself... Too bad that everyone I'd be interested in seems to be taken already (and I actually don't mean Bester by that) :( Oh, well, I guess I don't have the time for this anyway.