All of the regrets John Sheppard had felt at the end welled up inside, all the things that he'd never said, never would and never could. He sucked in a deep breath. God, at least he remembered.
Again with the OW. Hm. I'm not sure how I feel, reading this chapter. I think Weir is right in thinking the selves in stasis were meant to die with their timeline anyhow, and all they did was cheat death for a while.
But, oh, poor John, now having to carry the memories and regrets of the first John! I know current John is at least reaching out to current Rodney, but part of me wants them to try to resolve what happened with their other selves. (Well, and I want Weir to get locked in an abandoned storage closet somewhere, but that is just pettiness speaking.)
Poor bastard. Maybe he could learn and take something from John's memories and do it right this time, if there is a threesome to be had, not to be so closed off. I would hope Elizabeth also would take something from her memory download. *sigh* guess i will have to wait and see.
Look, they didn't even like each other when they came through the Atlantis gate and now Sheppard and McKay are becoming friends. They're sad over their counterparts and a little freaked, but things keep improving.
You two do such great things with tone. I feel so bad for John dealing with a homophobic freakout on top of everything else. It's wonderfully heartachy. :) Rodney is fabulousness. Weir is puzzling to me...I'm reading some mixed signals in her apparent resentment over there being nothing left for her and her apparent contentment to be self-sufficient and alone. I'm not sure what she expects/wants, if that makes sense...but then maybe I'm trying to figure too much out from a single chapter.
Well, maybe she's just as confused herself. Elizabeth resented it and Weir remembers that, while Weir herself is much more at ease with the distance. Also, she has other people around her to offer support: Sumner's still around, Grodin, Beckett, etc. Her situation is rather different.
That brings up something that I never see much of in fan fiction, but my impression was that Weir and Beckett were reasonably good friends as well as colleagues before the expedition departed in "Rising." (I seem to recall he was "Carson" to her back when most everyone else was still being called by their last names.) Surely having a fairly compassionate confidant available who's NOT connected to her traumatic memory download will be helpful, even if she doesn't share details of what she's learned with him.
In 29? He went back into the pod alive. But all the pods were malfunctioning in the aftermath of Atene's destruction. John did a half-assed repair job on his, but didn't check his work and knew as he got in the pod that it might not have worked. To be honest, he didn't care, or even didn't want to wake up again. He only tried out an engrained sense of duty, a sense that he should, even though he didn't care about living anymore.
I notice that you didn't actually answer my question... *hmms* If he is really dead, I'm not sure I'm even sad. If anyone deserved release from his burdens, it was him.
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Again with the OW. Hm. I'm not sure how I feel, reading this chapter. I think Weir is right in thinking the selves in stasis were meant to die with their timeline anyhow, and all they did was cheat death for a while.
But, oh, poor John, now having to carry the memories and regrets of the first John! I know current John is at least reaching out to current Rodney, but part of me wants them to try to resolve what happened with their other selves. (Well, and I want Weir to get locked in an abandoned storage closet somewhere, but that is just pettiness speaking.)
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I have no words. So much pain for them all, especially John, and it looks like Elizabeth is going to be alone in this timeline too...
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Sheppard, though, might be rather disturbed if McKay and Weir got close.
Or would that be ... jealous?
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Poor bastard. Maybe he could learn and take something from John's memories and do it right this time, if there is a threesome to be had, not to be so closed off. I would hope Elizabeth also would take something from her memory download. *sigh* guess i will have to wait and see.
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*sobs*
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Look, they didn't even like each other when they came through the Atlantis gate and now Sheppard and McKay are becoming friends. They're sad over their counterparts and a little freaked, but things keep improving.
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He is dead, deceased, passed on, no more, finito, etc. (Insert Monty Python dead parrot sketch here.)
*g*
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