fic: "Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings" (SCC)

[hradzka]

Things I have to do on my Sunday morning: clean the house, clean the guns, change my car's oil, rearrange the bookshelves, do laundry, do my taxes.

Things I actually do: write SCC fanfic.

Priorities, I has them.

ETA: Um. Wow. Thanks, everybody, for the great response. If you liked this story, you might also like "Cinderella, Made of Steel,"

Comments

[ancarett]

This was just amazing -- I had no idea what to expect when I clicked on your link but I was quickly sucked in. And the return of John Henry!

I love that Savannah knows from the outset and how you build this up to the painful conclusion.

[hradzka]

Thanks very much. I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I started writing it, so I'm glad it turned out so well.

I think the show sets the picture of Savannah knowing: she wants her real mother back at the beginning, then she comes to terms with Catherine, but I don't think that initial knowledge and fear can be erased. She's just really careful not to mention it.

[amilyn]

Okay...this is a total work of genius. I love the image of Savannah growing up, aware that things are not quite right and not wanting to know the details. I love the image of this corner of the world were Judgement Day never happened but where things aren't quite "normal"--at least, not for everyone. I love that Savannah knows enough to prompt her T-1000 mother to add aging lines, to tell her what to say, how to act, and to have her replace Savannah as Maeve's mother.

Very, very cool.

And I wonder what happened to the "enemies" and if they still were enemies once Catherine's plans to avert Judgement Day...differently...succeeded.

[hradzka]

Thanks very much! I was trying to figure out what I could say about the Connors' fate, but I figured it worked better if that weren't known. I had to mention Ellison, of course, because he was really part of Savannah's everyday world. But hey, maybe he really did move away. Everybody involved with John Henry's brother, though, is dead, dead, dead.

Glad you liked it!

[madripoor_rose]

Oh, that was just heartbreaking, and beautiful.

[hradzka]

Thanks very much. This one broke my heart a little, too; I don't think I quite expected it to end up where it did. It was just going to be about Savannah living carefully with the knowledge that her mother... isn't. But I realized that Savannah's going to have a life, and any Savannah-and-Catherine futurefic has to deal what part Catherine plays in it. And then I realized what the ending had to be.

[turnonmyheels]

excellent

[hradzka]

Thanks!

[hradzka]

Thank you. I wound up a little stunned myself, as this one kind of turned me around, too. I really didn't expect it to turn into what it did.

I'm glad Catherine's voice came across well. I didn't find John Henry too hard to write, but getting Catherine's voice right is deceptively tricky. The ones who run deep are always the toughest.