Fic: I Dub Thee Unforgiven, Brown Cortina, by Little_Cello

[little_cello]

Title: I Dub Thee Unforgiven
Author: little_cello
Word Count: ~6000
Rating: Brown Cortina
Warnings: Character death, potentially squicky graphic descriptions of a surgery, other disturbing things
Characters: Sam Tyler, Sam Williams, Frank Morgan, and then some
Summary: What if Sam Williams were real?
Notes: ... so... I have a problem with Sam Williams. Up

Comments

[danae_b]

I still think this is such a fantastic concept and, yeah, headcanon, sure (if I have to even kind of admit that Sam Williams was real XD The end of the series is a mess, and this goes a long way into mAKING WILLIAMS WORK). The writing is really brilliant, the flow is great, your style carries it all so neatly along. I love how Sam (Williams, that is) has focus at the beginning but he really just goes out and out mad as the story progresses.

So even in this impossible time in the future, the doctors are prone to medical misconduct. As the drugs course through Sam's body, burning like fire and ice and acid, setting his mind aflame and threatening to shatter it into a thousand pieces, he screams and groans and yells, cursing everything and everyone, sobbing senselessly, thrashing about in this pandemonium of colours and sounds, worlds spinning and pitching and unhinging him completely

[little_cello]

;__; Dana.

I'm mentally exhausted from writing this fic, but know that your comment means so so much to me. I just wanted to make his concept work for my own benefit, but knowing that it works for others is just... it makes me incredibly happy.

Just... thank you. ♥

[fern_tree]

Oh Cellooooooooooo <333333333 This is just fantastic.... I was absorbed right from the start. I feel so sorry for Sam Williamssss. It wasn't his fault, what happened... But then it wasn't Sam Tyler's either, and I can understand Williams's anger just as much as I feel bad for Tyler being the subject of it.

And I love how you've fleshed out Williams's life and relationship with Morgan etc... It makes Morgan's appearance in the end of series 2 seem so different - thinking/knowing that he actually WAS expecting it to be Williams instead of just acting that way to freak Sam out. It's awesome!

And oh god the endinggggg ;____; I'm happy for Sam Tyler... But what happened to Williams is kind of crushing and tragic as wellll.

It's so well written, and unlike anything I've read before.... I love it! <33333 Thanks so much for writing and posting itttttttt <33333333

[little_cello]

Fernnnnnnnnnnnnnnn <33333333333

Thank you so so much for reading and then commenting *HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS* You telling me that this fic drew you in the way it did, it just makes me so happy.

Fleshing out Williams and Morgan, and their relationship was a lot of fun, and I'd actually like to do more of that... idk I can just see them having this really trusting relationship. ; v; <3

Thank you so much again for reading and commenting. <3333333333333333333333333333333

[master_pages]

When Tyler went into the deeper coma I thought, "Where will Sam go now? I bet they end up in the same body." I was SO pleased with myself. :p

I was very distraught by the end, though. I wanted the doctors to save Sam Williams and for Sam to decide to adopt Tyler's 2006 life as better than none, with the connection between him and Tyler finally broken. No more bad dreams. But... I require happy endings more than some. xp

This was such a good idea and I suspect you may have hit on some ideas that the screen writers themselves had. Maybe we would have seen some of this if there had been a 3rd series. It's just the type of scenario I like to explore... so much so that I was annoyed with myself for not writing this before you got to it. lol Good job with this. Very devastating, but very well done.

[little_cello]

Aaahhh thank you so so much for commenting!! <3333333333333

Hahah well done on calling it! :D

Nawwww I'm sorry to hear that - though not much. XD I know what you mean with happy endings though, I normally really really need them too... Only when I write the fic myself, I don't seem to have problems to... not write a happy ending. Hah. > v> XD

Thank you so much though, I'm really glad you enjoyed this fic. ♥ And yeahh I as well think that a series 3 - or just a few more eps, really - would have helped with all those kind of cut-off plot strands... It's really frustrating how much the writers rushed the ending. XD Which is precisely why I don't like Sam Williams... which I suppose translated into this fic hahah. Sorry mate.

[master_pages]

Here's an idea that might make you dislike him less.

Suppose Sam Williams was just Sam's mind spiraling out of control near the end. You know how it is when you've been dreaming a while, and suddenly you start to suspect that you're dreaming? Your subconscious desperately scrambles to convince you that you're actually awake. This could have been Sam's desperate scramble. But when he chose 1973 for good, he was lucid-dreaming for a little while. He could choose the reality that Sam Tyler from Hyde never was Sam Williams. There would still be a couple of little loose ends, but in the world he's set up for himself from this point on, they wouldn't matter. Thoughts?

[little_cello]

... actually, that is a very interesting approach! I've not thought about it this way yet, and it does make quite a lot of sense. The only problem I have with it is that personally, I regard 1973 to... not be Sam's coma dream. Aka everything in it, most of all the people, are real, and it's not something he thought up. Soooo.... yeah. XD

But again, that is a really really good way of looking at it, I'd love you see explore this idea more in fic! :D

[basaltgrrl]

I've had a fairly busy week, but I've been intending to come back and give you a well-deserved comment...

There are a few fics I can think of that really tackle the concept of a real Sam Williams, but my god did you put a twist on it! Awesomeness! It kept taking me by surprise all the way through! Great setup, and great execution! And OMG perfect ending! PERFECT.

Also, I confess that you made me see the bomb-under-the-car scene in a new light; I just NEVER thought of that as Sam actually considering killing himself. Was that me just not getting it, or is it your insight putting new meaning into it? In either case, well done!

[little_cello]

Oh gosh Basalt, thank you so much for that lovely comment!! :'D ♥

I'm so glad you liked this fic - as mentioned, I wrote this in one sitting, and to know that I managed to give it a good structure and make it compelling... it means a lot to me. :')

As for that scene you mentioned: I don't normally think about it that way either, but I'm pretty sure that at least subconsciously, Sam had more reasons to go under that car than just to try and defuse it. I mean, even though we don't see too much of that in the episode, I'm pretty sure he felt guilty about what happened to Ray, and... I guess keeping that in mind, it wasn't hard to me to make Sam Williams think/hope that this is why Sam Tyler goes under there so readily.

Headcanons, yay. /o/

Again, thank you so much for your comment, it means the world to me. Especially what you said about the ending, because I'm especially proud of that. :') ♥