Joie [1/?]

[rubberbisquit]

Title: Joie [1/?]
Author: Faline
Summary: This is a different take on the last scene with Beck. His men decide not to support him and he’s taken in to custody. This is the story of what follows:
A/N: NOT a companion to any other story. Just a plot bunny that’ll get fleshed out plenty in the coming days.

Some days you just want to shout

Comments

[nativefloridian]

yay! more heck!

this is off to a promising start. interesting AU take on things.

[rubberbisquit]

The world just needs more Heck.

*breaks in to song*

"What the world needs now, is heck, more heck . . . "

Honestly I'd love to see anything really with Beck in it. He just keeps growing on me. I stumbled across the Jericho slash comm, which my friend actually started ages ago and I made an icon for but totally forgot about, and I got shivers thinking about Beck and Jake. I know, left field. I'm strange. I'm very strange.

[nativefloridian]

"What the world needs now, is heck, more heck . . . "

Hahahahaha

[inanna7]

Another lovely story. :)

I was wondering at one point if Beck was going to quietly say to her "You hit me..." or her realizing it was him as he lay unconscious and saying "Oh, my God, I knocked him out!"

I can also imagine her helping him to clean up, like cutting his hair, just a nice, quiet bonding type moment like that to make a reader go "Aww".

I'm thinking when he does tell her how he's still alive, it's going to be rather ugly.

And, yes, I can see Jake and Beck slash pretty easily, they had a number of intense moments on screen, but I'd say that's because they are a couple of pretty intense characters.

[falinemalfoy]

Lol, I can see such a sad puppy dog look on his face. "You hit me. You HIT me." I feel a little guilty for what I've done to beck. I've taken away pretty much everything that made him him. :( Poor guy.

It won't be pretty when Heather finds out what happened to him, but I looked at all the options and there were some pretty horrific ways for it to play out.

I just wish there were more Beck/Jake stories out there. There's two, and one's not finished and no one is writing any more. If I didn't suck so fiercely at slash I would be all over it but for some reason I have total brain blockages when it comes to that stuff.

*sigh*

[shirleyann66]

I just wish there were more Beck/Jake stories out there. There's two, and one's not finished and no one is writing any more.

I'm not a huge fan of slash (because I don't always see the chemistry between the characters that the authors see)(in my defence, I have the same problem with Jake/Emily stories ), but in the case of Beck/Jake - yeah, I can see it. Not to mention Beck/Hawkins, and Hawkins/Jake...which is why I would have loved to have seen those three actually share a scene (to my recollection, they never did), and if they had thown Heather in the scene, too...television. exploding.

Man, I miss this show...

[rubberbisquit]

I am, in fact, a huge fan of good slash. Mulder/Krycek got me in to on-line fanfic many many years ago.

The Beck/Jake/Hawkins chemisty is amazing and I would love to see more about any of them, to be honest. I can't think of a time when they shared a scene, ever. And to add Heather to the three of them, forget about it.

My TV would have exploded too!

I miss it too.

The CW is showing reruns on Sundays now! Starts next week or the week after I think. I want to say 7/6C but it might be later.

[shirleyann66]

This is a very different story - tone, premise, etc. I'm looking forward to seeing where you take it, what happened to Beck (not to mention Heather), and how he integrates (or doesn't) with the town. See - I can't even begin to predict if the story is going to have a happy outcome, or a sad one. LOL

still hearing Beck’s voice in her mind. Not loud or screaming, but calm and patient. Telling her that everything would be okay.

I could so-o-o-o-o see him being calm and patient, and comforting her, even as he's being arrested. *sniffle*

Still in love with a dead man. Sometimes still pining for the living one her best friend had married. This line is such a combination of sad and hopeful and lonely - and so Heather. Hopeful, because she still feels - and acknowledges - love, even if she can't share it/express it with anybody else

[nativefloridian]

the CBS boards had some pretty nasty debates over the age difference between Beck/Heather - which (obviously) never bothered me. (Of course, we have no idea how old the character is; the debate was based on the age of the actors).

I saw those too - I didn't see why they were basing it on the age of the actors. I'd never seen Esai Morales before, and I'd've guessed he was in his thirties. And based on what I've read (Yes I looked it up), the average age of Majors is younger to mid thirties. And given the situation, (Both rapid post-apocalyptic promotion and previous faster-than-average promotion because he's that good), I'd go towards younger.

And Heather's at least 25,

[rubberbisquit]

You've got it right with the age of Majors, but in a war situation like this, field promotions are really rare and kinda hard to come by. With the position of anything above a captain, pretty much, you're actually commissioned by the Senate to the job. It's unlikely that during the early days after the bombs that there would have been a Senate to refer to. I had a really long conversation about rank structures with the boy before I started writing For the Grace of God

[shirleyann66]

The thing I hate the most about debates over age differences (especially when it's an older man/younger woman) is the argument that somehow the older person is "taking advantage" of the younger one. That may be true if you're talking about a teenager, but it pisses me off to no end once we're talking mid-twenties. Because the underlying implication is that a woman is never old enough/mature enough to make her own decisions. I could rant forever about it - but I won't. :)

There was a 10 year age difference between my Mom and my Dad, and my mother put it this way: "Between 16 and 26 - that's a big difference. Between 26 and 36? Not so much."

Anyway, as for Beck's age on the show...I think mid-thirties to mid-forties is all reasonable.