WIP Amnesty

[vaznetti]

This is one of those interesting livejournal navel-gazing activities--I can't imagine anyone doing this on lists. And I thought I was going to need "WIP Amnesty Day Amnesty" but instead, here's a story that I've been forced to acknowledge. Back in early S3 Alias, when it wasn't pretty much impossible that Jack and Sark might be working together,

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[auburnnothenna]

Bloody hell, I'm sorry you're abandoning it too. (Jack and Sark in the same room being one of my personal things and much too rare in the actual show.) Airs, Waters, Places is still one of my favorite stories and this has all the Vanzetti hallmarks that I enjoy. Blast. But, that's life, and I enjoyed reading this snippet.

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[vaznetti]

Glad you enjoyed it. I had to give it up--too little plausible canon to support it, which is a shame. I may try to get Sark and Jack together again in a later fic, but it will depend on how the season plays out (that is, if the canon logic seems worth paying attention to.)

And thanks for the kind word regarding AWP. I'm fond of it myself.

[eretria]

"I'm sure she was a darling child, Bristow, but your daughter's a menace."

I think I love you. Best line in a long time. :o)

And Jack and Sark in one room makes for some of the best tension and snark apart from Sarkney I've seen written in a long while as well. Excellent dialogues, wonderful setting.

Uhm ... just a thought, but ... this'd actually be quite a good missing scene. It doesn't necessarily need continuation (even though it'd be more than lovely). You could simply leave it that way and call it a missing scene. And what an utterly PERFECT missing scene it'd make.
Would be perfectly set before Mexico, for example.
Just a thought. This is simply too wonderful to be buried as a WIP.

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[vaznetti]

That's one of my favorite lines as well--one of the reasons I'm sorry to relinquish the story.

I suppose it could be a missing scene, but it sets up expectations which the show never lives up to. It's not entirely impossible that Sark was in contact with Jack, but at this stage it appears very, very unlikely. (I did have few lines of a post-Mexico scene to add to this, but it just wasn't going to work out--it would have required an enormous edifice of plot to support it.)

[ms_pie]

I can't believe I missed this when you first posted it.

Yeah, Jack and Sark in the same room is a Very Good Thing! Hopefully you'll have the opportunity to write more of their interactions at a later date :)

With regards to this piece, I just have to say your mastery of voice and dialogue makes me go green with envy. Every word, pitch perfect.

Brava!

[vaznetti]

I think I must have posted this in a weird time--I don't think many people saw it at all. But I'm glad you found it and liked it, and thank you so much for your kind words on the dialogue. I try to make the characters sound like themselves, and it's always nice to know that it's working.