unedited, at 9 AM

[xparrot]

The 9 AM is my bedtime, you see. (oops?) And the unedited is because I don't really want to think about this again, so I'm just putting it up raw, as is...I might read it over for typos later, but I might not. This isn't a real story, it's just something I had to get out of my system. Which I'm posting publicly because I have no shame, also, 9 AM (9:30 now!)

Umm. So I'm an OTPer, and very, very sensitive. Which means I really shouldn't have read friendshipper's recent flashfic, but I did anyway, because I'm also a masochist of the sort who always has to poke a bruise to make sure it still hurts (ow!)

So this is an entirely unauthorized sequel to her story. It's not what she meant her story to be, not by a long shot. Among other things, I pretty much totally sidestep the central threesome of her fic in favor of John and Rodney. It's a fix-it for a fic that isn't supposed to be fixed, that's not intended to be broken.

This story not actually McShep; it's not about destroying what she wrote. But it is changing things, making the chars go my way instead of hers. This still isn't a future I want to see, this is not how I want it to go. And yet I couldn't let it go. So. This. With all my sincere apologies to friendshipper, because it's not her fault I'm an oversensitive OTPing lunatic. Also to gnine and naye (please don't kill me tomorrow? Or today rather?)

nor let it be fearful
PG-13 for language, ~3,400 words
a fic response to Peace I Leave With You by Sholio/Friendshipper

Read it on AO3

Comments

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

I've just now read both this and the original story, and I was so ready to dislike this, because I loved the way Rodney and Jennifer and Ronon were together and I assumed you were either going to put cracks in them or make me sad about them replacing John/Rodney. *g* And instead -- I'm still a little sad, and I do hope this John finds someone else (consider it a third take on it all...), but it was lovely, and sad but also heart-warming, and I still love the three of them from this side view, and also John and Rodney and their failure to maintain and their steps back towards each other. Thank you.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed my story, and thought that it added rather than subtracted from Friendshipper's story - I consider it successful, for that!