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A New Device is Being Tested by Makiko (R)
Fandom: FARSCAPE
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sabine101
Author Website:www.grapefruithead.com/makiko/farscape.htm
Why this must be read:
Season 3, in it's darkness, in it's stories of longing and loss and really bad decisions is filled with moments where things could have shifted an inch here, and inch there, slid home instead of going off the rails. This isn't that story.
Instead it's John, left behind, lost in his head, in his ship, in space and in this universe that really has no pity left. He's stuck with Harvey, stuck with Scorpius and we're not always sure which is which. But then, neither is John.
This story is about the what happened then, and the what happened next, the ramifications of John's hubris and the lengths that Scorpius will go to in his own obsessions. And for all of that, it's no less a love story. the way love can break and bend and come back to save you, but only until you can stand on your own again.
It's also richly detailed with beautiful words, spinning images and lovely prose.
From Makiko's A new device is being tested:
Scorpius has promised him the coordinates for Earth, and it's an opportunity. Now. Now that Aeryn's left him. Make a family somewhere else. So Crichton and Harvey work on refitting the Farscape, bastardizing circuits and relays from the Charrid ship.
One night over dinner, Scorpius tells him about Braca leaving.
"She offered him things I could not," Scorpy says, and Crichton knows he means Grazer. "He is a model Peacekeeper. He deserves his new assignment." He sounds removed. Crichton nearly pities him.
"I'm sure it's nothing personal," he says, and he feels sick for saying it. "Unless it is."
"So tell me, John," Scorpius says, some days later. "Who was she? On the command carrier."
"What's it to you?"
Scorpy chuckles, hands John a couple more feet of dilax cabling. "I think I have a right to know the name of the young woman with whom we spent such a highly memorable evening."
Crichton stares at the circuit matrix, turns a few screws. "I don't think this goes here," he says, tugging a node free. "I think we need the internal circuitry live before we wire the guidance system."
Scorpius palms the leftover bolts. "You're in charge, Commander," he says. "I'm just along for the ride."
*
Spires, spines, cold steel -- not like virtual reality, he thinks, more like the Teacup ride on crack, but he's got stuff to hang on to and he's not gonna lean over the rail, hey, look, it's a movie!
And Scorpy's digging around in his mind like a dentist and he finds Crichton's third-grade girlfriend and she kisses him again with her spitty pink tongue and her freckles and Scorpy's in there, digging around with the red '63 Mustang his father never let him drive and the time he was so drunk he slept in the bushes because he didn't remember about keys and his roommate kicked him awake in the morning on his way to work and Scorpy's shuffling through high school (it's a movie, Aeryn, it's a movie, remember?) and his first job at the garage and Crichton tries not to think about Gilina tries to forget her blond hair and her round little face, tries to forget her name, sing-thinks "Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?" instead because he can't let Scorpy have her, of all the things in his brain he can't let him have that, and Scorpy's MAD (hah! It's a movie, it's so totally a movie) which is satisfying and scary because Crichton thinks it's working and Scorpy can't find whatever it is he's looking for in there in the hot electric mush of his brain and the chair's vibrating and Scorpy's (he's in a movie and he's) leaning in real close, angry and yellow under his latex fun suit and Crichton can feel almost everything and the chair makes his heartbeat last forever with wire and needles and Crichton tries to focus on that too because he won't let this happen he won't get her and Scorpius is saying things but Crichton might be deaf because it just sounds like a hiss (it's a movie it's a movie) --
And he must have done something right because Scorpius doesn't get Gilina and she lives for a whole five arns more before she dies.
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ:
sabine101Author Website:www.grapefruithead.com/makiko/farscape.htm
Why this must be read:
Season 3, in it's darkness, in it's stories of longing and loss and really bad decisions is filled with moments where things could have shifted an inch here, and inch there, slid home instead of going off the rails. This isn't that story.
Instead it's John, left behind, lost in his head, in his ship, in space and in this universe that really has no pity left. He's stuck with Harvey, stuck with Scorpius and we're not always sure which is which. But then, neither is John.
This story is about the what happened then, and the what happened next, the ramifications of John's hubris and the lengths that Scorpius will go to in his own obsessions. And for all of that, it's no less a love story. the way love can break and bend and come back to save you, but only until you can stand on your own again.
It's also richly detailed with beautiful words, spinning images and lovely prose.
From Makiko's A new device is being tested:
Scorpius has promised him the coordinates for Earth, and it's an opportunity. Now. Now that Aeryn's left him. Make a family somewhere else. So Crichton and Harvey work on refitting the Farscape, bastardizing circuits and relays from the Charrid ship.
One night over dinner, Scorpius tells him about Braca leaving.
"She offered him things I could not," Scorpy says, and Crichton knows he means Grazer. "He is a model Peacekeeper. He deserves his new assignment." He sounds removed. Crichton nearly pities him.
"I'm sure it's nothing personal," he says, and he feels sick for saying it. "Unless it is."
"So tell me, John," Scorpius says, some days later. "Who was she? On the command carrier."
"What's it to you?"
Scorpy chuckles, hands John a couple more feet of dilax cabling. "I think I have a right to know the name of the young woman with whom we spent such a highly memorable evening."
Crichton stares at the circuit matrix, turns a few screws. "I don't think this goes here," he says, tugging a node free. "I think we need the internal circuitry live before we wire the guidance system."
Scorpius palms the leftover bolts. "You're in charge, Commander," he says. "I'm just along for the ride."
*
Spires, spines, cold steel -- not like virtual reality, he thinks, more like the Teacup ride on crack, but he's got stuff to hang on to and he's not gonna lean over the rail, hey, look, it's a movie!
And Scorpy's digging around in his mind like a dentist and he finds Crichton's third-grade girlfriend and she kisses him again with her spitty pink tongue and her freckles and Scorpy's in there, digging around with the red '63 Mustang his father never let him drive and the time he was so drunk he slept in the bushes because he didn't remember about keys and his roommate kicked him awake in the morning on his way to work and Scorpy's shuffling through high school (it's a movie, Aeryn, it's a movie, remember?) and his first job at the garage and Crichton tries not to think about Gilina tries to forget her blond hair and her round little face, tries to forget her name, sing-thinks "Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?" instead because he can't let Scorpy have her, of all the things in his brain he can't let him have that, and Scorpy's MAD (hah! It's a movie, it's so totally a movie) which is satisfying and scary because Crichton thinks it's working and Scorpy can't find whatever it is he's looking for in there in the hot electric mush of his brain and the chair's vibrating and Scorpy's (he's in a movie and he's) leaning in real close, angry and yellow under his latex fun suit and Crichton can feel almost everything and the chair makes his heartbeat last forever with wire and needles and Crichton tries to focus on that too because he won't let this happen he won't get her and Scorpius is saying things but Crichton might be deaf because it just sounds like a hiss (it's a movie it's a movie) --
And he must have done something right because Scorpius doesn't get Gilina and she lives for a whole five arns more before she dies.
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