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Ask Me Tomorrow by Laura Folden (PG-13)
Fandom: FARSCAPE
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website:?
Why this must be read:
John returning to Earth is an irresistable scenario, one that the actual series writers couldn't even resist, and when it's done well, it produces a tight, angsty story about the why you can't go home again. There are two different versions of this story, one told in a linear narrative and one told in a serious of memories with the realtime events unfolding around them. I prefer the linear version, although I think I'm in the minority.
Regardless, Ask Me Tomorrow takes John and Aeryn back to Earth in the first season, not long after A Human Reaction. The two are uneasy with each other, uneasy with being on Earth, and just as they are starting to relax, to trust each other and really explore their options, things go wrong very quickly. They're seperated, and things progress from there.
The story uses the characters beautifully, without sentiment or melodrama, playing on the fears that John reveals in A Human Reaction without completly villifying Earth's response to an alien presence, and the bonds between John and Aeryn, are drawn as very real, but tentative, silk thin and uncertain. The original character is believable and well conceived and the whole thing ends on an ambiguous, if hopeful note that fits the tone of the series very well.
So, Ask Me Tomorrow by Laura Folden.
ETA: And here is the alternate version, which upon rereading it, seems to have several scenes that other one doesn't, Ask Me Tomorrow (Memories Version)
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website:?
Why this must be read:
John returning to Earth is an irresistable scenario, one that the actual series writers couldn't even resist, and when it's done well, it produces a tight, angsty story about the why you can't go home again. There are two different versions of this story, one told in a linear narrative and one told in a serious of memories with the realtime events unfolding around them. I prefer the linear version, although I think I'm in the minority.
Regardless, Ask Me Tomorrow takes John and Aeryn back to Earth in the first season, not long after A Human Reaction. The two are uneasy with each other, uneasy with being on Earth, and just as they are starting to relax, to trust each other and really explore their options, things go wrong very quickly. They're seperated, and things progress from there.
The story uses the characters beautifully, without sentiment or melodrama, playing on the fears that John reveals in A Human Reaction without completly villifying Earth's response to an alien presence, and the bonds between John and Aeryn, are drawn as very real, but tentative, silk thin and uncertain. The original character is believable and well conceived and the whole thing ends on an ambiguous, if hopeful note that fits the tone of the series very well.
So, Ask Me Tomorrow by Laura Folden.
ETA: And here is the alternate version, which upon rereading it, seems to have several scenes that other one doesn't, Ask Me Tomorrow (Memories Version)