Fractures by Tja_Rama (G)

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Title: Fractures
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Pairing: None; Gen
Rating: G
Length: Short
Author on LJ: tja_rama
Author Website: tja_rama
Why this must be read:

Author's Summary: It must be troubling for the god who loves you
To ponder how much happier you'd be today
Had you been able to glimpse your many futures.
Carl Dennis, The God Who Loves You

Half the fun of a fandom with such a monumentally screwy timeline is playing with it. And tja_rama does an excellent job exploring what was, what may have been, what will no longer be, and what it means to the future that is unfixed.

The contemporaneity frustrates him. Time doesn't work like this - whatever fix he sends back, it never touches him. It shouldn't touch him. And yet he looks in the mirror, and his face has changed, is always changing. Scars appear and disappear. Maybe he's making things worse.

Fractures