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Entry tags:
Pushing Daisies/Eureka (PG-13)
Title: We Seek Only to Answer
Pairing: Ned/Chuck, but basically gen
Length: 5600
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
black_eyedgirl
Author Website: fic tag at LJ
Why this must be read:
I know we're only supposed to rec one crossover per month, but considering that neither I nor anyone else will ever get another chance at it, I simply couldn't resist sharing this gem. (Also, I only discovered it in the past week.) The scientists in Eureka attempt to explain Ned's ability. This fic clashes the fairy tale logic of Ned's magic finger with a colder reality, and raises some interesting questions in the process. On top of that, we get great character voices all around, and an excellent blending of the two shows' tones.
“Sixty seconds makes sense. Ninety-three seconds would be arbitrary. Sixty seconds is how long it takes to ask the questions. It’s one full passage of a second hand and that makes sense to me. You don’t get more than that without giving something else up.”
Nathan looked at her. “By that you mean the proximate death.”
“Yes!”
“That’s just another thing that makes no sense.”
“It does.” And she was near tears now, trying to make him understand. Chuck touched the crook of his elbow, very lightly, in a plea. “It does. It’s just how it works. The universe needs a balance. Isn’t that science? Conservation of… something?”
“It’s the first law of thermodynamics. ‘Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another’.”
“See?”
“That doesn’t mean…”
“Intuitively,” Chuck persisted. “It makes sense. You don’t get to bring a life from nowhere. You make a new one, you have to take one. Ned’s allowed a little grace period, but after that it’s stuck until he does it again.”
Taggart interrupted them. “Laws of nature, Stark. Start interfering with those there’s no telling what’ll happen.” He pointed at Chuck, and Nathan cursed once again that Taggart was too good a scientist to be thrown out for insanity. Taggart said, “Your boy’s a black hole. Everything around him goes hinky and the universe doesn’t like it.”
Nathan was starting to think Carter might have been right to try and stop the spread of this revivalist nonsense. Nothing with so direct an effect on the world could be so hidden from scientific testing. They would find the evidence soon enough. He told Chuck so: “The universe doesn’t care about Ned. We do.”
She shook her head. “You only care about figuring out how he does it.”
“It’s important that we know. This could be the most important biomedical breakthrough since-”
Chuck snapped, “Stop trying to explain him out of the world.”
We Seek Only to Answer
Pairing: Ned/Chuck, but basically gen
Length: 5600
Author on LJ:
black_eyedgirlAuthor Website: fic tag at LJ
Why this must be read:
I know we're only supposed to rec one crossover per month, but considering that neither I nor anyone else will ever get another chance at it, I simply couldn't resist sharing this gem. (Also, I only discovered it in the past week.) The scientists in Eureka attempt to explain Ned's ability. This fic clashes the fairy tale logic of Ned's magic finger with a colder reality, and raises some interesting questions in the process. On top of that, we get great character voices all around, and an excellent blending of the two shows' tones.
“Sixty seconds makes sense. Ninety-three seconds would be arbitrary. Sixty seconds is how long it takes to ask the questions. It’s one full passage of a second hand and that makes sense to me. You don’t get more than that without giving something else up.”
Nathan looked at her. “By that you mean the proximate death.”
“Yes!”
“That’s just another thing that makes no sense.”
“It does.” And she was near tears now, trying to make him understand. Chuck touched the crook of his elbow, very lightly, in a plea. “It does. It’s just how it works. The universe needs a balance. Isn’t that science? Conservation of… something?”
“It’s the first law of thermodynamics. ‘Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another’.”
“See?”
“That doesn’t mean…”
“Intuitively,” Chuck persisted. “It makes sense. You don’t get to bring a life from nowhere. You make a new one, you have to take one. Ned’s allowed a little grace period, but after that it’s stuck until he does it again.”
Taggart interrupted them. “Laws of nature, Stark. Start interfering with those there’s no telling what’ll happen.” He pointed at Chuck, and Nathan cursed once again that Taggart was too good a scientist to be thrown out for insanity. Taggart said, “Your boy’s a black hole. Everything around him goes hinky and the universe doesn’t like it.”
Nathan was starting to think Carter might have been right to try and stop the spread of this revivalist nonsense. Nothing with so direct an effect on the world could be so hidden from scientific testing. They would find the evidence soon enough. He told Chuck so: “The universe doesn’t care about Ned. We do.”
She shook her head. “You only care about figuring out how he does it.”
“It’s important that we know. This could be the most important biomedical breakthrough since-”
Chuck snapped, “Stop trying to explain him out of the world.”
We Seek Only to Answer