SGA Drabble: Elizabeth, Interrupted

[michelel72]

Just a quick drabble, inspired by the comments at bratfarrar's slightly AU drabble on the same topic.

Title: Elizabeth, Interrupted
Spoilers/Timeline: Tag to 1x15 "Before I Sleep"
Info: Gen; all audiences; no warnings; angst
Archives: At Dreamwidth; At AO3


It takes Elizabeth a while to see what Janus's plan really meant. When she does, she wishes she hadn't.

Her other self, her first self, stepping into stasis when slightly younger than Elizabeth is now. Her other self emerging only twice — only long enough to rotate the ZPMs — before she was found by the current expedition, her body aging slowly and her mind unaware.

Her other self, aging from vitality to near-death in a period of subjective time that could be measured in minutes.

She hopes her other self never truly understood the Wraith, because the irony could cut glass.

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Comments

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks and sorry? It's weird, I didn't know I was so invested in them, but they do keep showing up with me. I don't know if the show just didn't think too hard about them or if they simply trusted the viewers to get the troubling ramifications.

ETA: Not meaning to make it all about me, of course. I was actually kind of glad about where you took the alt-timeline characters (especially after we discussed them) in your "Desperate Measures", just because I'd hate to picture what the alternative would be like for them, you know? (Being all vague so as not to spoil others.) And I think even that closure for that John about his Rodney, awful as it was for him, is better than not knowing would have been.

[writerjc.livejournal.com]

I thank you (no need for sorry). It was a good excercise for me to examine those alternatives and to really think about where those threads led. I think in the end that story was made better by those changes. So it boils down to you helping me to (hopefully) become a better writer. :)