Wow this is excellent and it fits into the verse perfectly. Love the gradual progression of Sam's life and criminal career. Step by step he gets in deeper especially when he could have had the chance to be something else. Wonderfully written.
Dammit, I can't think of words expressive enough to relate how I feel about this story.
It is so bleak but it also beautifully written. I can physically feel the atmosphere you are trying to create. How Sam has become such a completely different person than he was meant to be. The victim has now become the victimizer.
I don't want to see it ending this way exactly, but damn it you make me believe and that makes me miserable... and really happy all at the same time. Such a lovely piece of writing about a not terribly lovely life.
The bit about the murder that isn't really a murder is just a master stroke quite frankly.
*Just gob smacked frankly*
Thank you *wanders of in desperate search of fluffy angora bunnies*
OMG, I know exactly what you mean. Which is why the official alternative ending with the house and the picket fence and the weepy lovemaking over the kitchen table is my preferred ending.
But then one of my favorite things about this 'verse is how they made us all physically yearn for Gene to 'come to his senses' in a way that so brilliantly paralleled what Hookerverse!Sam was feeling.
And yes, fluff is just what the doctor ordered after this mess.
It's NOT a mess, not in the slightest. It is brilliant and plausible and disturbing and marvelous. The Evil Twins love child is not a compliment I'd throw around lightly.
The fuzzy fan girl in me (the one who lives neck deep in my brain lint)wants to believe that the truth lies somewhere between Andy's response to the 1fiandyfic"> romance language challenge and this. You know, the same silly bint that kept hoping Gene would show up in your story despite knowing better.
hookerverse epilogueamproofAugust 20 2008, 15:29:49 UTC
Wow. What a beautiful and intense epilogue. There were many times when it was difficult to continue reading because of that intensity, but I was sucked in completely and had to push forward. You've created an utterly believable, heartbreaking coda for the story that is, in its way, a sort of triumph for Sam, a twisted happy ending and perhaps an ultimately ironic one as he learns to use his hated skills to be better and kinder to his gang than anyone was to him. But still, the darkness that pervades this, the threat that he could go under completely, the faith that he won't... Amazing. Thank you.
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*You* are amazing.
I'm pretty much speechless.
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Speechless is good.
Aw, now your icon has gone and given me warm fuzzy Gene/Sam cravings.
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And on a shameful note, I couldn't find a single SG1 icon to respond to yours with - I am unfit to call myself a true fangirl.
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That's ok I have recently rediscovered my SG1 love and found this picture. Jack/Daniel were my first slash pairing many many many many years ago.
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It is so bleak but it also beautifully written. I can physically feel the atmosphere you are trying to create. How Sam has become such a completely different person than he was meant to be. The victim has now become the victimizer.
You have done a stunning job.
Thank you!
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That's... wow, thanks so much for taking the time to write such ego heart-warming feedback. I'm a little overwhelmed by everyone's response!
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I don't want to see it ending this way exactly, but damn it you make me believe and that makes me miserable... and really happy all at the same time. Such a lovely piece of writing about a not terribly lovely life.
The bit about the murder that isn't really a murder is just a master stroke quite frankly.
*Just gob smacked frankly*
Thank you *wanders of in desperate search of fluffy angora bunnies*
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But then one of my favorite things about this 'verse is how they made us all physically yearn for Gene to 'come to his senses' in a way that so brilliantly paralleled what Hookerverse!Sam was feeling.
And yes, fluff is just what the doctor ordered after this mess.
Thanks!
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The fuzzy fan girl in me (the one who lives neck deep in my brain lint)wants to believe that the truth lies somewhere between Andy's response to the 1fiandyfic"> romance language challenge and this. You know, the same silly bint that kept hoping Gene would show up in your story despite knowing better.
Again, thank you!
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