Newcomers: Captaincy (SGA; Cadman, OC; PG-13)

[scherryzade]

Title: Newcomers: Captaincy
Rating: PG-13, shading to R, language only, because even girl Marines swear...
Characters: Cadman, OC
Disclaimer: Not mine (except the mistakes, and the newcomers themselves), no harm meant.
Summary: Anna-Maria has been holding herself up by a thread since Ushant and Ordan - and the person who's there to see her fall is not

Comments

[julia_here]

I can't remember if I commented on your last story- this winter is a tough one in many ways, and in my case I'm still dealing with my husband's long complicated recovery from back surgery, which is a different kind of terror (although we're lucky in that, although we are in the US, we've got about as good as health care gets in this insane (lack of) system, and haven't been impoverished as well as massively inconvenineced and intermittantly scared out of our wits.

In any case, now that I've modelled myself on the story, I love this: I especially love that Laura assumes Collins is a sufficiantly normal and minor problem that he can be joked about.

Julia, I love the actress who plays her in everything I've seen her in, so loving Cadman goes without saying: you write her well.

[scherryzade]

Life, being unfair, doesn't have a decent appreciation of how much stress one can be put under :/

I've definitely put Jaime Newman on my list of people who should be getting more than 'single episode guest star' roles. I wasn't sure about Cadman's voice here, but that gave me an excuse to watch her episodes again :)

[gelbes_gilatier]

First of all: so sorry to hear about your sister and glad that she is better or will be. It is getting better now, right?

Also, about the story... I felt so bad, both for Laura and for Anna M... I actually think they put each other back together again. And I have a feeling Rodney was right... Atlantis is doomed now. Can we read more about the female officers' round table, please?

[scherryzade]

It's definitely getting better - she's still in hospital, and they're still doing tests to work out exactly what happened, but whatever it was, it's stopped :) (I don't think I'm going to be quite so sanguine about watching House in the future, tho')

I've been trying to work in the women officer's round table idea for a while - I tried it from Janel's pov, but I ended up taking that story in a different direction. It also features in the big bang that wasn't story, which hopefully I'll still get off the ground at some point, but that's from the guys' pov. Now I'm thinking I should try to do it from Teldy's pov, but I don't really have a voice for her. (I did think it contradicted Anna's opinion of Teldy in the earlier stories - that she's not comfortable being seen as responsible for the military women - but now I rather like that - she's taken responsibility, because it takes more than a Carter or two to make the SGC better or easier for women to navigate than the mainstream military)

Very good

[si_zilla]

Good story, excellent series. Any hope for more? In this series or just more SGA fic in your excellent action packed well characterised style?

Thank you for writing this.