fic: Alpha Centauri 7.5 -- Mutual Thing

[hth]

Mutual Thing
by Hth
part of the Alpha Centauri series

NOTES AND WHATNOT: I can't finish the freaking series until the new season starts, not so much because I'm afraid canon will screw me up (it always does, so why sweat it?), but because there's stuff coming up that fits so well into what I planned to do with 8 that it would be a crime not to use it. Meanwhile, it occurred to me that at the end of 7, I said some things were going to happen that, on further reflection, y'all might like to actually see happen, rather than just take my word for it. Thus, this bright and uplifting little breakup story, which takes place shortly before "Michael" and contains very minor spoilers for that episode and for "The Tower," as well as a whole mess of references to everything previous to this in the Alpha Centauri universe. Seriously, don't even think about starting with this one.

Comments

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

All breakups, I think, are inherently terrible in essentially the same way. Who doesn't know that feeling? As for Rodney.... I think that he's just so freaking honest and out-there with his feelings himself that it never even *occurs* to him that John could be feeling things he's keeping from people. He's socially retarded, and John is a paranoid, withholding crazy person, and they don't know it, but they're actually fortunate they have me managing their love lives, because in reality they'd *never* make it. *g*

[turtlespeaks.livejournal.com]

Seriously, someone need to make that "Therapy, John. Therapy!" icon for us all!

Honestly, where would these characters be without us? ;)