FIC: Graceland (Alpha Centauri 8)

[hth]

Graceland
8/8 in the Alpha Centauri series
by Hth

IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I haven't been able to update my website effectively recently, so this story is in text format for now. Eventually, this will change, so if you want to link to it for any reason, *please* link to this post. That way I can update here when I can, and you won't get stuck with a dead link. Thank you!

SPOILERS!
Obviously for everything in the Alpha Centauri series, and for much of season 2, and for season 3's "Sateda." Lots of spoilers for season 3's "Sateda." (Oh, and PTB? Thanks a whole freaking lot for sticking me with an entirely new character at the eleventh hour. Kisses.)

WARNINGS!
This story contains possibly inappropriate instances of: Ghostbusters, black & tan, yoga, knives, Blue Hawaii, mommy issues, daddy issues, song lyrics, sodomy, emotional core-dumps, fake alien words, minor characters, Rodney's sad eyes, and the Bible.

AUTHOR'S NOTE!
This story is dedicated to all the people who said, "I don't see how you're going to resolve this." Turns out, you'd be amazed what a mere 33,067 words can accomplish....
More particularly, this is dedicated to thisisbone, who drove all the way to North Carolina to buy me lunch and beg me not to break her heart with this ending. She has both excellent taste in tall, dark alien men and a touching faith in my nobler nature, and is one hell of a writer, to boot.

Alpha Centauri is a trinary star system composed of a primary pair of yellow dwarfs (Alpha Centauri A and B) gravitationally bound to an outlying red dwarf (Proxima Centauri). These stories are a lot like that.

Comments

[apatheia-jane.livejournal.com]

I used to be ridiculously excited every time a new Alpha Centauri fic was posted, but after the last one, I was almost dismayed to see this post, because not only was this probably the last time I'd ever read a new alpha-cen chapter, I was sure this was going to be the chapter where you utterly & irrevocably leave jagged edges where friends & lovers used to be, & as I'm currently both depressed & undergoing relationship trauma, I really didn't think I could handle you crushing that lingering hope that they could all just get along.

I'm so very glad I didn't have to go through that, I'm so ecstatic that while you can't just fix them, you did get them in balance, somehow. It wasn't remotely what I was expecting, either from initial thoughts after the first 3, or the drastically altered expectations after the way the 7th went down, but to a whole new place that is both harsher & more beautiful than I thought it could be.

Thankyou for these, and I will be reccing this hard as soon as I can. I've already mini-babbled on my lj, couldn't help it.