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Sunday, July 12th, 2009 07:12 pm
My brain's slowly turning to mush thanks to a weekend with my parents and a two hour train journey home, so:

Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change -- something tiny or big -- and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story. (stolen from [personal profile] kazbaby
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009 06:56 pm (UTC)
Not a change I'd want to make, but one I'm curious about, if that's ok - Two Week's Leave - Evan decides not to go with Cam to the cabin.
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 06:57 pm (UTC)
erm, that was me. No idea why I'm not logged in.
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 07:28 pm (UTC)
Party Time. What if Cam had managed to find John again later that evening?
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 11:10 pm (UTC)
Obviously, I prefer to imagine something closer to the latter than the former.

Absolutely! (Though I will confess to a secret love for the right kind of self-sacrificing tragic story...just as long as I can find happy!fic to read afterward.)

This is a nicer future to imagine for John than the one he got. Though I wonder what effect it would have had on his relationship with his father...earlier estrangement, maybe? Or would Cam have managed to head that off altogether? (I tend to assume that the estrangement owed more to John's decision to pursue a military career than questions about John's sexual orientation--he did marry Nancy, after all--but Cam might have changed that. Either John would have cut himself off so they didn't find out, or his father would have found out, which probably wouldn't have had good results. And now I kind of want to read the story where John and Cam get together early in their careers (very quietly, of course, pre-DADT), and John doesn't tell his father, and then one day Patrick Sheppard shows up at John's apartment--or the hospital after John's been injured--and runs into Cam....)
Monday, July 13th, 2009 07:33 am (UTC)
(Cam & Patrick meet) And it's not just that his son has a gentleman friend AND thwarts his plans by going into and remaining in the Air Force, but his "partner" (insert sneer) isn't even one of them!
(Also known as: John isn't just rejecting everything Patrick has ever stood for, but now he knows that when John refuses to show up on holidays that he's going to some hovel with this man's enormous family!)


Although, I've always wondered if Patrick could meet Cam's family (if they were "clan mitchell"-crazy, Patriotic to the core, and ultimately accepting) if he would have reconciled (or maybe headded of the disaster that was their big fight) with John. A world where he isn't happy with John's life, but has accepted his son and let him know he loves him would be awesome. But considering how hard headded John is, I'm guessing the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Monday, July 13th, 2009 06:02 pm (UTC)
Although, I've always wondered if Patrick could meet Cam's family (if they were "clan mitchell"-crazy, Patriotic to the core, and ultimately accepting) if he would have reconciled (or maybe headded of the disaster that was their big fight) with John.

I'm not entirely sure that patriotic to the core would really have appealed to Patrick. Maybe the ultimately accepting would have won him over, but as you say, I think John gets his stubbornness from somewhere, so maybe not. And I'm really not sure he would have given them the chance.
Friday, July 24th, 2009 03:30 pm (UTC)
I was wondering about 'What happens Next?' How would you have changed that?
Friday, July 24th, 2009 05:19 pm (UTC)
I suppose... If you'd changed X, what would've happened? Like if John hadn't come to Cam immediately or something...