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....)
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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....)