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[bluflamingo]

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 kazbaby

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oh, man!

[peachville]

(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.

Re: oh, man!

[skieswideopen]

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.

Re: oh, man!

[bluflamingo]

I love the idea of John and his father and brother having a good relationship, I just have a really hard time imagining it if he's with Cam. I can see the big fight and serious estrangement never happening, because John doesn't have that need to push against his father to get any kind of reaction, because he has Cam's family instead, who love him a lot, and so they drift apart rather than having a serious fight. Trouble is, we only really know John's dad through the very little John says about him, and given that my sister and I have wildly divergent views of what our father's like, it's probably debatable how accurate that is, and maybe he actually would have got along fine with Cam's parents and everything would have been ok. Which, actually, I would love to see someone write *well*.