Oh, and:

Nov. 1st, 2005 11:29 pm
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Ask me what happens after the end of any of my stories, and I'll tell you. Or guess. Or, well, something.

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Date: 2005-11-02 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kakodaimon.livejournal.com
Accursed html.

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Date: 2005-11-06 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com
Perhaps:

In this universe, Lennier doesn't leave to join the Rangers. He thinks about it, and even goes so far as telling Delenn he's thought about it, but somehow actually leaving would seem too much like a punishment and reward together, and either way he can't bear that. So he stays, and nothing changes, and he wonders when Sheridan will find out. Some days, he's tempted to tell him.

In better circumstances, Delenn would have noticed that Sheridan had guessed already. Sometimes she talks to him about prophecies, but only in very vague terms, and he doesn't know what it is she's looking for. Any time he gets close to guessing, she changes the subject anyway. It's only when she asks him whether he's still the same person who destroyed the Black Star that he begins to realise what her transformation meant to her; still, he doesn't ask what it is she doesn't want to have done, and she doesn't say.

She still sends Lennier to gather evidence on the Centauri, but that's more difficult when he can't hide it under Ranger training. He's away for longer and comes back hurt, and she divides her time between planning the attack on Centauri Prime and sitting with him in Medlab, trying to convince herself that this isn't Dukhat, the war isn't with Earth, and the past can't be the future. This almost works, until she finds out about the Drakh and sees what the Alliance ships have done to Centauri Prime.

Eventually she tries to tell Sheridan about the war, but he refuses to hear it; he knows enough to know he wouldn't be able to forgive her, and would rather not face that. And besides, they have an alliance to run. The Lennier thing annoyed him more, but still not enough to be furious with her. She hadn't realised before that conversation how much she'd been depending on him to leave Minbar and her for good once he found out. In the end she speaks to Draal about time in the abstract and hers in particular, and gets told without much room for debate that the only way she's going to repeat the past is by depending on her same prophecies to guide everything new she does, and that maybe it's time to live without any of them. Which isn't the best start to a future, but it's better than many.

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Date: 2005-11-07 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deborah-judge.livejournal.com
Fascinating!

This meme is producing some excellent writing!
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