I didn’t like or care much about Harvey on the show, but this story makes me want to John to love him, even just a little.
Sea: He knows all about the sea. John is the water he lives in like a fish. Let’s go to the beach and have beer and watch the girls in their bikinis … but lately that line of thought always leads back to Aeryn.
Not that everything else doesn’t.
At the end of Promises, John lets Scorpius mess with his brain in the hope that it will rid him of Harvey. Here’s one way Harvey might have changed his mind.
“Am I supposed to have you in here forever, Harv? I’m never alone with you around. I never get any privacy, any space to myself.”
“You’re never lonely, either,” Harvey retorted. “You’re never standing alone against a threat, like you were the first time Scorpius put you in the Chair. I’ve always got your back, John. Even when I think it’s too dangerous and you shouldn’t be doing it, I’ve always tried to protect you. Doesn’t that make us friends? Buddies? Partners, at least?”
More than in any other fandom, good Farscape stories make me wish they were canon, and A Question of Trust is no exception. I’ve never been all that fond of Harvey, but I think the show passed up a great opportunity by keeping John’s relationship with him mainly antagonistic and confrontational.
Gen // PG // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100
Beginning immediately after John, Aeryn, D’Argo, and Rygel return to Moya after A Human Reaction, Chiana has some difficulty adjusting to being part of the crew—or even deciding if she wants to stay at all.
I have to say, it’s Chiana’s interactions with everyone on the ship, particularly Aeryn, that make this story so good.
This goes AU after Season 3. Aeryn leaves Moya, and returns, but she’s a little fuzzy on what’s happened in the meantime. When they finally figure it out, she and John attempt to retrieve something from Grayza’s command carrier, with less-than-ideal results.
I like this story, but I’m not sure I’d have bothered to recommend it if it weren’t for the awesome follow-up fics, all of which I liked better. Here are all the stories in the series:
Future’s End recounts the beginning and end of John’s time with Grayza. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that I like the original characters, especially the most important one, and I like getting to see a bit of Braca’s point of view and feelings about Crichton, something that will continue in the other stories.
Days of Future Past and A Shared Future are alternate versions of the same basic events, both set after John’s rescue from Grayza.
Future Interruptus is a companion to Future’s End, filling in the details of the time John was with Grayza, from her point of view. I suggest that this be read last, even though chronologically it takes place earlier, for a couple of reasons. The most important is that it’s simply a better story than any of the others, and I think the later stories suffer a bit in comparison. Unlike the others, Future Interruptus is a character piece; although it has a plot, the real focus is on Grayza and the relationship she (thinks she) has with John. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll take a good character-driven story over an equally good plot-driven one any day, and as an exploration of Grayza’s character, Future Interruptus is more than good; it’s superb.
(I’ve come to have more of an appreciation for her since I watched Rebecca Riggs, the actress who plays her, talk about Mele-On Grayza in clips from the Season 4 DVD on Youtube.)
Action // Darkfic // Het // NC-17 // Non-con // Romance // Top 100 // Underage Sex
This is a multi-part, in-progress AU spinoff from Unrealized Realities, exploring how John Crichton might have come to be a Peacekeeper Captain. Although it’s unfortunately not finished yet, the first two seasons (up until When the Chips are Down) are complete, and the latest update (The Devil You Know) was posted March 22, 2008, so it’s still being updated!
In Unrealized Peacekeeper, Tauvo Crais manages to avoid a collison with John’s module, so the escaping prisoners on Moya don’t bother to recapture John and Aeryn. Instead, John is put to work on wormhole tech by Captain Crais.
I love this story so much. The characterizations are wonderful, and so is the plot. It manages to be faithful to the big events of Farscape canon, while still telling its own story. If it’s ever complete, it may rival In the Company of Ghosts as my favourite Farscape story.
AU // Action // Gen // Het // R // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100
A straightforward summary won’t do this story justice, but it’s all I have to offer. John and Aeryn are captured and forced to work in a mine. While Aeryn takes care of them both, John has an identity crisis.
I was a little frustrated with the writing style as first, but by the end I knew it was the right way to tell this story.
It’s actually surprising I haven’t found more Farscape/SG-1 crossovers, especially since it seems I’m not the only one who got into SG-1 only because Ben Browder and Claudia Black joined the cast. (Or in my case, just Claudia Black, because I don’t think I’ve ever loved a fictional character the way I love Aeryn Sun.)
If you scroll down a bit, you’ll also find the awesome, and sad, Five times John wasn’t saved from Scorpius.
John’s immune system destroys his translator microbes, leaving him unable to communicate directly with any of the others.Set after Different Destinations but before Eat Me.
Action // Het // PG // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy
22 years after Bad Timing, a young woman finds out there’s a lot she never knew about her crazy father and her dead mother. I like the idea behind this series, although I find the execution a little rushed—it seems like a lot of important scenes were left out, leaving the character development a little sketchy. It’s still good, though, and I really hope it’s finished one day.
John teaches Aeryn to play checkers.
“It’s a game,” he said, watching her from the corner of his eye. “It teaches strategy. You’d like it, it’s like a battlefield without all the blood.”
Aeryn gave him a look that she hoped clearly expressed that a battlefield without blood was pretty frelling pathetic.
