And All the World Beneath
by jenn
Fandoms: Supernatural/Stargate: Atlantis
Codes: Dean Winchester, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen, Rodney McKay, Sam Winchester, AU
Rating: NC-17

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(er, for those who read this before? It's the sea one, just with a different title.)



Summary: Dean remembers Texas as blackland stretching in marker-thick strips of vivid brown and black, broken with the sprawling metroplexes of Dallas and San Antonio and Houston; farms spread with the yellow tops of maize waving in pre-autumn winds, threshers moving complacently through the fields with drowsy men in hats waving at the road. He remembers green and gold fields dotted with cows, half-year calves running on the outskirts of the herds. He remembers these were what he saw between jobs, lives being lived that had nothing to do with creeping twilight and sleeping only behind salt circles and ritual wards.

Author Notes: I have--a lot of people. [livejournal.com profile] samdonne issued the challenge back in January for a Dean meets John Sheppard that I couldn't--quite--get out of my head when I asked for prompts, which means I hit a record of answring four of my own prompts. My flist who pre-read and sometimes brutally critiqued (this I love you for), those who stuck around to the end and told me what they liked and what they didn't. [livejournal.com profile] cjandre, [livejournal.com profile] rheasilva, [livejournal.com profile] svmadelyn, [livejournal.com profile] eleveninches, and [livejournal.com profile] amireal who picked it to pieces and put it back together again. If I missed anyone, my apologies. I think pretty much everyone on my flist January through March who left such helpful and inspiring commentary seriously deserves some kind of award for watching me try to write the rough draft of a novel live.

Word Count: 67,061

ETA: there are some places separate paragraphs/dialogue--er, combined when coded. I can't access it from work, but I'll make the corrections to the HTML when I get home.
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From: [identity profile] eleveninches.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 06:40 am (UTC)
I'M SO HAPPY YOU POSTED IT. FINALLY.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:30 pm (UTC)
IT ONLY TOOK SIX MONTHS.

*blank look of exhaustion*

From: [identity profile] cold-poet.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 07:38 am (UTC)
Wait. You mean.

OMG I CAN REC IT NOW! \o/

(seriously, every time someone is all "Any good SGA/SPN fics?" I'm all "Jenn!...hasn't posted it yet. Damnit.")

I've been fighting wordpress all night, you seriously just MADE MY DAY.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:31 pm (UTC)
*grins and hugs* I'm glad.

Ooh, wordpress. I've--heard of it.

From: [identity profile] moojja.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 08:20 am (UTC)
I should be sleeping right now, but I'm reading your story instead. I love the Cthulhu mytho that you added to the story, that's my favorite part. The final fight was touching, it feels like the right ending for John.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:31 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

(I've bene waiting *years* to use Cthulhu. Many, many years.)
ext_230: a tiny green frog on a very red leaf (as in 'dotdotdot')

From: [identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 08:43 am (UTC)
I'm reading it - with glee, as I work, each paragraph a treat for having accomplished something of my boring task - and I'm noting the typos or beta stuff you did not ask me for as I go. Do you want them, or shall I hold my tongue? I know how annoying it can be to get the 'hey, mistake here' stuff before the congratulatory feedback, so I don't want to send it and catch you unawares.

I don't do this for fiction I don't love, though, that's the congratulatory part. *g* I trust you to give me a ride I'll remember a long, long time. :))

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 01:09 pm (UTC)
*grins* Go ahead and send them.

From: [identity profile] red-estelle.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 10:13 am (UTC)
i'm so overwhelmed right now i just have to say thanks for writing and sharing this. hotdamn.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:32 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much! *bounces*

From: [identity profile] cetpar.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 10:54 am (UTC)
SGA and SPN are my two favorite fandoms right now so when I saw you had posted this, I had to stay up and read it. I'm glad I did because this was excellent. Creepy as hell and completely riveting. The premise behind the story was intriguing: I kept wanting to read faster so I could figure out what was going on, but I also wanted to read slowly so that I could savor it. I thought your characterizations of Dean, John, Teyla, and Ronon were fantastic.

I also wasn't expecting you know what to happen at the end, so I literally shouted 'Yes!' out loud.

I really enjoyed this. Thanks!

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:34 pm (UTC)
Thank you very, very much.

To be honest, I was debating whether to use the epilogue or not. I just--prefer happy endings. *g*

Thanks again!

From: [identity profile] trish786.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 11:19 am (UTC)
That was brilliant!! I loved the interactions between Sheppard and Dean.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:35 pm (UTC)
Thanks very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
aurora: (SGA JohnRodney Big Damn Heroes)

From: [personal profile] aurora Date: 2007-08-08 11:25 am (UTC)
Yaaaaay, congrats on finishing!!

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:36 pm (UTC)
God, I know. I had this horrible feeling it would be on my hard drive forever.

*hugs*

From: [identity profile] thisisbone.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 11:53 am (UTC)
I'm so excited I think I might have peed a little!

*heads off to print*

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:36 pm (UTC)
*chokes and laughs*

From: [identity profile] miss-porcupine.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 12:05 pm (UTC)
I will re-read now that it's been ironed and put together in one piece, but having been lucky enough to see the story in progress... I will tell you (once more) that this is an awesome tale. Grand in scope, clever in execution, and it totally raises the bar as far as cross-overs go. And I'm very happy it's in a public place now so I can point and rec.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:37 pm (UTC)
*eyes it* I think it's ironed. though halfway through, all the Johns because johns and completely freaked me out. I want to be home to *fix it* so much.

*hugs* Thank you very much. Theonly thing I hope for at this point is I didn't massacre the poor thing.

From: [identity profile] ltlj.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 12:45 pm (UTC)
Yay, it's posted!

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:37 pm (UTC)
*laid out under desk* And it only took--*checks watch*--five months. Gah.
ext_230: a tiny green frog on a very red leaf (domestica africa antartica atlantica ero)

From: [identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 01:11 pm (UTC)
OKAY. YOU ATE MY DAY! Kinda like The Old Ones eat people. *finally finished*

*eyes work* Well, that didn't get done. *shrugs* Oh, who cares.

I was trusting you, duh, and I was - not amazingly - kinda right to. What a fucking ride, man. The fic wot will eat your head! SO great, omg. Kind of impossible to say how much, it just makes me flail with glee. It made me cry! It made me grin! It was WAY, WAY better than cats, and whoa, the bits Into Teh Woods are so cool. All of it. Jesus. What a fucking page turner. *plans to reread real soon, too*

I feel like I need an icon for awe, for this kind of circumstance.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:40 pm (UTC)
*bouncy* You liked!

Got your comments--I'm going back to fix all the weird lowercase john's tonight (ask me how much that freaked me out when I saw it this morning. Outright. Panic), so I'll make those corrections as well. And you know, anything else you belatedly remmber seeing, should you see anything.

(FIVE PLACES THE HTML SLAMMED LINES TOGETHER. NO I AM NOT IN A LOW KEY PANIC AT ALL)

*chews nails*

*hugs you* thank you so much.

*thoughtful* Honestly, I'm surprised people are *reading* when it's this long and you know, mid-week. Thanks for posting so quickly--I've been tense about it for--er, since *March*.

From: [identity profile] perseid.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 01:23 pm (UTC)
♥ ♥ ♥ I have no words *LOVES*

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:41 pm (UTC)
thankyou! I'm very glad you enjoyed it!

(hmm. I'll check your IP to see why you can't get to IT. If you need any other fic that's there, just email me and I'll happily email it to you. A complete index of my fic, both webpage and lj, is http://del.icio.us/indulgence_it).
writerlibrarian: Sheppardin golden tones (Sheppard by riekchen)

From: [personal profile] writerlibrarian Date: 2007-08-08 01:33 pm (UTC)
Been reading since 7 am (am very glad I'm on vacation), just stopped to make myself breakfast and read all the way to the end.

I liked it a lot. Coherent and just twisted enough that all the parts fit. I guessed the end. Couldn't be anything else. Loved your Dean. Just, yeah. Very in character.

Thanks for a wonderful 2 and half hours of very good escapism.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:42 pm (UTC)
thank you!

I stressed over Dean. Watching the show isn't the smae as writing him--I think of all the characters, he got the most worrying about.

I'm very glad you enjoyed it!

From: [identity profile] soho-iced.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 01:42 pm (UTC)
Loved every word - thank you so much.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:42 pm (UTC)
thank you very, very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
kernezelda: (spn Dean slowly turns)

From: [personal profile] kernezelda Date: 2007-08-08 02:47 pm (UTC)
Your novel being posted fills my day with yay! Good stuff, Jenn.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:42 pm (UTC)
*bounces and hugs* thanks!
ext_3629: blue wallpaper, leafy pattern (misc- touch)

From: [identity profile] elizaria.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 03:02 pm (UTC)
Oh.. I started reading this when I'd finished with my work e-mails this morning. And basically this story swallowed my entire day. I'm just hoping teh customers at the information desk didn't find me too preoccupied.

This story is wonderful, so layered and thick with plot, descriptions characters and surprises it takes its time to read. I mean that in a good way. I've never read any Chthulu books actually (a crime, I know) so I'm not sure how much the ideas are woven into this. But for me it was all fresh and new apocalyptic world, the sacrifices and the intrigues of the psychics and the plot that you never lost track of.

Your Dean wa slovely and I ached for him missing Dean. At first I thought he was dead and I was so glad to find out he'd been banned to Canada :D by his own brother. Hee! I loved that solution for why Sam couldn't come back for him.

John and his lost little family, you really did manage to show they were missing a person without overtelling it. And Dean's POV on them and finding out in bits and pieces was really well done and not... over explaining (?) which I often come across in crossovers. Instead you trickled the informaton in gaps throughout the whole and it made a beautiful story.

Complete and utter love, and I was this close to start crying at the end even if I hoped he'd come back post-ascended. Because the way you wrote it, Rodney's and Dean's feelings are so in your face you just fall with them.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:46 pm (UTC)
I've never read any Chthulu books actually (a crime, I know)

Giant vagina-metaphorish multidimensionalish monster who dislikes Euclidian geometry. The name, though, is *so cool*.

*hugs*

Thanks so much! I"m very glad you enjoyed it!

*quiet squeeing that this story was not met with resounding silence*

From: [identity profile] mellyna.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 03:29 pm (UTC)
Absolutely wonderful. The presence of Rodney and Sam was felt throughout the whole thing, even with them not being there. (if that makes sense) Truly a great story. Thanks so much for writing this.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:47 pm (UTC)
thank you very much! *hugs*

From: [identity profile] kelly-girl.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 04:26 pm (UTC)
Beautiful story and I am in awe of your story weaving ability. Loved this and it had me laughing and crying and then feeling teary again at the end. Of course that would happen. Thank you for a great story.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:50 pm (UTC)
*hugs* thank you very, very, *very* much. I'm bouncing that it was enjoyed!
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From: [identity profile] summertea.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 04:31 pm (UTC)
*clutches chest* hg;lkj;lasd this was like a COMPLETE EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER that just KEPT ON GOING.

oh lordy.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:52 pm (UTC)
*bounces and squees* Thank you!
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From: [personal profile] amalthia Date: 2007-08-08 04:49 pm (UTC)
I'm reccing this today! I'm so glad you posted this. :)

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:55 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much!

(I am too. God, it's off my harddrive finally.)
ext_1880: (OMFG)

From: [identity profile] lillian13.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 05:59 pm (UTC)
So glad you finished this--the little snippets you'd posted were very tantalizing.

I love, love, love how you blended traditional mythology with local mythology with really-fucked-up Lovecraftian mythology. How the local bad guys were so scared they helped John out. Loved the cracked-out Sam and Daniel (John is so lucky O'Neill wasn't around), and of course our old friends the Gou'aould (sp).

I sure hope Dean gets the courage to go after Teyla...can you say smokin' hot?

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:56 pm (UTC)
Thank you so much!

(I seriously loved myth-mixing. That was a total blast. *happy*)
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From: [personal profile] swordage Date: 2007-08-08 08:06 pm (UTC)
I-I. I saw Seperis and SGA/SPN and NC-17 and clicked because that is really all I need to know before diving into a story and. And. I HAVE BEEN BLINDLY SOBBING AND THEN IT WAS ALL OKAY. I feel drained and empty and I want to cry MORE out of sheer joy, and I want to cuss you out for being so damned good at what you do, and it was just so! WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS. Neither can caps lock. I. This was so incredible. Thank you so, so much. I just. Thank you. And extra thanks for the ending, god, I can just imagine - Sam is so perfect, so home, and it was just. Perfect. And exactly what I needed after everything else.

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 09:58 pm (UTC)
I actually was debating whether to use the epilogue and just leave them pre-roadtrip-to-Canada (I was actually contemplating the terrifying fact this story is, in fact, a roadtrip fic. They even eat beef jerky!). I'm glad the ending worked so well.

*hugs*

From: [identity profile] aunjunee.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 10:04 pm (UTC)
Really good fusion of the two universes. I could feel the bleakness of Dean's world and my heart ached for each and every one of the characters. But I loved, LOVED, your ending. I was not sure how you were going to end the story, but I wasn't expecting a happy ending. and of course...how can the story be complete without a mention of the beloved Impala?:)
Well Done!

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 11:25 pm (UTC)
Thank you very much!

I liked bringing them together. It was a lot of fun.

From: [identity profile] tropes.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 10:21 pm (UTC)
OMG I HAVE NEVER WATCHED SPN. Will I get it?

From: [identity profile] seperis.livejournal.com Date: 2007-08-08 11:25 pm (UTC)
*thoughtful* Yeah, Ithink so. one of my betas hadn't seen SPN either. If you know there are two brothers in Supernatural, one is Dean, one is Sam, and Sam is a psychic? You're good.
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