TITLE: Ways and Means
AUTHOR: Tiffany Park
STATUS: Complete
CATEGORY: Intrigue, Action/Adventure, Drama, Unabashedly AU
SPOILERS: Anything up to the end of Season Four
SEASON: Set in an AU timeline. God only knows when.
RATING: R
CONTENT WARNINGS: Profanity, graphic violence
SUMMARY: Major Carter has a run-in with an NID shadow operation, and encounters an old acquaintance.
ARCHIVE: Please ask
DISCLAIMER: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no money exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author. This story may not be posted elsewhere without the consent of the author.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: This story veers off into its own little universe after Season Three. It makes use of a few events from the fourth season, but other than that, no attempt is made to adhere to subsequent canon. Heck, my NID is actually competent, which makes this story wildly AU from the show's canon. *G* Read at your own risk. The town of Eddington, Montana, is completely fictional, so don't bother checking for it on the map. Or maybe the NID just made it disappear...
August 8, 2008 NOTES: Okay, this fic was written waaaay back at the end of SG1 Season 3. I tweaked it during S4 to make it fit in with the newer canon, and after that I just gave up on it. I'm sure it violates all kinds of post S4 canon. *G* You guys said post it as is, but I can never do that. The latest tweaking was pretty minimal, though. And without further ado, here we go...
October 24, 2015: More fic from ancient times, back when the sun first started shining, dirt was new, and dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Considering that this fic was originally written in Season 3 (2001/2002), there are an awful lot of deviations from the canon defined in later seasons, even more now than there were back when this was first posted to the Makepeace list at yahoogroups in 2008. For example, I gave Zero Point Energy (ZPE) technology to the Asgard, when on the show IIRC it was later revealed that the Ancients created that tech. A lot of things are also going to seem pretty dated, especially to younger readers. Are there any pay telephones left anywhere? Yeah, that's the kind of thing I'm talking about (though when this story was written they were still common, so would have been natural to the characters). I'm sure there are many, many others.
This is primarily a Sam-as-action-hero vehicle, intended to give her a different role than the usual shipper fantasy of "romance heroine" found in much fanfic of the time. However, because it was posted to the Makepeace list naturally I had to give him something to do. The first few chapters focus on him, and after that it is mostly Sam's show. The rest of SG-1 have small appearances. Just FYI.
There are a whole lot of dreadful action/spy movie clichés in this story. LOL.
If everything I've mentioned above doesn't distract or annoy you unduly, enjoy!