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Finish-a-thon story: Legacy

Yes! I finished my finish-a-thon story! Many thanks to astrogirl2 for her as ever excellent beta-reading and reassurance that it worked. :-D

Each writer provided a selection of unwritten stories for people to vote for, and for me they chose yet more PGP angst with Vila and Avon--and Cally.

Story: Legacy
Fandom: Blake's 7
Description: Vila is in a cell on Gauda Prime and not going anywhere--he thinks. He's ill, weak, and feverish, he has no tools to pick the lock and no will to do so anyway because he's given up on life as just being not worth the effort any more. Then Cally appears and she's real--in a rather strange way. Vila finds out there's more to himself than he knew, and Avon gets a second chance.
Type: Gen
Rating: PG13

And here it is:

Legacy

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A beautiful and hopeful story. Both Avon and Vila find peace with themselves and each other. They both assume roles of their own chosing rather than ones they have to take up because they had no other choice. Cally comes back and helps them.

Wonderful story! Loved it! And Vila gets a cat!

Vila gets a cat? Ahhh, you must have got in before I fixed the link. It was pointing at 'Silent and Alone' where Vila at first refuses to speak because I copied that post. Bum, that link was only wrong for a couple of minute or so. :-p

'Legacy' does however also have lots of Vila, Avon, and Cally.

Yes I was wondering about the title. Okay. I will go read 'Legacy' now.

Sorry about the link mistake. Serves me right for posting while exhausted, but hey, I'm glad you liked the other story.

You might also like the first finish-a-thon one I did, The Hand of Friendship (http://www.farsight.net.nz/fiction/hand.htm). I write a lot of Avon and Vila stories. :-)

I think The Hand of Friendship was one of the first one of yours I read.

Legacy - nice Avon and Vila interaction there. And a very nice way to bring Cally back.

Humourectomy hehe

A bit of a typo there "Avon stiffened ad turned around."

Thanks!

And I thought Astro and I had caught them all. :-P

What did I tell you! Definitely a corollary to Murphy's Law.

*hangs head in Shameful Beta fashion* :)

Eh, I didn't see it either. It's fixed now; no harm done.

I still find typos in old stories I revisit.

Yeah, I've had stories I've gone over at least ten times and given to three different betas and still found typos in them later.

Unusually I found it difficult to get into, but enjoyed it once I did

What made it hard to get into? I'd like to fix that if I can.

Yes! Lovely. No longer alone, any of them. 8-)

I like how Avon wouldn't let her in until he found a "rational" excuse.

And the idea at the end that making a lot of money would be a way of fighting the Federation... safer, anyway. 8-)

They'd actually be a very good security team, wouldn't they? What with Dayna weapons designer, Vila locksmith, Avon computer security, and Soolin the fast-draw...

Thank you! All the ideas came this week. I'm just so glad I got it finished in time (just).

I did have Vila and Soolin go into that business once. [looks it up] They had a company called 'Lock and Load'. :-D

And now I must read the other stories: a treat for tomorrow's breakfast before I go out for the day. I think I'm too tired to do them justice tonight, but I especially look forward to yours and Astro's.

You know, I had to smile a bit reading yours, because bits of it reminded me of mine! Not in any specific way or anything. I just find it amusing that we both wrote about characters being friends with the voices in their heads. Not that that's terribly unusual for me. :)

No, because you have them yourself! All I get is short film clips.

Right, I have an hour to read some stories before I go out. Yours is first. Oh and nice icon!

As I remember saying once, even the voices in my head have voices in their heads. :) And the icon is by

rydra_wong. Is it not cool?

Have a good weekend!

Wonderful fic! It needs sequels. Lots of sequels.

Ahhh, I'd have to think of them first. It took me till this week to know where this one was going! But thank you! I'm so glad it worked. :-D

For a moment I read that as 'It needs seagulls. Lots of seagulls."

Which was very puzzling.

It's usually penguins in B7 for some strange reason. (And in Drake's Venture but I believe they're canon there.)

Lovely fic!

Thank you!

Have you incorporated a Friday Ficlet or two in that, I'm sure I recognise a couple of paragraphs. The story as a whole is new and a Happy Ending. :-)

I do like happy endings.

Well spotted! The prequel on Terminal, Legacy (http://community.livejournal.com/b7friday/231217.html), was specifically written for this story in the hopes I'd write the rest one day. However I'd only ever had half of it in my mind. Stuck for where to go next, I decided to incorporate the idea in Cat and Mouse (http://community.livejournal.com/b7friday/157283.html), which I only had to change a little to set on GP instead of Xenon.

When I started, I had no idea that Cally had actually succeeded in reaching Blake, but when I decided to give Avon a second chance, it all fell into place.

And yes, this one does give a happy ending to both of the

b7friday ones, a nice bonus. :-)

Another good story that. It's nice to read a PGP that has an affermative ending.

I too liked that Avon had to find a rational reason before he could let Cally into his head, and it's a good explanation of the Auron curse - "May you die alone and silent".

I also loved the description of Servalan smiling 'creamily'. It's a great description for her.

Thanks! It was odd, once I got the idea, how well that curse fitted.

I'm glad 'creamily' had the same feel for you. I hesitated about using it.

Maybe it's because Servalan is so good at that 'cat who got the cream' look ?

Yes; I'd say she was a Persian but her fur's too short. Soolin's very much a white Persian though. :-)

Good story I love Avon's rationalisation of letting Cally in.
Nice idea with Servie putting commands in Avon's head. It does explain why she kept turning up like the proverbial bad penny.
Perhaps Avon may even win now he's stopped fighting the Federation Blake's way and started using his brains instead.
oh ding dong the witch is dead!!

Still a couple of typos.
finally stopping at the window, which was already showing the grey light of approaching down. down?
Servalan felt a hill touch her. "You're bluffing." hill?
(that one made me giggle which ruined the tension at that point.)

Fixed.

Yes, I'm sure Avon could make a lot more trouble for the Federation his way.

I love it, absolutely love it. I'm so glad that you found a good way to have Cally back with them, and to give Avon a chance to heal things over with Vila and the rest of them. And Servalan's gone for good--YAY!! :D

Thank you! [points at icon] Servalan so outlived her welcome in S4. She's going at the end of my 'big PGP', still a WIP, too.

A great story, I enjoyed reading it. :D

Thank you! I am gradually whittling my unfinished backlog down. :-D

Just catching up after being away. Loved this story. Vila is a real hero.

I think he is anyway: he's a lot braver than me. He's scared but he acts anyway, like Rodney on SGA. :-)

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