The Man in Black and the Baker's Daughter by Sholio (PG)

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Rec Category: Original Character
Pairing: none
Category: Aiden Ford, original character, gen, episode related
Warning: none
Author on LJ friendshipper
Author's Website: City on the Ocean's Edge
Link: On website: The Man in Black and the Baker's Daughter
On livejournal: The Man in Black and the Baker's Daughter

Why This Must Be Read: After "The Hive" Sheppard is fairly reluctant to declare Ford dead, given his cat-like ability to get out of situations alive. Combine that with friendshipper's sensible opinion that if Lucius of "Irresistable" had six wives, it's unlikely he had no chlidren, and you get this story of the meeting of two outcasts.

Meet Bella, daughter of Lucius who, along with her mother and siblings, is shunned by her town after Lucius's deception is uncovered. While scavenging for wood in the forest, she stumbles across Ford - living on the run from enzyme pouch to enzyme pouch - and the two form a short-lived, interesting relationship.



The weather has been unseasonably beautiful this summer, but after the strangers' visit changes everything in town, the weather itself begins to change as well. Rain clouds roll in and for weeks a slow steady drizzle blankets the town. Slowly the seasons flow into autumn without the sun ever showing itself.

Bella's father was banished through the gate weeks ago. Some days Bella cares a great deal; on other days, she wonders why she cannot find it in her heart to care. She remembers loving her father so deeply that he was the sun in her sky. But when she tries to find that love now, there is only a vague resentment.

Maybe this is what it means to begin growing up.