sgarecfinders | Non-AU AUs... (Reply)

I have a rather specific request tonight.

You know those stories where you start off certain that the tale takes place in an alternate universe, but then the author manages to tie the story back to canon?

If you're not certain what I'm talking about, here are a few examples:

In Madison's Second Fiddle, we find out about an AU Rodney McKay, only to have canon!John show up to validate the original universe (and subsequently suck McKay into said canon universe).

In the Long Journey Home, by Skoosiepants, McKay is an author who writes science fiction novels about a mythical organization known as the SGC and mythical aliens like Teyla and Ronon. Then he finds out everything he's ever written is real when Ronon and the rest of the team show...

In And Be One Traveler, David Hewlett finds out that the Stargate universe exists when he wakes up there.

And in All These Places we Have Met, by toft_froggy, John chases a more-or-less amnesiac Rodney through alternate realities, trying to get him to remember the one to which they both belong.

So... looking for stories that seem to be completely original AU, but the author is actually messing with the reader. For whatever reason, canon shows up again; and canon usually ends up trumping the originally established reality...

Failing that, newer quantum mirror stories would be good. (*hums*... in an AU frame of mind, I guess...)

Thanks, all!