Colonel Sumner

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Righty-ho. My google-fu has failed me and so I come to you guys for help :-D

I'm looking for any fics where Colonel Sumner survives somehow. Maybe Sheppard saves him or he isnt the one taken by the Wraith. I think it would create a very interesting dynamic and would especially be interested in seeing hoe Sheppard would act under his command.

I looked back through several tags but couldn't find this request or any involving Sumner really. I dont mind if hes a bad commander, good commander, weird AU alien commander. Just any fics featuring Sumner please.

Thanks and btw I found deciding which tags to use really difficult for this :-S

Comments

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

Heteronormativity (http://www.alyse.info/sesa_files/heteronormativity.htm) by mad_maudlin. John/Teyla. PG-13, Mensaverse (Sumner: weeeeird commander).

Gun Safety (http://community.livejournal.com/undermistletoe/54035.html) by notpoetry. John/Rodney, NC-17 (Sumner: strict commander).

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Wow! That was fast, thanks. I'll be reading those shortly :-D

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Half A League Onward (http://smittywing.livejournal.com/392040.html#cutid1), Sheppard/Sumner, during Letters From Pegasus. I'm pretty sure she has a whole series of fics with Colonel Sumner in them, I think Sumner/Weir, but I could be wrong, since I don't read much het.

[aqualegia.livejournal.com]

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=35) by Tarlan has an alive Sumner in it.

[splitbeak.livejournal.com]

http://delicious.com/splitbeak/sumnerland has a couple of stories listed on it.

[vacilicamalfoy.livejournal.com]

Well, I remember stumbling upon someone's Delicious account, they had a tag called Sumnerland, and LOTS AND LOTS of stories with Sumner in charge of Atlantis. Unfortunately my computer skills are beyond sucky, and so when I tried to find it, all I found was this

http://movil.be/?s=delicious.p&tag=sumnerland

Try finding it on your own, you might have more luck not to mention skill!

[ratcreature]

I think there was a master list for Weir/Sumner somewhere, I think smittywing maintains it... *rummages through bookmarks*

Here: http://smittywing.livejournal.com/353200.html#cutid1

She posts Sumner fic too in which he survives: http://smittywing.livejournal.com/tag/weir/sumner

I think my favorite Sumner-survives AU is Expeditionary Conditions, by Domenika Marzione, though:
http://miss-porcupine.livejournal.com/135261.html

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

I dont read much het either. I think I'm a bit more of a slash girl, but then again some of my favorite fics are het.
Thank you!

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'll get right on reading that! :-D

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! My only problem now is finding the time to read all this fic. Thank you.

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

I didn't need to. Splitbeak found it for us :-D
Thanks anyway!

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Wow thank you! I'll add them onto my reading list :-D

[asugar.livejournal.com]

There is in fact a large genre of this fic convention. Smittywing has a ton of it and some of the best. There's a missporcupine fic where he survived in an AU and comes through the gate to ours.

I think if you used delicious you would find a ton. I have a few tagged:

http://delicious.com/asugar/ColSumner

Also check stargateficrec.

Area 52 has quite a bit of Sumner slash if that is your thing.

[vacilicamalfoy.livejournal.com]

Ok, I feel a little stupid now. Splitbeak must have posted her reply while I was still searching for that stupid tag!
However, while her (or his, I don't know) bookmarked stories are great, her page wasn't the one I was referring too. There's someone out there with PAGES of alive!Sumner fics, and I remember this distincly because I found one of my favourite fics on it.
http://dejabu.robot-army.org/sgaroads.html
AU, probably not what you(re looking for, John is a botanist, Sumner is the military commander.

[kirinin.livejournal.com]

Let's see... there's That Which is Always Present (http://offpanel.net/dmz/sga/always_present.html), in which the wormhole opens, and out spills: Lieutenant Aiden Ford. Sgt. Markham. Torren of the Athosians. And Colonel Sumner. Quite well-done.

In Speaking for the Dead (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_flashfic/626883.html?view=24948163#t24948163) Sumner is present in an out-of-the-ordinary capacity. "Sumner knows how to work the reverse psychology angle, making Sheppard wonder if he'd ever been a drill Sergent. Maybe in a second life, perhaps? No, the whole second-life thing had officially been chucked out the window..."

The Roads Never Lead Where They're Supposed to Go (http://dejabu.robot-army.org/sgaroads.html) is an AU in the truest sense: Sheppard is a *botanist*, of all things - and it actually works. Zelenka somehow ends up chosen over Rodney as the head honcho of the physics folks. And for reasons unknown, Col. Sumner does not die. Excellent and lovely.

Last but most certainly not least, there's Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=35) by Tarlan, but I'm afraid Sumner's presence is peripheral to the rest of the story.

And... ah ha! I thought I'd lost this story. In Deflection (http://www.ltljverse.com/watergate/stories/deflection.htm), by Martha Wilson, John knows he is not where he should be, and knows he is a substitute for the 'real' John Sheppard. The rest is conjecture, fear, and conditioning - until Rodney's attitude towards him alters profoundly. Starts out dark but it picks up.

Have fun!

-K

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Wheee! Thank you! I will most definately have fun :-D

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Ooooh pages of Sumner fic you say. I'll keep looking for it myself. The botanist ones the first I read actually, its what got me searching :-)
Thanks x

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Just been looking through Area 52 :-D I'll try delicious, even though for some unknown reason I've developed a hatred for it :-P

[bounciness.livejournal.com]

Also really quick, I love that you've added summaries. Makes life so much easier!

[helenorvana.livejournal.com]

http://miss-porcupine.livejournal.com/tag/sumnerfic

miss_porcupine wrote a small series where Sumner survived a couple of years ago. She also wrote "That Which is Always Present" (http://offpanel.net/dmz/sga/always_present.html), which I see someone else already recc'd

[trish51.livejournal.com]

Teamwork by Magnus Minor is an AU which features Sumner in a minor role. However, Sheppard is a scientist and McKay is a Mountie so it may not interest you. It's here http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=3562