Ooh, very cool to have some more of this! (Hmm, the thought occurs to me that your longer, heavier stories are actually very well suited to the serialized format; there is enough to dip my toe, but not enough to overwhelm me or take over my whole day!) Really nice to see the backstories here; the difference in how Jehan and Mer perceived events, and the SGC's perception, is really fascinating. Sam and Mer's eventual meeting is going to be all kinds of fun, I'm sure! Once again, I really love how you've woven the AU events into canonical events (right down to Ford using C4 on the Genii planet!). And I adore all the little details; the Pegasus people picking up Goa'uld slang ("Tau'ri") from the Milky Way people is an especially cool touch.
I think Rodney's characterization is probably the most fascinating for me in this story, the way that he is very clearly 48-Hours-Rodney in the early scenes at the SGC (and understandably disliked by his team) and then is reshaped by his time with Jolinar into a very different person. And his relationship with Jehan is meltingly sweet -- bonding over their status as expatriot Tau'ri, and eventually Jehan actually being able to open up to him, which is kind of amazing. At first I was a little disappointed that there wasn't anything more dramatic to their transition from awkward shipmates to lovers -- it seemed like, given the experiences that they'd both had, they really should have needed more of a push. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked that it wasn't dramatic, just getting to know each other and liking each other.
Second to that, though, I really, really love what you've done with Sam and the much more realistic take on her status as a woman on an SG team -- the way she has to choose between her Air Force career and getting to go through the Stargate, her conflicted relationship with Rodney, her position (pre-SG1-team) ruling the science roost at Cheyenne Mountain but still being unable to step through the gate. And then Sam in Pegasus, who is more like the Sam we know now, and yet different -- it's just very, very nicely done.
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I think Rodney's characterization is probably the most fascinating for me in this story, the way that he is very clearly 48-Hours-Rodney in the early scenes at the SGC (and understandably disliked by his team) and then is reshaped by his time with Jolinar into a very different person. And his relationship with Jehan is meltingly sweet -- bonding over their status as expatriot Tau'ri, and eventually Jehan actually being able to open up to him, which is kind of amazing. At first I was a little disappointed that there wasn't anything more dramatic to their transition from awkward shipmates to lovers -- it seemed like, given the experiences that they'd both had, they really should have needed more of a push. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked that it wasn't dramatic, just getting to know each other and liking each other.
Second to that, though, I really, really love what you've done with Sam and the much more realistic take on her status as a woman on an SG team -- the way she has to choose between her Air Force career and getting to go through the Stargate, her conflicted relationship with Rodney, her position (pre-SG1-team) ruling the science roost at Cheyenne Mountain but still being unable to step through the gate. And then Sam in Pegasus, who is more like the Sam we know now, and yet different -- it's just very, very nicely done.