Title: Not so Mutinous Insurrection
Fandom: Doom
Pairing: Sarge/Reaper
Categories: AU, Angst, Established Relationship, Hurt-Comfort
Length: Medium (4,700)
Warnings:

Author on LJ: n/a
Website: Jedi Buttercup.com

Review: Doom ended badly for everbody, Jedi Buttercup wrote a nice solid story to fix that. It picks up right when Sarge goes crazy and orders his team to kill everyone. Reaper steps in to stop him.

I love Reaper's voice in this story. It is spot on, though perhaps a little mushier than he'd canonically be. He understands Sarge's insistence on killing everthing, but he doesn't let that force him into impotence. Instead he steps up accepts his death and does his best to make sure his sister and the few surviving members of his team get out alive.

Sarge reacts to Reaper's level-headedness by becoming level-headed himself. This changes the course of the movie for the better.

At the beginning of the movie Sarge and Reaper's characters had a lot of potential that was pretty much squandered when the movie got mired down in the political and action byplay. Jedi Butterfly not only brings out the original potential but pokes fun at the political aspects of the movie. It's a refreshing take on the 'evil business' story line.

This stories only real weakness is the fact that it straddles genres a bit too much for such a short story. It's one part death fic, one part introducing your lover to the family, and one part happy makeup fic. This keeps it from having the emotional punch it could have had.

Not So Mutinous Insurrection