From the Alaskan Frontier

Title: in a world of iron (to make a world of gold)
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Quantum Leap (Classic), pre-series
Characters / Pairings: Sam Beckett, Al Calavicci
Word Count: 916
Bonus Music: Medley form Man of La Mancha – Scott Bakula
Warnings / Notes: Written for Round XIII of the HC Bingo: Substance Abuse

*surprise bitches, I bet you'd thought you'd seen the last of me dot gif*

SO HOW ABOUT THAT QL SEQUEL? The new QL is wonderful in so many ways, and that includes reigniting my love of the og series. Oh Universe, why did you steal Dean Stockwell from us? So have this fanfic!

As we learned in the episode "Play Ball," (Season IV Episode 2), Sam and Al met during the Starbright Project—specifically during the latter drunkenly beating the shit out of a vending machine. The standing headcanon I adopted from @nikanaiko on Tumblr is… well basically this set up.

Title comes from, of course, then novel on which Man of La Mancha is based, Don Quixote

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( To be willing to march, march into Hell For that Heavenly cause )

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Title: Simple Signs
Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Quantum Leap AU (see comments) – c.f. "The Leap Home, pt. I," New York, 1949
Characters / Pairings: Al Calavicci, Sam Beckett, Trudy Calavicci
Rating: K+
Genre: General
Word Count: 608
Summary: How could Sam tell Al that he was tilting at windmills?

An AU spawned with locoexclaimer wherein simply Al is the leaper and Sam is the project observer. We have a laundry list of episodes that needed hit on, and The Leap Home is one of them—on the top of that list, in fact. In it, Al would leap into himself at age fifteen (part one), and then into another patient at Trudy's mental institution to prevent her death (part two). Want this like the sun burns.

My mind canon completely dictates that Al would be a special education god for this reason alone—I tend to think he did more parenting for Trudy than his parents did, so he's used to it. I'm basically letting my job talk for me (that's the reason I got so attached to him having a sister with Downs, and why I cried like a baby when I watched "Jimmy"). Al's teaching his baby sister sign language, hand over hand for God's sake.

Yeah, it turned out far sadder than I wanted. I should write something happier for part two. Suggestions please?

Al, Sam, Trudy © Donald Bellisario

( A memory... A person )

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Title: Captured in a Photograph
Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Quantum Leap – Coda for "Jimmy" (02 x 08)
Characters / Pairings: Al (x) Sam, mentions of Trudy
Rating: K+
Genre: General
Word Count: 590
Warnings / Notes: …Glimpse into big brother Al?; title from NaNoWriMo forums
Summary: It occurred to Al that Sam had never seen a picture of his sister.

Kind of spawned on the fly this morning and I didn’t want to let it go. I couldn’t think of any place to house this scenario, and I wanted it to make sense in the context of the leap. That and this is one of my favorite episodes. (We'll see what happens when I get to MIA and The Leap Home.)

Despite the pairing factor not being obvious, assume Sam x Al is at play in some way here.

Sam, Al, Trudy, Quantum Leap © Donald Bellisario

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Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Quantum Leap, pre-series
Characters / Pairings: Al Calavicci x Sam Beckett
Rating: T
Genre: Hurt / Comfort, Angst
Musical Inspiration: Imagine – Scott Bakula | Imagine – John Lennon
Relevant Quote: But, Madam, let your grief be laid aside, / And let the fountain of your tears be dry'd – Phyllis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Warnings / Notes: Sad fic. Genderswapped Sam. Bunny tweaked from locoexclaimer.
Prompt from locoexclaimer: A character experiences a disaster and loses something dear to them, and gets help from a very close friend.

Write a Day challenge, and more depressing QL fic.

Every so often I like to imagine Sam as a woman. My mind canon for Sam x Al in that situation is that they conceived, but Sam miscarried. (It makes imagining "8 ½ Months" with Sam as a woman kind of beautifully painful.) Al canonically didn’t want kids with Beth, and locoexclaimer suggested that he initially didn't want to keep the baby with Sam… It all converges in this.

So, heh heh… When I was writing this, I had Sam and Al sitting in the bar of my mind canon boarding house, chatting them up about this and working on it, and Al insisted on calling female Sam, "Sammy." I couldn’t get him to go with Sam and ended up finding it too cute to pass up. <3 Anything to keep him talking because I love writing for his voice. It's hard trying to write native New York and not be kicking myself, "It sounds stupid, Al would never ay that if you paid him" kind of a thing. But DATVOICE.

What is it with me and writing Al x 63!Sam fics in three parts? :/
Also, Scott Bakula's version of "Imagine" is heartbreaking.

Al, Sam, Quantum Leap © Donald Bellisario