Such a good question, about whether you could recapture your original perspective on the first fic, or if you've remixed your own interpretation! Hee. I'll be really interested to hear what happens if you give it a re-read.
In 'As You Were' all we really know about Daniel is that Daniel does love/want Jack and didn't know Jack loved/wanted him. Where Daniel's really coming from could be almost anywhere, and the question of what sort of relationship he had (or believed he was having, or not having) with Mitchell isn't answered, so anybody who wanted to take the story from there could collapse the wave function into whatever made sense to them or made for an interesting fic. (I'd leave Daniel smelling like Mitchell, you'd have him showered by the time Jack came back in ... two different Daniels right there! *g*) They could build on the combination of 'Matinee'/'Idyll'/'As You Were,' with the Daniel who was warmed and gentled by his developing relationship with Cam, or fill in the 'As You Were' blanks completely differently. That's what I mean by Schrodinger's. Basically, 'lots of room for interpretation.' *g*
Which probably means that I'll never write a sequel to 'As You Were,' or if I did it would be a set of sequels looking at all the different ways it might go from there, because the way I see that fic (independent of the series you made), the open ending really is the ending: the door opens, and it's left to the reader to walk through it with Jack and decide what happens. I think my personal interpretation is actually the uncollapsed version, weird as that may sound. In my head I've got a Daniel who stills smells of sex with Mitchell falling into an exhausted embrace with a Jack who's determined to be the man he used to be again ... just the two of them hanging there on each other, not speaking ... and after that, infinite possibilities. But it would be beautiful if you could write a series ending that brought all three of them to a happier place. And somebody should definitely jump on that OT3 thing. *g*
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In 'As You Were' all we really know about Daniel is that Daniel does love/want Jack and didn't know Jack loved/wanted him. Where Daniel's really coming from could be almost anywhere, and the question of what sort of relationship he had (or believed he was having, or not having) with Mitchell isn't answered, so anybody who wanted to take the story from there could collapse the wave function into whatever made sense to them or made for an interesting fic. (I'd leave Daniel smelling like Mitchell, you'd have him showered by the time Jack came back in ... two different Daniels right there! *g*) They could build on the combination of 'Matinee'/'Idyll'/'As You Were,' with the Daniel who was warmed and gentled by his developing relationship with Cam, or fill in the 'As You Were' blanks completely differently. That's what I mean by Schrodinger's. Basically, 'lots of room for interpretation.' *g*
Which probably means that I'll never write a sequel to 'As You Were,' or if I did it would be a set of sequels looking at all the different ways it might go from there, because the way I see that fic (independent of the series you made), the open ending really is the ending: the door opens, and it's left to the reader to walk through it with Jack and decide what happens. I think my personal interpretation is actually the uncollapsed version, weird as that may sound. In my head I've got a Daniel who stills smells of sex with Mitchell falling into an exhausted embrace with a Jack who's determined to be the man he used to be again ... just the two of them hanging there on each other, not speaking ... and after that, infinite possibilities. But it would be beautiful if you could write a series ending that brought all three of them to a happier place. And somebody should definitely jump on that OT3 thing. *g*