Fic: Two Tall Trees (BSG/SGA)

Title: Two Tall Trees
Author: lizardbeth_j
Rating: PG
Characters: Karl "Helo" Agathon and Ronon Dex
Spoilers: BSG 320, and SGA 402.
Summary: Ronon finds a stranger in the cell with him.

Author's Note: Thanks to lyssie and mamaboolj for looking this one over. This was written for the Kindreds Secret Santa Ficathon, for mrsdrjackson!

And yes, this is GEN. (I know, I know, two hot guys trapped in a jail cell together is a ancient slash cliche, but not this time!)

( He heard Teyla shout his name and then... Nothing. )

Why having a copy of your fic is IMPORTANT

OMG, that was very nearly a (small) disaster.

I was doing the privilege meme in Semagic, in a story file that I already had open. AA-AND - I forgot to change the name and instead unthinkingly pressed regular save, thinking I'd already changed it. Thus completely overwriting the old contents of the file.

NOooooo! There was no other copy of that fic - it had started life as a comment fic and then grown, and I'd never made a regular doc file for it. So for a minute I was all *FUUUUCK* (except not aloud because of the whole small child thing). And I tried to find old autosaves or something and recover my lost fic. And there was nothing.

Finally I found an early version in the draft of all the ficlets I'd started for that drabbleathon before I'd given it its own. It's missing about a page at the end, BUT at least I still have most of it. PHEW!

Recovered fic is NEVER as good as the original with me. It loses some elemental spark. Not to mention I'm always pissed off when I re-write it, which can't help.

Needless to say I now I have Word copies of that fic and another which existed only in semagic. *thwaps self*