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posted by [identity profile] rainbowstevie.livejournal.com at 09:01am on 06/05/2007
*hugs* I sympathize, I really do. There's no worse feeling than suddenly realizing that piles of work suddenly don't fit the way they're supposed to with canon (pitfall of fanfic, I guess).

I actually don't remember that conversation at all (so much for me and my love for season 4...), so I don't know exactly how it's phrased, but is there a way to spin it so that it's true in a certain context? He's good at that, after all. CSI Files describes it as "Horatio says twenty years ago, he tried to save his mother's life and the man who killed her ended up dead," so from that it sounds like there's room for a bit of a timegap between the two actions, if you need it. Perhaps there was a sequence where Horatio stepped between them and saved her life that day, but his father killed her shortly thereafter, thus making his attempt to save her a failed one. Stopping now, since I don't know how much I can trust the recap.

It's just, now that you've told me the whole lovely timeline of your version, I forbid you to scrap and rewrite it all. Or at least I really, really urge against it. It's far too intriguing, even in simple summary form.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 06:22pm on 06/05/2007
Hmm...I double-checked the conversation (someone helpfully pointed out the Random Scribblings gallery (http://random-scribblings.net/coppermine/index.php?cat=2), which has episode clips from all 5 seasons, so hopefully this won't happen again), and Horatio makes it pretty definite that the death of his mother and father occurred at the same time. I believe the exact line is "In an attempt to save my mother's life, I intervened on a situation and her killer ended up dead". Doesn't leave a whole lot of room for anything to occur in between.

So, if I don't want to rewrite it (and I don't), that gives me two options: say that Horatio was lying to Stetler, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, or just call Little Brothers an AU and cheerfully ignore the conversation entirely.
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posted by [identity profile] rainbowstevie.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 06/05/2007
Yeah, I guess that is kind of hard to work around. Darn. Ah well, I'm sure whatever you go with will be cohesive. Canon as it pertains to Horatio's backstory has a funny way of changing, anyway.

And as an aside, I am in love that site; thanks for pointing it out.
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posted by [identity profile] stunt-muppet.livejournal.com at 01:22am on 07/05/2007
Isn't it fabulous? All the relevant/interesting bits of Seasons 4 and 5, helpfully in one place. :)
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