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badly_knittedTitle: Boyhood Heroes
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
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badly_knittedCharacters: Scott, Paul Jordan, Fred, Varian.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 488: Childhood Hero at
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drabble_zone.Setting: Many years after the series.
Summary: Now that Scott has kids of his own, he remembers the men he looked up to as a boy.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.
Looking back over his life, now that he has children of his own, Scott can’t help but think about the people and events that shaped him into the man he is today. He hopes they’d be proud of who he is, as a person, a husband, and a father. He knows his dad was, but Paul Jordan had died tragically seven years earlier on a research trip, saving the lives of two of his graduate students. He’d never had the chance to meet the youngest of his grandchildren, the boy who bears his name.
Fred is proud of Scott too, tells him so every time they meet, which they do as often as their busy lives allow, meaning every two or three months. Fred was one of Scott’s father’s closest friends, despite being more than a decade younger. On the face of it, they’d had little in common; Paul had been a respected scientist, specialising in marine biology, while Fred had been in medical school when they’d met, yet they’d become almost as close as brothers, and that relationship had somehow extended to Scott as well. Even now, Scott thinks of Fred as an older brother, one he knows he can count on having his back, no matter what.
But there’s a third man, or will be in another couple of hundred years or so, who was perhaps even more important, as role model, friend, and surrogate father, than either of the other two, a man whose peaceful ways Scott still strives to emulate. He only knew Varian for a year, but the man from the future taught him so much, made him a better person.
Watching his youngest, Paul Varian Jordan, playing with his sisters, Scott wonders if his descendants might someday meet Varian. He hopes that they will.
The End
Fred is proud of Scott too, tells him so every time they meet, which they do as often as their busy lives allow, meaning every two or three months. Fred was one of Scott’s father’s closest friends, despite being more than a decade younger. On the face of it, they’d had little in common; Paul had been a respected scientist, specialising in marine biology, while Fred had been in medical school when they’d met, yet they’d become almost as close as brothers, and that relationship had somehow extended to Scott as well. Even now, Scott thinks of Fred as an older brother, one he knows he can count on having his back, no matter what.
But there’s a third man, or will be in another couple of hundred years or so, who was perhaps even more important, as role model, friend, and surrogate father, than either of the other two, a man whose peaceful ways Scott still strives to emulate. He only knew Varian for a year, but the man from the future taught him so much, made him a better person.
Watching his youngest, Paul Varian Jordan, playing with his sisters, Scott wonders if his descendants might someday meet Varian. He hopes that they will.
The End
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Date: 2026-02-10 12:44 am (UTC)