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I think one of the things I found especially interesting about the relationship between Dylan Johns and the James family, in Poseidon, was how Maggie seemed to consider Dylan completely unsuitable and how determined her son Conor was to change her mind about it. He idolized Dylan later in the film, which got me wondering whether he might have actually engineered the meet-cute between Maggie and Dylan by “accidentally” bumping into him. By the end of the film, the sparks were clearly there, so I found myself meditating on that possible first spark.

Maybe I have weird tastes in relationships, but this one was inspired by a moment in the film that I felt was a massive missed opportunity (and an example of how some cut scenes should never be omitted). When the crew of Prometheus wakes the Last Engineer from his two-millennium nap, he’s naturally cranky with them… but there was a moment when he showed a lot of empathy and distress, when Shaw tried to talk to him and was violently silenced by a guard. That moment, plus a look at a cut scene in which the Engineer wandered through the escape shuttle looking fascinated by everything he saw prior to a longer battle with Shaw (a scene that should never have been left out, but pretty much every Engineer moment that didn’t make the final cut was a loss of great material; c’mon, Ridley, you should’a known that!) got me thinking about what might have happened if the Engineer’s violent reaction to the rest of the crew had been prompted by how Shaw was being treated. If so, maybe something very different could have happened when he found her on the escape shuttle. I definitely feel my story is a better sequel than Covenant, but that’s admittedly a very low bar anyway.

Yeah, a little redundant given that the exact same work of fanfiction is directly above here… and it’s unlikely that I’m going to churn out more David 8 / Meredith Vickers fiction in the future… but hey, if someone came here looking for stories featuring David, and an interpretation of him where he doesn’t turn out to be full-on evil as he ended up being in Covenant, I hope this helped you find your way to my story. It’s a minor pairing, and still under development in future forthcoming chapters… but it’s there.