Second Chances
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A short chronology of Mission City, plus other important information to keep everything straight. Adapted from Tanista's "Domestic Adventures" timeline.
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- Part 1 of Second Chances
- Part 4 of Conversations That Never Happened
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....so say you're pushing forty, failing at running a coffee shop, and never made it out of your Minnesota hometown.
If an internationally infamous assassin shows up and starts dropping hints about taking you away from all this, do you listen?
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- Part 31 of Domestic Adventures
- Part 2 of Second Chances
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1962. Three months can seem like forever, to an impatient ten year old.
It's more than long enough for Jack Dalton to decide he's going to try life as a runaway.
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- Part 3 of Second Chances
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"We're the perfect couple," Ellen tells him, in the moonlight. "Everybody says so."
Everybody.
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- Part 4 of Second Chances
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New life comes into the world. The beginning of an extraordinary bond between uncle and niece.
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- Part 5 of Second Chances
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(From Mike Forrester’s interview notes)
“What does the prison mean to this small Minnesota town?”
Trade. Money. The sound of a whistle when a prisoner escapes. A special section in the cemetery for inmates who had no home.
“This is our bread and butter,” one resident remarks. "If we didn’t have it, Mission City would be rather a bleak place.”
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- Part 6 of Second Chances
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amidst the dying of the leaves by deepandlovelydark
Fandoms: Vinegar Hill, MacGyver (TV 1985)
06 Sep 2018
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conversation in a taxi cab, halfway between the Twin Cities and Duluth.
upon endings, unspoken sweetness, and quiet desperation
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- Part 7 of Second Chances
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A little miracle brightens Mac's day.
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- Part 8 of Second Chances
- Part 5 of Conversations That Never Happened
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Scientifically proving the existence of a certain Jolly Old Elf on the most magical night of the year.
Or, Mac and Becky wait up for Santa.
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- Part 4 of Domestic Adventures
- Part 9 of Second Chances
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there are these things you're not supposed to do. One of them is your best friend's wife.
what's a worse idea than that, though, is freezing to death in a blizzard. so if you're already doing that...well! Might as well die happy.
Ish.
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- Part 10 of Second Chances
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Everyone in Mission City knows the score: Mac’s the sober sort, whereas Jack drinks like a fish.
Except on Tuesdays, when it’s the other way around.
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- Part 12 of Second Chances
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On the eve of one life-changing event, Mac remembers another.
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- Part 13 of Second Chances
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for sale: one jeep, absolution thrown in free by deepandlovelydark
Fandoms: MacGyver (TV 1985)
12 Jan 2018
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Chuck owns a gun shop. Chuck also works as a deacon at the local church.
He doesn't see anything contradictory about this, whatever hippy Mac has to say on the subject.
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- Part 14 of Second Chances
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Everyone has a breaking point; but most people like to think theirs would be dramatic. Riches galore, power over others, knowledge most secret.
But sometimes, it isn't that Faustian.
Sometimes, all it takes is a plate of French toast.
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- Part 15 of Second Chances
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N. A change of state, an unconscious transformation.
In which Jack has to play the voice of reason, rather to his own astonishment.
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- Part 16 of Second Chances
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Mac isn't regularly dating Jack, by the time Murdoc shows up. Something happened.
This is the something.
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- Part 17 of Second Chances
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in which three Missionaries contrive to enjoy themselves
improbable though that is
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- Part 18 of Second Chances
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"I dunno," Mac says. "Ralph Jerico isn't interesting enough to be anyone's archenemy. Not even a barista's."
"Doesn't make him any less dangerous," Jack points out.
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- Part 19 of Second Chances
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Settling into Midwestern small-town life can be tough. Dealing with bullies and making friends at the same time? Even tougher.
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- Part 20 of Second Chances
- Part 6 of Conversations That Never Happened
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To Ellen, it's home. To Mac, it's a place to be. To Jack, it's somewhere to escape.
To Penny Parker, Mission City is somewhere to escape to.
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- Part 21 of Second Chances