History Fanfic / TaraSheppard

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Willow nearly succumbs to this [[spoiler: when Rack and Amy give her a dose of dark magic, but she fights it off out of love for Tara long enough for Buffy and the SGC to save them]].

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The key premise of this storyline is that John Sheppard and Tara [=McClay=] are half-siblings, since John’s father had an affair with Tara’s mother while she was working as his secretary.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An in-story example of this; while Patrick is having an operation, he is visited by Laura in the guise of a coma fantasy, who gives him a brief glimpse of the best possible outcome if she had told him about Tara in the past, as he witnesses himself and Laura watching John, Dave and Tara playing together at the beach as children.

* EvilIsPetty: Warren and Amy’s vendettas against the Scoobies are based on fundamentally petty motives, and Warren even destroys a small hotel and kills fifteen people just to try and kill John when John had only had one direct confrontation with Warren at that point (and that was actually with a robot that Warren had apparently set up to get destroyed as part of his plan anyway).

* ForWantOfANail: John arrives in Sunnydale just in time to draw Tara away from her and Willow’s bedroom before Warren can try and shoot Buffy, saving Tara’s life and starting an entirely new chain of events.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Tara serves as this for Willow, as shown by what happened to Willow after her death in canon and expressed by Willow’s fears of what she could become if she had lost Tara.

* PlaceOfPower: In a sense, the Hellmouth serves as this for John, as while in proximity to the energies of the Hellmouth his Ancient gene is boosted to the point that he can heal injuries and use telekinesis, allowing him to heal Buffy after she’s shot by Warren.

** Tara [[spoiler:thwarts the Trust’s attempt to infiltrate the SGC by spotting something wrong with Caldwell the first time she visits the Daedalus, allowing Caldwell to be freed before the Goa’uld within him can do anything]].
** [[spoiler:Jasmine’s plans are put on hold after the First’s attack apparently takes Cordelia out of the picture]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Aside from the obvious detail of Tara’s survival, Tara’s aura-reading abilities help her spot heart damage that would have likely led to Patrick Sheppard’s fatal heart attack a couple of years later in canon, giving him the chance to get it treated before said heart attack. Less directly, [[spoiler:Anya ‘escapes’ her death by Ascending, and Tara’s DNA provides the Asgard with the vital breakthrough needed to save them from their genetic degradation]].

** Technically for [[spoiler: Anya, considering that she becomes one of the Ascended; she’s now bound by the rules of non-interference, but she has already bent the rules to console Xander and give Giles a crucial warning]].

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Willow nearly succumbs to this [[spoiler: when Rack and Amy give her a dose of dark magic, but she fights it off out of love for Tara]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/ Tara Sheppard]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5437191/fmfan1980 fmfan1980]] is a crossover of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' with the ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', starting just after the Atlantis expedition return to Earth for the first time. Upon returning to Earth, John Sheppard receives a note from his father’s deceased ex-secretary, Laura [=McClay=], which reveals that her daughter Tara is John’s half-sister, asking John to visit Tara as soon as he gets the note. John’s visit occurs just in time for him to save Tara from her ‘fated’ death at Warren’s hands, setting off a chain of events that will change the lives of the Scooby Gang and the SGC forever.

* CallBack: Buffy in particular is very hostile to John and the SGC staff early on because she thinks they’re just another branch of the Initiative, until Daniel Jackson and Elizabeth Weir convince her that they’re not trying to step on her toes regarding how she deals with things in Sunnydale
* CanonWelding: [[spoiler:As thanks for Tara’s help saving his people]], Thor provides a full history of how demons fit into what the SGC know of Earth’s history
* ChangelingFantasy: Tara basically gets this; after the [=McClays=] were outright abusive to her for years, Patrick Sheppard gives his daughter a warm hug on their first meeting while Dave does his best to give Tara a role in his wedding, and Tara affirms that she’d be glad to take Patrick’s last name
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Willow mentions her past experience with magical addiction, but John assures her that he understands that people make mistakes and he accepts that so long as she makes Tara happy

* DemotedToExtra: Kennedy would have been Willow’s next girlfriend after Tara’s loss, but now she is little more than a Potential with a high opinion of herself, trying to get into the core Scooby Gang but incapable of realising that she can’t just force herself into the group
* EvilFormerFriend: Amy becomes this for Willow in particular
* EvilIsPetty: Warren and Amy’s vendettas against the Scoobies are based on fundamentally petty motives, and Warren even destroys a small hotel and kills fifteen people just to try and kill John when John had only had one direct confrontation with Warren at that point (and that was actually with a robot that Warren had apparently set up to get destroyed as part of his plan anyway)
* ExactWords: After John learns about Tara’s ability to sense deception, when he wants to conceal the truth from her before she learns about his own secrets, he’s very careful to pick his words so that she’s given a truthful context even if she can tell he’s hiding something
* ForWantOfANail: John arrives in Sunnydale just in time to draw Tara away from her and Willow’s bedroom before Warren can try and shoot Buffy, saving Tara’s life and starting an entirely new chain of events
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: While the SGC are quick to adapt to accept the supernatural into their worldview, Warren gets [[spoiler:outmanoeuvred, captured, and sent off to a very dark prison]] because he has no idea what John and his allies are capable of
* InSpiteOfANail: The First attacks and the Ori come to the Milky Way galaxy regardless of the other changes in Buffy’s life or the SGC’s new discoveries
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Tara serves as this for Willow, as shown by what happened to Willow after her death in canon and expressed by Willow’s fears of what she could become if she had lost Tara
* LoopholeAbuse: After the SGC learn that they can’t recruit Buffy due to an old deal with the Watchers’ Council, they find a way around this by officially offering support to Tara; as a result, they can give Buffy support if she needs it, as technically such aid is being provided because she lives with Tara, who is a close relative of a high-ranking member of a top-secret government program, rather than because Buffy is the Slayer
* PlaceOfPower: In a sense, the Hellmouth serves as this for John, as while in proximity to the energies of the Hellmouth his Ancient gene is boosted to the point that he can heal injuries and use telekinesis, allowing him to heal Buffy after she’s shot by Warren
* PutOnTheBus:

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The key premise of this storyline is that John Sheppard and Tara [=McClay=] are half-siblings, sharing the same father after John’s father had an affair with Tara’s mother while she was working as his secretary
* RelativeError: When Dave initially meets Tara, he wonders if John’s come home to get help after getting Tara pregnant, but is quick to apologise once John confirms that’s not the case and is later embarrassed when he learns who Tara actually is

** Subtly done, but Tara gains greater confidence in herself as she learns more about her new family
** Technically for [[spoiler:Anya, considering that she becomes one of the Ascended; she’s now bound by the rules of non-interference, but she has already bent the rules to console Xander and give Giles a crucial warning]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An in-story example of this; while Patrick is having an operation, he is visited by Laura in the guise of a coma fantasy, who gives him a brief glimpse of the best possible outcome if she had told him about Tara in the past, as he witnesses himself and Laura watching John, Dave and Tara playing together at the beach as children
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Willow nearly succumbs to this [[spoiler:when Rack and Amy give her a dose of dark magic, but she fights it off out of love for Tara]]

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/ Tara Sheppard]]'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5437191/fmfan1980 fmfan1980]] is a crossover of the ''Series/Buffyverse'' with the ''Franchise/StargateVerse'', starting just after the Atlantis expedition return to Earth for the first time. Upon returning to Earth, John Sheppard receives a note from his father’s deceased ex-secretary, Laura [=McClay=], which reveals that her daughter Tara is John’s half-sister, asking John to visit Tara as soon as he gets the note. John’s visit occurs just in time for him to save Tara from her ‘fated’ death at Warren’s hands, setting off a chain of events that will change the lives of the Scooby Gang and the SGC forever.

* LoopholeAbuse: After the SGC learn that they can’t recruit Buffy due to an old deal with the Watchers’ Council, they find a way around this by officially offering support to Tara; as a result, they can give Buffy support if she needs it, as technically such aid is being provided because Tara is a close relative of a high-ranking member of a top-secret government program rather than because Buffy is the Slayer

** [[spoiler;Jasmine’s plans are put on hold after the First’s attack apparently takes Cordelia out of the picture]].

* AscendedExtra: A minor example; although Tara is a comparatively new addition to the Sheppard family, and there are both legitimate and personal reasons why she can’t be a bridesmaid, Dave makes arrangements for her to act as joint ring-bearer with his best man so she can take part in the ceremony
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Comes up for Willow, for obvious reasons