Yes, the spitting works. So does wiping his fingers on his sweaty nose or forehead. (Aside, people touch their faces and then touch their surroundings all the time. It's to transfer the oils and scent mark, even though we don't realize we're doing it. Deep deep instincts.)
How about a couple episodes of Sheppard dealing with not being able to use his ATA, until the episode where the team dies if he can't get the jumper to work and it does, leaving the question: did something change or was the block psychological the whole time?
For some reason, right there at the end, when Sheppard is looking at Rodney's right hand and he says "It's okay," I nearly threw up. Which doesn't sound like a compliment when I put it that way, does it? But it was just - this sudden flood of pain and horror and denial and fear and sorrow and my stomach didn't know what to do with it. Cheers to your power as an author. I have never in my life been so affected by a story
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Sometimes, when Rodney would see Sheppard's hand at the end of his arm, when he'd forgotten for a while, he'd want to throw up. It helped when Sheppard accepted his own new appendages. And one day, Rodney realized he'd stopped thinking 'Sheppard's hand' and thought 'his hand'. Things were better then.
I think there are good sound reasons why people who receive organs shouldn't know who they came from a lot of times. Trying to imagine what it would feel like to know it hadn't come from someone consenting, that's where I think the psychological trauma would be worst. Because even a saint would feel relief to have two eyes and two hands, even while loathing how they got them
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Oh my God, I have chills that was such creepy and horrible idea. Very well written, as I have come to expect from you - I was wincing and cringing through the whole thing. And Rodney's own horror and dread over having John's body grafted to him was utterly clear and contagious.
And geez, you weren't satisfied with just stealing away John's body, you had to take the ATA and flying too? *winces again* Ow. Oh, John.
Superb job conveying such a mission gone horribly wrong, and of the friendship that somehow survives. (Though in my angst and H/C loving heart I do wish for more aftermath/recovery time. But then I always want your stories to go on longer, regardless of when they end.) *g*
It's true, I'm not much for showing the comfort at the end. I usually quit at a spot where I think the reader can take it the rest of the way in their head, for better or darker. I try to leave some wiggle room.
Re: John and the ATA. Keller's emails provide another possibility than the obvious.
Always leave them wanting more! So true, and that's part of why I love seeing you've posted fic so much - plenty of opportunities for further speculation always leaves me thinking about your stories long after I've finished reading.
Re: John and the ATA. Keller's emails provide another possibility than the obvious.
Yes, I did catch that the first time, but it's still like a one-two punch for John at the time. Youch. He can't even use flying as an aid to fix himself until he's already better!
Ah, beautiful!!! What an incredible story...so powerful and real and gorgeous! Makes me want to read volumes and volumes of patchwork J&R fics where they're just getting on with being themselves, having the usual adventures, and snarking back and forth about spit on all the controls and "you're my right-hand man," and suchlike! Because they totally ARE going to be okay, and it totally is just a physical extension of what they've always done for each other metaphorically. Lovely, lovely, lovely. ^^
They are. When they get to that joking point, that's when they'll be healed. Plus Teyla and Ronon will be there to remind them its just another kind of scar.
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I think we'll have to happy-up the ending before we go into Season 6 production. I'll let you know when the funding is secure. ;-)
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How about a couple episodes of Sheppard dealing with not being able to use his ATA, until the episode where the team dies if he can't get the jumper to work and it does, leaving the question: did something change or was the block psychological the whole time?
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I think there are good sound reasons why people who receive organs shouldn't know who they came from a lot of times. Trying to imagine what it would feel like to know it hadn't come from someone consenting, that's where I think the psychological trauma would be worst. Because even a saint would feel relief to have two eyes and two hands, even while loathing how they got them ( ... )
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love this!
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the thought of seeing your eye in someone elses face
Yeah. No one would thank me for mine, anyway. Can we say myopic big time?
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And geez, you weren't satisfied with just stealing away John's body, you had to take the ATA and flying too? *winces again* Ow. Oh, John.
Superb job conveying such a mission gone horribly wrong, and of the friendship that somehow survives. (Though in my angst and H/C loving heart I do wish for more aftermath/recovery time. But then I always want your stories to go on longer, regardless of when they end.) *g*
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Re: John and the ATA. Keller's emails provide another possibility than the obvious.
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Always leave them wanting more! So true, and that's part of why I love seeing you've posted fic so much - plenty of opportunities for further speculation always leaves me thinking about your stories long after I've finished reading.
Re: John and the ATA. Keller's emails provide another possibility than the obvious.
Yes, I did catch that the first time, but it's still like a one-two punch for John at the time. Youch. He can't even use flying as an aid to fix himself until he's already better!
Thanks again for a great story. :-D
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They are. When they get to that joking point, that's when they'll be healed. Plus Teyla and Ronon will be there to remind them its just another kind of scar.
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