fic update: Never Have I Asked an August Sky (Sheppard/McKay)

[hth_the_first]

Never Have I Asked an August Sky
by Hth
Sheppard/McKay

Originally written for the zine Surfacing, now available right here on your internets.

“Major,” Rodney said by way of a greeting, which sucked and was stupid and oh my God, if there was room left for this to get more pathetic, then absolutely the way to get there was to call the man by his

Comments

[cathalin]

Oh my god. This made me tear up, this is heartbreaking and beautiful.

There is so much amazing writing in this story. This line was amazing:

""I’ll help," you say, your voice rough and sore from the silence you keep when you fuck."

That's an amazing description, and tells so much about their relationship and their situation. The whole story is packed with lines like that.

This killed me, in the good way. Thanks for posting this - as a relative newcomer, I had no idea this zine existed. Wow.

[caseylane]

Holy cow, this made me cry. It hurt to read at the end when Rodney made his declaration. I wanted to slap him up the head for not staying.

[ratcreature]

*sniffle*

[spuffyduds]

Oh my God, this is gorgeous. So perfectly them, and so sad and beautiful and sadly hot, and the way they spend so long not saying what they mean completely EARNS the moment when Rodney breaks through and is almost mushy at the end, and it made me CRY. In a coffeeshop. My GOD.

[lferion]

Oh John. Oh Rodney.

*whimpers*

*wipes eyes*

So beautiful and so sad.

...and I bet Atlantis herself is as desperately unhappy.