New SGA fic: Forget Me Not (3 of 5)

[maisierita]

Rodney is a creature of habit, finding comfort in routine, but he's not so slavishly devoted to it that he can't adapt to changes. His old routine mostly involved work, and John, and his new routine is pretty much the same, though entirely different. Work's the same, except for the way Rodney can no longer concentrate on anything and so gets

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[pisces227]

This is awesome! So well written. But it's getting late and my pillow is calling me. I can't wait to finish reading it.

[maisierita]

I'm going back to all the comments I missed.

I hope you enjoyed the rest! Don't you hate starting long fics late at night? :)

[lilyfarfalla]

I have to pause in my reading (up all night? Sure!) to say: so much love for this story. SO MUCH. Rodney's repetitions to himself that this prison isn't bad at all, so in contrast to John's struggle to remember himself and to Rodney's dawning realization about what this place has taken away from them. And that John's brain is the one that can get around the Treatment barriers, because he works by instinct, because ATA gene?? I am loving it and must continue on to see how it plays out.

(Also, environmental terrorism!!)

[maisierita]

:)

I particularly like it when people interrupt their reading to write me a little note. It makes me all gleeful.

Well, now you know that it's the ATA gene that gets John's brain around Treatment, but the instinct thing, that's how come he keeps ending up back as himself, no matter how many times they try to turn him into someone else.

[scarym1]

So far so good. : ) Very Intriquing. I am anxious to see where you are going with this. I hate having to stop reading for the night. I might just have to sneak in and read it tomorrow at work. : )

[mirror_mirrin]

"Ninety-five percent of the doors in this clinic are kept closed all the time," Rodney says sourly. "There could be thousands of pots here."

Hahaha! Seriously. I love how randomly a truly awesome sentence will just pop up in between the other already good ones.

[anotherdreamer5]

Rodney takes the parchment. It has six small symbols on it, written in a neat line across the middle of the page. "What's this?"

omg. The learning to read thing was genius. Every time we think we have a grasp on how different this world is, you throw another twist into the mix. Incredible.

It's incredibly disconcerting having John between his legs, even though he's not doing anything except resting there. "Well, you've probably noticed that there's only the one bed."

"Soon as I came in," John says easily, and of course he would have noticed and not said anything. "I figured if I was supposed to sleep on the couch, you'd have pointed it out to me."

AH! Ah! Love.

And John, who when he looks sees everything that matters, has surely seen Rodney's finger stumble lightly across the characters of his own name; John must know that Rodney recognizes it. Rodney's name is there on the first page and there on the second, again on the third if not the fourth. Why, Rodney wonders, would his name appear in a book of recipes unless recipes