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SGA: Trading Tomrrows

Jul 20, 2006 14:28

Title: Trading Tomorrows
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay, preslash
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: SGA is the property of of someone else. I like to play in their sandbox.

Thanks to my RL beta.

Note: This is an unasked-for present to synecdochic for Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose, which I re-read yesterday. In her DVD commentary, she notes that ( Read more... )

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Comments 15

linaerys July 20 2006, 19:27:27 UTC

I really like the way you dig into why Rodney feels he has to act the way he does, and the similarities between him and Sheppard. I also like the references to Rodney's past, and how Sheppard shoes Rodney that he is willing to trust him again, by doing just that.

This is truly lovely.

filenotch July 21 2006, 00:28:47 UTC

Thanks. I have a whole back story about Rodney and Sarah, with whom he had the best (and most) sex of his life in college. I also have a lot of ideas about what his life was like in Siberia. Probably will never write them, but that's famous last words.

tesserae_ July 20 2006, 20:03:53 UTC

I liked this. It felt right, on both sides...

filenotch July 21 2006, 00:29:41 UTC

Thank you.

fairestcat July 20 2006, 20:08:01 UTC

I really like this as the genesis for a transformation of their relationship. I love that John shows that he will trust Rodney again by entrusting him. Whereas at Dorenda John's trust of Rodney weighed on John, now John is placing that trust as a burden on Rodney, it's a nice turnaround.

filenotch July 21 2006, 00:34:25 UTC

Thanks. John's not stupid. Placing a secret like that in Rodney's hands will have effects, because Rodney would know that if he screws this up, it could blow up 5/6 of John Sheppards life. That consideration may spill over into other arenas. Eventually.

isiscolo July 20 2006, 23:02:52 UTC

A nice ficlet - I always like to see possible post-Trinity scenarios, because canon fell sadly flat here.

The "team is a little like a group marriage" line made me think of due South's "partnership is like a marriage" line.

filenotch July 21 2006, 00:49:30 UTC

Many long-term relationships are like marriages. Bands, for instance. I pulled out a line about Rodney melting part of his brain at the notion he was somehow married to Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon, but there are elements to that kind of group that mirror the level of trust needed for a marriage (or partnership) to work.

The difference is, it's a certain kind of trust in a team. The trust doesn't extend to (and often expressly does not include) personal stuff. You trust your team to get your back, do their job, and do what they say they will do when they said they would do it. That's not the same level of trust that life-partners need.

But I think Sheppard knows that McKay comes from a culture (academia, egomaniac-style) that doesn't understand that. Maybe hockey teams instilled some sense of it, but a lot of McKay's experience since then has not re-inforced it in a way that he cares about. Sheppard crossed the border into the personal because it would work with Rodney, and because he wanted to ( ... )

synecdochic July 21 2006, 01:54:24 UTC

Oh, that's lovely -- I could so see that as the starting point, and I love the quiet ways they're both not saying a hell of a lot of things beneath the surface. I'm honored to have inspired it!

filenotch July 21 2006, 14:14:21 UTC

I'm glad you like it. I have a bad habit of getting inspired by other people's fics. It resulted in a Voyager novel based in two other people's shared universe, and several SGA stories that grew out of z_rayne's fics.

I rec'ed your languange and sex Jack/Daniel piece to a linguist colleague who answered, "Wow. Cool. She's just an amazing writer." I agree. The story above would take a lot more ruthless editing to make it anywhere near as good as Freedom.