Fic: Love Still Stands, NC-17, Beckett/McKay by inkscribe

[inkscribe]

Title: Love Still Stands
Author: inkscribe
Pairings: Beckett/McKay
Rating: NC-17
Words: ~460
Spoilers: none
Locations: beckett_mckay, icaw, malesofatlantis, notmcshep, carsonsmut, rodneysmut,sgaauwtptbdfu, my LJ, other backup journals
Feedback: yes, please!

Author's Note: A futurefic snippet. Thanks to tdancinghands for the title suggestion.

Comments

[wliberation]

Sweet, but... I didn't really understand what on earth was going on, especially with Rodney. And why is Carson ashamed? *sheepish grin* Maybe I'm being nitwitted, but care to explain?

[inkscribe]

:-) No problem ... there's a lot implied in the snippet but not spelled out.

What I envisioned is that Rodney was hurt somehow -- head injury, perhaps -- something non-recoverable. He's grownup, he's married to his lover, he's on Atlantis. The injury post-dates the marriage.

Carson feels guilty because while he accepts til death do you part for being with his husband, and loves him still dearly, he is conflicted between being Rodney's caregiver and Rodney's husband. The thing is, Rodney might not be able to say a word anymore, but he still knows what he likes, and that includes sex.

One of my not-so-little pet peeves is the asexualisation of people with disabilities. It doesn't surprise me that this trend occurs in situations where a person is born with a disability -- the dangers of abuse from caregivers is always present and certainly something worth staying on guard against. However, far too many loving couples end up asexualising themselves because of situations like the one above, and I just felt the need to outline that

[wliberation]

Ah, okay. I really wasn't sure what was going on in the story, just that Rodney was acting a bit funny. Maybe if the story was a bit longer and contained a bit more background information? Anyway, good point made. Not a thing I've ever really thought about before.

[inkscribe]

One friend who has a family member with Down's Syndrome caught on quite quickly to the general nature of the problem, but I agree that it isn't overly obvious ... it's short and probably not surprising that we never hear Rodney speak. ;-)

Sometime I might flesh this out further ... hard to say. It was a very difficult piece to put to paper, even so short, so I don't know if I'm up to the task of adding in the obvious exposition in any readable way.

Thank you for reading (and dropping bye a couple more times, lol!) :-)

[wliberation]

Pst. But it does flow much more comfortably on second read now that I have an idea of the background.

[wliberation]

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