New story: Long distance call, SGA

[midnight_ink]

Title: Long distance call
Author: eretria
Fandom: SGA
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Ambiguous
Disclaimer: Not mine, no money, just playing.
Spoilers: The Return I
Beta-read: murron, enname, auburnnothenna (who all kicked my sorry bum for nigh on two months, and righteously so. Thank you!)
Summary: Eight hundred miles. Rodney had never been good at forgetting.
Notes: This started out as

Comments

[maisierita]

The slash that isn't!

I love this for its unconventionality, the feeling that their friendship is so deep and important to them both, but not about sex.

My favorite line is this: John had never talked much, and didn't now, so Rodney did.

Not sure why, but it hits me just right.

And love the pizza bit, too, because John showing up the next morning with a cold box of pizza is perfect. :)

::hearts::

[eretria]

This made me incredibly, incredibly happy.

The slash that isn't!

That's the perfect label for this story.
And John and the cold pizza ... yeah. In my mind, he went to get pizza, wheedled a small plane out of Carter and flew down to Nellis, took a car from there, just to get to Rodney asap. Because he missed him like hell, too, was just his usual emotionally retarded self and couldn't take the first step without Rodney's call.

[pentapus]

I liked this. That the slightly not manly heterosexual hug wasn't about sex, and that they both cared enough that they were willing to try that kiss, no questions asked, on the assumption the other one wanted it. And I really liked the (extremely brief) outside POV of the Return I's phonecall at the end.

[eretria]

on the assumption the other one wanted it.

That, there, exactly. I am SO glad this ame across. Neither of them would have tried it again of they hadn't both thought the respective other wanted it. They'd have shrugged and moved on, with some awkward shuffling, but the interruption and the fact that neither knew wat the other thought, and only assumed, was their undoing.
(But, ow, if the last bit reads as an outside POV, then I need to do some corections.)

[pentapus]

Ah, sorry, I had originally typed the "implied outside POV." I liked that... Hutcheson? being there let me imagine how it seemed to other people. Not that I thought the last bit was his POV.

[flatlanddan]

Oh lovely!!! I've been trying to define what it is about McKay/Sheppard sex that bothers me, and I think you've nailed it on the head. They don't need it, they just need each other.

[eretria]

They don't need it, they just need each other.

Exactly.
It does work, in so many stories, but in so many others, I found myself thinking that it would have worked far better if there hadn't been any sex. Chemistry isn't a one-way street. And it comes in many shapes and forms. Time to try something new, I'd say.

[batdina]

I attempted to download and got an empty file ... am printing out the story to read on Shabbat.

[eretria]

Sorry, sorry, that was my mistake. The link is fixed now, you should be able to download.

[batdina]

thanks. I'm downloading it now.

[auburnnothenna]

Love the last minute addition to the end. And the title, since I'd begun to wonder if you were genuinely going to post it as the Amazing No Sex Story. :-)

Downloading, too. Kat's art is gorgeous for this.

[auburnnothenna]

Well, I was going to download. But I get a 404 message. I'll have to get it later.

[eretria]

Hanging my head in shame - please remind me to always double check file names, and never type them from memory. Fixed now, you should be able to download.