Fanfic: "Freedom is Just Another Word For Nothing..." by Synecdochic . [McKay/Sheppard] . [N9]
"Freedom is Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose" by Synecdochic
First read: 24-09-2008.
Notes: 20.000 words. Super extra rec. And, well, WARNING: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH. I really wish SGA fandom would get into warnings, at least for character death, when you spend not just days with a character (as in a book) but months and even YEARS you appreciate some warning before they are totalled, you know? Ok, now... Rodney is living on Earth, he left the SGC and they have stopped bothering him (constantly) and he's teaching in a backwards college in the middle of nowhere because he has a huge gap in his professional curriculum. This auto-impossed exiled is a way for him to get as far appart from his former life as possible, we soon discover that they were forced to abandone Atlantis after they got rid of the Wraith. To say Rodney holds a grudge against the military/SGC is to say little, he feels they took something the Lanteans had made and appropiated it for a deplorable use. What happened to Atlantis is just the background of the story, though, the real story being told is the one where Rodney makes a new life for himself in the place he least expected, with the things he learned from the people he least expected to learn from (He doesn't say that this class has nothing to do with grades, and nothing even really to do with science, but everything to do with all the things he learned from a man who never lost the habit of eating with his fingers and another man who wanted everyone to believe there wasn't a single intellectual bone in his body until he was ready to let you see inside and a woman who probably couldn't have even passed their eighth grade when he met her.). I was crying almost non-stop because this is hardly an easy journey but it was SO WORTH IT.
DVD commentary: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedom-dvd.html There's a tiny SEQUEL that advances us on what's going on with Rodney fifteen years after "Freedom...": and the band's playing "hail to the chief"
c I practice, he says, falling into Ronon's speech patterns with the ease of long familiarity. He hasn't forgotten how much he misses them, but he forgot most of the reasons why.
c Five and a half years of loving someone, of being loved, as much as you can love in the city on the edge of forever, which is sometimes too much and sometimes not enough at all. They'd both known how it could end at the very beginning, and Rodney had made his choices and let everything change him without once looking back.
First read: 24-09-2008.
Notes: 20.000 words. Super extra rec. And, well, WARNING: MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH. I really wish SGA fandom would get into warnings, at least for character death, when you spend not just days with a character (as in a book) but months and even YEARS you appreciate some warning before they are totalled, you know? Ok, now... Rodney is living on Earth, he left the SGC and they have stopped bothering him (constantly) and he's teaching in a backwards college in the middle of nowhere because he has a huge gap in his professional curriculum. This auto-impossed exiled is a way for him to get as far appart from his former life as possible, we soon discover that they were forced to abandone Atlantis after they got rid of the Wraith. To say Rodney holds a grudge against the military/SGC is to say little, he feels they took something the Lanteans had made and appropiated it for a deplorable use. What happened to Atlantis is just the background of the story, though, the real story being told is the one where Rodney makes a new life for himself in the place he least expected, with the things he learned from the people he least expected to learn from (He doesn't say that this class has nothing to do with grades, and nothing even really to do with science, but everything to do with all the things he learned from a man who never lost the habit of eating with his fingers and another man who wanted everyone to believe there wasn't a single intellectual bone in his body until he was ready to let you see inside and a woman who probably couldn't have even passed their eighth grade when he met her.). I was crying almost non-stop because this is hardly an easy journey but it was SO WORTH IT.
DVD commentary: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedom-dvd.html There's a tiny SEQUEL that advances us on what's going on with Rodney fifteen years after "Freedom...": and the band's playing "hail to the chief"
c I practice, he says, falling into Ronon's speech patterns with the ease of long familiarity. He hasn't forgotten how much he misses them, but he forgot most of the reasons why.
c Five and a half years of loving someone, of being loved, as much as you can love in the city on the edge of forever, which is sometimes too much and sometimes not enough at all. They'd both known how it could end at the very beginning, and Rodney had made his choices and let everything change him without once looking back.