new SGU fic and artwork: The Needle
Title: The Needle
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG
Content Flags: hankie warning
Characters: Everett Young, Tamara Johansen
Word Count: 410
Excerpt: Deep down I guess I don’t believe in Christmas.
Author's/ Artist's Notes: Written for the Gifts & Cozy Challenge at stargatecountry. I was assigned the character of Everett Young, giving a gift to Tamara Johansen. This story takes place shortly after the crew comes out of stasis, some three years after the end of Season 2. The companion artwork is below.
Disclaimer: I don't own SGU. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Young... Young I'd know what to do with. ;-)
Thanks for reading! Feedback = Love. ;-)
Please leave comments here at my LJ if it's not too much trouble.
oOo
The Needle
TJ,
It’s Christmas - our first Christmas after arriving in the new galaxy and coming out of the stasis pods, and I have a gift for you. I’ve never really celebrated, and deep down I guess I don’t believe in Christmas, but yesterday I was watching the kino recordings from the other “us” who lived on Novus two thousand years ago.
You - the other you - talked in your kino journal, about how she and the other Everett got back together. Apparently he sustained a serious wound building shelters for his crew. It was a large gash on his shin - it looked pretty bad. According to the records Brody was pressed into service to fashion a needle out of a hair pin, and with the aid of some sinew from an animal that Greer - the other Greer - had killed, your alternate stitched him back up.
She said he was grateful despite the pain, and the stitching probably hurt almost as much as the wound, and they talked. And then it happened, and the time was just right.
He almost died from complications, but she nursed him back to health and soon after that she was pregnant.
I have no hopes - and no right - that you’d ever feel the same way about me. Ultimately, I want you to be happy, with whoever your heart chooses.
And so here is a needle for you. It’s from my field repair kit - I used to darn my socks with it. I think it will do far more good in your hands, for the next time you save somebody who probably doesn’t deserve your expertise either - because how could we ever repay you?
I don’t know when you will get this message - or my small gift - because we decided to keep you in cryogenic suspension, hoping to delay the onset of the terrible disease that is even now eating away at you. If there is a cure we will find it - I promise you that. Along with the usual work crews, we now also have a round-the-clock team sifting through Destiny’s data banks and the files from the Teneran Archives.
Everyone wants the best for you and would give whatever was necessary so that you can be healthy and live.
For now, all I can bring you is this needle, and I’m leaving it on the edge of your chamber, as a small token of gratitude and acceptance.
Rest peacefully now.
I love you.
Everett
oOo
Companion Artwork: The Needle
(click on the thumbnail for a large version)
Screencaps by krissiecaps
Graphic artwork by Colin Michael Shaw
Public domain image by NASA
.
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG
Content Flags: hankie warning
Characters: Everett Young, Tamara Johansen
Word Count: 410
Excerpt: Deep down I guess I don’t believe in Christmas.
Author's/ Artist's Notes: Written for the Gifts & Cozy Challenge at stargatecountry. I was assigned the character of Everett Young, giving a gift to Tamara Johansen. This story takes place shortly after the crew comes out of stasis, some three years after the end of Season 2. The companion artwork is below.
Disclaimer: I don't own SGU. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Young... Young I'd know what to do with. ;-)
Thanks for reading! Feedback = Love. ;-)
Please leave comments here at my LJ if it's not too much trouble.
oOo
The Needle
TJ,
It’s Christmas - our first Christmas after arriving in the new galaxy and coming out of the stasis pods, and I have a gift for you. I’ve never really celebrated, and deep down I guess I don’t believe in Christmas, but yesterday I was watching the kino recordings from the other “us” who lived on Novus two thousand years ago.
You - the other you - talked in your kino journal, about how she and the other Everett got back together. Apparently he sustained a serious wound building shelters for his crew. It was a large gash on his shin - it looked pretty bad. According to the records Brody was pressed into service to fashion a needle out of a hair pin, and with the aid of some sinew from an animal that Greer - the other Greer - had killed, your alternate stitched him back up.
She said he was grateful despite the pain, and the stitching probably hurt almost as much as the wound, and they talked. And then it happened, and the time was just right.
He almost died from complications, but she nursed him back to health and soon after that she was pregnant.
I have no hopes - and no right - that you’d ever feel the same way about me. Ultimately, I want you to be happy, with whoever your heart chooses.
And so here is a needle for you. It’s from my field repair kit - I used to darn my socks with it. I think it will do far more good in your hands, for the next time you save somebody who probably doesn’t deserve your expertise either - because how could we ever repay you?
I don’t know when you will get this message - or my small gift - because we decided to keep you in cryogenic suspension, hoping to delay the onset of the terrible disease that is even now eating away at you. If there is a cure we will find it - I promise you that. Along with the usual work crews, we now also have a round-the-clock team sifting through Destiny’s data banks and the files from the Teneran Archives.
Everyone wants the best for you and would give whatever was necessary so that you can be healthy and live.
For now, all I can bring you is this needle, and I’m leaving it on the edge of your chamber, as a small token of gratitude and acceptance.
Rest peacefully now.
I love you.
Everett
oOo
Companion Artwork: The Needle
(click on the thumbnail for a large version)
Screencaps by krissiecaps
Graphic artwork by Colin Michael Shaw
Public domain image by NASA
.