Fifteen Years (SGA/SG-1, Cam/John, R)

[skieswideopen]

Title: Fifteen Years
Recipient's name: slybrarian
Prompts: Bonding over spaceships/weapons/things that go boom, coming out, Rodney voicing opinion upon their relationship. (I think I got all three, though the second and third more than the first.) I hope this doesn't constitute unwarranted angsting.
Word Count: ~6500
Rating: R
Warnings: Minor spoilers for

Comments

[ratcreature]

I really liked them expanding their relationship,and that Rodney tried to look out for John. (I stumbled over the measles for Madison though, because I think they aren't endemic in North America anymore and since 2002 the only cases have been from people importing them from other regions, so it's an unlikely disease for her to get in Canada, even if she wasn't vaccinated?)

[skieswideopen]

I see your point about the measles. It's definitely true that measles is fairly rare now in Canada. However, the rates have been going up in other places (e.g., the UK) thanks in part to anti-vaccine propaganda, and since there have been outbreaks in Canada (Montreal in 2007, for example) and since it's not unreasonable to think that Vancouver receives international visitors, I think it could be argued to be plausible. On the other hand, if it's throwing people out, maybe I should just change it to a generic "sick."

Thanks for your feedback!

[ratcreature]

She could have scarlet fever. That is potentially dangerous without treatment with antibiotics, very infectious, you can carry it and infect others without showing symptoms (I missed my first day of school because I was quarantined for it and I wasn't even sick which sucked for a six year old), and you can get it more than once and there is no vaccine and it is typical for children, so it would definitely fit without being vague like "sick".

I also stumbled over the measles thing, because despite having married the infamous English major Jeannie doesn't strike me as an anti-vaccination kind of parent, I mean, science is overwhelmingly on the pro-vaccination side.

[skieswideopen]

I agree Jeannie wouldn't be anti-vaccine, but vaccines don't always take. That's why herd immunity is so important! (I have personal experience with this--my parents were careful to make sure I got every vaccine on time, but I still managed to develop pertussis, which they still rate as one of their worst experiences ever in raising children.)

But that's all pretty complicated for one line in a story. :)

Scarlet fever is a possibility (I had that one too!). Thanks for the suggestion.

[ratcreature]

Yeah I know there's a small chance of it not working, I've had some vaccination arguments with my parents once I understood them, because my mother in particular was irrationally opposed to vaccinations, whereas I would have rather gotten properly vaccinated like the information brochures I got sent home with from school said I should. (Eventually I drew the line as a teenager when there was small polio outbreak in a neighboring country, and I got the vaccinations on my own. But as a little kid you are just at the mercy of your parents with the medical stuff