buddy challenge coding post: somehowunbroken

somehowunbroken

buddy challenge coding post

May 26, 2011 01:54

001.bite
John examined the faded bite marks in the mirror and shuddered, hoping he never had to do anything as unpleasant as turn into a bug again.
002.reflection
“Thank God for reflectivity,” Rodney said, turning to shoot the Wraith sneaking up behind him that he’d seen in the lake beside him.
003.shoot
“I want to shoot that bastard in the face,” John decided, after receiving a coded message from Todd saying the he had ‘accidentally’ let Atlantis’s new location slip.
004.shout
“Incompetence,” Rodney declared, his voice rising to a shout, “I am surrounded by INCOMPETENCE.”

005.explanation
Ronon had wondered about John’s adversity to talking about emotions right up until he was pressed against a wall, John’s lips on his; that’s when he decided no explanation was required.
006.caught
Rodney’s jacket caught on the branch and he twisted furiously, firing behind him to slow his attacker while he got himself free, then declared himself a BAMF when he noticed the Wraith was dead.
007.spring
“Why does it always have to be spring somewhere?” Daniel asked, wiping his nose after sneezing yet again on M9Y-238.
008.open
“That, Sheppard, is exactly why I hate wide open spaces, because you’re alone one second, and the next you’re being shot at,” Rodney fumed, waving his arms around to emphasize his point.

009.slow
Ronon slowed his breathing and focused his mind, thinking he’d declare this meditation session a success if he stayed awake through the whole thing.
010.listen
“I swear, we would have far fewer brushes with death if people would just listen to me when I open my mouth; I am highly intelligent, you know,” Rodney pointed out, brushing off the debris from their latest firefight with the Wraith.
011.flicker
The candle flickered, dancing patterns across the ceiling of Ronon’s room that he watched, trying not to be reminded of what the fire had done to his home.
012.future
“Well,” Rodney began, “maybe in the future you will learn that I am smarter than you, you should do what I tell you to do, and we can avoid tiny accidents like cloning people.”

013.fate
Ronon didn’t believe it fate, never had, especially not since his home had been destroyed and he’d been made a runner, but as he looked into John’s eyes and kissed him, he thought maybe he could understand people who did.
014.found
“I found it,” Zelenka shouted, waving McKay’s data pad in the air as he ran to return it to the head scientist, thus avoiding the deaths of at least half of the science staff on Atlantis.
015.insult
“If that was supposed to insult me, McKay, you’re going to have to try harder than ‘Neanderthal,’ which you’ve been calling me for months,” Ronon explained, smiling in amusement as McKay sputtered, obviously unaware that Ronon had known about the nickname.
016.safe
The firefight ended; once again the members of Team Sheppard were left standing and the enemies were on the ground, and sometimes John couldn’t believe they could all stay safe for so long.

017.wedding
“The best thing about weddings is the cake,” Rodney explained to Teyla, “unless the couple is awful and gets red velvet cake, which is the worst kind of cake ever, seriously, who wants red food dye on their wedding day?”
018.unexpected
John had been waiting for the day Ronon would kiss him for about six months before it happened, but how much John would end up needing Ronon six months afterwards, well that was unexpected.
019.smoke
When Ronon closed his eyes and thought about Sateda, he thought about the open fields of his childhood and the drunken nights with his unit, not about the smoke-filled final days when everything fell apart.
020.temple
“It seems like some sort of Ancient-worshipping culture, but I can’t figure out where the energy signature is coming from or what it belongs to,” Rodney mumbled, right before the statue in the middle of the temple started talking to him.

021.shelter
John took off his jacket and held it over his head even though he was already soaked through, hoping that he might be able to see for long enough to find some sort of shelter from the apparent hurricane on P3X-4K9.
022.silence
“I hate silence,” Rodney whispered into the darkness, “because nothing good ever happens after periods of silence unless the silence is happening while I am asleep alone in my room in Atlantis, and even then when it’s over I have to wake up and deal with you idiots again.”
023.flower
“But Major Lorne,” Parrish argued, “this flower specimen is almost a perfect replica of earth’s Rhododendron Catawbiense; it would be foolish not to study this as it could provide us with evidence of convergent evolution in plants on different worlds!”
024.hug
Ronon had insisted that he didn’t want help, but he hugged Carson for all he was worth, unsure of how else to thank the man who had now made his nightmare end twice.

025.revenge
Ronon had sworn revenge on the Wraith for the loss of his family, his home world, seven years of his life, many marines from Atlantis, Tyre and Ara, and he planned to spend the rest of his life exacting that revenge as often and as painfully as possible.
026.stay
"If we stay to this side of the river, we shouldn't run into any - oh no, run!"
027.envy
Vala didn't envy the Earthers anything, except their ability to leave the base whenever they wanted.
028.animal
The animal looked like a kitten - fluffy, pointy ears, curious blue eyes, playful, slightly awkward pouncing - except for the fact that it was roughly thirteen feet tall, so they ran back for the Gate pretty quickly.

029.share
John frowns as Cam leans over to play with their new niece and her attention drifts to Cam's face; he doesn't want to share her, not just yet.
030.charity
"I don't need your charity," Todd hissed as John offered him the chance to take the feeding drug once again; Wraith have pride, after all.
031.comfort
It's about comfort, this thing with Cam, two guys turning to each other when they couldn't turn anywhere else - or it was, at one point; John's not so sure any more.
032.click
Daniel knelt behind a boulder, holding his breath, and he didn't move until the click-click-click of boots faded into the distance.

033.game
Game night is sometimes held in place of movie night; Rodney likes Monopoly, Teyla's fond of Sorry, Ronon gets ridiculously good at Parcheesi, and John just smiles and enjoys their company no matter what they're playing - it's not about the game, it's about the family.
034.after
It's later, after all the missions and the fighting, after the scares and the I-almost-lost-yous, after the fear and calm and all of it, it's so much later when John looks back and thinks, I did some good, after all.
035.touch
It was just a simple thing, a clap of Cam's hand on his shoulder and a quick, easy grin, but John felt like that touch was the start of everything.
036.stab
"Thrust-parry-stab," Evan mutters as he dances around by himself in the gym, dagger in hand, moving through the katas he's known for years as if they're a deadly dance.

037.partner
There's a lot he's had to give up to get here - his career, any chance of reconciling with his brother, a few friends, pretty much all he's ever known, to be honest - but as John looks around at the house he's just moved into with Cam, his partner's beaming face, the way he's gesturing broadly and talking about blinds while he's clunking his - their - pots and pans into cabinets, John doesn't have a doubt that he made the right choice.
038.jump
It doesn't look like that far to jump, Evan thinks as he gauges the distance between one rock and the next with trepidation; he just hopes he's right.
039.bonds
The bonds holding his wrists to the pole behind his back aren't too tight, and if he were a betting man, Cam would lay odds on his captor tying them loosely on purpose; he'd seen the spark of interest in the other man's eyes when Cam had casually mentioned the possibility of overthrowing the local tyrannical regime.
040.family
There's family, John thinks the first time he walks into Cam's parents' house at Christmas, and then there's thins chaos, but Cam sweeps in with a shout and a laugh and hugs all around and, okay, it's not so bad after that.

041.concern
"This doesn't concern you," Woolsey tries to tell him, but John barges past him and unlocks Lorne's cuffs before they can shove him through the Gate, and dares everyone around him with a glare to interfere as he tosses a protective arm over Lorne's shoulders and leads him away.
042.gloat
"Don't gloat," John groans as his last shot goes wide, but Torren's seven-year-old eyes light with glee as the basketball misses its mark entirely, and John hides his smile as the boy whoops around the court.
043.hollow
It's a hollow feeling, having to leave someone behind, which is why John's so committed to bringing everyone home.
044.cuddle
If John had given it thought, any thought at all, he wouldn't be so surprised when it turns out that Cam launches a sneak cuddle attack in the middle of the night, arms tossed heavy across his chest, legs twined together when they wake; as it is, he just smiles and brushes his lips against Cam's temple fondly and snuggles in to go back to sleep.

045.dark
0428 is a miserable hour, dark and quiet, but it's the only time that John has to sneak away from his duties and down to the kitchens on Atlantis, so that's when he goes to bake Torren's very first birthday cake.
046.surprise
Surprise is a good look on John, Cam decides, especially right now, when it's mixed with wonder and awe and something that fiercely resembles joy and definitely, definitely says yes.
047.sound
The sound is small, almost too small to hear, but Teyla has been trained for such thing, so she springs lightly out of bed and to her feet and goes out into the night to find out what it is.
048.harm
"No harm will come to him," the Nalarians assure the rest of the team, but none of them take their hands from their weapons until John is returned to them, safe and whole and, yes, unharmed.

049.sweet
Victory isn't always sweet, John thinks as he looks over the field, burnt and black and dead; sometimes the only good thing about it is being left to tell everyone else that you won.
050.breeze
The breeze is gentle, quiet, and it ruffles John's hair, waking him up from his nap, but as his eyes meet Cam's, he decides that he doesn't mind.
051.tea
People always looked twice when Sam ordered tea, maybe she looked like a coffee person, but truth was nothing ended her day better than a cup of steaming hot chamomile tea.
052.shock
Needless to say the look of shock on Daniel’s face was completely expected, especially since he walked into Cameron’s office the same moment John decided to teach Cam how the natives of PX7-343 kiss hello.

053.betrayal
“I can’t believe you dumped me?” Sam said, the betrayal she felt ran deep, Cam just traded her as his pool partner for Vala; he shrugged and smiled before dodging a playful smack to his shoulder.
054.war
The prank war between Sam and Cam was going on twelve years, Sam started it just after they met, but today was Cam’s turn and he was about to get her good with this one, when she saw what he did to her house, she’d have to name him the winner-- until she got him back of course.
055.protect
Looking down into the face of their newborn son, John’s natural instinct to protect intensified ten-fold; at that moment John realized he’d do anything to keep his family safe.
056.alley
Sitting at the bar nursing a beer while he waited for Cam, John recalled the first night they met; after saying their respective goodbyes they secretly met in the alley behind the bar and came together in a frantic kiss, the attraction had been undeniable then-- it still is.

057.apology
Vala looked up from the bundle in her arms and smiled at Daniel as he walked into the nursery, it was her way of telling him apology accepted.
058.fire
She was never afraid of fire, not until her first encounter with the Ori, breathing heavily, Vala groped around in the dark for something to chase away her nightmares, she found the plush giraffe and picked it up from the floor, she kissed it on the nose, and snuggled into Daniel and promptly fell back to sleep.
059.candy
She closely examined the fluffy pink cloud in her hand; the first time she tried it was here at the fair two days ago, now she’s back and all Vala could think about was the taste of the cotton candy as it melted in her mouth.
060.drink
Sam swirled the drink in her hand, she’d been nursing the same drink for twenty minutes now, she hated these Air Force schmooze fests, but with rank came this wonderful privilege, downing her drink, she braced herself for the onslaught coming her way in the form of General Collins.

061.shower
As water from the showerhead poured over him John thought, getting a dog probably wasn’t the best idea, but even as he sat fully clothed in the shower wrestling with their dog to keep him still, when Cam suggested it, John could only agree.
062.snow
The thought of his warm bed, hot chocolate, and a sleepy John kept Cam going as he shoveled the snow piling outside his house.
063.silk
Slipping into her silk nightie, Sam smiled, her girls only shopping trips to Victoria’s Secret with Vala were worth the ribbings she took from Jack, especially when she got to model the goods for him, later.
064.pen
Daniel could have killed Vala, he glared at her in hopes she would stop the suggestive pen play, but his glower only seemed to fuel her mischief, she smiled and continued to tease him with her pen.

065.shield
John would give anything for the personal shield he and Rodney found back on Atlantis that first year, currently Trent Davies, number one sycophant, and member of Sheppard Industries board of directors was shaking his hand, and thumping his back in an enthusiastic greeting.
066.fight
It seemed all they did was fight, but to Vala fighting with her Daniel was akin to foreplay, she would get him riled up to the point where he’d take her by the hand and march her back to their on base quarters, and by the time Vala was tucked into Daniel’s side, she’d have forgotten what the fight was about.
067.hate
Cam hated mission reports, he especially hated mission reports from Pegasus, he hated the way his heart leapt into his throat every time he read John’s name.
068.happiness
It seemed such a distant thing sometimes, something he wasn’t meant to have, but sitting on the sofa curled up with Cam, John thought this happiness ‘thing’ was definitely something he could get used to.

069.shrug
When Cam asked John about Atlantis’ reassignment as Earth’s new moon base, he just shrugged in that nonchalant way of his, and Cam knew by what John didn’t say that the decision to essentially recall the expedition hurt John more than he was willing to admit.
070.lecture
Vala rolled her eyes and effectively tuned Daniel out by mentally undressing him as he proceeded to lecture her about appropriate off-world behavior.
071.thoughts
Inappropriate thoughts of Vala seemed to invade Daniel’s mind at the most inopportune times; he squinted his eyes and focused intently on what General Landry said, otherwise he’d have been this close to embarrassing himself.
072.vows
When John was first married, he recited the standard vows, now that he was getting married again, this time was different, he felt different, his vows to Cameron needed to come from his heart, they needed to say everything wasn’t able to say on his own.

073.laughter
John laughed as he and Cam wrestled for control of the remote, at the sound, Cam decided that the feeling that came from hearing John’s laughter ranked right up there with flying.
074.hair
To the average onlooker it looked prickly and unapproachable, but Cam knew better, he knew from the first moment he ran his fingers through it, John’s hair would be incredibly soft to the touch
075.gentle
It was the gentle way that Cam held his newborn niece that made John realize that somewhere deep inside he wanted to look on as Cam held their own child that way.
076.paper