Ellis Island by meyerlemon (PG)
Rec Category: Het
Pairing: Aiden Ford/Kate Heightmayer, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard, hinted Elizabeth Weir/Rodney McKay
Category: Het, Apocafic, Aiden Ford, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan & John Sheppard friendship, Kate Heightmayer, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Angst, Sad, Aiden Ford/Kate Heightmayer, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard, hinted Elizabeth Weir/Rodney McKay, character study
Warning: pre-fic character death
Author on LJ: http://meyerlemon.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/479061/meyerlemon
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2477728/1/Ellis_Island
Why This Must Be Read: This story starts on a bleakly sad note; Atlantis has been lost and many died in the evacuation. Yet the author evokes a growing sense of hope and new beginnings as she moves from the perspective of Aiden Ford to Kate Heightmayer (this story is also exceptional for giving these two rarely used characters equal time to the leads) to Rodney to John. The tentative relationships are neither the point of the story nor an afterthought, but rather the natural outcome of the intersections of these people's emotional development. The author's characterizations are exquisite, despite this haunting story's shortness. I won't soon forget the image of Rodney tending the graves or the beauty of the moment in which John finally allows himself to show weakness and let Teyla comfort him.
Pairing: Aiden Ford/Kate Heightmayer, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard, hinted Elizabeth Weir/Rodney McKay
Category: Het, Apocafic, Aiden Ford, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan & John Sheppard friendship, Kate Heightmayer, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Angst, Sad, Aiden Ford/Kate Heightmayer, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard, hinted Elizabeth Weir/Rodney McKay, character study
Warning: pre-fic character death
Author on LJ: http://meyerlemon.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/479061/meyerlemon
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2477728/1/Ellis_Island
Why This Must Be Read: This story starts on a bleakly sad note; Atlantis has been lost and many died in the evacuation. Yet the author evokes a growing sense of hope and new beginnings as she moves from the perspective of Aiden Ford to Kate Heightmayer (this story is also exceptional for giving these two rarely used characters equal time to the leads) to Rodney to John. The tentative relationships are neither the point of the story nor an afterthought, but rather the natural outcome of the intersections of these people's emotional development. The author's characterizations are exquisite, despite this haunting story's shortness. I won't soon forget the image of Rodney tending the graves or the beauty of the moment in which John finally allows himself to show weakness and let Teyla comfort him.