Endings Unexpctedly Happy by Mira (Mirabile_dictu) (M)
Show: SGA
Rec Category: OT4
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Evan Lorne, Torren Emmagan, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Ronon Dex
Categories: multi
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: mirabile_dictu
Author's Website: see the AO3
Link: Endings Unexpectedly Happy on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is one of Mira's lovely post-apocalyptic stories which is nonetheless, as the title says, unexpectedly happy. Forced by the Wraith to flee Atlantis, the team have formed an extended family and put down roots elsewhere in Pegasus. I love how they've all matured and the lovely complexity of their relationships and the lives they've made. Mira's stories like this one, set in these kind of 'exiled from Atlantis' 'verses aren't straightforwardly happy at all, but to me, they're comfort fic of the best and most real kind.
The weight of the afternoon air grew heavier and wetter, as warm as Rodney's hand on John's chest as they kissed, slower, until Rodney sighed and rested his head on John's shoulder. John curled a hand around Rodney's sweaty neck, and yawned. Rodney hummed something, a buzzy sound against John's skin, and abruptly fell asleep.
John sighed, and closed his eyes, and slid back into a half-doze, the sound of Rodney's breathing, his own breath, the slow rise and fall of the tide, the slower turn of this world they'd run to, all blending into John's own heartbeat.
In John's dreams, he saw again he and his team fleeing in a stolen puddle jumper; he saw smoke and steam rising from Atlantis as they circled away, heading to the nearest orbital stargate and into the black of the Pegasus Galaxy, so thick with worlds yet so thin with stars. He never dreamt of their long search for a new home; he never dreamt of their failed attempts to retake Atlantis, to negotiate with the Wraith, to find allies with which to fight. He dreamt that they'd flown straight here, to this empty world of lopsided atolls and shallow lagoons; he dreamt that he'd moved directly from his narrow bed in Atlantis to endless afternoons sleeping next to Rodney.
Rec Category: OT4
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Evan Lorne, Torren Emmagan, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Ronon Dex
Categories: multi
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: mirabile_dictu
Author's Website: see the AO3
Link: Endings Unexpectedly Happy on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is one of Mira's lovely post-apocalyptic stories which is nonetheless, as the title says, unexpectedly happy. Forced by the Wraith to flee Atlantis, the team have formed an extended family and put down roots elsewhere in Pegasus. I love how they've all matured and the lovely complexity of their relationships and the lives they've made. Mira's stories like this one, set in these kind of 'exiled from Atlantis' 'verses aren't straightforwardly happy at all, but to me, they're comfort fic of the best and most real kind.
The weight of the afternoon air grew heavier and wetter, as warm as Rodney's hand on John's chest as they kissed, slower, until Rodney sighed and rested his head on John's shoulder. John curled a hand around Rodney's sweaty neck, and yawned. Rodney hummed something, a buzzy sound against John's skin, and abruptly fell asleep.
John sighed, and closed his eyes, and slid back into a half-doze, the sound of Rodney's breathing, his own breath, the slow rise and fall of the tide, the slower turn of this world they'd run to, all blending into John's own heartbeat.
In John's dreams, he saw again he and his team fleeing in a stolen puddle jumper; he saw smoke and steam rising from Atlantis as they circled away, heading to the nearest orbital stargate and into the black of the Pegasus Galaxy, so thick with worlds yet so thin with stars. He never dreamt of their long search for a new home; he never dreamt of their failed attempts to retake Atlantis, to negotiate with the Wraith, to find allies with which to fight. He dreamt that they'd flown straight here, to this empty world of lopsided atolls and shallow lagoons; he dreamt that he'd moved directly from his narrow bed in Atlantis to endless afternoons sleeping next to Rodney.