Family Meeting take 2

[dr_rodneymckay]

Rodney leaned against the living room wall nearest the front door, arms crossed and looking decidedly Not Happy. When everyone--even the cats, to his private amusement--had settled, he studied them intently; meeting each spouse in the eye before moving on

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[engineer_radek]

Radek sat on the couch and watched Rodney worriedly. So soon after his stroke--barely a week, really--and Rodney was getting wound up again. But Rodney was right--they needed to talk.

When he revealed he was David Hewlett, Radek stared in surprised. One of his favorite Canadian actors...was his husband?! "I believe the American saying is...holy shit."

[dr_macgregor]

"No kidding. You ever seen 'Where the Heart Is?' I can tell you, it was his heart-shaped..."

Rae looked up and the dead silence and flushed bright red.

"Anyhow. Back on topic. Umm. Something no one knows about me?"

She looked back down at her hands. "After my dad died, my mom tried to kill herself. I entered the fiddling contests because I thought if she was proud of me, she'd want to stay around. But she never really cared what I did or where I went."

[engineer_radek]

Radek reached over and took Rae's hand.

[lt_col_sheppard]

John reclined on his end of the couch, Andy purring contentedly on his stomach. He wondered if this was really a good idea--full disclosure of all their dark, awful secrets...did a group marriage really need *that* much sharing? Obviously...but they were going to need more than on night and one case of beer for this. He took a deep swig of the amber bottle in his hand, wondering for the third time just what type of beer it was--most things came in on the Daedalus sans label.

Andy does not appreciate the shower of fine beer droplets he's subjected to when Rodney reveals his secret...John has the fine pinprick clawmarks on his abdomen to prove it. Andy scurries away and scowls at him from behind a pair of his boots--tiny tail flipping angrily.

"*cough...* uh....y-y-uh...yeah. What Radek said. Rodney.....Boa vs. Python?! I mean really! Not that....I mean...you were hot, but...yeah. Shutting up now."

[dr_c_beckett]

Carson wasn't sure what to say. He'd had his suspicions about the acting thing, but he knew what Rodney was really getting after. Can he do this? Feck, man, just say it.

"I find it very difficult to be aroused by, er... strong-willed women. I appreciate their strength and all, but it... doesn't do anything for me sexually."

[lt_col_sheppard]

"here it is" he thinks....what Atlantis had been talking about..apparently what the kitten curled at Rodney's feet had sensed. John watches as Radek's fingers caress Rae's, then moves his eyes to Carson's lonely, fidgeting hands. There are only a few feet between he and Carson, but it seems like miles, especially with Carson's eyes downcast, dark lashes making mournful crescents against his cheeks. John's hand slips beneath Carson's and slides across it, palm to palm, until his husband's fingers open to his.

"sokay" he murmurs, barely a breath, his legs curled beneath him as he now reclines at Carson's knee.

[engineer_radek]

Radek frowns as the implications of Carson's confession become clear. He quickly cuts himself off before the brewing emotional storm can overwhelm him. He finds himself quite suddenly with a lap full of fur and looks down to find Dora had hopped up and was demanding a petting. He obliged.

[dr_macgregor]

Rae had gotten quite good at keeping her face calm, no matter what she felt. Now if only she could get her feelings under control... Ah, but that was part of the problem, wasn't? She was too pushy and controlling for Carson. Fuck, why hadn't he said this before? So she was right... He only loved her when she was submissive, and now that she wouldn't do that with him... A swift, sharp pain lanced through her heart before she could clamp down on it totally. Well, just like she thought earlier. At least friends was better than nothing. She just wouldn't... touch him like that again.

[engineer_radek]

Radek stared down at Dora as he realized that everyone but him had shared. After a long minute, he speaks. "On one of my missions in the Gulf, I was to assassinate this...I do not even know what he was. Military leader, perhaps. I had him in Morena's sight and pulled the trigger as a child no more than twelve stepped into the line of fire. I was aiming for the target's heart. I hit the child's head. The bullet went through and killed the target, but the child..."

He swallowed once, hard. "I later discovered that the child was the man's nephew. He was visiting his uncle for the day. It was completely by chance that he stepped into the line of the bullet. It is the only time I have ever killed a child. It was shortly after that that I began pressing more firmly to be allowed into university."

[dr_macgregor]

Rae immediately put her arms around him. //Oh sweetheart...//

Carson leaned over and put a hand on Radek's knee. "Ye couldn't have known what he'd do, love..."

[lt_col_sheppard]

Words are useless to him now, how can sound shaped with lips and tongue be any comfort to his husband? John doesn't speak, merely follows Carson's lead and leans over, his fingers lacing with Radek's for a moment before he pulls away, his eyes full of mournful understanding.

[dr_rodneymckay]

Rodney wanted to go to Radek. And Rae and John and even Carson, but he forced himself to stay leaning against the wall. This wasn't about him right now. Not really. He was doing this for the benefit of the group. They'd thank him someday. Maybe.

He gave them a couple minutes, taking the time to once again study his spouses. One question...who to ask...what to ask? Finally settling on Rae, he asked something he'd been wondering for a while now.

"Shenzi." He paused. "Rachel...why...how could you accept me? Ignore the fact that technically I'm your boss--hell, I'm everyone but John's boss--why would you ever want me? You had Radek and by the point you ever even showed you could like me as a friend I assume John as well. So why me? What is it about me that seems to draw all you gorgeous men--and woman--to me? I'm also curious as hell what it is about you that even arouses me since women on the whole don't do anything for me, but that's for another time."

[dr_macgregor]

Rae tensed when his gaze settled on her. She blushed when he presumed she'd had John right off the bat, too. How best to put this

[dr_rodneymckay]

Rodney's eyes bore into her, as if reading her very soul. He didn't give his complete focus to one of them--or anything, really--very often but for Rae...yeah

[dr_macgregor]

Rae tried to decide what she wanted to know. Carson was too easy a pick. She had questions, but wasn't sure she could bear the answers right now. She thought about it for a sec, then turned to John.

"John. I know it's different for everybody, but I'm curious... How is making love to each of us different for you? I mean, how... What do you feel for and with each of us?"

[lt_col_sheppard]

John stilled his absentminded stroking of Carson's knee, his legs spread wide in front of him, toes nearly touching Radek and Rae's feet across from him. He'd been nodding vacant-eyed, silently agreeing with every word Rachel spoke, remembering for a few minutes, the Sheppard of years ago. The one that became so completely enamoured of the scientist he was meant to protect that everything else had ceased to matter until he'd broken through that icy, unapproachable shell and found his Rodney. Rachel suprises him with the question--he's still reeling from Radek's confession, coasting to a smoother place after ten minutes of roller-coaster emotion

[lt_col_sheppard]

"no, really--Rodney was....Rodney was and is a force of nature. He drew me in, and hasn't let me rest from him since. I mean that in the nicest way possible. Being with Rodney is like....it's like standing naked in a whirlwind...sometimes it's a little scary, but God it's worth it for the experience alone.

You, Rach...." John wriggles his toes against the bottom of Rachel's foot before sliding up to her ankle, letting the flat of his foot rest against her skin.

"with you, obviously it's anatomically, different...where our husbands are hard and rough, you're soft and smooth--where they laugh off a touch, or wriggle and slap at me, you arch up and moan and make breathy little sounds. Being inside Radek or Carson.." John gives Rodney a significant glare, eyes drifting down to his husband's backside and back to his eyes again.

"being inside them is all warmth and friction, not really unlike you, so much as....just different. You're enfolding, welcoming always, sweet and soft and slick. And sometimes it can be like that with the

[dr_macgregor]

She smiles as John describes them. It's wonderful, the smile he shares with Radek, so warm and loving... Her smile only falters a little when he describes Carson.

Being with Carson is always like being home.It's a good thing he's teasing Rodney, getting hit with a pillow. It takes to focus off of her as she just barely manages to suppress the flash of loss, and a little jealousy. Yeah, giving and loving, enjoys being with you. Apparently only if you're tied up or have a dick. She focuses again on what he's saying, how he describes Rodney, and the smile is back in full force