TEAM AWAY: Zero tolerance, "Never Going Home"

[fluffyllama]

Title: Never Going Home
Author: bluflamingo
Team: Away
Prompt: Zero tolerance
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
Summary: John believes in miracles, in last minute saves, in the impossible. He's lived all of them. He also believes in small, random things that kill people; in the end you don't see coming, in the impossible-in-a-bad-way

Comments

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

[sgamadison]

Oh dear. This story was devastating. Beautiful, brilliant but devastating. I think I broke something reading it. Masterfully done.

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

[ex_kisa_haw]

Oh, ouch. Well done.

[bluflamingo]

Thanks!

[lavvyan]

The shudder when Rodney put his arms round John, pulling him close, was totally because he hadn’t taken his evening pills on time.

Awww! Of course it is. ♥

This is almost stupidly happy-making. :D

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

Awww! Of course it is.

Totally :)

[incidental_fire]

Oh, oh. This was just marvelous. John would absolutely be broken in that way if he had to leave like this. You perfectly captured his, "if I don't think about it, it doesn't exist," method of coping with emotions. And he bought a house for his team. I was going to quote sections that I particularly loved, but I started to lose track after the fourth or fifth. I'm so happy that you gave them a happy ending, but a reasonably realistic one, not an antidote so John could go back, but a way to bring as much as possible of Atlantis to him (Ronon & Teyla coming to visit!). Just lovely and wonderfully done.

[bluflamingo]

Thank you!

I'm so happy that you gave them a happy ending

I love happy endings, though this may have been the first thing I ever wrote where I knew how it was going to end happily before I started it.