Reality Organization (Chuang Chou's Dream Remix) [SGA; John Sheppard/Rodney McKay; PG]

[steelydanrydell]

Title: Reality Organization (Chuang Chou's Dream Remix)
Author: ekaterinn
Summary: This slice of time and space. This reality. Yes.
Rating: PG
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Original Story: [shift] Reality and the AU Scene by gblvr.
Author's Note: The title and the section headings are taken from Albert Goldbarth's poem, "Reality Organization". Thanks to alimaaneal for

Comments

[ekaterinn]

Hi - sorry for the late reply, I've been tremendously busy, and it slipped my mind! I'm so glad you liked it - I wanted to remix [shift] Reality from the very beginning but it took me sometime to figure out how to do it without losing the delightful ambiguity of the original. Thank you!

[celli]

I hope he dreams of Atlantis too. :) This is so (bitter)sweet.

[almostnever]

I want to stay here forever. Rodney tilted his head and slid his mouth along mine. I don't know if I was breathing. This slice of time and space. This reality. Yes.

So lovely.

I appreciate that you give us John's point of view here, still leave some hope that the "dreams" of Atlantis are their true reality, and yet leave it completely ambiguous in the end. That's a lot of balls to juggle, but they're all in sync here.

[cupidsbow]

It's the bittersweetness of this story that gets me every time, and the way you've turned it so that now it taps into John's need to leave-no-man-behind hurts in the best way.

[anatsuno]

Oh, John. ♥