"Why Here?" (atatteredrose in the SGU fic exchange)

[rodlox]

Title: “Why here?”
Author: Keenir.

Rating: PG-13
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Nicholas Rush, Vanessa James.

Spoiler(s): the Pilot episode.
Word Count: an even 1,017

Written for atatteredroseRequest

Comments

[rodlox]

thank you.
(both for the compliment and the pointing out)

I changed it, adding a backhanded one - that he, a Scot, was a more authentic Irishman than the descendants of Irishmen and wanna-be-descendants...

many thanks to you.

[anonymous]

Ah, but part of the Highland-Lowland divide in Scotland is due to the language barrier. The Lowland Scots complained about the Highlanders speaking Erse, i.e. Irish.

[rodlox]

I knew about the Scots-Irish in Ireland (and some moved from there to the Colonies)...but not about that aspect of the Highland/Lowland divide.

thank you for sharing that.

[elliev]

Oft have I noted that the Kennedys, as the most famous example, haven't been actually Irish for well over a century.

[rodlox]

:)
thank you.
(and yep)

[elliev]

Friend reports a conversation where this bloke was talking about the 'Old Country' (i.e. Ireland). She asked when he immigrated to the US and he said his family arrived on a famine ship in the 1840s!

[tabaqui]

Ah, cute. I can't really see Rush and anyone, but this rather convinced me that James just might pique his curiosity. Well done! :)

[rodlox]

thank you.

I don't think I'm capable of writing them platonically - I tried here, after all.
(that said, I agree with your assessment)

thank you, and have nice days.

[elliev]

I have a little James-Rush scene coming up in one of my fics. No relationship but there's a conversation. They do little with James, sadly.

[rodlox]

I have this fear that, if they did more with James, she'd become at least as screwed-up as Scott.

conversations are always good. (though that's all I was aiming for in this fic)

[gelbes_gilatier]

Yay, finally something new Rush/James from you (and yay, I finally got to read it...)! Love the banter and the parts of the dialogue that weren't said. And of course the ending... it's just perfect ;)