Still Water by Rachael Sabotini (Amnesty challenge)

[wickedwords]

Challenge: Amnesty Challenge (Swimming/Wet and City Exploration)
Title: Still Water
Author: Rachael Sabotini
Summary: "We found a bath house?"
Adult, Sheppard/McKay, 6800 words

ETA Dec 5, 2005: fatuorum made a beautiful cover for the story.

Lots of thanks to mmmchelle, elynross and sherrold for doing the beta on this. No money made, no harm intended. All mistakes are my own. I

Comments

[cynnamon37]

Wow, that was just wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

[wickedwords]

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.

[aclarar]

how very nice.

[wickedwords]

Thank you!

[astolat]

*happy sigh* This was a really nice way to do tension even with an established relationship -- felt real, that they'd be flying apart like this, and felt great when they found their way back together. yay!

[wickedwords]

Originally, it was supposed to be a first time, but that kinda got dropped as the angst and emotional torment crept in. Thanks!

[sundara]

Oh yeah. I'm mush. Lovely bathing pools, realistic guys and guy behavior, and totally fabulous sex. What more is there?

[wickedwords]

I loved making up the bathhouse. I should find the 'dry well' picture that inspired my variation and post it sometime; it really was too cool. And yay! I'm glad you liked it.

[darkhavens]

Delicious. A polite Rodney is a scary Rodney. Not good at all. ;)

[wickedwords]

There's this thing about Rodney's curmudgeonly behavior in that it can be fun and not really all that threatening, or it can be sharp and surgical and really tear someone up. I kinda backed into having him do that to John, but I think they could have some amazing, gut-wrenching arguments.