Fic: Comes Wisdom (Abandonment Challenge / Amnesty 2006)
Author:
sheafrotherdonPairing: McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I own nothing, but do enjoy playing in the sandbox
Summary: 'In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' Aeschylus,
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Thank you so, so much!
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Thank you, sweets! ♥
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>And the gardens are gone; understanding slips into their place. There's knowledge still rusting beneath his fingernails and the world's expanding, universe spinning, growing, another galaxy and - other people, not his parents, Jeannie came back, hit him, his head, his ear, hugged him and - Samantha, Sam, Elizabeth, women who . . . Jackson, O'Neill, wormholes and energy to stretch between worlds and -
"Rodney. Listen to me, dammit . . ."
Warmth - a new sun, a new star? Belonging, a niche, a place called home with a bed too small and Teyla, Ford, Teyla, Teyla, Ronon, Carson, Zelenka, Ronon, Ronon and - "John . . ."<
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>"I thought you were - that you were - " Rodney tilts his chin, setting his shoulders in defiance. "You're capable of great kindness around . . . children and the infirm and people who, in general, don't shoot us or maim us, and I thought perhaps - "<
and definitely the closing lines.
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*sniffle*
This is terrible and beautiful; I see more than a few visits to Heightmeyer in the near future.
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Thank you! ♥ ♥
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