First Aid by 2ndary_author (scars challenge)

[2ndary_author]

Title: First Aid
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, McKay (Sheppard/McKay?)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2140-ish words
Notes: Not really a missing scene, but takes place during the events of  "The Rising, Part 1" at the SGC base in Antarctica; epigraph by Christiaan Barnard
Disclaimer: don't own, don't profit, only the

Comments

[bratfarrar]

Oh, that's cool.

The second is post-traumatic stress, much?, because he’s been a military contractor for long enough to know it when it lands on him out of a sound sleep.

I like this, because - yes, and ouch.

Aaand this is probably my most incoherent comment to date. So I'll shut up now.

[2ndary_author]

See, with a prompt like 'scars,' no character escapes my fics unscathed! *evil laughter* But I'm really glad you liked it!

[tesserae_]

Oh, this was nice - great take on the challenge, and you catch the voices so clearly all the way through. And I liked the way you brought it around to the piano, at the end...

[2ndary_author]

Thanks! Turns out there was a previous fic for this challenge, also about the piano thing, and really good. Nothing new under the sun:)

[skeddy_kat]

I liked this a lot.

[2ndary_author]

Thanks!

[mollya]

Loved it.

[2ndary_author]

oh, good! thanks for commenting

[zee]

Oh, I really, really like this. ... Aaand I'm apparently sub-verbal tonight. I've been trying, for a solid five minutes, to express why I enjoyed it so much, with no luck. It's - you have that rare ability with words to create images that linger in the reader's mind. i.e. I feel like I was there, dude, complete with sense memories.

[zee]

One question, on re-reading. This is set in Antarctica? AU?

[2ndary_author]

Mentally, I kind of had it set after JS activates the chair, but before the Earthlings go through the gate for the first time. So it's not exactly pre-show...or is it? In canon, I guess it would fall right in the middle of 'The Rising, part 1'The SG1 has a top sekrit base in Antarctica, yes? I guess I should write that into the notes...

[zee]

Yeah, there's an Antarctic base, but they go through the gate to Atlantis back at SGC headquarters in Colorado. From the timing with Rodney's cut hand I was thinking that they were spending their last night on Earth down in Antarctica, which wouldn't work as there's no longer a gate there. :)