After the First Death, by rhymer 23 (first aid challenge)

[rhymer23]

Title: After the First Death
Author: Eildon Rhymer (rhymer23)
Words: 4300
Rating: PG
Characters: Sheppard, plus team
Summary: With the correct training, you can attempt to keep a badly injured soldier alive in the field until medical care arrives. If you succeed, your part in their story is over. But if you fail, what then?
Note: No canon characters were

Comments

[vipersweb]

This is gorgeous in how the team comes together and are just there for Sheppard. very nice look at what it's like to be in command.

[rhymer23]

Thank you! I'm very glad to hear it worked for you. The more I explore the ways this team works together, the more I love them.

[wildcat88]

I loved this - the tension, the guilt, the burden of command, the slow understanding of the difference between his team and everyone else. Well done.

[rhymer23]

Thanks! Needless to say, I was working through various ideas of Sheppard as the recipient of first aid, but when I suddenly shifted to seeing him as the giver of it, suddenly all these issues were just clamouring to be explored in the story.

[linzi5]

Sniff! This was truly wonderful. I felt so...oh ok, might as well be honest and say - emotional- reading it. I felt Sheppard's pain. Both physical and emotional here. I think that's why this affected me so much. The mental and emotional pain Sheppard is feeling knowing his orders, and his potential future orders, sent a man, and will no doubt send others, to meet their makers. Sheppard did nothing wrong. He did his job. More than his job at the expense of his own health, yet he couldn't save Wilson, and yet Wilson was dead because Sheppard had ordered him to stay with him. That's the way it goes, and yet Sheppard takes it all so personally.

So, um, yep, I adored this. Sniff. Great story. Thanks for making me sniff! LOL! :)

[rhymer23]

Glad you liked it - though perhaps I should be apologising. ;-) It's an interesting aspect of Sheppard to explore. I think he does feel guilty when men under his command die, but at the same time he knows that it's part of the job and it has to happen, so he won't get broken by it, but, still... I felt it would just take something a little more personal, like someone dying while he was actually working on them, to really make these issues come to the fore.

[loriel_eris]

You made me cry for a redshirt!

And for Sheppard too. *g* I loved the bit a the end, were he got that his Team understood. My heart broke for him earlier, when he was trying to pcope with the losing of a man, and that he had picked him, and that he could never be friends with those under his command. *hugs poor Sheppard*

[rhymer23]

Oh dear... I often cry for redshirts. It just seems like such a harsh and cruel existence - to only exist in order to die. ;-)

[pisces227]

This was fantastic! I love Team!Sheppard fics. John realizing he could tell them his feelings but doesn't have to is very moving. *huggles Shep*

[rhymer23]

Thank you! I do so love this team and the way they work together. They support each other in so many more ways that the obvious, outward ways.