Eat Your Cake and Have It by 2ndary_Author (cake or death challenge, amnesty 2008)

[2ndary_author]

John Sheppard, who always does things on his own schedule or not at all, doesn’t freak out until four months after they lose Ford.  That’s the word he uses on the rare occasions when he mentions the kid-“lose”-and it’s clear to Rodney that he means “temporarily misplace,” like Ford is a set of keys, the other blue sock, bound to turn up sooner

Comments

[kriadydragon]

That managed to be both funny and heart wrenching, and I could so see Sheppard doing these things.

[dragonladyk]

That's great. The Team, consquences!John, and my boy.

DragonLady

[kuonji14]

a hasty fool drinks milk with a fork

I need to start saying that just to confuse people. :D

Wistful but not overly angsty. I like this.

[oxoniensis]

What a beautifully written blend of humour and sadness - it seems so very in character too, that Sheppard would mourn Ford like this.

[hajimebassaidai]

The slow realisation by Rodney of where this is all leading, of how John is quietly not coping with the latest thing he blames himself for is what makes this so sad.

The last line is profoundly sad and slightly scary with those three little words echoed as they must have through Rodney's head for a very long time.