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Out of Sight by julietink (Skeevy Ancients challenge)

Mar 09, 2009 23:44

Title: Out of Sight
Author: julietink
Rating: PG13 (hinted slash, mild sexual references)
Word count: 3,370
A/N: Written in a steaming hurry today to get in under the wire so hopefully it still hangs together OK; set vaguely S2.
Summary: "Rodney, relax. It's not a gun, and it doesn't work anyway."

( What he had not realised was how much, in a place with big windows and long corridors with good sightlines, people relied on visual cues to judge their privacy. )

author: julietink, challenge: skeevy ancients

Comments 20

ozsaur March 10 2009, 05:50:01 UTC

Very true to Radek. Insightful. It felt true to me that he would be uncomfortable as an involuntary voyeur. And to be cut off that way.

julietink March 13 2009, 02:04:04 UTC

I'm glad it felt true to you! It feels to me like the sort of thing that would initially seem neat, but end up as isolating.

vanitashaze March 11 2009, 20:50:53 UTC

I am absolutely in love with that last sentence, there. In fact, this whole fic is rather lovely - the sheer Radek-ness of it, the glimpses into the secrets Atlantis holds. Brilliant job.

julietink March 13 2009, 02:04:36 UTC

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it. I liked the last sentence, too :)

cinithea March 20 2009, 23:55:11 UTC

This was wonderful! I am so glad you chose Radek as the invisible man- I think it made your story more unique and interesting that way. I also liked that you described bits of daily life in Atlantis in a kind of offhand way. The things Radek saw, though only a few paragraphs, told so much more. Great job.

julietink March 21 2009, 09:16:52 UTC

Thank you! Writing Radek was great fun - he is very awesome.

I'm glad the sense of Atlantis daily life came across - it's something I really like about SGA, the idea of Atlantis as a real and ongoing community, with everything that must be happening behind all the canon/fanon Big Events.

michelel72 April 4 2009, 03:18:20 UTC

Very nicely done. That seems like just the sort of thing we might expect of the Ancients, and Radek felt very true here.

julietink April 7 2009, 14:38:48 UTC

Thank you! Very glad you enjoyed it.

sor_bet September 18 2009, 03:25:40 UTC

I loved the explanation of invisibility. Most of the time in stories/movies it's limited to the body, so the person has to go around naked, and if they pick up anything, everyone else could see it. So this was cool, the idea of a kind of surrounding electromagnetic thingy that made whatever Radek touched invisible as well and messed with his radio.

until he could go back to being a normal, visible, person, who did not accidentally spy on people.

Aw, of course Radek doesn't mean to spy on people!

Such a nice fic, very IC, especially Radek.

julietink September 27 2009, 22:46:51 UTC

I'm glad you liked the idea & the way it worked! And that you thought it was IC. I like Radek :)