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Before the Whales Come Crashing Down by linziday (1st Quarterly Ficathon)

Aug 16, 2009 16:43

Title: Before the Whales Come Crashing Down

Author: linziday

Rating: PG13

Word count: about 2,200

Warnings: Mild language, traumatic hallucinations

Spoilers: Up to the second half of season 2.

Summary: One person. Awake five days. And this time it's not Rodney.

Prompt: Written for
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1st quarterly ficathon, fiction-angst, author-linziday, fiction-rodney, fiction-john, fiction-whump

Comments 29

korilian April 20 2010, 14:00:13 UTC

So cool! I loved crazy John (and crazier Rodney, cuz WTF!?!?)

outsideth3box May 4 2010, 09:04:47 UTC

Wow. That was a fantastic story. I'm here via a rather circuitous path, but am I ever glad. I am bookmarking this.

John's horrible iratus bug hallucinations broke my heart a bit, and then Rodney's story of the whales broke it a bit more, but the very end? Wonderful.

saffronhouse March 4 2011, 01:45:34 UTC

So touching! Thank you for this. Rodney's story of safety and found trust is funny and so moving. Wonderful.

rsharpe September 11 2011, 18:56:33 UTC

“Sleep deprivation beyond 48 hours is known to produce hallucinations. It can reduce resistance to pain, and it makes people suggestible. The State Department regularly lists sleep deprivation as a form of torture in its annual report on human rights abuses … Andrea Northwood, director of client services at the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis, said her organization considers 96 hours of sleep deprivation to be torture. ‘It’s a primary method that is used around the world because it is effective in breaking people. It is effective because it induces severe harm’, she said. ‘It causes people to feel absolutely crazy’. She said that in many cases there are lingering effects. ‘My experience in working with survivors, they are still struggling with questions whether they are normal, whether they should have acted as they did when they talked under this kind of pressure’, she said”.

taste_is_sweet September 13 2011, 02:17:25 UTC

Poor John! (And poor Rodney!) It's awesome that they have the team and each other that they know they can count on like that.

The Canadian military used to have training exercises for officers that would require them to go without all but minimum sleep for five days (they might still; I don't know). I spoke to a young man who had endured that, and he told me that by about the fourth day in he was pretty much out of his mind. Scary stuff.

linziday September 13 2011, 02:24:02 UTC

I never knew that! Wow, that would be really excellent fodder for a fic. Something about Rodney in the Canadian military... or. . . something. :)

taste_is_sweet September 13 2011, 02:26:04 UTC

This was back in the mid-90s, so it's possible they don't do it any more (I have to say I kind of hope they don't--I really don't know what good it did these young men to exhaust themselves to the point of uselessness), but yeah, it was a wild thing to find out.