Deflection by Martha Wilson (PG-13)
Rec Category: Gen
Pairing: None
Category: Gen, AU, Quantum Mirror, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagen, Radek Zelenka, Marshall Sumner, gen
Warning: none
Author on LJ ltlj
Author's Website: Watergate
Link: On LJ: Deflection
On website: Deflection
Why this must be read:
ltlj tells this story from the PoV of a John Sheppard who is drugged and confused and thinks he's numb from being cloned after dying and losing Atlantis. As the story slowly unfolds the reader, along with John, learns of a more sinister plot unfolding. What follows is a wonderful blending of AU's and universe elements from both SG-1 and SGA all turned into a well-crafted story. Once you finish you'll want to read it a second time to see all the little hints both you and Sheppard missed the first time around.
John didn't remember losing Atlantis, didn't remember dying, and he was trying not to find it unfair that Rodney wouldn't talk to him.
The first day they let him out, he found Rodney sitting on a low stone balustrade on one of the terraces. They had said this nameless city had been culled by the Wraith, but John had his doubts. There were no survivors, and the gray stone was old and cracked, and overgrown with flowering vines. The violet and blue flowers looked alien and exotic and weirdly unreal against gray sky, gray stone. Rodney was looking down into one of the pools that was clotted with green water, when John said, "Hey."
Rodney looked up, startled, his face white. John started to step over the wall to sit down. He froze when Rodney stood abruptly and backed away, almost tripping over a loose tile. John said, "No, it's okay. I know I'm the wrong one."
Rodney stared at him, jaw dropped. "You...you know?"
"They told me." John moved slowly, trying to look harmless. He sank down on the wall, feeling the rough stone through his BDU pants. "About the cloning thing. Ancient, or Wraith? Whatever. Maybe you could tell me what happened? To Atlantis." And Elizabeth was dead, they had told him that when he asked for her. He had asked for Rodney too, but Rodney hadn't come. He couldn't remember other names yet, and so many of the faces weren't familiar.
Rodney shook his head, his face a weird mix of relief and horror. Then he walked away.
That was pretty much how John's life was going lately.
Pairing: None
Category: Gen, AU, Quantum Mirror, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagen, Radek Zelenka, Marshall Sumner, gen
Warning: none
Author on LJ ltlj
Author's Website: Watergate
Link: On LJ: Deflection
On website: Deflection
Why this must be read:
ltlj tells this story from the PoV of a John Sheppard who is drugged and confused and thinks he's numb from being cloned after dying and losing Atlantis. As the story slowly unfolds the reader, along with John, learns of a more sinister plot unfolding. What follows is a wonderful blending of AU's and universe elements from both SG-1 and SGA all turned into a well-crafted story. Once you finish you'll want to read it a second time to see all the little hints both you and Sheppard missed the first time around.
John didn't remember losing Atlantis, didn't remember dying, and he was trying not to find it unfair that Rodney wouldn't talk to him.
The first day they let him out, he found Rodney sitting on a low stone balustrade on one of the terraces. They had said this nameless city had been culled by the Wraith, but John had his doubts. There were no survivors, and the gray stone was old and cracked, and overgrown with flowering vines. The violet and blue flowers looked alien and exotic and weirdly unreal against gray sky, gray stone. Rodney was looking down into one of the pools that was clotted with green water, when John said, "Hey."
Rodney looked up, startled, his face white. John started to step over the wall to sit down. He froze when Rodney stood abruptly and backed away, almost tripping over a loose tile. John said, "No, it's okay. I know I'm the wrong one."
Rodney stared at him, jaw dropped. "You...you know?"
"They told me." John moved slowly, trying to look harmless. He sank down on the wall, feeling the rough stone through his BDU pants. "About the cloning thing. Ancient, or Wraith? Whatever. Maybe you could tell me what happened? To Atlantis." And Elizabeth was dead, they had told him that when he asked for her. He had asked for Rodney too, but Rodney hadn't come. He couldn't remember other names yet, and so many of the faces weren't familiar.
Rodney shook his head, his face a weird mix of relief and horror. Then he walked away.
That was pretty much how John's life was going lately.