Fic for coreopsis: The Last of the Winnebagoes

[trinityofone]

Comment fic the sixth! I am speedy like molasses!

Title: The Last of the Winnebagoes
Rating: PG
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Length: ~2575 words
Summary: For coreopsis. They’re turning into the Statler and Waldorf of Atlantis, bitching at everybody from a balcony, their own hands tied.

Comments

[coreopsis]

Thank you for writing this for me. It's not what I ever would have expected. :)

[trinityofone]

Oh, God. I feel like I should apologize. Um. I have an evil brain?

But, but...puddlejumper!

[suzy_queue]

I about squeaked when I saw the title! Then I thought about what that story was like and steeled myself before I dove in. *g* Good story. Hard, but good, and worthy of a Connie-title.

[aurora_84]

On the day they’re scheduled to depart, Rodney goes and sits in the control room for a while, just watching.
This is where my heart started to break.

I love this paradox: they're alive, they survived and they get to go home back to Earth, but are yet so incredibly sad, wishing they'd died in Pegasus. (I have to admit that I see their future playing out like the latter).

Two doors close and one opens
I love this image.

The final scene rendered me completely incoherent, so this will have to do as feedback. ♥

[sobelle]

Fuck! weeping at work sucks! just gotta keep my face turned away from the window in my office door...

I knew I was a gonner from the 1st sentence on even tho you made me laugh with the Statler and Waldorf bit ... because you wrote an excellent story and it pinged a whole buncha my reality too... nothing so fantastic as Atlantis of course, but the earthbound accomplishments and derring-do of our past youth... it's bound to get easier to set back and watch instead of participating... but it really hurts... and it hurts to watch my aging friends suffering through it too...

Your fic did a good job of bringing the idea of the pain and loss home... even tho I prefer the idea of McShep coming home safe and whole... no matter how it grieves them.

meep, thanks

[lamardeuse]

I'm just sitting here stunned, because oh my god, I think you ripped my heart out. Love this - you've captured the poignancy of old soldiers so, so well.