Title: Share
Rating: R, for language.
Summary: rodney.mckay (gmail) : They’re all whores.
Okay yes, I know, I started this roughly about 92874938734 billion years ago, but it’s done! And sort of in time for the US premier of the second half of season three! Many thanks are owed to Cesperanza, who took the initiative to poke at me like a deranged seabird until I caved and opened the file. A note: I kept trying to find the happy ending in this and it wouldn’t come — which was about when I realized that arrested in the middle of the moment, this didn’t have one yet. Thank goodness we have “The Return,” right?
This was awesome. I love all the little insights about John, and Rodney, and their relationships with Teyla and Ronon and everyone else, and Atlantis. If I hadn’t already seen The Return part 2, it would make me cry like a crazy person.
Wow. I’m so happy to see a new SGA story from you. This one is so bittersweet–funny, and yet sad, as Rodney thinks about the things that he desparately wants and can’t have.
Thanks for writing & sharing.
your ending really works.
I’ve seen Return 2, of course, but that last line *still* made me cry a little (or at least tear up real good). Just, you captured Rodney’s desperation and that horrible moment where he gives in to it so well, and I want to reach right through and shake him and tell him to hang on a little longer. Don’t buy the piano, Rodney!
Clearly I am a huge dork.
Also, John and Rodney shopping and spending obscene amounts of money on gay toys will never not be funny.
It seems a very long time ago that I watched Return 1, but your story brings back those bittersweet feelings so well. A lovely experience as usual reading your fluid and descriptive text, and exploring new truths about these characters that I (and clearly also you) love. Thank you for sharing your gift with us.
This was great. I thought the ending was just the right note. I love that John is the one handling it better, at least on the outside. And of course Rodney has to blow everything out of proportion, but this time it needs to be. Great job.
ouch! *clings to The Return* This fic? Was all kinds of awesome even if it made me hurt a little.
ouch! *clings to The Return 2* This fic? Was all kinds of awesome even if it made me hurt a little.
I really really missed your stuff. Thank you, this brought me amazing amounts of joy right until the end when I realized I only own a bed and one actual piece of furniture and thus am more pathetic than Shep.
Nothing really makes me love John and Rodney more than the two of them being–for lack of a better way to verbalize it–the two of them, regardless of distance or time or whatever. (And akljfeoawijklfsd yes to Landry overhearing Rodney’s message. So so so much yes.)
How did you know that this was what I needed to read today? I am so passionately in love with the loneliness of it all and the part where Rodney misses John the same way he misses Atlantis is just gorgeous, insightful, and perfect.
Hey! I finally got around to reading this, and I think it’s wonderful. Sad and bittersweet, and I’m so glad we had Return II after this, because that ending hurt a lot.
Thanks for writing!
Love, love, love it. Thank you.