stargateficrec | To Serve a Queen by Tielan (NC-17)

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Ronon Dex
Characters:: Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagen, Carson Beckett
Pairing: Ronon/Elizabeth
Het/Slash/Gen: Het
Warnings:Highlight: There is sexual slavery and mentions of abuse and rape
Author on LJ:

tielan
Author's Website: Tielan's Fanfic Site
Link: To Serve a Queen

Why This Must Be Read: This is one of the first het fics that I ever read in the SGA fandom, and it got me into the Ronon/Elizabeth pairing with a bang. It's a fusion(?) with Anne Bishop's Black Jewels books, but you don't have to know those books, as the author tells the story well enough that you need only her brief summary on them. I actually knew nothing about the books and ended up reading Anne Bishop because of this fic.

Everyone is perfectly in character, and I was amazed at the way she was able to pluck Ronon from SGA and place him here with all of his past angst and pain still intact. He had the same unbreakable will and stubborness in this fic as he does in the show. It was a wonderfully well done characterization.

Excerpt:
His neck and shoulders ached, his back screamed, but he gritted his teeth and bore the pain. In seven years they had beaten him and used him, forced him to play their games in the court and in their beds, and he had borne it, stubborn and determined never to submit.

They might take his choices, but they could not take his honour.

He might be a slave, but he did not serve these Queens.

He did not and he never would.

As he hung by his arms, concentrating on his breathing rather than the pain in his flesh, Ronan repeated the words by which he had held himself for seven long years.

I am Ronan Dex, Red-Jewelled Warlord Prince of the Blood. And I will serve with honour or not at all.

Seven years ago, the refrain had been easier to remember.

Seven years ago, he'd been newly enslaved, holding onto the belief that someday he'd be free again.

Seven years ago was seven years ago.

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