Ariadne by Aesc (R)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Team
Characters: Teyla, McKay, Dex, Sheppard
Pairing: very light Carson/Teyla
Het/Slash/Gen: mainly gen with light het background
Warning: flashes of non-con
Author on LJ: aesc 
Author's Website: Masterlist of fic on LJ
Link: Ariadne

Why this must be read:

Another painful read (don't know what it is that draws me to painful fic like bees to honey...) that just makes me feel with the characters. Teyla's image of her friends is warped after a mental rape by a Wraith Queen; she now sees all the dark possibilities of her boys raping and controlling her. This is dark, folks, I won't make no bones about that. And yet, through the dark, a ray of light shines through in the utter love her team has for her. They're willing to give her the space she needs to heal, all the while feeling the lost when she's not there to be the focal point and their pain as she keeps shying away from their contact. In the end, it's her team that gives Teyla the strength to resist the Wraith Queen's poison and start to heal.

Story Summary: (taken from WraithBait) I have shown you your future, the Queen says, and her voice echoes coldly across her bones. Do you wish to know your present, Teyla Emmagan? Do you wish to know your friends?

She wears the Queen's blood on her face, a token of something she wishes she could call victory. The report from Colonel Sheppard's P90 still echoes; Teyla can feel her heart try to keep pace with it, though much of the rest of her is slow, drugged.

When Rodney reaches to help her up, she tries not to recoil from him. She tenses under his hand, but he only looks to ask her if she's okay – and, being Rodney, he is easily distracted by the danger of their situation – and as soon as she can stand without danger of falling over, she tugs at him to let go, takes her own weapon from Ronon.

"Let's get out of here," Colonel Sheppard says, and for the first time in their acquaintance, she realizes how tall he is.