Dirge by Sardonicsmiley (PG13)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney
Pairing: slight Rodney/Jennifer in the final one
Het/Slash/Gen: mainly gen but slight het towards end
Warning: character death in alternate timeline, spoilers for episode "The Last Man"
Author on LJ: not anymore
Author's Website: no more tears
Link: Dirge
Why this must be read:
I swear, it's impossible for me to read a serious sardonicsmiley fic without tears streaming down my face. Dirge is no exception. Sardonic takes us through five funerals Rodney attends throughout the alternate timeline from "Last Man Standing", and boy does she pile on the grief! As each funeral progresses, Rodney is left further and further alone until at the very end he's left alone above the graves of his wife and unborn child. Sardonic weaves a man who's resolve to fix this is getting stronger and stronger as well as a man who is drawing away from the world bit by bit. You'll be left with a Rodney whose determination to save his family and fix the world is set in stone, a man on a mission, that we see the end result of in the future of this episode. Enjoy the journey, folks, it's an emotional one to be sure.
Story Summary: Tag to Last Man Standing. Five moments in Rodney McKay's life that broke him.
No one knows what a traditional Satedan burial ceremony is, but Ronon had liked the pyre they built for Teyla, had said that it meant more than being buried in the ground. Rodney is the only one that's left to build the sticks up off world, working for hours and hours until the pile is huge, as big as Ronon was in life.
There's no body for him to burn, but he puts the bead in midst of the lumber, beside the transmitter, and lights it all on fire. He knows that Ronon would have appreciated a huge, vicious fire, and so he douses it all in gasoline and watches the flames lick up to the heavens.
The bead and the transmitter survive, sitting in the middle of the ashes, indestructible as Ronon should have been. Rodney buries them, side by side, and tries to think of the words that should be said over them. There are none, and besides, Ronon never had much use for words.
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney
Pairing: slight Rodney/Jennifer in the final one
Het/Slash/Gen: mainly gen but slight het towards end
Warning: character death in alternate timeline, spoilers for episode "The Last Man"
Author on LJ: not anymore
Author's Website: no more tears
Link: Dirge
Why this must be read:
I swear, it's impossible for me to read a serious sardonicsmiley fic without tears streaming down my face. Dirge is no exception. Sardonic takes us through five funerals Rodney attends throughout the alternate timeline from "Last Man Standing", and boy does she pile on the grief! As each funeral progresses, Rodney is left further and further alone until at the very end he's left alone above the graves of his wife and unborn child. Sardonic weaves a man who's resolve to fix this is getting stronger and stronger as well as a man who is drawing away from the world bit by bit. You'll be left with a Rodney whose determination to save his family and fix the world is set in stone, a man on a mission, that we see the end result of in the future of this episode. Enjoy the journey, folks, it's an emotional one to be sure.
Story Summary: Tag to Last Man Standing. Five moments in Rodney McKay's life that broke him.
No one knows what a traditional Satedan burial ceremony is, but Ronon had liked the pyre they built for Teyla, had said that it meant more than being buried in the ground. Rodney is the only one that's left to build the sticks up off world, working for hours and hours until the pile is huge, as big as Ronon was in life.
There's no body for him to burn, but he puts the bead in midst of the lumber, beside the transmitter, and lights it all on fire. He knows that Ronon would have appreciated a huge, vicious fire, and so he douses it all in gasoline and watches the flames lick up to the heavens.
The bead and the transmitter survive, sitting in the middle of the ashes, indestructible as Ronon should have been. Rodney buries them, side by side, and tries to think of the words that should be said over them. There are none, and besides, Ronon never had much use for words.
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