„Sleep Tight“ by Penknife (Teen And Up Audiences)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Team
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Radek Zelenka, Evan Lorne
Pairings: none
Categories: Gen
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: penknife
Author's Website: „Penknife's fic at the Archive of Our Own“
Link Sleep Tight by Penknife


Summary by the author: Insomnia's something of an occupational hazard.

Why This Must Be Read:

Insights in our favorite characters' minds via their „I have a hard time to sleep tonight“-moments.

Penknife has the amazing skill to turn fictional characters into „real people“ by showing the reader what's going on in their minds/souls - in that place that everybody has within them, where everybody can feel there's something going on, but scarcely anybody has the skill to truly influence what's happening there.

I really love how the different levels of awareness of what's happening within them/what it is that they're feeling shows (or doesn't show) in the different characters. Compare Rodney to Teyla ...