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stargateficrecShow: Stargate Atlantis
Rec Category: AU
Characters: John, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon, Elizabeth, Jeannie
Categories: Gen, kid!fic
Warnings: Dead body, reference to suicide
Link: Inventing Atlantis
Why This Must Be Read: This is an excellent representation of the team as children, spending one year together in Virginia. Rodney’s the new guy, his family just moved from Canada, and I love the easy way the others accept him as one of their own.
They best part, though, are the stories John tells about a sunken city, and Wraith in the woods, and the crumbling tunnel he calls a Stargate. They all follow John’s lead, believing in things they can’t see, and this comes to a very satisfying resolution in the epilogue. This fic is wonderful in the way it captures the magic of childhood, despite a lot of real-world family problems, and makes sure that these characters never lose that feeling even as adults.
John takes him back into the woods, to the remnants of concrete tunnel. It looks like something that used to be part of storm drain, but the nearby lake had dried up in the last two years to leave nothing but dirt and crumbling stone. Ronon's already waiting for them, greeting Rodney with a slap on the back hard enough to buckle his knees.
"Took you long enough," Ronon say. "You get lost again?"
"Had to find Rodney first," John replies. "Got to have a team together if we're going to go through again."
"What is this?" Rodney asks.
And it's John who steps up, who opens his arms wide and says, "This, this is the stargate."
"That tells me nothing," Rodney says.
"Go through the gate, get out somewhere else." Ronon explains. Which also tells Rodney nothing.
"Well, yes, on the other side."
"Not like that," John says, screwing up his face. "You travel. Light years. Different planet. You can see it too, right?"
And here's the thing, Rodney's grown up with science textbooks and music theory. He's never really outgrown the phase where his first question is why? Everything has answers if you look hard enough and he's never really seen the point in making them up when you could just find them. But Sheppard's looking at him like this is some sort of test so Rodney tries. Looks at the ratty old pipe, the mossy concrete casting odd shadows in the mid-morning light. He's not sure what he's supposed to be seeing. Not sure if there is anything to see. So he lets his brain spiral, thinks of transportation devices and a thousand means of instant transportation that don't work because of physics. "Stable wormhole," he says finally. "That's got to be it. That's how it works, right? You step through it and it takes you somewhere else."
Ronon shrugs, but John's beaming at him. Rodney feels the knot of anxiety in his chest tug a little looser as he stammers, "Well, you going to tell me what's on the other side?"
John opens his mouth and Rodney's already knows he's going to say something about the surprise making it all better, but Ronon beats him to it. "The most beautiful girl in the world."
Rec Category: AU
Characters: John, Rodney, Teyla, Ronon, Elizabeth, Jeannie
Categories: Gen, kid!fic
Warnings: Dead body, reference to suicide
Link: Inventing Atlantis
Why This Must Be Read: This is an excellent representation of the team as children, spending one year together in Virginia. Rodney’s the new guy, his family just moved from Canada, and I love the easy way the others accept him as one of their own.
They best part, though, are the stories John tells about a sunken city, and Wraith in the woods, and the crumbling tunnel he calls a Stargate. They all follow John’s lead, believing in things they can’t see, and this comes to a very satisfying resolution in the epilogue. This fic is wonderful in the way it captures the magic of childhood, despite a lot of real-world family problems, and makes sure that these characters never lose that feeling even as adults.
John takes him back into the woods, to the remnants of concrete tunnel. It looks like something that used to be part of storm drain, but the nearby lake had dried up in the last two years to leave nothing but dirt and crumbling stone. Ronon's already waiting for them, greeting Rodney with a slap on the back hard enough to buckle his knees.
"Took you long enough," Ronon say. "You get lost again?"
"Had to find Rodney first," John replies. "Got to have a team together if we're going to go through again."
"What is this?" Rodney asks.
And it's John who steps up, who opens his arms wide and says, "This, this is the stargate."
"That tells me nothing," Rodney says.
"Go through the gate, get out somewhere else." Ronon explains. Which also tells Rodney nothing.
"Well, yes, on the other side."
"Not like that," John says, screwing up his face. "You travel. Light years. Different planet. You can see it too, right?"
And here's the thing, Rodney's grown up with science textbooks and music theory. He's never really outgrown the phase where his first question is why? Everything has answers if you look hard enough and he's never really seen the point in making them up when you could just find them. But Sheppard's looking at him like this is some sort of test so Rodney tries. Looks at the ratty old pipe, the mossy concrete casting odd shadows in the mid-morning light. He's not sure what he's supposed to be seeing. Not sure if there is anything to see. So he lets his brain spiral, thinks of transportation devices and a thousand means of instant transportation that don't work because of physics. "Stable wormhole," he says finally. "That's got to be it. That's how it works, right? You step through it and it takes you somewhere else."
Ronon shrugs, but John's beaming at him. Rodney feels the knot of anxiety in his chest tug a little looser as he stammers, "Well, you going to tell me what's on the other side?"
John opens his mouth and Rodney's already knows he's going to say something about the surprise making it all better, but Ronon beats him to it. "The most beautiful girl in the world."
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