"The Care and Feeding of a CO" by Domenika Marzione (Teen And Up Audiences)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Lorne
Characters: Evan Lorne, John Sheppard, OCs
Pairings: none
Categories: Gen
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: miss_porcupine
On DW she's "domarzione"

Author's Website: The DMZ

Link: The Care and Feeding of a CO by Domenika Marzione

Summary by the author:
"Lorne invites a recovering Sheppard to accompany his team on a training-mission traipse around Atlantis. Of course, it's never quite as straightforward as that."


Why This Must Be Read:

While Lorne's and Sheppard's encounter in "Die Verwandlung" was of a darker tone, this time it's just plain fun to watch Sheppard through Lorne's eyes. Domenika Marzione also writes great OCs and has the art of pairing lighthearted/funny with the typical "voices" of military characters down pat.


There were times Lorne felt like nothing more than a well-trained dog and for reasons that had nothing to do with the sit-stay-heel aspects of military life.

He hadn't had too many Doberman moments in his career. Before he'd joined the stargate program, he had been flying KC135s, so he hadn't so much been let loose with the dogs of war as come in part of the way through and make sure the dogs were fed. It was still in on the action, but it was more important to have good legs than sharp teeth.

Here in Atlantis he was a St. Bernard or a pit bull, depending on the situation. Right now, however, it was bloodhound. Or maybe just Lassie.

"Are you using the city defenses to track me down?" Sheppard asked, not looking up once he came through the doorway. Sheppard was sitting on the ground, the laptop actually living up to its name, and looking out over the water. The screensaver on the computer was active, so Lorne wasn't worried that he'd interrupted anything beyond the obvious fact that Sheppard hadn't wanted to be found. His earpiece was balanced on his knee.

"There was some discussion about that, sir," Lorne admitted, walking past Sheppard to the balcony's edge so that he didn't hover. "But Atlantis either doesn't think you're in town or she doesn't want to tell us where you are, so... no. I found you the hard way."

Comments

[mific.livejournal.com]

Hi - the link to the fic's a dud. :P

[patk.livejournal.com]

*oops* Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I've corrected that. :-)