Forty Days by thingswithwings (E)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: This month I'm doing OT4 recs, for Team AR1, yay!
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan/Ronon Dex
Categories: multi
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: thingswithwings
Author's Website: see the AO3
Link: Forty Days on AO3

Why This Must Be Read:
This is such a great fic, with the team in a foursome and now having to negotiate one of Ronon's hitherto unknown Satedan rituals: 40 days of kind-of celibacy. It's funny and hot and it gets their voices just right. I especially love the married domesticity of it all, which is hilarious and rings very true.
Thingswithwings' stories were on LJ and DW before being uploaded to AO3 which is why, I think, this fic's only got 2 comments. I reckon it needs a lot more, so read and enjoy, and leave TWW a little love!


"What the hell is up with this thing with Ronon?" John said to Rodney finally, after tracking him down to an abandoned lab where he was working on something with crystals and levers that made red sparks shoot sporadically into the air.

"Yeah, I don't know," Rodney agreed, hitting something with a wrench and then jolting back as blue sparks came out of a different crystal. "It's not like I want to coerce him into having sex with us or abandoning the cultural traditions of his now-dead home planet or anything, but jeez, forty days?"

"Yeah," John said.

"Also, you realise, with him sleeping on that cot, you're next to Teyla in bed now."

John shifted from foot to foot. He hadn't considered that. "Rodney, I have sex with Teyla all the time. Teyla taught me that Athosian bear-wrestling thing. I trust Teyla with my life. She doesn't have cooties."

"Yeah," Rodney said, "and you love her, blah blah blah, but you hate sleeping with her. Teyla – " he tapped three crystals in quick succession, " – likes sleeping naked and pressed up against someone, and you don't like that, you get too sweaty to sleep. Also possibly you have issues about not being gay enough, I'm not sure." Blue sparks, then red sparks. "Though you'd think that time that Ronon and I both fucked your ass simultaneously would've eased your mind on that one."

"Okay, fine," John said, his face heating. "You take the middle."