Enlightenment (Luthien) (T)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Outsider POV
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: luthien
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: Enlightenment on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: I really like outsider-POV stories for the fresh perspective and insights they bring. There are different sorts of outsider-POV fics (friend/colleague's POV on a pairing, stranger's POV on characters we know well, new arrival's first impressions of Atlantis and her people, etc.) This one has well-known central characters rather than a stranger's POV, but it's the word "outsider" that's crucial here, as Elizabeth processes an accidental discovery about John and Rodney. This is an interesting and thoughtful fic, as much about Elizabeth's situation as John and Rodney's, and the characterizations are great.


In Elizabeth's lighter moments, she liked to think of them almost as the Three Musketeers, or even as a triumvirate. But even the Three Musketeers hadn't been all the same. Athos always stood a little separate from Porthos and Aramis, however much he might have wished it differently. And Elizabeth had it drummed into her long ago that no triumvirate is ever truly equal. There has to be an apex, balanced out by the two other corners. She's known that, known that she has to be the apex, but she's never understood quite how separate that makes her before. She's known she has to be separate, but somehow she hadn't equated that with the other two being... not separate.

Stupid of her, really.

Comments

[popkin16]

I've only read this fic once and don't remember how I liked it, so clearly this is the perfect time for a reread :D Thank you for the rec!

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Hope you enjoy!