stargateficrec | Germination (by thingswithwings) (E)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Tentacle fic.
Characters: Rodney McKay, Jennifer Keller, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney McKay/Jennifer Keller
Categories: Het
Warnings: No real ones, but see the notes at the start.
Author on LJ:

thingswithwings
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: Germination on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: Ending this month of tentacle-fic on a consensual note with Jennifer and Rodney bringing the fact that Jennifer TURNED INTO AN ACTUAL HOT DAMN TENTACLE MONSTER into their bedroom, after she's human again. As Busaikko once said, SGA is the fandom with real live tentacle penetration - the sort of thing other fandoms can only dream about. (Sadly not the sexy kind on the show, sorry John and Ronon.) This is really great, sweet and hot, as Jen's brush with almost becoming a Hive ship enlivens her and Rodney's fantasy life. I also love how tentative and real they are, stumbling toward discovering that it's a secret turn-on for them both. Great character voices, as ever, and it's funny as well.

"Did you see me? When I was a giant tentacle monster?" Jennifer asks, while they're having lunch.

"What? No," Rodney says, too hastily. "Well, I saw you at the beginning, when you were a small tentacle monster. But after that Woolsey kept me locked in my room, so." He shrugs nervously. "Why would you ask?"

Outside the door to the cafeteria, five xenobiologists walk by carrying large chunks of muscle that used to be under Jennifer's conscious control. They're still hauling the stuff out of her quarters, ripping the vines out all the walls and power conduits. It might take months to get it entirely cleaned up, Woolsey said. Jennifer wonders what they're doing with it all – throwing it in the sea? Dumping it in space? Grinding it up for fertilizer on the mainland?

"No reason," she says. "I guess I just wondered if you were grossed out."

Rodney shakes his head. "Oh, no. I hang out with Ronon and John all the time, so. My grossout meter is pretty high."

"Also, you were there when Parrish turned into an aquatic mammal, right?"

"Mmm-hmm, with the third arm and all," Rodney agrees, taking another bite of his sandwich, then talking with his mouth full. "Seriously, Sheppard turned into a bug like our second year here, so really there's nothing new under the sun."

After they finish lunch and go their separate ways, Jennifer feels strangely disappointed, like she was hoping that Rodney would be grossed out. Maybe she needs some sort of extreme body transformation support group.