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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Team
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, various Atlantis staff
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: slash
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] chandri
Author's Website: Fantasi.net
Link: Little Storms by Chandri

Why This Must Be Read:
Summary by the author:
None of them like to admit it, but sometimes John's wrong. Usually it's Rodney who has to say so.

Contrary to yesterday's rec (whose strong point was action/adventure) this one has the focus on interpersonal relations and it does a wonderful job in this regard. John and Rodney are at odds with each other, Teyla and Ronon try to deal with it in a helpful manner.

It's written from Rodney's POV, the present happenings as well as mental flashbacks to earlier times in their friendship.

Very good characterization of all of them, the characters have depth (which is especially in the case of Teyla and Ronon worth to mention),they're intelligent people which actually have their own, typical characteristics. They're *recognizable* in a canonical-compliant way: Yep, that's something Teyla would do. Yes, that's something Ronon would think and say. Though Chandri expands their characters and makes them three-dimensional, not just repeating known stereotypes.

Even the way John is wrong here, absolutely matches his character.

The narrative is beautifully told, it has colorful, vivid descriptions and an atmosphere that sucks you right in, be it the strained situation between John and Rodney on Atlantis or the relaxed, joyous scenery of the Athosian festival.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for Pegasus-festivals. *g*

This is one of those stories that just feels "right" to me and, of course, it has a happy end. :-)

They've spent a day on the mainland doing the hunter-gatherer thing with a group of Athosian kids, collecting herbs and samples of a long list handed them by Parrish and Keller; they haven't had much of a chance to survey the mainland since they landed here, and there are still a lot of things that the scientists in particular are impatient to investigate. Theirs is only one of a dozen trips to the mainland this week, making up for lost time discovering new cures for the common cold in the stalk of the Pegasus dandelion or something Rodney is sure will turn out to be equally useless.

But it's been nice enough, though Rodney's sure he's getting a sunburn and John seems dedicated to mocking him to the end of time for tripping in a gopher hole and going head-over-heels down a hill into a creek. His clothes are still wet, but at least it cooled him down, some. It's spring on the mainland and getting warmer every day.

They're still arguing cheerfully as they leave the jumper bay, Ronon right behind them, Teyla lingering with the kids as they gather together their bundles of fruit and tubers and other things. When the alarm starts to sound, loud and sombre, it takes Rodney's brain almost three seconds to catch up, providing alarm, registering the timbre and pitch of the alarm and adding quarantine and oh shit, even as the bulkhead is slamming down almost on their heels.

Date: 2016-08-30 08:23 am (UTC)
popkin16: (☂ all the fun things go by that name)
From: [personal profile] popkin16
I love this fic :) I like all of [livejournal.com profile] chandri's work, though I think there is at least one or two fics I haven't read yet.

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