What the Sea Has to Give (by Siria) (PG)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate Universe - specifically, fairy-tale type AUs
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Categories: M/M
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW/LJ:siria
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: What the Sea Has to Give on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely, haunting tale in which Rodney is a hermit scholar living by the sea, and John is a selkie who comes to live with him. The writing's lyrical and beautiful, and unlike most selkie stories, it doesn't have a tragic ending. Highly recommended.
There was something in the selkie's smile which made Rodney lean in, impulsive, and kiss him; and there was something in the way the selkie's hands came up, tentative at first, to slide along Rodney's biceps, his shoulders, to cup his face, that made Rodney want to close his eyes and beg.
But he didn't have to do that either, for the selkie just pulled back, stepped away. Picking up his sleek brown skin under one arm, he followed Rodney up the narrow path to that small, neat cottage that could shelter two under its eaves so easily.
There they lived for many years, content with one another and loving so well; the selkie kissing a smile onto Rodney's face each morning, Rodney curling an arm around his stomach as they fall asleep each night, thumb stroking against a soft patch of skin like it was his own safeguard against sorrow. It was the easiest thing that Rodney had ever done, and the best.
But the years passed; and when ten had slid by, the storms outside their little cottage grew steadily fiercer, the smell of the salt air around them stronger, and Rodney knew it for what it was without having to be told: for the selkie seemed sadder, as if all of a sudden his home had become a cage.
Rec Category: Alternate Universe - specifically, fairy-tale type AUs
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Categories: M/M
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW/LJ:
siria Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: What the Sea Has to Give on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely, haunting tale in which Rodney is a hermit scholar living by the sea, and John is a selkie who comes to live with him. The writing's lyrical and beautiful, and unlike most selkie stories, it doesn't have a tragic ending. Highly recommended.
There was something in the selkie's smile which made Rodney lean in, impulsive, and kiss him; and there was something in the way the selkie's hands came up, tentative at first, to slide along Rodney's biceps, his shoulders, to cup his face, that made Rodney want to close his eyes and beg.
But he didn't have to do that either, for the selkie just pulled back, stepped away. Picking up his sleek brown skin under one arm, he followed Rodney up the narrow path to that small, neat cottage that could shelter two under its eaves so easily.
There they lived for many years, content with one another and loving so well; the selkie kissing a smile onto Rodney's face each morning, Rodney curling an arm around his stomach as they fall asleep each night, thumb stroking against a soft patch of skin like it was his own safeguard against sorrow. It was the easiest thing that Rodney had ever done, and the best.
But the years passed; and when ten had slid by, the storms outside their little cottage grew steadily fiercer, the smell of the salt air around them stronger, and Rodney knew it for what it was without having to be told: for the selkie seemed sadder, as if all of a sudden his home had become a cage.
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Date: 2017-10-29 09:51 pm (UTC)