Encore by respoftw (Teen)

[logicgunn]

Show: SGA
Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Radek Zelenka, Ronon Dex, Evan Lorne, Chuck, Carson Beckett, Miko Kusanagi, Elizabeth Weir, Laura Cadman, Teyla Emmagan,
Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Words: ~27k
Author's Journal: respoftw
Author's Website: respoftw
Link: Encore
Why This Must Be Read: This was one of the first fics I read by respoftw, and one of the first SGA fics too, so it has a special place in my heart. John chose the Air Force over Rodney when they were young, and now that it's chewed him up and spit it back out he starts wondering "what if"?

Lorne, of course, had to ruin it.

"So, Shep. You gonna look him up?"

John knocked back another drink. “Look who up?” he bluffed.

Lorne wasn't so easily deterred, picking up John's last remaining shot and moving it to where John would have to reach over two pint glasses and around Evan to get it. “The one who got away,” Lorne answered seriously. “The man you left behind because you wanted to fly. The love of your damn life according to what you told me.”

John sighed deeply. “I was drunk when I told you that.” Drunk and coming off four days of heavy combat. It was, he felt, unfair of Evan to speak of those confidences now when he was only lightly buzzed and they were on solid ground.

“You were honest,” Evan argued. “Might be the first time you were ever really honest with me about something that mattered.”.

Comments

[popkin16]

God, this fic is just SO AMAZING.

[logicgunn]

Isn't it just? She's a brilliant writer.