Walk Out of the World (by LtLJ) (Teen)
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stargateficrecShows: SGA, Firefly
Rec Category: crossovers
Characters: Kaylee, River Tam, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Categories: gen
Words: 3135
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: LtLJ on AO3, and her own Watergate site
Link: Walk Out of the World on AO3 (and as it's locked there, on the Watergate site)
Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely side-adventure in both fandoms. Kaylee accidentally falls through a portal into Pegasus and River follows, bang into the middle of an encounter with the Wraith by John's team. It's all from River's spooky and telepathically accurate POV and her assessments of them all are fascinating. I love this combination of two of my favourite 'verses.
We'll wait them out," the leader (Major) says. He's standing in the center of the ship, one hand braced on the rack overhead, the other on the gun that hangs around his neck. He's a solitary hunter, a big cat that leads a wolf pack, beautiful and lethal and all twisty contradictions. He's watching the sensor screens, the closed ramp of the little ship, and River and Kaylee, all at once while seeming to watch nothing.
"They aren't Alliance," River tells Kaylee, because the uniforms make Kaylee wonder, though it makes Kaylee feel better that there are other women here. One is another lovely predator, pack-mate to the others, wearing the gray and black that symbolizes that, and the surface of her mind is a well of calm stillness with the loss and pain and anger underneath. The other is small like River, wearing the blue and tan of the to-be-protected, and she's beautiful, like a flower carved out of ivory, all intricate layers woven with delicate precision, and her head is full of numbers and time as well.
"What were those things?" Kaylee asks helplessly. She sniffles and there are tears on her cheeks that she can't help, but her voice is mostly steady. "They didn't-- They weren't human?"
The female predator (Teyla) is startled. "You do not know of the Wraith?"
Kaylee shakes her head, numb. River explains, "They're hunting us, to eat. They're like Reavers, only they eat souls." Kaylee's eyes go even bigger. "They think they eat souls," River corrects herself, frowning. "It doesn't work like that, but they can't see it."
Rec Category: crossovers
Characters: Kaylee, River Tam, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Categories: gen
Words: 3135
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: LtLJ on AO3, and her own Watergate site
Link: Walk Out of the World on AO3 (and as it's locked there, on the Watergate site)
Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely side-adventure in both fandoms. Kaylee accidentally falls through a portal into Pegasus and River follows, bang into the middle of an encounter with the Wraith by John's team. It's all from River's spooky and telepathically accurate POV and her assessments of them all are fascinating. I love this combination of two of my favourite 'verses.
We'll wait them out," the leader (Major) says. He's standing in the center of the ship, one hand braced on the rack overhead, the other on the gun that hangs around his neck. He's a solitary hunter, a big cat that leads a wolf pack, beautiful and lethal and all twisty contradictions. He's watching the sensor screens, the closed ramp of the little ship, and River and Kaylee, all at once while seeming to watch nothing.
"They aren't Alliance," River tells Kaylee, because the uniforms make Kaylee wonder, though it makes Kaylee feel better that there are other women here. One is another lovely predator, pack-mate to the others, wearing the gray and black that symbolizes that, and the surface of her mind is a well of calm stillness with the loss and pain and anger underneath. The other is small like River, wearing the blue and tan of the to-be-protected, and she's beautiful, like a flower carved out of ivory, all intricate layers woven with delicate precision, and her head is full of numbers and time as well.
"What were those things?" Kaylee asks helplessly. She sniffles and there are tears on her cheeks that she can't help, but her voice is mostly steady. "They didn't-- They weren't human?"
The female predator (Teyla) is startled. "You do not know of the Wraith?"
Kaylee shakes her head, numb. River explains, "They're hunting us, to eat. They're like Reavers, only they eat souls." Kaylee's eyes go even bigger. "They think they eat souls," River corrects herself, frowning. "It doesn't work like that, but they can't see it."
