Opening the Door to Strangers by ltlj (PG)

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Rec Category: Teyla
Pairing: none
Category: gen, team, charcter study
Warning: none
Authory on LJ: ltlj
Link: Opening the Door to Strangers

Why this must be read:

This is a great team bonding fic centered around Teyla. I love Teyla's voice in this and the characterizations are steeped in canon. I love the way we see the team from Teyla's perspective. I also love that this fic takes place in earlu S1 when everyone is still sort of alien to each other and they're just gettion to know each other.

Excerpt:

Darkness came and went in her vision, then Sheppard leaned over her, ice crystals caught in his spiky black hair, and told her, "Hey, you stay with Rodney for a while, okay?"

She realized that she was in Dr. McKay's lap, which seemed undignified for both of them. But he opened his coat and tac vest and tucked her inside his jacket, her chilled body against the warmth of his solid chest, and she lost all will to protest.

She tried to remember when these strange people, these aliens from a place so far away it was hard to imagine, became a part of her home. When it became an odd notion that they might ever have been anything but a part of her home.

Her feet were in the Major's lap, and he was easing her boot off, and the argument was home, too.