"Clutching Straws" by seldear [NC-17]
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stargateficrecRec Category: Sheppard/Teyla
Pairing: John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan
Category: Het, romance
Warning: Het, adult situations
Author on LJ:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seldear
Author's Website: http://www.thedragonborn.net/
Link: Clutching Straws
Why This Must Be Read:
Set after season 2's The Hive, Teyla is still recovering from the Wraith enzyme and is experiencing some interesting side effects, while John feels guilty for his part in Ford's plan. The voices and reactions of both characters are very well-written, as is the awkwardness that occurs after their night together.
Pairing: John Sheppard/Teyla Emmagan
Category: Het, romance
Warning: Het, adult situations
Author on LJ:
seldear Author's Website: http://www.thedragonborn.net/
Link: Clutching Straws
Why This Must Be Read:
Set after season 2's The Hive, Teyla is still recovering from the Wraith enzyme and is experiencing some interesting side effects, while John feels guilty for his part in Ford's plan. The voices and reactions of both characters are very well-written, as is the awkwardness that occurs after their night together.
And then she looked up at him.
Hunger and passion and frightening need; fear and desire and shuddering want - it was all there in her eyes as she looked at him, like a blow to the gut. As John had been stripped down to his more basic instincts by the retrovirus, so the enzyme was peeling off the refined layers of her nature and showing the elemental aspects beneath.
He'd always been attracted to her, but that attraction came secondary to their work together as a team, an unacknowledged rule between them.
She was this close to breaking that rule.
John was that close to letting her break it.
Hunger and passion and frightening need; fear and desire and shuddering want - it was all there in her eyes as she looked at him, like a blow to the gut. As John had been stripped down to his more basic instincts by the retrovirus, so the enzyme was peeling off the refined layers of her nature and showing the elemental aspects beneath.
He'd always been attracted to her, but that attraction came secondary to their work together as a team, an unacknowledged rule between them.
She was this close to breaking that rule.
John was that close to letting her break it.
