Noble Form by bluflamingo (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Femslash
Pairing: Teyla/Sora
Categories: femslash, Teyla Emmagen, Sora Rallidae
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: bluflamingo
Author's Website: http://bluflamingofic.tripod.com/index.html

Summary: Teyla runs into a familiar face on an off-world trip.
Link: Noble Form

Why This Must Be Read: sg_rarepairings truly gave rise to a lot of wonderful stories. This story gives us a few wonderful insights into Teyla, but also into what could have happened with Sora. The underlying former romance and friendship shines through in the way the two women interact and makes this story one of my favourites.

She remembers Sora as a child, playing Wraith with her in the forests of Athos and the Genii homeland, as a young adult, bright and healthy, familiar images laid over with her now, unusually thin beneath the loose clothes she wears, her short hair dull. “I was not aware the Genii had resumed trading here.”

“They haven’t,” Sora says shortly, and this too is something Teyla remembers from Atlantis, the way Sora rebuffed every overture of friendship Teyla attempted.

“I see,” she says calmly, because she does see, quite clearly, Sora refusing to return to the Genii, or being turned away by them, making her way alone in a world in which she was never intended to do so; the Genii, for all that they turned out not to be what Teyla thought, have long been an insular community, and raised their children accordingly.