Don't Forget to Breathe by Kho (NC-17)
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stargateficrecRec Category: Rodney/Elizabeth
Pairing: Rodney/Elizabeth
Category: het, drama, h/c, pwp
Warning: het, sexual scenes
Author on LJ:khohen1
Author's Website: ...Fanfic by Kho
Link: Don't Forget to Breathe
Why this must be read:
She wishes she could bottle this, freeze frame it and show it to everyone who ever thought that Rodney was the cold-hearted conceited bastard that he makes himself out to be, because he's everything but that right now and she's always known that.
I guess you could call this a pwp, but it would be a pwp with serious plot. It's a bittersweet piece with Elizabeth turning to Rodney after the events with the storm and the Genii, but at the end of the night, Rodney gives her an out. Her feelings about being a woman in charge and the pressures and expectations that it entails are well described, as well as the impact they have on Elizabeth's decision.There's also a more unusual perspective on how Elizabeth might really feel about Rodney. Kho manages to convey Rodney's feelings about the situation without ever being explicit, making the piece very much about Elizabeth but without Rodney being left in the background
Pairing: Rodney/Elizabeth
Category: het, drama, h/c, pwp
Warning: het, sexual scenes
Author on LJ:
khohen1Author's Website: ...Fanfic by Kho
Link: Don't Forget to Breathe
Why this must be read:
She wishes she could bottle this, freeze frame it and show it to everyone who ever thought that Rodney was the cold-hearted conceited bastard that he makes himself out to be, because he's everything but that right now and she's always known that.
I guess you could call this a pwp, but it would be a pwp with serious plot. It's a bittersweet piece with Elizabeth turning to Rodney after the events with the storm and the Genii, but at the end of the night, Rodney gives her an out. Her feelings about being a woman in charge and the pressures and expectations that it entails are well described, as well as the impact they have on Elizabeth's decision.There's also a more unusual perspective on how Elizabeth might really feel about Rodney. Kho manages to convey Rodney's feelings about the situation without ever being explicit, making the piece very much about Elizabeth but without Rodney being left in the background
Shh," she says again, pressing her lips against his again, and she keeps her eyes open throughout it because she needs him to read her. She needs him to acknowledge what she wants because if she says it out loud it makes it real, and everything everyone's always said about the danger of having a woman in charge is true.
Because everyone says that women complicate things, and women are weak, and women sleep with the first warm body that makes them feel safe, and this is what she's doing now, this is who she's being, if she says it out loud. If she admits it. If she knows what she's doing and does it anyway, she becomes that.
Except that's not true at all, because this is Rodney. Rodney, who's allergic to everything, who's maybe the most neurotic man she's ever known, and she's always been a little bit in love with him since the day she met him. Because in his own way, in his own Rodney-specific way, he loves what he does just as much as she does. Where she smiles, he bitches, and where she glows he frowns, but it's the same, because Rodney's Rodney, and Elizabeth gets that probably better than anyone else ever has.
(And there's a small part of Elizabeth that would like to point out that the first man that made her feel safe while she was in Atlantis was John Sheppard, and she didn't sleep with him, thank you very much.)
Because everyone says that women complicate things, and women are weak, and women sleep with the first warm body that makes them feel safe, and this is what she's doing now, this is who she's being, if she says it out loud. If she admits it. If she knows what she's doing and does it anyway, she becomes that.
Except that's not true at all, because this is Rodney. Rodney, who's allergic to everything, who's maybe the most neurotic man she's ever known, and she's always been a little bit in love with him since the day she met him. Because in his own way, in his own Rodney-specific way, he loves what he does just as much as she does. Where she smiles, he bitches, and where she glows he frowns, but it's the same, because Rodney's Rodney, and Elizabeth gets that probably better than anyone else ever has.
(And there's a small part of Elizabeth that would like to point out that the first man that made her feel safe while she was in Atlantis was John Sheppard, and she didn't sleep with him, thank you very much.)
