That was simply beautiful! Wow what a finish to this part! You took it soft and slowly. Nice that they had a twelve hour sleep, in between the infirmary and the Kaeira!sex. I felt very close to AURodney and the General - the former so frail and vulnerable yet adoring, the latter so determined to share the healing, for Rodney to not bear the burden alone. Aw!
Starting from the top again ... You always amaze me with action!plot developments! Very tight! Whee! Loved the moment when John was faced with new Rodney - oh god! that was so ...aah! That Rodney ever the blunt McKay says, 'He's not your John. He's mine' and the fact that John does actually GO to our Rodney first!
I think you judged the level of excitement of new Rodney well - at the appearance of ours and the other, given the abuse he's suffered.
I think it's great technique - dangling the rape backstory going from: livid bruises on his wrists – ... actual fingerprints" through new Rodney's weary assents to a great John moment, "John felt a surge of ice-cold anger deep in his belly as he imagined how his counterpart in this universe must feel about that." But my favourite phrase is just after ..." feeling the calm of cool resolve settle around him". Yay!
He! He! Wry attitudes at being faced with the inevitability of their relationship!
Love the moment of field medic Rodney and guilty jumping away! Then gun-toting Carson!
Back in our universe ...
Oh whoo! So the lifebond is the primary Law that says they live or die together (a kind of absolute) but it seems there is a life energy flow to sustain both, and the Kaeira is more a secondary power ... a specialized and focused energy source that enables them to share injury and healing, thereby balancing out the huge risks in making the decision to lifebond. I had wondered whether the whole AU (i.e. back on AUEarth) had the potential so it's gratifying to learn about that - that they learned of it from Teyla, seemingly, although you don't rule out that they didn't know about it back in the Milky Way. Very cool!
Love the back seat healer Rodney - diagnosing John's wound. he!
Aah ... and that Rodney is slowly learning to feed out of his hand - trust is starting to flourish, if only in a sprouting way as yet.
I'm so glad you picked up on Rodney's being uncomfortable in his own skin, that he doesn't like to take off his shirt in public, leaving himself exposed. I just love that private side of him. I don't know if you know, but in the commentary on Hot Zone on the DVD, Rachel Luttrel, I think, makes the comment that it was too bad we didn't get to see a de-shirted DH, cos he's really built. He works out pretty good. But DH, when the script called for him to take off his shirt in Hot Zone talked them out of it - saying that it would be totally out of character for McKay to do that.
That's a great interlude with Elizabeth - very in character for both of them - especially Elizabeth's "Life's too short" - from Before I Sleep, to John just being in character with all his responses, communicating key driving concepts with an incredible economy of words! Loved the way John's attention kept flicking over to Rodney's protestations at treatment, knowing he had to be patient still!
I love new toppy Carson - not letting the pair scuttle off after the visit to their other selves.
Despite all Rodney's snark about medicine being 'about as much a science as voodoo', I sense that Carson's good opinion is very important to him, so it's lovely to see that interaction, discussing the possibility of a John/Rodney relationship -that it's fine by him. I think because Carson is such a motherer to Rodney that of all people on base, his affirmation would mean the most ... so that was just oooh! really satisfying! Sometimes I think the dr/patient thing between Carson and Rodney is almost like a parent/child thing - that Rodney, who is so neglected tactilely, needs that nurturing.
I agree ... there's something for everyone in this part! Anxious and adoring blue eyes to you!
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on Feb. 23rd, 2006 01:44 pm (UTC)That was simply beautiful! Wow what a finish to this part! You took it soft and slowly. Nice that they had a twelve hour sleep, in between the infirmary and the Kaeira!sex. I felt very close to AURodney and the General - the former so frail and vulnerable yet adoring, the latter so determined to share the healing, for Rodney to not bear the burden alone. Aw!
Starting from the top again ...
You always amaze me with action!plot developments! Very tight! Whee!
Loved the moment when John was faced with new Rodney - oh god! that was so ...aah! That Rodney ever the blunt McKay says, 'He's not your John. He's mine' and the fact that John does actually GO to our Rodney first!
I think you judged the level of excitement of new Rodney well - at the appearance of ours and the other, given the abuse he's suffered.
I think it's great technique - dangling the rape backstory going from: livid bruises on his wrists – ... actual fingerprints" through new Rodney's weary assents to a great John moment, "John felt a surge of ice-cold anger deep in his belly as he imagined how his counterpart in this universe must feel about that." But my favourite phrase is just after ..." feeling the calm of cool resolve settle around him". Yay!
He! He! Wry attitudes at being faced with the inevitability of their relationship!
Love the moment of field medic Rodney and guilty jumping away! Then gun-toting Carson!
Back in our universe ...
Oh whoo! So the lifebond is the primary Law that says they live or die together (a kind of absolute) but it seems there is a life energy flow to sustain both, and the Kaeira is more a secondary power ... a specialized and focused energy source that enables them to share injury and healing, thereby balancing out the huge risks in making the decision to lifebond. I had wondered whether the whole AU (i.e. back on AUEarth) had the potential so it's gratifying to learn about that - that they learned of it from Teyla, seemingly, although you don't rule out that they didn't know about it back in the Milky Way. Very cool!
Love the back seat healer Rodney - diagnosing John's wound. he!
Aah ... and that Rodney is slowly learning to feed out of his hand - trust is starting to flourish, if only in a sprouting way as yet.
I'm so glad you picked up on Rodney's being uncomfortable in his own skin, that he doesn't like to take off his shirt in public, leaving himself exposed. I just love that private side of him. I don't know if you know, but in the commentary on Hot Zone on the DVD, Rachel Luttrel, I think, makes the comment that it was too bad we didn't get to see a de-shirted DH, cos he's really built. He works out pretty good. But DH, when the script called for him to take off his shirt in Hot Zone talked them out of it - saying that it would be totally out of character for McKay to do that.
That's a great interlude with Elizabeth - very in character for both of them - especially Elizabeth's "Life's too short" - from Before I Sleep, to John just being in character with all his responses, communicating key driving concepts with an incredible economy of words! Loved the way John's attention kept flicking over to Rodney's protestations at treatment, knowing he had to be patient still!
I love new toppy Carson - not letting the pair scuttle off after the visit to their other selves.
Despite all Rodney's snark about medicine being 'about as much a science as voodoo', I sense that Carson's good opinion is very important to him, so it's lovely to see that interaction, discussing the possibility of a John/Rodney relationship -that it's fine by him. I think because Carson is such a motherer to Rodney that of all people on base, his affirmation would mean the most ... so that was just oooh! really satisfying! Sometimes I think the dr/patient thing between Carson and Rodney is almost like a parent/child thing - that Rodney, who is so neglected tactilely, needs that nurturing.
I agree ... there's something for everyone in this part!
Anxious and adoring blue eyes to you!
L