Angry shouts from the next room drove him to pull out the confiscated coils so he could try and explain their significance to the wide-eyed toddler next to him. I could very well see this as Rodney’s childhood.
there’s just the slight possibility that loudmouth you insist on taking with you everywhere might be your illegitimate half-brother Another great sentence. I especially like what it says that John insists on having Rodney with him, that he actively chooses to have him around.
Without realizing it, John had found himself at the gym. Of course John Sheppard chooses violence over dealing with, *gasp*, feelings.
it didn’t mean that every time he looked at his diploma from Northwestern he wouldn’t remember Jeannie’s excited phone call telling him she had applied at his alma mater Awwww!
Well, okay, he was, because they were delicious Thankfully, Rodney has his priorities straight.
The tiny group of people he had grown close to here on Atlantis were a surrogate family, but they had never been obligated to care about him. Oh, lord, poor Rodney. That he thinks being related will make John have to care about him, and thus care for him in a less meaningful way is so very sad, but definitely makes his decision to let matters drop make sense.
“At least I don’t smell like dead animals.”
“Yeah, well at least I don’t look like a depressed Christmas tree.” I just love that they’re both still such ten year old boys.
I mean really, what would it change, pretending to be brothers? And neither of them has enough experience with functional families to see that they’ve spent the past two years getting along very much like siblings might.
Despite the ache deep in his gut, that was only partially due to his workout with Ronon Oh, poor John.
He was looking out for the welfare of his family, which was more important than any paltry unmentionable sentiments. Who needs words when your actions can speak for you.
“I don’t read when I need a distraction.” This is perfect! It makes so much sense that John and Rodney snip and snap at each other to take their minds off of all the big bad that is there lives.
Carson also knew that “closed subjects” often had a way of reopening themselves… and usually at the most inopportune time. Might this mean a sequel? Please?
I’ve very much enjoyed this fic, and I think that you believably came up with a way to make John and Rodney related. I hope that you some day continue in this universe, because I’d love to see how everything changes for John and Rodney being related (or does it?). Because it’s them, and of course the issue is going to come back and bite them hard in the ass, because someday one of them is going to need an organ, or there’ll be some Ancient device which can only be activated by relatives, or something. (How do you see Jeannie and Dave dealing with this knowledge? Or Patrick Sheppard, assuming someone tells him before his death?)
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there’s just the slight possibility that loudmouth you insist on taking with you everywhere might be your illegitimate half-brother Another great sentence. I especially like what it says that John insists on having Rodney with him, that he actively chooses to have him around.
Without realizing it, John had found himself at the gym. Of course John Sheppard chooses violence over dealing with, *gasp*, feelings.
it didn’t mean that every time he looked at his diploma from Northwestern he wouldn’t remember Jeannie’s excited phone call telling him she had applied at his alma mater Awwww!
Well, okay, he was, because they were delicious Thankfully, Rodney has his priorities straight.
The tiny group of people he had grown close to here on Atlantis were a surrogate family, but they had never been obligated to care about him. Oh, lord, poor Rodney. That he thinks being related will make John have to care about him, and thus care for him in a less meaningful way is so very sad, but definitely makes his decision to let matters drop make sense.
“At least I don’t smell like dead animals.”
“Yeah, well at least I don’t look like a depressed Christmas tree.” I just love that they’re both still such ten year old boys.
I mean really, what would it change, pretending to be brothers? And neither of them has enough experience with functional families to see that they’ve spent the past two years getting along very much like siblings might.
Despite the ache deep in his gut, that was only partially due to his workout with Ronon Oh, poor John.
He was looking out for the welfare of his family, which was more important than any paltry unmentionable sentiments. Who needs words when your actions can speak for you.
“I don’t read when I need a distraction.” This is perfect! It makes so much sense that John and Rodney snip and snap at each other to take their minds off of all the big bad that is there lives.
Carson also knew that “closed subjects” often had a way of reopening themselves… and usually at the most inopportune time. Might this mean a sequel? Please?
I’ve very much enjoyed this fic, and I think that you believably came up with a way to make John and Rodney related. I hope that you some day continue in this universe, because I’d love to see how everything changes for John and Rodney being related (or does it?). Because it’s them, and of course the issue is going to come back and bite them hard in the ass, because someday one of them is going to need an organ, or there’ll be some Ancient device which can only be activated by relatives, or something. (How do you see Jeannie and Dave dealing with this knowledge? Or Patrick Sheppard, assuming someone tells him before his death?)