SGA fic: Breathe You Deep

[hth]

Breathe You Deep
by Hth

109k
various pairings
it's gen, it's het, it's slash, it's a floor wax!
Summary: Cold and flu season, like many other things, sucks more in space.
Warnings: A for Angst. The astute reader will notice that I hardly ever warn for angst, and might then imagine I mean rather a *lot* of angst. That's your warning. All sales final.

Special thanks to cesperanza for beta ("You're at about an eight, and I need you at about a four...") and as per usual to marythefan for encouragement and general evil ("What, you think I'm going to tell you *not* to do it?")

"You’re standing here telling us that half the galaxy, not to mention our friends, could fall over dead by Christmas, and you’re bringing us what, exactly, to deal with this problem? Amoxicillin and chicken soup?"

Comments

[lavonne1980.livejournal.com]

For an obvious statment... John should have listened to Rodney and Liz when they said to tell Teyla. Well duh... of course she saw it as a betrayal. Now for the rant... you killed Ronon. -sniff, screams, storms off- I had to pause when I got to them coming and telling Rodney. People seem to forget that something so simple killed millions of people years ago. We take for granted that a little rest, some orange juice, and chicken noodle soup with a liberal dose of night quil. And that things as trivial as a "common cold" still can cause serious harm and death to those that have never come in contact with it. You did a wonderful job of telling the story and reminding us of how fragile life is. I loved it. Of course if ever they decided to kill off Rodney or Ronon I would have to stop watching SGA.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Well duh... of course she saw it as a betrayal.

One of the things I love to do in a story is to find the ways where the regular traits of the characters could become dangerous or trip them up in some way, and a lot of this story was kind of about that for Sheppard: how all the ways he tries to protect his people could actually be bad things. I think the thing about Teyla is that Sheppard's betrayal of her is in the way he's never really able to deal with her as an equal, any more than the Atlanteans have ever dealt with the Athosians (or any other Pegasus civilization) as equals. The more he loves her, the more he wants to kind of paternalistically seal her up and protect her from everything, rather than respect the autonomous relationship she has with her friends and everything that's going on around her. I always thought it was sad that she never even got to say goodbye to Ronon; John takes that away from her, too -- and all with the best of intentions. That always seems to be the way things go wrong, you know?

I did kill Ronon -- but only because he's my favorite! Like so many writers, I'm always hardest on the characters I like most. *g* Well, the joy of fanfiction is that everything is only temporary. No matter what horrible thing I do to any of them, they'll all be back next Friday, just the way we know and love them!

Anway, thanks very much for the feedback!