Fic: In the Hands of Yes

[hth]

In the Hands of Yes
by Hth

32,834 words of Aliens Made Them Get Married, and don't say I never gave you anything!

"There’s a ritual, Colonel! Do you know what *kind* of ritual? You have no idea! There could be – it could be dangerous, or, or – perverse!"

Comments

[diluvian.livejournal.com]

Completely by coincidence, I re-read almost all your SGA fic this weekend.

And now there's this, which makes me even happier, and even more impressed with your writing, and loving this pairing even more than I already did. And aside from the R/R, John and Cadman in particular had some really great moments.

So great, so much fun. Yaaaaaaaay!

And the ceremony was really interesting. Did you base it on a particular ritual or did it come entirely from your fantastic brain?

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

There was originally going to be more Cadman in this story, but somehow that didn't pan out. She was going to bug the shit out of Rodney a lot more *g*

I'm glad you liked it! As for the wedding ceremony, I guess that was pretty much invented. I took the idea of taking vows for things you wouldn't do rather than what you would from the Egyptians, who had a similar belief about how you'd be judged in the afterlife (i.e. by how much damage you managed to refrain from doing) and, weirdly enough, adapted the your wounds/your joy bit from the end of Practical Magic, but mainly I just kicked around what a warrior society might think of as the heart of marriage, so I wrote it with that emphasis on self-discipline, and my favorite part is the very last, because I just thought it would be cool if, for hardened warriors, the ultimate intimacy has to do with who you want by your side to patch you up after the battle. So like most things, it was kind of a pastiche of sources, put through the food processor *g*

Anyway, thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked it.