Atlantis fic: De Profundis

[hth]

De Profundis
by Hth

My journey into OT4 continues. Not as porny as "Works and Plays Well With Others," not as musical as "Headbanger's Ball." This actually...didn't go at all where I expected it to.

There was no set of circumstances where that particular configuration of fire, electricity, cultists, gravity, and sociopolitical upheval was going to give anyone a good feeling, but worse this time than normal, because by that point Rodney had gotten used to all three of them and also kind of more or less fallen in love.

Comments

[wicked-socks.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. This was excellent. I've teared up a bit and am really not sure what to say other than I really liked it. This is a fic that reaches out and smacks me silly, hitting emotional buttons, even ones I didn't know I had. It's achingly bittersweet and doesn't really wallow. The latter especially is so hard to find.

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Wallowing is a treacherous thing, because you never see the line coming -- you're just humming along, writing your little story, and then you see the line and it's somewhere behind you, and you're caught in the wallow. I know the sensation well.