AlphaCen fic: Midway

[hth]

Midway
by Hth

Rodney/Sheppard/Ronon (post-series Alpha Centauri)
10,500 words

"The midway is divided into three main sections," Sheppard explained, making the same obscure pointing gestures he made in the field to indicate their next maneuver, "and each one is anchored by its own ferris wheel."

"I’ll give you a hundred dollars not to make us ride all three," Rodney said.

(A/N: Dear marythefan -- I'm sorry I made fun of the pie-judging contest. Love, Hth.)

Comments

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i was rodney at this fair every second of the way, slightly claustrophobic and almost annoyed with himself that he's so out of place but then annoyed with the people for being so other and enjoying themselves and with john to have dragged him there.

and i can see rodney creating this huge meaningful we're moving here story with little or no support from sheppard and sheppard's complete inability to get the nuances of rodney's thought processes but being able to say/do the right thing in the end anyway.

and ronon was great, trying to go with the flow because he doesn't have their baggage with this place and only takes it as the crappy carnivale for one day on their trip rather than as this meaningful symbol that rodney thinks it might be...

and your description of the ferris wheel is about as good a fanwank as it gets, b/c there's nothing in sheppard's canon characterization to explain that line really...but in your description, that throwaway line finally fits into canon sheppard!