Yea, though I walk; by niqaeli

[niqaeli]

Title: Yea, though I walk
Author: niqaeli
Rating/Warnings: PG, adult themes.
Spoilers: Siege II.
Summary: Ford is not afraid.
Notes: Oh, dear god, finally. I was getting tired of starting flashfics that turned into sprawling epics. *headdesk*


Ford is not afraid.

He thinks he should be. He and Teyla have been basically taken and stored, like MREs, snacks for later. But he isn't afraid.

He remembers when SG-17 was captured by Camulus' Jaffa, remembers what it is like to have your knees knocked out from under you, made to kneel before your God. Remembers the deep voice that goes straight to your fear center, makes you tremble with equal measure of fright and anger, makes your CO snap back furiously. Remembers the sick feeling in his stomach when the eyes flashed gold, remembers the glowing pain and blurred vision, remembers the cold furious, you will SERVE ME, Tau'ri.

And that is why Ford is not afraid, even when the one with the blue dreadlocks comes, those sharp useless teeth gaping, and leads him away.

The Wraith only want to eat his soul.

The Goa'uld wanted to enslave it.

Comments

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Very nice punch to the last two lines.

[niqaeli]

Thank you! *grins wryly*

The last two lines pretty much sum up the plotbunny that latched on and wouldn't let go--it just took me a little awhile to figure out how it went, beyond that.

[ship-recs.livejournal.com]

The Wraith only want to eat his soul.

The Goa'uld wanted to enslave it.

Very interesting.

[niqaeli]

Heh, it is a little odd, I guess. Glad you found it interesting--it wouldn't leave me alone until I did something with it.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Very, very crisp.

B

[niqaeli]

Thank you. *laughs* It's kind of reassuring to know that I *can* still write something short and crisp that says a fair bit without a lot of words. It was getting bloody silly there--I'd get the idea, start writing, write some more, write some more, write some more, wail when it became clear that it wasn't going to get finished in time to post much less be anywhere near the 'word limit', sigh, put it in the WIP folder, and hope that I might be able to write a flashfic for the *next* challenge. Rinse, repeat, etc.

*eyes her babble* Apparently I can't keep my replies very crisp, though. *snerk*

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Ford! *clings* I really like this. I like that fanfic doesn't hesitate to compare the Wraith and the Goa'uld, when we know the show will never go there, more's the pity. Because you're right, the Wraith are a terrible enemy, a menace, but at least they don't invade in such a personal way. And they don't enslave, or corrupt or force religion on people.

[kiarasayre.livejournal.com]

You have NO IDEA how happy this fic makes me. Very nice!

[sweeneybird.livejournal.com]

oh! this is great - I really like the way that you highlighted that although both are enemies of humans, the Wraith are actually acting out of need while the Goa'uld are acting out of malice and hubris. Excellent!

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Very chilling. Poor Ford. And now I have chants of save him! save him! running through my head.

[casspeach.livejournal.com]

I really liked this. The economy of the writing and the underlying current of the S2 spoilers that I've seen. I fear it may not be quite as black and white as Ford thinks.

Very thought-provoking, and, as others have said, nice to see Ford connecting with his SGC history

[ellex42.livejournal.com]

The Wraith only want to eat his soul.

The Goa'uld wanted to enslave it.

I never thought of it that way, but you have a point.

And hey! I *like* your sprawling epics! But this was very good, too.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

I like this. Ford's not someone who gets a lot of either screentime or fictime, and it's great to see someone writing about him!

[kiarasayre.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I think I'm going to rec this on stargateficrec, if that's okay with you--I'm rec'cing for Ford this month.

[niqaeli]

That's fine with me! It gives me warm fuzzies when people recc me. *grins*

[daydreamgrl.livejournal.com]

Very short and very powerful, especially the last two lines. I never thought of it that way but you're right, and I agree that the later is the worse, and more frightening, of the two.

[sgatlantislight.livejournal.com]

This fic is being recommended as an Essential Ford Fic for Newbies in this post (http://sgatlantislight.livejournal.com/86270.html) in my LJ. If you would check to make sure the URL is to the archive you prefer and other information is correct, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.