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sga_flashficFic: Landing
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kyrdwyn
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Challenge: Dangling Challenge
Pairing: Sheppard/Emmagen, Beckett/Emmagen
Summary: He was balanced between his life and someone else's death.
"Landing"
He still dreams of that last battle with the Wraith, of flying the jumper toward the cluster of Hive ships, one of Rodney and Radek's improved naquadah bombs in the back. It was a suicide mission, but he was by no means the only kamikaze pilot in the stars that day.
He still remembers the feeling of falling, of dangling between life and death as the jumper dissolved around him, and the Daedalus somehow, well, beaming him from the doomed ship onto their deck.
That feeling comes back to him at various times, even though he has been back on Earth for eight months. He felt it when he arrived at the SGC to discover who from Atlantis hadn't made it back. Too many hadn't made it back, lost to the Wraith and the Genii.
The feeling was back a month after their return, when Teyla Emmagen showed up at his door, her brown eyes still reflecting sorrow for her lost people. He was still in freefall when they ended up in his bed after crying on each other's shoulders.
Teyla stayed with him for a week, then showed up again two weeks later, and this time the feeling of dangling between life and death didn't go away. He was balanced between his life and someone else's death, a death that had already happened, that had scarred them both.
He is hanging there now, on the precipice, his hands numb from Teyla's grip as she pushes her child into the world. The doctors and nurses urge her on, but he can't speak for fear he'll fall.
But he has fallen, for in the next second, the scream of a newborn sounds through the room. The doctors place Teyla's son in her arms, and he stands close behind her, looking down at them. He knows the child is not his, has always known, but there was still that small part of him that hoped. Yet he cannot help but feel affection toward this child whose father died in another galaxy. He reaches out with one careful finger to stroke the child's cheek, and Teyla looks up and smiles at him. He can see the knowledge in her eyes; she knows he will always be there for her and the child.
The baby's eyes are open now, and as he stares at his mother and stepfather out of John Sheppard's hazel eyes, Carson Beckett realizes that he has finally landed.
Author:
kyrdwynRating: PG
Spoilers: None
Challenge: Dangling Challenge
Pairing: Sheppard/Emmagen, Beckett/Emmagen
Summary: He was balanced between his life and someone else's death.
"Landing"
He still dreams of that last battle with the Wraith, of flying the jumper toward the cluster of Hive ships, one of Rodney and Radek's improved naquadah bombs in the back. It was a suicide mission, but he was by no means the only kamikaze pilot in the stars that day.
He still remembers the feeling of falling, of dangling between life and death as the jumper dissolved around him, and the Daedalus somehow, well, beaming him from the doomed ship onto their deck.
That feeling comes back to him at various times, even though he has been back on Earth for eight months. He felt it when he arrived at the SGC to discover who from Atlantis hadn't made it back. Too many hadn't made it back, lost to the Wraith and the Genii.
The feeling was back a month after their return, when Teyla Emmagen showed up at his door, her brown eyes still reflecting sorrow for her lost people. He was still in freefall when they ended up in his bed after crying on each other's shoulders.
Teyla stayed with him for a week, then showed up again two weeks later, and this time the feeling of dangling between life and death didn't go away. He was balanced between his life and someone else's death, a death that had already happened, that had scarred them both.
He is hanging there now, on the precipice, his hands numb from Teyla's grip as she pushes her child into the world. The doctors and nurses urge her on, but he can't speak for fear he'll fall.
But he has fallen, for in the next second, the scream of a newborn sounds through the room. The doctors place Teyla's son in her arms, and he stands close behind her, looking down at them. He knows the child is not his, has always known, but there was still that small part of him that hoped. Yet he cannot help but feel affection toward this child whose father died in another galaxy. He reaches out with one careful finger to stroke the child's cheek, and Teyla looks up and smiles at him. He can see the knowledge in her eyes; she knows he will always be there for her and the child.
The baby's eyes are open now, and as he stares at his mother and stepfather out of John Sheppard's hazel eyes, Carson Beckett realizes that he has finally landed.
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Date: 2005-06-10 05:13 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2005-06-10 05:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-10 01:23 pm (UTC)Except ... ::sniff:: ... I don't want John to have died!!!
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Date: 2005-06-10 03:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-10 04:07 pm (UTC)Wonderful use of dangling -- I imagine horrific events like the siege would leave survivors on the edge of that place for a long time, suspended. But poor John! I love that some part of him lives on...
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Date: 2005-06-10 06:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-10 06:55 pm (UTC)Not a pairing I would see under normal circumstances but this scenario is quite believable.
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Date: 2005-06-10 08:11 pm (UTC)thanks
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Date: 2005-06-12 12:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-12 12:09 am (UTC)baby's got brown eyes...
Date: 2005-06-12 02:41 am (UTC)candymike
Re: baby's got brown eyes...
Date: 2005-06-12 08:12 pm (UTC)