“This is blood! This is starving and always fighting yourself while you’re trying to fight your enemy, because you’re too scared or you’re too mad and you can’t think straight until you get it under control! You know what life is? Life is the itch you get on your nose when you’re trying to sit still and listen, the leg cramps you get in your defensive position, it’s working all day every day to be strong and still not being strong enough to hold-- Life is the way I want to fuck you every single minute of my life and I can’t! This -- you want this? You can *have* this. If what they had was peace, I want it.”
and this:
Ronon shoves again – not too hard, just as hard as he needs to in order to dislodge John. No wasted ammo. “You,” Ronon says, “are the opposite of peace.”
“Now, I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty laid-back guy,” he says, reaching for Ronon’s shoulders.
Ronon twists a little bit as he takes John’s wrists and pushes them away – just twists enough to make his point. John doesn’t mind the sting. “Everything about you hurts,” he says, his voice quiet and even. Peaceful, almost. It stills John where he stands. Ronon shakes his head once and takes a step backwards. “Everything you do.”
I just loved the raw emotion of those exchanges. I've been loosely following the series, like a twat that doesn't feedback, but this addition really grabbed me. Really loved this.
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“This is life!”
“This is blood! This is starving and always fighting yourself while you’re trying to fight your enemy, because you’re too scared or you’re too mad and you can’t think straight until you get it under control! You know what life is? Life is the itch you get on your nose when you’re trying to sit still and listen, the leg cramps you get in your defensive position, it’s working all day every day to be strong and still not being strong enough to hold-- Life is the way I want to fuck you every single minute of my life and I can’t! This -- you want this? You can *have* this. If what they had was peace, I want it.”
and this:
Ronon shoves again – not too hard, just as hard as he needs to in order to dislodge John. No wasted ammo. “You,” Ronon says, “are the opposite of peace.”
“Now, I’ve always thought of myself as a pretty laid-back guy,” he says, reaching for Ronon’s shoulders.
Ronon twists a little bit as he takes John’s wrists and pushes them away – just twists enough to make his point. John doesn’t mind the sting. “Everything about you hurts,” he says, his voice quiet and even. Peaceful, almost. It stills John where he stands. Ronon shakes his head once and takes a step backwards. “Everything you do.”
I just loved the raw emotion of those exchanges. I've been loosely following the series, like a twat that doesn't feedback, but this addition really grabbed me. Really loved this.