Comfort Food, Amnesty fic by permetaform

[permetaform]

Title: Comfort Food
Author: permetaform
Spoilers: general spoilers for past Siege I

McKay found the colonel in the SGC cafeteria, post-debriefing, dispiritedly picking at his french fries. He sat down, stole one, and grimaced.

It was almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike the tubers that grew on MX4-2X5.

John pushed the plate away, "Don't bother with the chicken."

"It's not like it's going to kill you, Sheppard." Rodney reached over, but paused. "Wait, it doesn't have--"

"No citrus that I could tell."

Rodney bit into a leg. It looked close enough to the giant amphibians from M25-67J that the chicken almost tasted like, but it was stringier and harder to chew. And less sweet.

Even the hair was droopy.

"Oh for the love of--stop moping! We'll be back in a week!"

Sheppard just raised an eyebrow and pretended not to stew over his coffee.

Comments

[rokeon.livejournal.com]

I love your brain. Homesick!Sheppard is too adorable for words.

*cuddles the hair*

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

Awww.

Makes me wonder when they started meaning Atlantis and not Earth when they said "home."

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Hee. I love this!

[eliade.livejournal.com]

Ah the Giant Amphibian of M25-67J with Mango-Tarragon Crème Fraiche--*kisses fingertips*.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Hee! Very fun.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Aw, I love that their comfort food has changed galaxies along with them! Funny how your definition of home can change when you're not looking.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Sheppard just raised an eyebrow and pretended not to stew over his coffee.

Oh! Sheppard moping! Homesick for Atlantis food! *heart*

[therisingmoon.livejournal.com]

aw, poor John. He's become so used to eating fresher food from Atlantis and from trading partners that Earth food just isn't the same anymore and even his *hair* misses Atlantis! ♥

[sylvertongue.livejournal.com]

Hee. You win.

[etben.livejournal.com]

yays! I love them being homesick for Atlantis, because that becomes where they belong and where they're happiest. The food is such a nice illustration of that, too--I think I read somewhere in a fic, Rodney saying that they had to come up with a whole new way of talking about food, with -ish and -like and whatnot, to describe Pegasus--for them to turn that around and use it against Earth is very cute. well done!

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

Love this!! So very very cute. I love Atlantis-as-home fics.

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, that was too cute for words.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

that was great...even though it took me a second to get it :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

Hehehe, this is cute. They are missing the weird food from the Pegasus Galaxy. Heh.

[milenaa.livejournal.com]

Even the hair was droopy.

This is really unbelievably sweet. Lovely ficlet :)

[coreopsis.livejournal.com]

Okay, that? Is ten kinds of awesome. *g*

[crimsonclad.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, AWESOME. Tastes like M25-67J amphibians! Glorious.

[toniabarone.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Cute. Instead of comparing food to Earth, comparing food to Atlantis. Thanks for this.

[monkeypuzzle.livejournal.com]

OMG yes! That is brilliant!

[hajimebassaidai.livejournal.com]

I liked how the potatoes and chicken are now being compared to Pegasus Galaxy food, not the other way round!

"Even the hair was droopy" - brilliant!