I'm happy to do any arm twisting when it gets me stories like this :)
Again,
She grips the tape and takes several deep breaths that don't quite take. John had known. John had understood -- and he hadn't told her. He probably hadn't thought he'd needed to. She herself had thought she knew Rodney McKay better than anyone.
She still wants to scream at him. Even now, she still wants to tell him what a fool he is and make him understand exactly how furious she is for all that he risked and all that he damaged with his abominable pride. But she senses that this nervous man standing before her is not someone she could browbeat.
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Date: 2006-03-31 05:58 am (UTC)Again,
She grips the tape and takes several deep breaths that don't quite take. John had known. John had understood -- and he hadn't told her. He probably hadn't thought he'd needed to. She herself had thought she knew Rodney McKay better than anyone.
She still wants to scream at him. Even now, she still wants to tell him what a fool he is and make him understand exactly how furious she is for all that he risked and all that he damaged with his abominable pride. But she senses that this nervous man standing before her is not someone she could browbeat.
*happy sigh*