Pure Bodies and Clean Hearts by Speranza (Virgin Challenge)

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Title: Pure Bodies and Clean Hearts (26k)
Author: Speranza
Pairing: McShep
Summary: John gets a do-over.

Thanks to shalott, giddy, and res for beta beyond the call of duty.

Comments

[kimberlite.livejournal.com]

He was careening through the water at top speeds, and he tried to be really alive to it, because this might be his last wild ride, and there were worse ways to die. He'd always wanted to go out flying--doing barrel rolls at enough Gs that he'd black out before he crashed-- but this was pretty damn close.

Wow -- that was quite a ride. Loved how John thought about vertical bearings and other pilot stuff. Very cool how alive he felt in the water and then how new and sensitized afterward. Poor Rodney, attracting the wrong type of attention, but yay for happy (and hot and funny) endings. :)

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Loved how John thought about vertical bearings and other pilot stuff.--ooh, thank you for catching that. It makes me really happy: I wondered if anyone would! And you know, even surging to certain death, John Sheppard is a guy who could enjoy the speed of a good ride. *G*

Rodney--yeah, it occurred to me that Rodney probably would have a zillion pederast science profs wanting to touch his brilliant little body, and would have to stave them off somehow. I could see him becoming deliberately offputting, deliberately defensive to protect himself--and then looking up later and realizing that he'd missed certain other kinds of chances. It can happen really, really easily, I think.