FIC: A Healer's Touch

[dr-dredd.livejournal.com]

Title: A Healer's Touch
Author: Dr. Dredd
Genre: Slash (not very much, though.)
Pairing: Sheppard/Beckett (It's all Waldo's fault...) ;-)
Spoilers: Second season, up to Michael
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis, characters, concept, etc, aren't mine. Bloody heck.
Words: ~300
Summary: He always wanted to be able to heal with a touch.



He’d always dreamed about being able to heal with a touch. In fact, he wasn’t sure which came first: that or the decision to go to medical school. At times he even imagined he could feel the ability pulse beneath his fingertips, ready to use if only he could make the final mental leap. Some days he felt very very close.

Unfortunately he never did develop his wished-for talent. He had to settle for doing things the old-fashioned way. So he threw himself into his studies, working long, hard hours to learn both the art and science of medicine. And if he sometimes bent the rules to follow leaps of intuition, nobody said anything. For his results were often nothing short of miraculous; many patients benefited both from his compassionate care and his genetic research. Once again he felt close to developing the true healer’s touch.

Then the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself and he stepped through the Stargate to the lost city of Atlantis. It was there that he saw the first stirrings of failure. Almost half of the Hoffan civilization wiped out because of a drug he helped develop. An elderly woman that he wanted to keep alive against her will. And his crowning achievement: a retrovirus that tried to transform the very nature of a sentient being, a tool that H.G. Wells’ Dr. Moreau would have loved.

It was when this virus almost took the life of the man he loved that Carson Beckett realized what truly distinguished a healer’s touch from that of a mere technician. The difference lay in knowing when to leave well enough alone.

Comments

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

oooh that's good!
Beckett is such an interesting character and so few people try to portray it.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Eee! Fabulous.

And not that I mind taking the blame for more Sheppard/Beckett fic (it seem to be the 'in vogue' thing to blame me lately), but what did I do that made you want to write this?

You have a really good point though - when will Carson stop medling in things beyond him? Because it hasn't gone so well for him thus far.

[nonniemous.livejournal.com]

Poor Carson, with his road to hell and his good intentions. He's really lost in a morass, isn't he? Nice glimpse into his psyche and oh, longing for a superpower that he doesn't have, only to realize he *shouldn't* have it.

[geeky-ginger.livejournal.com]

Ooo, loved this!

[kuna-yashmaa.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that was very sweet. I hope movie Beckett will follow your advice and stop. Or those bloody SGA writers would stop monkey with things they have no capacity to monkey with - with morals. Sateda is a perfect episode, I think they should stick with blasters-shmassers - they do it very good.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

Excellent concept.

[jalabert.livejournal.com]

This was a moving little piece and all the comments here struck a chord with me as well. You share my frustration with SGA. I, too, am almost tempted to organize a rewrite of the series. Almost.

But stories like this make me keep reading SGA, if not watching the show. Thank you thefannishwaldo for whatever magic you used to inspire it.