True Flight, by Incidental Fire (Fight or Flight challenge)

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Title: True Flight
Author: incidental_fire
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard pre-slash/friendship
Length: 7 haiku stanzas, 95 words
Rating: G

I've been in a haiku mood recently, and I was inspired by this challenge and crysothemis's picture of John with wings. Beta'd by the marvelous accidentalfan.



Desire for wings,
cliché for a pilot, true,
but oh, how he wants.

If he could, he'd soar,
Atlantis a speck below,
salt breeze rushing by.

Rodney knows, of course,
sees the want, the need to fly,
sans that metal skin.

He searches, for John.
But if the Ancients knew how,
they've kept that secret.

Pegasus or not,
it remains a dream, unknown,
just a wistful thought.

Until a new lab
is found, the secret revealed,
of feathers, true flight.

It's not forever,
but for that day he can fly
how he was meant to.

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And I really like your icon, I kept thinking it was an abstract image, but my brain finally went - hey, dolphin!

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

Aww, Rodney helped him find his wings. :)

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Rodney is a sweet guy like that. :)

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

This is charming. :-) I love the notion that deep down John wishes he could fly without even a puddlejumper mediating the experience for him.

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! And yeah, given how John seems to feel about flying in general, it just wouldn't surprise me at all. Plus, you know, there's no bad in the mental image of John + wings. :)

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Wingfic and haiku
Two great tastes, great together
Thanks for posting this!

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comment,
it was fun to write, indeed.
I'm glad you liked it!

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

wow, very nice

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

(And your icon is very nice as well.)

[carpenyx.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was really great! I loved it. :)

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it - thanks for reading!

[hari-kari.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is beautiful. I'm not usually one for haikus but this particular one has great imagery and an actual, very lovely little story. Well done! :)

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

It means a lot that you read it given that you don't normally like the format. And yeah, at first it was just a few thoughts on John wanting wings, and then the story just filled itself in around them.