Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming by Domenika Marzione [f**king freezing challenge]

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Eat Your Heart Out, Peggy Fleming
genfic; 28000 words
summary: The Ice Capades come to Pegasus and John gets a front-row seat.

John really didn't have a lot to do as he waited for the marines to rappel down, clean out the hole, measure the depth and the distance to where they thought the roof was, and set the next charge. He'd come out today only because Rodney was starting to get a complex as this would have been the fifth mission and John hadn't yet visited. Nevermind that there had been and would be dozens of projects Rodney ran off-world that John had never graced with his presence; that he had been there for the conception and had no interest in how it turned out deeply offended Rodney to the point that it was starting to affect their team missions.

("It's a mining facility, McKay, not a baby." "You are totally missing the point." "Apparently.")

With grateful thanks to: siegeofangels, witchofthedogs, and vonknibble. Anything that's wrong is entirely my fault.

Comments

[bratfarrar]

I love your world-building, and your everyday life but still very interesting story lines, and your John, and how you use Cadman here, and just about everything in the story. It was a marvelous excuse to procrastinate, and once I've got a clean draft of the essay I'm working on I shall reward myself by reading this again.

I know I don't always remember to let you know how much I love your stories, but I really do. Your version of Atlantis feels so real--like it could actually function.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't give positive reinforcement for procrastination, but... Thank you very much. :)

I like the idea of making Atlantis look like it could function -- for example, I enjoyed "Quarantine" muchly, but only after I just went with the flow and didn't try to figure out why there'd be one doctor and no nurses or orderlies or other patients in an infirmary.

[bratfarrar]

Oh yes, there's a big chunk of my brain I have to deliberately turn off in order to watch SGA. Once I do, it's a lot of fun, but your stories are more fun, because they make sense.