The John/Rodney-focused sequel to seeking antebellum is being written and still very much a loosely held-together draft, but I'm finally landing on a title: obsessional(okay, it might change. maybe. we'll see.) I'll also wrap up the law of gravity and complete a few chapters, finish my outline, etc., before I start uploading this eight fic. But it picks up right after seeking antebellum and is from John's POV primarily. That's all I'm telling right now. Here's a little sneak peek of what's to come (this is from the first chapter, which is the only chapter thus far that is mostly complete) ... John wakes up tangled in blankets, with a deeply asleep Rodney greedily wrapped around him. Or him around Rodney; difficult to tell. And Shy’s wings are draped over Mer like a shield as she slumbers, and his face is mashed into a pillow and Rodney’s nose is pressed against his neck. The breaths are familiar and comforting and deep, and Rodney is softly snoring and John is for a second very, very confused about where he is, why the bed is so hard, and why there’s a gleam of steel on his finger. Then he remembers. It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t a dream. Oh, it wasn’t a dream. And then he realizes why he’d woken up. The radio. No, the Jumper’s comms. Calling for his attention. Blearily he blinks, rubs at his eyes, stretches, yawns, tries to make sense of why the light is so weird. Then he remembers that they’re in Jumper One, in space above New Athos. Must’ve completed another orbit – one every forty minutes or so, at this height and speed – meaning there’s yet another sunrise, gleaming pale in the windscreen. “… Jumper One, this is Teyla. Do you read?” Ugh. John’s head drops back against the pillow. Okay. Got to answer that. Get back to the real world. Just … five more minutes would be nice. Even if his back sort of hurts because of the damned floor. Rodney’s totally right about it; sleeping on grated floors is not a good idea. Okay. Okay. With a sigh, not even bothering to sit up, he activates the Jumper’s comms with a thought; the ship willingly obliges. “This is Sheppard.” He’s not sure if she hears him yawn after he says that, but probably. “Good morning, John,” Teyla says and he can hear that she’s smiling. “I am sorry if I disturbed you, but Elizabeth just dialed and requests our return to the City. I said that you and Rodney were preoccupied with assisting Jinto at the relay station here in the settlement, and promised we would return to the City within the hour.” Oh. “Thanks for the heads-up. And, uhm, thanks.” Clever thinking; it’s vital the relay station works properly. It allows the Athosians to send an emergency subspace message to Atlantis if in need of aid and the Gate is unavailable for whatever reason. Jinto’s old enough to start learning things like that and it’s pretty well-known that the kid sort of hero-worships him, explaining why both he and Rodney would be at the relay. Sort of. “Just woke up, but we’ll be back at the settlement in ‘bout an hour or so.” “Take your time,” Teyla says knowingly and thank fuck she can’t see his face right now. Or anything of either of them. At all. “We will wait for you by the Stargate.” “Copy that. Sheppard out.” Silence descends on the Jumper again. Rodney hadn’t stirred throughout this conversation; a testament of how exhausted he’s got to be, and how familiar, how safe he is with his team, his mind doubtless filtering out the noise of them talking; Mer sleeping on, undisturbed. John rolls over and pokes his shoulder. Rodney makes a most displeased noise, nose scrunching up. “Rodney? Time to wake up. Sorry, buddy.” “… ugh?” Well, John interprets it as a question. “It’s morning. Weir called, wants us back in the City.” Rodney slowly, slowly blinks awake, groggily. Yawns. “… morning? … right, right.” Looks at John expectantly. “Coffee?” ... And that's all I'm going to reveal for now.
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ZoosWho
9/11/2018 21:20:14
I AM SO EXCITED!! I hope that writing and plotting and your general life are going well :) Can't wait to read this story <3
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