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Title: Homecoming
Author: Hyperfocused
Episode and type of story: Enemy at the Gate
Rating: PG13
Categories: slash, reference to canon het.
Character(s) or Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, Ronon, Teyla
Warnings: none, really
Wordcount:200. Just a double drabble
Summary or quote(" Home is where the heart is.

Originally for McSmooch. Just a double drabble. I'm sick with Strep, but wanted to get a snippet in.)



"I'm home," Jennifer says, looking out at the Golden Gate Bridge, and that's when it hits Rodney, irrevocably and finally. They can never be what the other needs. Not when he sees John leaning over to Teyla, saying 'We'll get back home."

Keller doesn't even say "We're home", which wouldn't be accurate, either, not for any of the original expedition, Rodney's pretty sure, though perhaps it's different when you know you can go back again. Earth certainly isn't home for Ronon or Teyla. They may have learned about its cultures, and neither would seem out of place in San Francisco, or even better, Santa Cruz, but Rodney knows home is the Pegasus Galaxy. He knows this, because it's home for him, too.

Still, it's a relief to see her safe, and in her element. It's all he ever wanted for her, really. She's smart enough to know it's 'goodbye' when he kisses her. He can't quite feel guilty for what he does next, saying "fuck it" inside his head, and turning to kiss John, instead. They've saved the world. They're due a little happiness. When John sighs, and kisses him back, it finally feels like a welcome home.

Date: 2009-01-27 08:22 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] tarlanx
tarlanx: Blue butterfly on books on rainbow colored background (McKay - Happy 2 by Belinghoff79)
So sweet!!

Date: 2009-01-27 08:44 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] sulien.livejournal.com
Now that's the ending Enemy At The Gate should have had. Thank you!

Date: 2009-01-28 01:30 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] psyko-kittie.livejournal.com
Lovely!

Date: 2009-01-28 04:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] helenkacan.livejournal.com
Oh, I really liked this.

It still amazes me that TPTB could so screw up Keller's character (vacillating wildly depending on who was writing each week's episode). Mid-twenties. Check. Woefully lacking in life experience. Check. Supposedly brilliant, but with no field experience. Check. WOW! She's just perfect to send to another galaxy. And be Carson's successor. It's just as well they landed by the Golden Gate Bridge. I'm sure TPTB would try to sell it to us as well, if we were really that gullible.

It would be entirely understandable (if not expected) for Jennifer to put her foot down and tell the SGC that she'll work for them on earth (and I think even that would be a stretch, as I think she'd really like a slower midwest town doc lifestyle) but, after all the times she was kidnapped, body-swapped, died, etc., etc., she's had it with the Pegasus Galaxy and its Thrills'n'Chills Theme Park experience.

Date: 2009-01-29 04:10 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] cyanne
cyanne: (SGA McShep Blended (no text))
Just perfect with the images of home. I so needed this.

Date: 2009-07-15 03:54 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] valoryhope.livejournal.com
Oh YES!

Date: 2009-07-28 03:16 am (UTC)From: [personal profile] greenapple (from livejournal.com)
greenapple: john sheppard (john sheppard)
I like this.

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