dusty (dustandroses) wrote in dustyrydersrecs, @ 2005-10-28 05:32:00 |
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Current music: | Slave To Love - Brian Ferry |
Stargate: Atlantis
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Title: Mercy
Author: shalott (astolat)
Genre: Slash, Aliens Made Them Do It
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Rating: NC17
Warnings: Bondage, Fisting
Spoilers: None
Notes: Written for the sga_flashfic
challenge "slavefic." It's not often that a fic leaves me speechless in
just 1575 words, but shalott has done it here. This fic just
blows me away, everytime I read it. The cliche Aliens Made Them Do It
is actually accurate, but it's not a cliche fic. It may use that
as a premise, but it's far from cliche. It's a powerfully moving
story.
Excerpt:
John stared down at his hands, a little numbly, watching Rodney wrap
the long leather strap over and under his wrists, binding them
together. "Is that tight enough?" Rodney asked, tensely: tight enough
so they wouldn't chafe, wouldn't move against the skin, when he --
while he --
"Yes," John said, voice scraping and rough; he
wasn't sure he really believed this was happening, yet, but it was
starting to get convincing.
"We could try -- " Rodney said, almost under his breath.
"No,"
John said. He couldn't; couldn't take the risk, not with his team at
stake, not with Teyla and Ford trapped somewhere in that fucking
labyrinth with less than one day's water left by now and no chance in
hell of getting out on their own, not when he'd sent them in there in
the first place --
"Right," Rodney said; he knew it too, got
it without making John say it all out loud, and right now John was
prepared to be grateful for small mercies, because he was pretty sure,
as Rodney lay him down and hooked his strapped wrists to the low
platform, there weren't going to be any big ones.
I rate this fic: This Is The Best Shit
Plus, The Dusty Seal of Approval: for blowing Dusty away in 1600 words or less.