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Ficlet #2 (SGA, J/R). 2750 words for [livejournal.com profile] astolat, who is getting--well. Anyway, she asked for it! ;-)



In the rainforests of P4X-707, Rodney was scanning a long-abandoned Ancient outpost and John was eyeing Rodney's ass whien Rodney tripped over a tree root. He cut his palm on a rock. "Oh great," he said, cradling his hand close to his chest as John headed over to check it out. "That's going to need stitches--"

And then he turned into a dinosaur.

John froze. Rodney looked down at himself, as much as he could considering his short, spindly neck, and then he looked down at John.

"I guess it had to happen eventually," John said, after a long, silent moment, and Rodney roared.

*

Ronon took one look at Rodney, and pulled three knives out of nowhere.

"No, no," John said. "You don't get it. That's McKay."

"Looks like a monster to me," Ronon mumbled around the knife between his teeth.

"Well, yeah," John said, and Rodney roared. John turned to look at him. "Be quiet, Rodney, unless you want to wind up with a knife in your eye."

Rodney roared again, long and loud.

Ronon put his knives away. John raised an eyebrow at him and he shrugged. "I'm convinced."

Teyla approached Rodney like he was a wild animal, hands out, movements slow. "How could such a thing happen?" She touched Rodney's leg carefully. "I have never known such a people for transformation," she said, looking at John. "Is this much change common on your planet?"

"Oh yeah," John said. "Have Beckett tell you about plastic surgery sometime."

Rodney roared.

"Actually, it might be a good idea to get Beckett," John said. "And Zelenka. You guys go ahead and brief Elizabeth, get her to start setting up a team. I'll walk Rodney to the gate."

Ronon nodded. Teyla hesitated. "Are you certain, Colonel Sheppard? Perhaps we should all go? The path to the stargate is clear, Dr. McKay would not need to be led there."

"He's not going to eat me," John said, waving her off. "Besides, the guy just got turned into a dinosaur, I think he could probably use some company."

Teyla nodded, clearly still uncertain. She touched Rodney's leg again, looking up at him, then shook her head and turned to follow Ronon to the gate.

John watched them go, then turned back to Rodney. "You're not going to fit through the gate." John crossed his arms over his chest and eyed Rodney. "I don't think we could even get your head through. We'll definitely have to bring Carson and Zelenka to you. They'll figure it out here."

Rodney roared, then took an astonishingly deep breath and made a sad noise like a bird chirping. A bird the size of a train, anyway.

John raised his eyebrows. "You might be the smartest guy in this galaxy, Rodney, but that won't make it any easier for you to operate a scanner with claws."

Rodney chirped again.

"Look around you. Rainforest. You have herbivore teeth. You're not going to starve."

Rodney took a mouthful of leaves off a tree--stripping it almost bare--and chewed. Seconds later, John was ducking to avoid a flying pile of chewed-up, spit-out green chunks.

"You're *impossible*," he said, and Rodney reared back on his hind legs and spread his front legs, a gesture so very Rodney that John had to grin. "Yeah. Literally."

Rodney nodded, then dropped down to all four legs again and followed John to the stargate, chirping all the way.

*

John went back to Atlantis long enough to check in with Elizabeth and help outfit Carson and Zelenka's team. When he came through with them, Rodney was lying down in the clearing. His forelegs were stretched out straight in front of him and his head, the size and roughly the shape of a school bus, was resting on them. He looked pretty much like an enormous, scaley, miserable Dachshund.

He didn't lift his head, just opened his eyes--incongruously bright blue--and made a rumbling noise like a sigh.

"Don't even," John said, approaching him. "I see those bushes with the bite marks."

Rodney rolled his eyes, then rumbled again and closed them. John looked over his shoulder at the people crowding each other awkwardly on the ramp, and sighed too.

"Are we going to fix him or stand around gawking all day?" he asked sharply, and people started moving, finally.

Parrish smiled at him as he walked down the ramp. "Have you considered that you're spending entirely too much time with Dr. McKay, Colonel?" he asked. "You're starting to sound a little--"

"Like I want our head of science back to human ASAP?" John asked, raising an eyebrow.

Parrish laughed. "Right." He scratched Rodney's cheek curiously. "Fascinating," he said, and Rodney opened his eye, looked at John, and tipped his head a little.

"Unless you do actually want to starve, you shouldn't crush the botanist," John said.

Rodney considered it for a moment, then straightened his head, eyeing John balefully.

"I'm sure you'll have another chance later," John said, and patted his nose.

*

John wasn't particularly happy about having to leave Rodney on P4X-707, but couldn't stay. There was too much going on in the city, and he hadn't planned to be away overnight.

"I'll be back in the morning," he said. "Don't eat anyone, okay?"

Rodney roared and, through pathetic dinosaur melodrama, managed to convince John that he did actually need a small mountain of unwrapped Powerbars brought through the gate for him in the morning, although with Parrish's help, he had managed to find a pretty varied selection of edible vegetation.

"Fine, but don't expect room service every day," John said, and reluctantly went home.

*

Rodney got room service every day. In the morning, while he was happily munching his way through the stack of Powerbars, making pleased rumbly noises, John tended to stay on the other side of the clearing with the crew. Rodney was not a neat eater, even when he was human.

When he was done, he followed John and they tried to help the scientists and doctors figure out how they were going to get him back to normal. On the tenth morning, Zelenka straightened and pushed his glasses higher on his nose.

"Colonel," he said. "Perhaps you could be of more use to us if you were to take Rodney for a walk. You can see, it is a bit of a distraction to have him attempting to scratch calculations in the dirt with his claws. Also he has broken three laptops and a nurse."

Rodney roared.

"The laptops will not be fine," Zelenka said. "Go, Rodney, or we will make deliberate errors and leave you here a very long time."

Rodney laid down and put his head on his legs, a great, sulking heap of sandy-colored limbs and pathetic noises.

"I think he means it, Rodney," John said, and walked to the side of Rodney's head that was turned away from the team. He stroked Rodney's broad, flat cheek. His skin was pebbly, coarse, and very warm. "C'mon," he said. "We'll go down to the river, and I'll tell you all about what Cadman said in the mess last week. I think Carson is still blushing."

Rodney rumbled, but the lure of gossip was too strong, and he clambered to his feet and led John down the path to the river.

*

It was very peaceful by the river. Rodney put his forelegs in the water but refused to go in any further. John skipped a few stones and gave him all the gossip from home, grinning when Rodney rumbled or went off on a chirping rant in response. The form was different but the personality was pure McKay, which was a relief. Every morning, while he was unwrapping 15 Powerbars, John tried not to worry that he'd step through the stargate and find Rodney had truly changed.

After a while, he ran out of things to say, and went to sit on one of the rocks that lined the beach. He leaned against Rodney's leg and watched the water.

"You know, you could be having a worse vacation," he said. Rodney stopped dragging shiny rocks off the riverbed to flick a claw and douse him with water while he spluttered and cursed and was glad to see Rodney's sides heave with what was, apparently, the dinosaur version of laughter.

*

In the afternoon, John walked Rodney back to the clearing by the stargate and scratched his cheek one last time. "Okay," he said, stepping back. "You gonna make it another day?"

Rodney glared at him, and John grinned. "Then I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good night--and don't eat those red plants again, they make your breath reek."

Rodney chirped in a way that suggested he thought John could go fuck himself with the red plants, and John laughed and turned away, jogging a little so he could just get it over with. It was more difficult every day to leave Rodney behind, but Carson and Zelenka's team still had no idea how to turn him human again and there was no way to bring him home. John dialed Atlantis' address and walked through the gate, and very carefully didn't look back.

*

On the fifteenth day, Rodney only nibbled at his Powerbars. John watched him for a few minutes, concerned, before heading across the clearing.

"Aye," Carson said, nodding. "His spirits seem low. He is running out of faith in us, I believe." He looked down at the charts on his laptop monitor, and sighed. "I can't say that I blame him."

"No progress?" John tried to read Carson's notes, but Carson shook his head, no. John crossed his arms over his chest and stared at the laptop for a while, unseeing, and after a moment Carson tactfully left him alone.

*

"Come on," he said to Rodney, who had put his head down and half-closed his eyes although most of his Powerbars were still baking in the sun. "Come on, Rodney, we're going for a walk. Move it!"

Rodney blinked at him, startled. Sad. John told himself he was reading too much into it, Rodney couldn't really make his big dinosaur face show that much misery, and he poked Rodney's cheek. "Seriously," he said. "You've killed all your trees here. Let's go find something else to eat."

Rodney rumbled at him but climbed to his feet and shook himself like a dog. John led him out of the clearing, away from the paths he'd already made--eaten his way down, really--and led him into the rainforest.

It was dim and cool under the trees, and he carefully chose a route that would get Rodney through the overgrown places. He stopped by plants that Parrish had pointed out to him, but Rodney wasn't interested in many of them. He'd tear up a bush here and there then let most of them fall out of his mouth half-eaten, making huge, wet piles of leaves.

"You've got to knock this off," John said, crossing his arms over his chest as Rodney warily sniffed at a flowering tree that smelled strongly of mint. "You can't just decide you're going to be a dinosaur forever and start starv--"

Another dinosaur roared. John and Rodney both jerked, surprised. It was about twenty feet away, a creature that looked like Rodney but larger, with darker coloring. It roared again and moved through the trees, turning its head like a bird, quick little jerks. Threatening. Aggressive. Fast.

John's hands went to his P-90 and he backed up, bumped into Rodney's foreleg. "Rodney, go," he said and Rodney turned a little, but then stopped. He made a hissing sound, a frightening mix of angry cat and swarm of bees that had John's skin crawling. Then he gently knocked John out of the way and moved toward the other dinosaur, head thrust forward, tail lashing nervously.

"Rodney," John said and raised the P-90, although he knew it would be next to useless. A bullet wouldn't even feel like a thorn in the side of something as huge and thick-skinned as a dinosaur.

The other dinosaur roared again, shaking its head. It crouched low and then sprang forward, and slammed into Rodney with a dull thud that rattled John's bones.

Rodney fell back, then shook himself and hissed again. He lashed out with his clawed front feet and caught the other dinosaur in the sides, digging in. It shrieked--startled, hurt, and John had a moment to wonder if maybe it had been human too, was some other person who'd had the misfortune to stumble onto this planet, but then it rakes its claws against Rodney's belly and he didn't care anymore. He wanted it dead.

Rodney screamed, then slammed his head against the other dinosaur's, dragging his claws up its sides while it writhed and tried to wriggle free. Rodney released it and it took a few stumbling steps backwards, then roared one more time, and bolted. Rodney took one step after it, two--

And fell to his knees.

John rushed forward as Rodney hunched over, arms wrapped around himself. "Rodney?"

Rodney looked up. He was shivering. There were three long cuts across his side, abdomen and chest, and his arms were red with blood. "Sheppard?" he said, and then moaned and curled up tighter.

John keyed his radio and dropped to his knees. "Beckett, Rodney's been hurt," he said. "Come. Now."

"On my way," Carson said immediately. "What--"

"He was attacked by another dinosaur, then turned human again. It got him in the stomach. It's bad," he said grimly, looking at the long red lines. "Hurry."

He braced an arm around Rodney's shoulders, trying to keep him from moving, and put his other hand on Rodney's pale face, feeling his skin soft against his palm. "C'mon buddy, you'll be all right," he said, and Rodney moaned, then gasped weirdly, almost like a chuckle but terribly not.

"This galaxy," he said, and passed out, slumping against John's hands. His arms fell limply, one across John's thighs, smearing his pants with Rodney's blood.

John closed his eyes and held on. "Don't you dare," he said. "Don't you dare--" and Carson was there, pushing him aside, giving orders to his team as he got to work.

*

"--so it's a good thing that no one else got so much as a papercut," Carson said. "Or we might very well have had a herd of our people, roaming that planet as dinosaurs."

Rodney snorted, then flattened a hand on his stomach. "Don't worry," he said after a moment. They were all watching him, anxiously. "No, I mean about the dinosaurs. I would've made someone bleed again soon enough. We'd have figured out how to fix it."

Elizabeth frowned at him. "Do we have any idea why the Ancients would've designed such a thing?"

"Who cares about why, I just want to know the how." Rodney took a big bite of his sandwich. Through a full mouth, he said, "Though if you need a why, I offer 'because they were insane.' "

"I second that," John said, raising his hand.

"And you're genetically the closest thing to them," Rodney said. "What should that tell us about you?"

"That you shouldn't mess with me or I'll figure out how to turn you into a goldfish?" John said, smiling pleasantly at him.

"Gold fish?" Ronon asked, and bared his teeth at Rodney. "Sound good to eat."

Rodney sat up straighter, indignant, and Elizabeth laughed and pushed back her chair.

"I think that means this meeting should be adjourned," she said, smiling at them all. "Rodney, it's very good to see you on your own two feet again."

"I know, thank you," Rodney said, and took a huge bite of his sandwich, sighing happily. A little piece of lettuce fell onto his shirt, because he could be a guy or a dinosaur, and some things would never change.

John flicked the lettuce away as everyone else left the room. Rodney shifted when John left his hand on his chest for a moment, then John touched his cheek, thumb moving gently over his cheekbone. Rodney swallowed, and stared at him with wide, blue eyes.

"It was kind of cool how you could've taken over Tokyo," John said. "But it's good to have you back."

"Oh, well," Rodney said, waving a hand. "I could still take over Tokyo." He was breathless but smug, and he smiled when John laughed, leaned forward, and kissed him.



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Date: 2006-05-29 08:09 pm (UTC)
astolat: lady of shalott weaving in black and white (Default)
From: [personal profile] astolat
I fling ♥ all over this story. Yayyyy!

Date: 2006-06-03 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Good! I'm glad! And thank you. :)

Date: 2006-05-29 08:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arallara.livejournal.com
Oh, these were just delightful! Swear to god, just two days ago, I was rereading some stories on my hard drive, and I reread Finding the Fine Print, and I was really wishing that you would write some more SGA sometime very soon! And look! Yay!

Date: 2006-06-03 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
What you don't know is that I've secretly hacked into your computer and--well, no, okay, so I'm lucky I can unlock my own front door, forget getting into other people's computers. *Grins* Anyway, yay! I'm glad you enjoyed!

Date: 2006-05-29 08:21 pm (UTC)
fairestcat: Dreadful the cat (Default)
From: [personal profile] fairestcat
I love the way John just carries on having conversations with Dinosaur Rodney and knows exactly what he's saying even though it's all roars and chirps and looks.

Also, the description of him as "like an enormous, scaley, miserable Dachshund." just about killed me.

Date: 2006-06-03 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I figured Rodney would be a ridiculously expressive dinosaur. Also, a total Dachshund. So cute! So cracky! <3

Anyway. *grins* Glad you liked, thank you.

Date: 2006-05-29 08:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] etben.livejournal.com
I could still take over Tokyo.

Oh, Rodney. The best part is, you totally could, and that's at least part of your appeal.

I love this bitlet with goofy bewildered glee, which is the best kind.

Date: 2006-06-03 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
That is the best kind! Also the only kind you can possibly have for a story this silly, I think. ;-) Yay, goofy bewildered glee! I'm glad you liked it.

Date: 2006-05-29 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rositamia.livejournal.com
This "It was kind of cool how you could've taken over Tokyo,"
is just sooo John. Really liked this. And the first ficlet too. That one was *hot*!

Date: 2006-06-03 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
*grins* Thank you! I hardly ever write any kind of sexy bits in, so yay. Glad you liked!

Date: 2006-05-29 08:43 pm (UTC)
jcalanthe: locke sitting on a beach (Default)
From: [personal profile] jcalanthe
*cracks up* This is great! I too love the way John just keeps talking to Dinosaur Rodney & knows exactly what he's saying back.

Date: 2006-06-03 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yeah, I liked that too. Fun to write their 'conversations'. ;-) And thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Date: 2006-05-29 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] panisdead.livejournal.com
PATHETIC DINOSAUR MELODRAMA. You have made my day. :)

Date: 2006-06-03 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Heee, hurray for making your day, and also that was my *favorite* part. I'm glad you liked! ;-)

rarr!

Date: 2006-05-29 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kormantic.livejournal.com
You are everythign awesome!

Re: rarr!

Date: 2006-06-03 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
And so is your icon. Kormantic smash! And burn! Rarr!

Anyway. Yes. Thank you. ;-)

Date: 2006-05-30 12:03 am (UTC)
amalthia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] amalthia
ah, this was cute. :)

Date: 2006-06-03 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Thanks! I'm glad you liked. ;-)

Date: 2006-05-30 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dracostella.livejournal.com
First you made me love Popslash/SGA, and now, Rodney as a dinosaur...

I don't know if I should throw flowers at your altar, or to curse you for leading so far astray...

This was adorable!

I especially liked

Parrish laughed. "Right." He scratched Rodney's cheek curiously. "Fascinating," he said, and Rodney opened his eye, looked at John, and tipped his head a little.

"Unless you do actually want to starve, you shouldn't crush the botanist," John said.


John speaks dinosaur!

And this:

"Colonel," he said. "Perhaps you could be of more use to us if you were to take Rodney for a walk. You can see, it is a bit of a distraction to have him attempting to scratch calculations in the dirt with his claws. Also he has broken three laptops and a nurse."

Yay snarky Zelenka.

Date: 2006-06-03 03:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Heeheehee, well, you can never go wrong with flowers. And this is a fandom where there was a recent spree of dinosaur!Rodney stories, which I found terribly amusing, so the blame lies elsewhere really. ;-)

I'm glad that you enjoyed it--thank you very much!

Date: 2006-05-30 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stungunbilly.livejournal.com
<3
Rodney and John could knock down the high tension wires of Tokyo any day, with the power of THEIR LOVE.
::snerk::

Date: 2006-06-03 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Bwahahaa, so true. I guess it's a really good thing they're in a galaxy far, far away, then!

Now I want someone to write the story where Atlantis is having all kinds of electrical malfunctions, and eventually Zelenka turns to Rodney and says 'It is your fault! And Colonel Sheppard's! Go to bed! Immediately!' and hustles them off to a dark room where boom-chicka music is playing. Snerk.

Anyway. Thanks. *G*

Date: 2006-05-30 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dogeared.livejournal.com
I love this! Interspecies banter! And worried John! Eeee!

Date: 2006-06-03 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Banter and worry suit this fandom very very well, I think. ;-) And I'm glad you liked it, thank you!

Date: 2006-05-30 11:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] indybrat.livejournal.com
Only this fandom could turn someone into a dinosaur and make you want to pet it, rather than run screaming into the night...hmm or maybe that should be only you could do that. Either way I great job I really, really enjoyed it.

Date: 2006-06-03 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Hee, no, it's this fandom. Rodney's a big, expressive, Dachshund of a dinosaur--what could be more pettable? ;-)

I'm glad that you enjoyed it. Thank you very much!

Date: 2006-05-30 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ciderpress.livejournal.com
Awesome. Hah! They *banter* even when one half of the dynamic duo is a dinosaur who can't *speak*. Hee hee. This was such a joy to read, laugh out funny and awwww-y and, well, as I said, *awesome*.

Date: 2006-06-03 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I imagine that they would manage to banter if they'd been turned into statues. 'The Rodney-statue wobbled. The John-statue, which was tipped against the wall, seemed to smirk, although that was probably just the angle of the shadows in the room.' etc. Anyway. *G* Glad you were amused! Thank you!

Date: 2006-05-30 12:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] saba1789.livejournal.com
Awwww, Rodney as dinosaur! This was so much fun to read - I really liked it. Thanks for writing and sharing it :-) .

Date: 2006-06-03 03:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I'm glad it was fun and you enjoyed it. ;-) Thank you!

Date: 2006-05-30 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bard-mercutio.livejournal.com
::wibble:: Love your SGA fic perhaps even more than your Trickyfish.

Date: 2006-06-03 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Hee. I still kind of hold Trickyfish up as the level of OTP that can never be reached by any other pairing--and yet, the SGA stuff is a whole new kind of fun. I guess it is all just hurray, fandom. ;-)

I'm glad you're enjoying! Thank you!

Date: 2006-05-31 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cpt-untouchable.livejournal.com
"That's going to need stitches--"

And then he turned into a dinosaur.

John froze. Rodney looked down at himself, as much as he could considering his short, spindly neck, and then he looked down at John.

"I guess it had to happen eventually," John said, after a long, silent moment, and Rodney roared.


Giddy, I have no words. *chirrup* *heaving sides*

Date: 2006-06-03 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
It's crazy, but I think I can understand you! And say thanks! *grins*

Date: 2006-05-31 11:53 pm (UTC)
ext_942: (Default)
From: [identity profile] giglet.livejournal.com
Oh yay! Much much love!

Date: 2006-06-03 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Yay, love. Thank you! ;-)

Date: 2006-06-01 12:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misspamela.livejournal.com
Bwah! this is exactly, precisely what I needed. Yay!

Date: 2006-06-03 03:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
I am always happy to provide the bwah. ;-)

*hugs you*

So. Friggin. Cool.

Date: 2006-06-01 01:56 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] krysalys.livejournal.com
And of course I read these two in backwards order. *snort*
Totally baffles me how Rodney could morph into something so friggin huge. And whatever happened to the other dinosaur that he'd scratched up pretty badly? Did that one turn back to human, or is there a deadline to how long you can be in one form before you're it permanently?
Ach... thinking too much here! *headdesk*
Awesome job, hon.
----}-@

Re: So. Friggin. Cool.

Date: 2006-06-03 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
*nods* I figured they'd get read backward because of how LJ puts the newest entry first. Also, hee, yes, you put a lot more thought into this ficlet than I did. ;-) I'm glad you liked it--thank you!

Date: 2006-06-01 02:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] abbylee
::roar:: ::love::

Date: 2006-06-03 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
LOL. Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!

Date: 2006-06-01 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] renenet.livejournal.com
OMG I'm so OMG and YAY and LOVE!

Date: 2006-06-03 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
LOL. I love it when people are omg and yay and love! Thank you. :)

Rodney dino

Date: 2006-06-01 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] laceymcbain.livejournal.com
"It was kind of cool how you could've taken over Tokyo," John said. "But it's good to have you back."
"Oh, well," Rodney said, waving a hand. "I could still take over Tokyo."


That's Rodney exactly! And John's unfailing acceptance and support, his ability to always understand what Rodney's saying even when he's speaking dinosaur, the way they try to protect each other. Loved the bit with Parrish, and the gesture of touching on the cheek. Just a nice little piece all around.

OH, and this?
"I have never known such a people for transformation," she said, looking at John. "Is this much change common on your planet?"

A more accurate comment on the SGA fandom has never been made. *smirk*

Re: Rodney dino

Date: 2006-06-03 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
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<<That's Rodney exactly! And John's unfailing acceptance and support, his ability to always understand what Rodney's saying even when he's speaking dinosaur, the way they try to protect each other. Loved the bit with Parrish, and the gesture of touching on the cheek. Just a nice little piece all around.>>

I always imagine that the only reason Rodney hasn't tried to become Overlord of Everything Including All Your Coffee is that he's been busy. If he ever gets bored, though...

And thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed those moments. I did too--it was a fun story to write. ;-)

<<OH, and this?
"I have never known such a people for transformation," she said, looking at John. "Is this much change common on your planet?"

A more accurate comment on the SGA fandom has never been made. *smirk*>>

LOL. So true! Dinosaurs, penguins, unicorns, women, kids, we do it all. But the show has played body-swapping and bug games, so we can blame canon and be totally cool. Hurray for SGA fandom!

Date: 2006-06-01 09:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iibnf.livejournal.com
"I guess it had to happen eventually," John said,

I vote the above as one of the funniest lines I've ever read in any fanfic, ever!

Date: 2006-06-03 04:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Heeeeee, thank you! Of course, this is for a show that gives us 'I don't think it matters how much cake you walk on', so, you know. It's an easy set-up for funny fanfic. And angsty fic. And scary fic. And sexy fic. *happy sigh*

Anyway, yes, glad you liked!

Date: 2006-06-01 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
This was brilliant. And dinosaur!Rodney was just perfect. I love that John and Zelenka could both interpret him exactly. <3 <3

Date: 2006-06-03 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] giddygeek.livejournal.com
Me too--but I thought he would be a very vocal, expressive dinosaur. And then I laughed at myself for even having such a thought, but it was still a fun story to write. I'm glad you liked!
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