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Five Things John Wishes Rodney Hadn't Touched
SGA, no spoilers
1. The thingy with the wossaname on P34-8UY.
As if he hadn't learned his lesson on the last planet where they got chased out a village with spears. Next time, John's getting Ronon to babysit. With rope, if necessary.
2. The door lock in the broken lab at the bottom of the furthest tower on the West Pier.
Because then John wouldn't have spent six hours locked in a room with an increasingly irritable astrophysicist. The wrestling match over the last power bar is going to stick in his mind for a while.
3. A gun.
Nowadays he carries it easily, like it's the most natural thing in the world. Okay, he's not a great shot, but with that kind of firepower against the average Pegasus weaponry, he doesn't need to be. And John would take it to be a good thing, except for how he sometimes catches that look in Rodney's eyes. With the whole 'saving each other's lives' thing, sometimes it's easy to forget that John's there to protect Rodney, not the other way around. It doesn't really matter that Rodney's good at it. He shouldn't have to be.
4. Braelian porridge.
Welcoming feast or no welcoming feast, watching someone eat green goo with their bare hands is not something John ever wants to see again.
5. The Hair.
But when Rodney panics, he's not too careful about where his hands end up. Half a bottle each of shampoo and shower gel later, John watches the last of the bloody water drain out of the shower stall. This time, they got lucky.
2 forcaersmane
Five Moments From Five Lives
Doctor Who, Classic, New and Future. Drabbles
1. The ring is a little too big. Everything's been such a rush, but with the expedition leaving in barely a week, there wasn't much choice. And she doesn't mind. The past two years have taught her what's important, and she's not afraid to claim it any more. As they stand on the town hall steps, showered with confetti, she half-expects to see a white head disappearing round the corner. It's not there, but she understands. This is quite enough adventure for her now, and Jo Jones, nee Grant, grins up at her husband and the rest of her life.
2. It's a shock to realise a year has passed. A whole year; she's barely noticed. What with having to get herself home from Aberdeen, then trying to pick up her life where it left off (and what a great success that's been, Sarah Jane thinks wryly, looking round at the unpacked boxes in her tiny, bare flat), she supposes she just never paid much attention to the date.
She does now, though, circling in it her diary. It won't make a difference, of course. Nothing will. But at least it won't be able to ambush her like this next year.
3. The first ten seconds are the hardest. Every breath catches in her throat and Tegan's head is swimming badly enough that she has to stop. Suddenly, she's sitting on the ground, head between her knees, trying to get the ground to stop spinning.
Then she's laughing at the irony because the ground is going to stay firmly beneath her feet from now on. This is it. The end. No more travelling, no more deaths. She needs to remember that. This was her choice and she refuses to regret it.
She lowers her head again and tries to keep on breathing.
4. There are days Martha regrets her choice. When her parents still won't stop arguing, or Tish locks herself in her room (again) or Leo just won't stop asking question after question. It makes her miss her small, quiet room on the TARDIS, and even the Doctor's white-noise babble.
But then there days when she doesn't regret it, because she's done her share of travelling and saving the galaxy. Right now, she's got her eyes fixed closer to home. So she lifts her chin, pushes open the doors and takes her security badge for the first time.
Doctor Martha Jones. UNIT.
5. It's a strange feeling, being the last. She promised she'd stay with the Doctor until this thirteenth body was- Well. Until the end. And having seen that promise through, she feels oddly adrift, as though the gravity that held her galaxy together has suddenly dissipated. She's met some of the others, the ones who'd had enough of this life and chosen to leave, to get out before they lost too much of themselves to this life. To him.
It's not usually him who does the leaving.
She dims the last of the lights and locks the TARDIS door behind her.
Five Times the Boys Ran Away
Supernatural
1. On reflection (not something he's usually prone to) Dean considered that teaching his angry, thirteen year old brother to hot-wire cars the day after he'd had a shouting match with Dad wasn't his brightest idea ever.
2. Sam got out the motel room. Dean caught the flack for leaving his picks lying around. He didn't point out the pointlessness of trying to keep either of them locked up anywhere, nor that Dad was the one who'd bawled out his younger son for wanting to finish the school year in one place. For once.
3. Sam was lucky that Dean found him first, although it was hard to tell that from the scowl on his face as they drove back. Dean didn't even know what the row had been about this time, but he was starting to realize one thing: John Winchester might be one of the best demon hunters in the country, but he never had a clue where to look for Sam when he vanished like this. Dean knew. Dean would always know.
4. Dad and Dean found out that Sam had got into Stanford when they got back to the motel and found all his stuff gone. He hadn't even left a note. What he had left was Dean, who had to deal with Dad alone. Dad, who didn't speak for four days, then went on eight solo hunts in a row, only checking in to confirm he was alive and moving onto the next one. Dean was starting to wonder if Dad was trying to run away too.
5. Dean never ran away from home. He never got the chance.
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donutsweeperFive Things John Wishes Rodney Hadn't Touched
SGA, no spoilers
1. The thingy with the wossaname on P34-8UY.
As if he hadn't learned his lesson on the last planet where they got chased out a village with spears. Next time, John's getting Ronon to babysit. With rope, if necessary.
2. The door lock in the broken lab at the bottom of the furthest tower on the West Pier.
Because then John wouldn't have spent six hours locked in a room with an increasingly irritable astrophysicist. The wrestling match over the last power bar is going to stick in his mind for a while.
3. A gun.
Nowadays he carries it easily, like it's the most natural thing in the world. Okay, he's not a great shot, but with that kind of firepower against the average Pegasus weaponry, he doesn't need to be. And John would take it to be a good thing, except for how he sometimes catches that look in Rodney's eyes. With the whole 'saving each other's lives' thing, sometimes it's easy to forget that John's there to protect Rodney, not the other way around. It doesn't really matter that Rodney's good at it. He shouldn't have to be.
4. Braelian porridge.
Welcoming feast or no welcoming feast, watching someone eat green goo with their bare hands is not something John ever wants to see again.
5. The Hair.
But when Rodney panics, he's not too careful about where his hands end up. Half a bottle each of shampoo and shower gel later, John watches the last of the bloody water drain out of the shower stall. This time, they got lucky.
2 for
caersmaneFive Moments From Five Lives
Doctor Who, Classic, New and Future. Drabbles
1. The ring is a little too big. Everything's been such a rush, but with the expedition leaving in barely a week, there wasn't much choice. And she doesn't mind. The past two years have taught her what's important, and she's not afraid to claim it any more. As they stand on the town hall steps, showered with confetti, she half-expects to see a white head disappearing round the corner. It's not there, but she understands. This is quite enough adventure for her now, and Jo Jones, nee Grant, grins up at her husband and the rest of her life.
2. It's a shock to realise a year has passed. A whole year; she's barely noticed. What with having to get herself home from Aberdeen, then trying to pick up her life where it left off (and what a great success that's been, Sarah Jane thinks wryly, looking round at the unpacked boxes in her tiny, bare flat), she supposes she just never paid much attention to the date.
She does now, though, circling in it her diary. It won't make a difference, of course. Nothing will. But at least it won't be able to ambush her like this next year.
3. The first ten seconds are the hardest. Every breath catches in her throat and Tegan's head is swimming badly enough that she has to stop. Suddenly, she's sitting on the ground, head between her knees, trying to get the ground to stop spinning.
Then she's laughing at the irony because the ground is going to stay firmly beneath her feet from now on. This is it. The end. No more travelling, no more deaths. She needs to remember that. This was her choice and she refuses to regret it.
She lowers her head again and tries to keep on breathing.
4. There are days Martha regrets her choice. When her parents still won't stop arguing, or Tish locks herself in her room (again) or Leo just won't stop asking question after question. It makes her miss her small, quiet room on the TARDIS, and even the Doctor's white-noise babble.
But then there days when she doesn't regret it, because she's done her share of travelling and saving the galaxy. Right now, she's got her eyes fixed closer to home. So she lifts her chin, pushes open the doors and takes her security badge for the first time.
Doctor Martha Jones. UNIT.
5. It's a strange feeling, being the last. She promised she'd stay with the Doctor until this thirteenth body was- Well. Until the end. And having seen that promise through, she feels oddly adrift, as though the gravity that held her galaxy together has suddenly dissipated. She's met some of the others, the ones who'd had enough of this life and chosen to leave, to get out before they lost too much of themselves to this life. To him.
It's not usually him who does the leaving.
She dims the last of the lights and locks the TARDIS door behind her.
Five Times the Boys Ran Away
Supernatural
1. On reflection (not something he's usually prone to) Dean considered that teaching his angry, thirteen year old brother to hot-wire cars the day after he'd had a shouting match with Dad wasn't his brightest idea ever.
2. Sam got out the motel room. Dean caught the flack for leaving his picks lying around. He didn't point out the pointlessness of trying to keep either of them locked up anywhere, nor that Dad was the one who'd bawled out his younger son for wanting to finish the school year in one place. For once.
3. Sam was lucky that Dean found him first, although it was hard to tell that from the scowl on his face as they drove back. Dean didn't even know what the row had been about this time, but he was starting to realize one thing: John Winchester might be one of the best demon hunters in the country, but he never had a clue where to look for Sam when he vanished like this. Dean knew. Dean would always know.
4. Dad and Dean found out that Sam had got into Stanford when they got back to the motel and found all his stuff gone. He hadn't even left a note. What he had left was Dean, who had to deal with Dad alone. Dad, who didn't speak for four days, then went on eight solo hunts in a row, only checking in to confirm he was alive and moving onto the next one. Dean was starting to wonder if Dad was trying to run away too.
5. Dean never ran away from home. He never got the chance.