The following contains rambling story ideas, which I want to find under my coffee cup tomorrow morning but probably won't.
What is the matter with me today?
I’ve been having craving after craving for heavy angst stories that aren’t to my usual taste at all.
The first one that occurred to me was the one where John seduces and sucks off the lascivious guard to protect Rodney. Rodney is shocked, horrified, insensitive, and unconsciously aroused. John is pissed and ashamed of his slutty past and also still crazy about Rodney even though he thinks he’s being a complete asshole. Rodney can’t stop thinking about John, becomes sexually obsessed and finally they have a really hot but unhealthy encounter where they fuck like rabid bunnies but alienate each other emotionally. What follows is a passionate series of inappropriate encounters, culminating in Rodney’s melt-down in the field when Sheppard flirts with another alien priestess. Then there is a month-long breakup during which John realizes that he is pretty much going to love Rodney no matter what, so he might as well make the best of things, and Rodney realizes that Sheppard is even more important to him as a friend than as the source of hot sex, and begs John to take him back.
Thentheyhavehotandalsolovingsex, The End.
The second one was set off by chelle’s conduit Sheppard/Weir McKay/Weir story.
All the events of the story have happened, but the John in her story was an unreliable narrator; Rodney doesn’t know that Weir is sleeping with John, and he becomes very attached to her. The story would be sympathetic to all three of them, and a bit harsh on them as well.
Rodney doesn’t have a clue about relationships, and thinks he and Weir are in love and even buys her a ring, while John tells himself Rodney is also sleeping with Elizabeth in full knowledge of John’s affair with her (and imagines this arouses Rodney like it arouses him- a bit of wishful thinking). Elizabeth is attracted to Rodney and John, but has fixated on John as a potentially serious partner.
She originally slept with Rodney after she felt John pulling away, and really hoped John would get jealous, but soon realized her sleeping with another man turned him on. She doesn’t know he wants Rodney. While she isn’t certain, she imagines that John likes to have sex with her right after she’s been with Rodney because the transgressiveness arouses him.
John doesn’t realize she wants a commitment from him. She is vulnerable, and morally compromised, because Simon’s breakup with her left her feeling very insecure of her own attractiveness. He doesn’t see this at all, picturing her as consciously controlling John’s contact with Rodney, and getting off on the power. He thinks she knows how he feels, that they are using each other equally.
Poor Rodney is convinced that this is it, the great love of his life, and that blonde hair isn’t that important in the face of a beautiful woman who loves him. Elizabeth’s unwillingness to make their relationship public, to actually talk about it at all, he chalks up to womanly shyness and vulnerability. He starts to plan a honeymoon, and when his attempts to discuss marriage are met with distractions, changes of subject, and outright dismissal, he tells himself to be patient, because all women want to get married, right?
Ronon knows a little of the mechanics of what is going on, and occasionally remarks on how fucked up they all are, leading to blankly innocent looks from Sheppard and confused ones from Rodney.
Teyla is very upset, because she can see that a trainwreck is coming, but mostly keeps it to herself. She is especially formal with Elizabeth, but they rarely meet alone so it isn’t noticeable. John she sees as playing with Rodney’s feelings, and is angry at him, but she thinks he doesn’t know how much Rodney’s friendship means to him and will need a friend when he loses it. She is particularly gentle to Rodney, which makes him think she is hitting on him and leads to him giving her the ‘just friends’ speech. It’s cute, and she feels even sorrier for him.
Rodney eventually sees John and Elizabeth in the doorway of her quarters, John sucking on the pendant of the necklace Rodney gave her. (It makes him hot, touching things Rodney bought.) He is heartbroken, partly because he has incredibly strong repressed feelings for John, and sees the Colonel as impossible to compete with, and partly because he loved and trusted them both so much. It would never occur to Rodney that John really wants him, that he is projecting his own desire for John onto Elizabeth, or that neither of them is as physically attracted to the other as they are to Rodney. (Not that Elizabeth consciously acknowledges this. She doesn’t see Rodney as an acceptable mate, because of his lack of social grace.)
They don’t see Rodney, and he withdraws, first physically and then emotionally, goes quiet and desperate in such an obvious (it’s Rodney!) way that even Ronon gets worried.
The happy resolution comes eventually, but only after a lot of misery and confusion for everyone. John and Rodney actually get into a drunken fight, which mostly consists of John sitting on Rodney while Rodney berates him and then cries. Which, of course, means that John can’t help trying to kiss him better, andthentheyhavesex. Followed by an awkward morning after, and Rodney’s finding out the whole story, and two months of tenterhooks and distance while Rodney processes and John mopes, and Elizabeth tries to get either of them to explain why they have dumped her but neither of them will. Ronon finally drags her off Neanderthal-style and explains it all with surprising insight, and gives her the fucking of her life.
She keeps him. Rodney forgives her, and they begin to rebuild their friendship after an uncomfortable but honest talk. John and she pretend nothing happened, and it works surprisingly well. Finally Ronon, sick of John’s moping, ties Rodney up and leaves him in John’s room as a present and a hint. This works out quite well, because Rodney turns out to have a thing about bondage and the gag prevents John from realizing Rodney didn’t come to him on purpose. While eventually untied, Rodney spends the night anyway, one night at a time for the rest of their lives.
The Angstified End.