New SGA story: "Quiet"

[resonant]

Quiet
McKay/Sheppard -- NC-17 -- 8K
What Rodney says when he says nothing

for _inbetween_, in exchange for this icon.

Beta thanks to astolat, cesperanza, and terrio.

Comments

[eliade.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Seeing a new story post by you was like...finding Godiva chocolates on my office desk. This is both hot *and* poignant. How do you do that in 8k? You are goddesslike. And the interlaced hands...have killed me dead.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww! Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[birdsflying]

Oh.

Um. If anyone wants me, I'll be in my bunk.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[nestra.livejournal.com]

You are *so good*. I'm speechless, other than that.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's very much good enough.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh. Hot. Hot. Remind me to make you an icon someday, if this is what one gets for it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hey, feel free. Toss me an icon and a pairing and a word and you, too, can wait three months to three years to get a smutlet!

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thank you. I really, really needed that right now.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[helenish.livejournal.com]

This kinda made me cry. Well, tear up a little. Good things!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, I did better than I thought, then. Your tears please me, my puppet.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh. This was... *points incoherently at icon*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Great word. That's just what I was looking for.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

This is lovely. I think the part that hit me hardest was this:

The things Rodney would do to place his hand on that shoulderblade in the mess, just for a second, and have John not tense invisibly but just look up at him and smile.

Because even that would be silent -- and the silence, all these silences, say so much.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow -- that wasn't in the front of my head at all. I don't know whether to claim I did it subconsciously or just accept that it was an accident. But go you for noticing.

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

So good. So, so good.

Loved the interlaced fingers, the dropped earpiece, and the cubicles. Oh, and John tensing when Rodney touches him in public -- twisty gorgeous.

Yum.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT icon.

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Rodney's been very, very quiet for some time, but he's not sure how much longer he can manage it.

Dude. You broke me.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. (And I mean that in a nice way.)

Punch!

[lynnzo.livejournal.com]

It amazes me how much atmosphere you pack into even the shortest story, and how much "punch" there was in this ending. I am, as always, in awe.

You handled the setup and situation in this story with the briefest of touches, yet I could actually see the room as I read. Terrific work.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow -- I'm so glad! Thanks.

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'm in awe of John's casual subterfuge, and your ability to make something so hot so sweet.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

*wistful sigh* Aw.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[beaming at you]

[zoerayne]

Whoa. That was so very intense. Your stories are like fic concentrate, you know? So much goodness and intensity, distilled down into droplets of perfection.

Aaaaand, it's obviously time for me to step away from the metaphor. *g* Seriously, though, this was just gorgeous and wrenching.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww. That's so nice to hear! Thanks.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

...

:°D

Thank you! *smooches* Thank you for interlacing their hands, and for interlacing the hot with the tender, the physical with the emotional.


I now imagine John like Bugs Bunny, saying "vewwy vewwy quiet" *lol*

Unconditional offer for further icons to your specifications still stands, you have my email addy! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Oh fuckdear, and I profusely apologise for writing small-text! *headdesk*


But that way I can add that I love that image of John pressing his palm against his unreleased erection, head bent backwards, and then Rodney brushing his finger over John's lips *sigh*

[kitestringer.livejournal.com]

Holy...with the...and then that part with the...and just...*damn*! =:-O

*ahem* Yeah, this was absolutely fantastic. And what a great idea! I love every iota of it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm glad you liked it.

[inthekeyofd.livejournal.com]

O.M.G.

Yeah, eventually coherent thinking shall return, until then, I'll just bask in the bliss that is this story!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

So glad you liked it!

[reginagiraffe]

How can something be so hot and so sad at the same time!?

(And thank you for semi-feeding my voyeur kink.)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I've got a bit of a public-sex squick, so this was a big risky thing for me! Glad you liked it.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

God, this whole thing was perfection, but this just struck me as so poignant:

The things Rodney would do to place his hand on that shoulderblade in the mess, just for a second, and have John not tense invisibly but just look up at him and smile. The things Rodney would do to wake up beside him instead of watching the door slide shut behind him.

And the holding hands, and the fingers to John's lips - oh, my. So intense.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The hands thing is a real trigger for me, too. Glad you liked it!

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

What a lovely story, so full of heat and aching wistfulness at the same time. The hands were particularly wonderful.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely, that was just lovely! Very intense and hot, but there's definitely sweetness in there. I just adore it when John gets all naughty and porny. *g*

Thanks for brightening up my day!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I like it when either of them is filthy. Or preferably both of them. Glad you liked it!

[wychwood]

...wow.

this is. wow.

wow

*struggles to say something about the ending and discretion and wanting and homophobia and*

wow

[sp23.livejournal.com]

So lovely and hot and yet sad with Rodney having to be very, very quiet all the time. I squealed a little when I saw you'd posted a new fic. :)

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

That was...unbelievably hot and heartbreaking and joyful, all in equal measure. And...yeah. You've stolen my words, that's for sure. ;-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm so glad you liked it!

[aurora]

Guh, you just write the hottest stories ever. And in the process, hit kinks I didn't know I had.

Also, that last line breaks me.

I love it.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, Resonant, how beautiful is this? And how sad! And how, well, resonant. I expected a short smutlet, pwp, with a fun little twist of open earphones, but then you added the unrequited bit into the mix and suddenly it all twisted into something more and gorgeous.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks! Glad you liked it.