sg_five_things | Prompt 85.04

Five times John didn't see it coming.

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5. His ears didn’t pick up any sounds coming from Teyla’s angry and hissing lips, because all he could hear was Woolsey’s words relieving you of command, and all he could think was not enough time.

4. His mouth couldn’t stop grinning. He tried to get himself under control, but ended up grinning and smiling and one memorable time, giggling, making everyone attending that meeting watch him with confused expressions/glare. The glaring came from Rodney, of course. The bastard, John thought, grinning. The bastard with the too cute and adorable bed head that was too cute and adorable to not memorialise for life with a photo. Of course, it wouldn’t be seen outside of the team, but Rodney still wouldn’t stop glaring, and John couldn’t stop grinning.

3. His head wouldn’t stop spinning. John raised a hand to said head, and groaned, which set off a chain reaction of three more groans from his side, one of them growing into a whine that sounded like his name. He looked towards the whine, and not unsurprisingly, there lay Rodney. Surprisingly, Rodney was naked. Surprisingly un-surprisingly -- and man, his head truly was spinning round and round and -- was the fact that Rodney was curled up next to his own equally naked body, and all John could think, was this wasn’t exactly how I’d’ve wanted that to happen.

2. His nose was filled with it. John felt as if his body was being crafted, from the inside out, with it. His heart ached with it. And when he finally came face to face with it, when Rodney looked at him with blue eyes and a downward slanted mouth and a question on his lips, it was all John could do to not say the words, I think I’m in love with you.

1. John looked at the other man with the whiny voice, the arrogant smirk, and the chubby face, and thought who does he think he is? When the man finally took a break in getting John to try out Ancient tech, John learned his name was McKay, Rodney McKay. When the surprisingly firm handshake was finished, and Rodney had huffed away, John’s palm was still tingling.

Date: 2009-12-08 02:37 am (UTC)

sid

Oh, my word. What a splendid and horrible progression. I'll admit I was slow to realize (or really realize) these are in reverse order. Then it was WHAM. Oh, dear.

Woolsey's a rat bastard. *snarls*

Date: 2009-12-08 07:41 am (UTC)

I usually go for the subtle approach when writing, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Woolsey was a real piece, but got better at the end. I guess this fic is in his 'bastardly' timeline.

"splendid and horrible" is quite the compliment! *grins*

Date: 2009-12-08 04:56 am (UTC)

skieswideopen

This is a really fascinating approach to the prompt.

Date: 2009-12-08 07:47 am (UTC)

Thank you for the comment! It's my first prompt-fic-thingie, so I'm glad it wasn't too dull, at least. :)

Date: 2009-12-09 07:29 pm (UTC)

wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com

Oh, damn, that packed a kick! :: wibbles ::

So much happening & so much story in only 5 short paragraphs! Thanks for writing & sharing this, especially since it's your first prompt-fic. Very well done!

Date: 2009-12-12 04:31 am (UTC)

Wibbling is the best praise for angst.
Glad you enjoyed! I was unsure if I'd pushed too much plot into the fic, so thank you for reading, and commenting!

Date: 2009-12-07 06:45 pm (UTC)

Five times John didn't see it coming

1. When his friend Tommy’s twin sister grabbed him by the hand as he came out of the bathroom and pulled him away from the staircase and kissed him until he thought his head was going to explode. “You’re cute,” she giggled when she finally let him go. Backing down the hallway, still giggling, she blew him a final kiss.

Eleven-year-old John ran for the stairs.

2. “Shep, she was all over you!”

“Don’t be silly.”

“No, man, he’s right.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

“She was rubbing your back. Come on.”

“Cut it out, guys, would ya?”

“How could you not….”

“She’s my teacher!”

“Yeah, and I bet there’s a few things she wants to teach you, all right.”

“Quit snickering! Perverts.”

Fourteen-year-old John stalked off.

3. Sixteen-year-old John ran all the way home, completely forgetting that he’d left his car parked in front of Bob’s house, and trying with each pounding footfall to forget Bob’s mom’s teeth biting his ear lobe and Bob’s mom’s hand rubbing his….

Arghhhh!

4. Thirty-five-year-old John never saw his divorce coming. But then, it was a long time coming, although the seeds were sown and the first signs were already there. Thirty-seven-year-old John, on the other hand, knew exactly what it was that his wife wanted to talk to him about.

He’d been expecting it for months.

5. Forty-year-old John never saw it coming. Teammate became friend became object of lust became loved one became… nothing, because John wasn’t going there. It was inappropriate, illegal and it would never work anyway. So he squared his shoulders and gnawed his lip and tried to put his feelings behind him.

He didn’t realize that the choice wasn’t his alone to make.

He never saw the pass coming – but he was insanely happy and relieved when it did.