"Making Love to a Lonely City" Epilogue
Title: Making Love to a Lonely City
Author: Taylor Dancinghands -taylor@willendorphians.com
Characters: Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka/Atlantis
Category: slash, established relationship, sex with an AI
Rating: NC-17 for explicit homoerotic depitions
Archive: Generally yes, but please let me know where
Summary: Rodney finally gets the message.
Spoilers/Season: None really. Post season 2? Also, this story really won't make much sense unless you've read "Touch of a Lonely City" which, in turn, will make more sense still if you've also read "Discorporate" and "In Extremis"
Betas: Thanx to
scifinut and ankhmutes for encouragement and lending some extra pairs of eyeballs for error spotting.
In addition, for this story I have had the invaluable assitance ofdinofly as a Czech language consultant. It's been fascinating and educational and I am one really grateful SGA fan author.
(And English translations for Radek's Czech dialogue can be found at the end of the chapter)
Author's notes: The core of this story has been waiting to be made workable since I first began to make up stories in my head. That long. What a delight to find that the situation and premise of Stargate: Atlantis have finally made it possible!
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, never will, not claiming to. Just wanna play with 'em a little. Can't I, can't I, huh?
Making Love to a Lonely City
By Taylor Dancinghands
Epilogue: True Love
The mystery du jour, when Rodney and Radek arrived in the labs the next morning, was why Atlantis' stardrive had come on suddenly for about a second last night, apparently all by itself. Atlantis' two lead scientists reviewed the records of the incident closely before determining that it was probably a fluke that would never happen again, but to be sure they assigned Kavanaugh the task of tracing down the fault, if it could be found.
This was not the only mystery to cross Rodney's desk that day, however, for late in the afternoon he discovered a whole cache of data concerning a previously undiscovered lab on the south pier loaded onto his laptop. Though the origin of the files perplexed him, Rodney forgot his perplexity all together once he'd gotten a good look at what the lab described therein actually was.
"Oh my god," he said, loud enough that a number of heads in the lab turned his way, including Radek's. "Oh my god it's an accelerator, a huge one."
Though taking up considerably less space, Rodney could see already that this facility would far outshine the biggest supercollider ever built or even designed on Earth, and do more than any human-engineered particle accelerator ever imagined. Already he could hear this news spreading like wildfire through the physics department and on the other side of the lab he could see Radek, grinning like an idiot, beckoning him over to help plan the expedition to explore the newly discovered facility.
Turning back to his desk to gather up his laptop before joining them, Rodney hesitated, struck by a sudden insight. The origin of the data cache on his laptop, he realized, was no more mysterious than the reason for Atlantis' sudden stardrive firing last night. He paused, looking up and away from the cluster of excited scientists, though he did not know exactly where the AV monitors were in the lab (he swore he'd find out, though), and smiled broadly, to let her know he'd understood the origin of his gift, quietly murmuring the phrase he'd taken pains to learn from Radek last night, "má překrásná."
For it was a gift, without a doubt, and unquestionably the most astonishing gift he'd ever been given. There could be no doubt in Rodney's mind now, nor would there ever be again; this was true love, and nothing but, and Rodney McKay knew himself to be the luckiest man in two galaxies.
=FIN=
***
Czech in the Epilogue:
má překrásná
my most beautiful
Author: Taylor Dancinghands -taylor@willendorphians.com
Characters: Rodney McKay/Radek Zelenka/Atlantis
Category: slash, established relationship, sex with an AI
Rating: NC-17 for explicit homoerotic depitions
Archive: Generally yes, but please let me know where
Summary: Rodney finally gets the message.
Spoilers/Season: None really. Post season 2? Also, this story really won't make much sense unless you've read "Touch of a Lonely City" which, in turn, will make more sense still if you've also read "Discorporate" and "In Extremis"
Betas: Thanx to
scifinut and ankhmutes for encouragement and lending some extra pairs of eyeballs for error spotting.In addition, for this story I have had the invaluable assitance of
dinofly as a Czech language consultant. It's been fascinating and educational and I am one really grateful SGA fan author.(And English translations for Radek's Czech dialogue can be found at the end of the chapter)
Author's notes: The core of this story has been waiting to be made workable since I first began to make up stories in my head. That long. What a delight to find that the situation and premise of Stargate: Atlantis have finally made it possible!
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, never will, not claiming to. Just wanna play with 'em a little. Can't I, can't I, huh?
Making Love to a Lonely City
By Taylor Dancinghands
Epilogue: True Love
The mystery du jour, when Rodney and Radek arrived in the labs the next morning, was why Atlantis' stardrive had come on suddenly for about a second last night, apparently all by itself. Atlantis' two lead scientists reviewed the records of the incident closely before determining that it was probably a fluke that would never happen again, but to be sure they assigned Kavanaugh the task of tracing down the fault, if it could be found.
This was not the only mystery to cross Rodney's desk that day, however, for late in the afternoon he discovered a whole cache of data concerning a previously undiscovered lab on the south pier loaded onto his laptop. Though the origin of the files perplexed him, Rodney forgot his perplexity all together once he'd gotten a good look at what the lab described therein actually was.
"Oh my god," he said, loud enough that a number of heads in the lab turned his way, including Radek's. "Oh my god it's an accelerator, a huge one."
Though taking up considerably less space, Rodney could see already that this facility would far outshine the biggest supercollider ever built or even designed on Earth, and do more than any human-engineered particle accelerator ever imagined. Already he could hear this news spreading like wildfire through the physics department and on the other side of the lab he could see Radek, grinning like an idiot, beckoning him over to help plan the expedition to explore the newly discovered facility.
Turning back to his desk to gather up his laptop before joining them, Rodney hesitated, struck by a sudden insight. The origin of the data cache on his laptop, he realized, was no more mysterious than the reason for Atlantis' sudden stardrive firing last night. He paused, looking up and away from the cluster of excited scientists, though he did not know exactly where the AV monitors were in the lab (he swore he'd find out, though), and smiled broadly, to let her know he'd understood the origin of his gift, quietly murmuring the phrase he'd taken pains to learn from Radek last night, "má překrásná."
For it was a gift, without a doubt, and unquestionably the most astonishing gift he'd ever been given. There could be no doubt in Rodney's mind now, nor would there ever be again; this was true love, and nothing but, and Rodney McKay knew himself to be the luckiest man in two galaxies.
=FIN=
***
Czech in the Epilogue:
má překrásná
my most beautiful