Show: SGA
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex
Pairings: Rodney & Teyla
Categories: gen, hurt/comfort, friendship
Warnings: no warnings apply (but mention of misscariage – not Teyla)
Words: 8,396
Author's Journal:
tazmy Author's Website: Tazmy on AO3Link: Woman Warrior Author’s summary: Rodney and Teyla are injured and captured off-world. Rodney discovers Teyla is pregnant.
Why This Must Be Read: This fic by Tazmy—highly revised and expanded from the 2007 original—holds a special place in my heart and gets under my skin even more with every reread.
Switching between Rodney’s and Teyla’s perspectives, it portrays their friendship in an incredibly emotional and sensitive way. After being imprisoned together, Teyla and Rodney desperately try to protect one another, especially after Rodney discovers Teyla’s pregnancy.
Rodney respects Teyla in so many ways—her strength, grace, integrity, kindness, and patience. And Teyla values Rodney just as profoundly, seeing past his dismissive behavior to the person behind it—intelligent, insecure, vulnerable, reliable, and brave.
The story delivers hurt, angst, and insecurities (heed the tags!), but also offers a lighthearted, joyful, and caring ending. I can’t recommend it enough!
( snippet of fic )