Man Utd/Barcelona

I am determined to get back into football. In time for Euro 2008. :-)

Also, I can't let evol nasty small-minded kids' football dads spoil my football-lust 4 evah. One year of resentment is enough, methinks.

So I'm watching my little darling (who's not so little anymore! my, my, he's grown! what shoulders!) Cristiano Ronaldo tonight. Once Manchester United / Barcelona is over, I will post Ichor, my Sheppard/wraith fic! I've already formatted it, all ready to go!

Ooh. 1:0. 30 minutes in.

FIC: "Ichor" 1/3 (SGA) John Sheppard/wraith

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I like long Headers. If you want to get straight onto the story, do click on the LJ-cut below. :-)
Or read the entire story (not broken up into LJ-parts) at my niche.

Title: Ichor
Author: Lobelia; lobelia321; lobelia40 @ yahoo.com
Part: 1/3
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard/Wraith. (This is the gourmet wraith from SGA 2.05, 'Condemned'. In canon, this wraith is not named.)
Rating: NC-17. 18. Adult.
Length: c. 30,900 words. 505 kb.
Spoilers: 2.1, 'The Hive'. 2.12, 'Epiphany'. 2.07, 'Instinct'. 2.20, 'Allies'. A lot of the initial desert dynamic and military outfit is taken from 1.12, 'The Defiant One', but no actual plot spoilers.
Warnings: Wraith. It's not going to be pretty.
Appeasements: On the other hand, this is not a rape fic. Sorry to disappoint. :-) Hurt/comfort.
Feedback: Yes, please. I would love feedback! Even if it's only one line, one word!
Summary: John is trapped, on a desert island, with a wraith.


Relationship to the evolving canon: This story was conceived and drafted in May 2006, many months before I saw SGA 3.07, 'Common Ground'. Sometimes the powers that be can read my mind and give me just what I have long desired.
It appears that the unnamed wraith from 'Condemned' is now widely known under a name. However, this name is mere interview canon, if that. I cleave to episode canon only.
Archive Rights: Wraithbait. My niche. Anyone else, please ask.
Disclaimers: This is a work of fiction. I am not making money. No copyright infringement is intended. These characters do not belong to me, nor does the world of Stargate Atlantis. The island is based on Anak Krakatau, off the West coast of Java, but its detailed alien-ness is my own invention.
Sources: Star names from around the world. Star names. First aid treatment for survivors of disasters at sea.
Apparently, a man cannot survive more than around ten days on 2 ounces of water per day but then, the effect of the wraith enzyme changes all calculations.
Intertextuality: Tannhaeuser Gate quotation adapted from Ridley Scott's movie Blade Runner, as written and spoken by Rutger Hauer (in the role of Roy Batty).
Shades of Shalott's / astolat's fic 'Time in a Bottle'; Marlen Haushofer's novel The Wall; the Zoo of Death in William Goldman's The Princess Bride; and Gabriel García Márquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor may, no doubt, be found herein.

Lexical note: John Sheppard is American but I am not, and I am the narrator. Spelling, capitalisation and diction follow my own idiosyncratic whims and predilections although I have Ameripicked the direct speech.
Orthographical note: In this fic, I do not capitalise 'wraith', just as I do not capitalise 'humans', 'ancients', 'adam's apple' and 'god'. This is both an ethical and an aesthetic decision.

Thanks to:
All the wraith discussants at sga_noticeboard and here.
icarusancalion for her useful list of weapons here.
All the respondents to my question 'what is in the combat vest?' here.
synecdochic for her post on military language here.
And thepouncer for gathering all these posts together here.
And to moonlash_cc for suggesting that the life giving force of wraith might be very rare.
Awed thanks to my amazing betas: Gloria, viva_gloria. Sheldrake, sheldrake. Resonant, resonant8. Sageness, sageness for Ameripicking.

Inspirational pics: My Ichor gallery.
The story's main picture shows Anak Krakatau ('Child of Krakatau'), the island thrown up by volcanic eruptions near Krakatau, off the West coast of Java, Indonesia, between 1927 and 1930.

Ichor: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

( Ichor, Part 1/3 )

FIC: "Ichor" 2/3 (SGA) John Sheppard/wraith

Ichor, contd

( Ichor, Part 2/3 )

FIC: "Ichor" 3/3 (SGA) John Sheppard/wraith

Ichor, contd and ended
Part: 3/3
Ichor, Part 1/3 and Header / Ichor, Part 2/3

( Ichor, Part 3/3 )