Snippet: Tiny Mission and the Guardian Angel (Asset)

The resupply is unstaffed, unlike the first one, and the security is familiar and readily bypassed. He finds less money than he likes, but it will be sufficient for a few weeks. The supply of weapons and ammunition is more acceptable, and there is another stash of the meal bars he's been eating. It all fits easily into the borrowed vehicle, and there are no issues in returning to mission control, and securing the weapons in the garden shed with the new lock installed since his arrival.

After returning the vehicle to its original location, he returns to mission control on foot, and finds Aunt awake when he comes up the stairs. She is at the door to Tiny Mission's room, and a hand raised to kock on it. He takes three long steps, and grabs her wrist with his metal hand, holding it securely.

"No. You will not disturb my mission."

Aunt glares at him, though he can see pain behind the anger and hate in her eyes. He must be holding her wrist too tightly. Oops.

"You're both using resources, and selfishly doing nothing to repay us for the roof over your heads or anything else we have provided." Aunt keeps her voice down to a hissing whisper, though he doesn't think it's for Tiny Mission's sake. More likely for the child in the room on the other side of the hall, as not to wake him. "I won't have it any longer."

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Rodney and the Dead Name

The last time I wrote a one-episode AU piece, it was shorter, and sans dialogue. It was also a fix-it AU for a major character death. This one is being more a reframing of the context of the dialogue in the episode, which changes so much. It makes the things which I find deeply unfunny more obviously unfunny, and delves into what makes the episode highly uncomfortable for me. And not in the sense of growth can be uncomfortable.

Depending on how long it takes me to get through it without pitching things at the walls, I might even have it done in the next couple of days. Or a week ago, depending on when people see this.

So, the episode does this "his name is Meredith, isn't that so funny for a man to have a girly name?" thing that wasn't funny the first time I saw the episode, and is infuriating on this rewatch. And the whole "here, have a cooler, more confident version of Rodney who has better relationships with everyone, this who he could be if he let go of his ego".... except that everything I see on screen doesn't make me think that Rodney has an ego the size of Atlantis so much as he has never had a place and people where he felt safe and secure, so he pushes them away by being abrasive and arrogant and rude, because than no one notices he's only pretending that their constant attempts to tear him apart don't hurt. And that no one cares unless he can do something for them doesn't hurt like hell.

And this episode just. Makes me so very, very angry.

(It’s still not done yet.)

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