fic: Fly The Stars

[tielan]

Fly The Stars

In brief:
When Ronon's family is slaughtered by Reavers as a child, he makes a new home among the Athosians. But, unknown to him, there's a war coming, and things are going to change.

Chapter 1: Walk The Air
Ronon remembered the warm affection of her embrace long after the ship had cleared atmo and Teyla was gone from Pegasus.

Chapter 2: Anchor In Storms
Nearly everyone else believed she'd come back a proper lady - like the ones that occasionally came through town and sneered behind their fine clothing and expensive makeup at the simply-dressed locals and their 'quaint' customs. Ronon knew better.

Chapter 3: The Prodigy Returning
Teyla strode down the ramp, the coloured material of her long tunic billowing out behind her in gilt-thread profusion as she came home.

Chapter 4: Going To Waste
She'd come back the same in the essentials. But something else had changed.

Chapter 5: Out Of Temptation
Teyla had been so insistent on placing herself out of the way, out of public sight. Now Ronon wondered if she'd been placing herself out of temptation's path.

Chapter 6: Dogs of War
Ronon thought of that kind of prejudice - that kind of bigotry - running his world, dictating his choices, looking down on his people. Better to fight and lose than to submit tamely to that.

Chapter 7: Choosing Resistance
He never asked what the Academy had done to her to want her back.

Chapter 8: Acts Of Peace
They'd fought and they'd lost. The Alliance would manage their lives, from birth to death. Ordered. Organised. Sanitized. Registered. A bitter pill to swallow, but one they'd learn to live with.

Chapter 9: The Answer, Yes
Ronon wouldn't have minded skipping out himself, but something in him said 'Stay.'

Chapter 10: A City Arising
It's harder to sue for peace than prepare for war.

Epilogue: To The Winners