fic: Winners And Survivors, PG

[tielan]

TITLE: Winners And Survivors
SUMMARY: She was questioning her sanity in ever agreeing to this. She had never seen war as a game.
CATEGORY: gen, action-adventure, drama, humour
RATING: PG
CHARACTERS: Teyla, Laura Cadman, Ronon, John; Rodney and Elizabeth have cameo roles
NOTES: Written for the femgenficathon for the quotation listed below. It turned out a couple thousand words longer than expected and is why nothing else has been written these last couple of weeks. We'll be back on the bicycle shortly!

Many, many thanks to my betas, pandora_576 and dzurlady, for beta'ing this at the drop of my hat.

"Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it." --Diane Feinstein.

Notice crossposted to teylafen and stargate_women. I'm sorry for the spammage.

Comments

[allisnow.livejournal.com]

Ew, you didn't tell me it was a Diane Feinstein quote. ;)

[tielan]

Just read the damn fic, dear.

[ladyjax.livejournal.com]

I have to read this again but having participated in war games before (in my ROTC days), I can tell you that having the rules switch midstream is very real.

Yay for Teyla taking up Ronon's challgenge and thinking her way through it. You really showed a lot of nuances in her character in this that I really loved. Strategy, tactics, adaptability - of course Teyla can do these thing but I liked how you showed her taking everything in and then working each piece out.

Lots of fun.

[tielan]

Ahh. See, never played wargames (paintball doesn't count, I think) so I wouldn't know! But thanks for the info. :)

And I wanted to write something that had her thinking through the bits and pieces of a problem - an area that the show doesn't ever elaborate on (because solutions are Rodney's bourne and woe betide anyone who crosses into their area of expertise!) - and showing more than just the hints that we get on the show.

[(Anonymous)]

So very well done! Lighthearted and a fun read but with some serious undertones. So many things stood out for me: the hamali fruit and John using Teyla's fondness for it to tease Rodney; Teyla's treatment of Captain Kilmer when it is obvious he has issues with her; axe vs. the skinning knife; Teyla figuring out how to find Ronon using the comm. system; the techs discussing the Atlantis influence on Ronon and Teyla; Teyla not having someone do what she would not do, unless she could not do it; Sheppard and the cuffs.

And I LOVE these lines -

"Hurt him, and seven years running from the Wraith will be nothing in comparison to what I will do to you."

"Perhaps she would outclass him instead."

"You know, he caught me by surprise."

"Me, Teyla; you, John." -- priceless, just priceless!

I'd love to be a fly on the wall during the post-mission briefing for this -- especially John's expression when he finds out what Teyla said to Ronon.

Thanks for sharing this!

~Kim

This fic...

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

Sorry that you're kind of stressed right now, so much so that you're cutting down your friends list. But I wanted you to know how much I enjoyed this story. It's very tightly woven and I absolutely LOVE Teyla as the lead character, making the decisions and having the opportunity to come to the front and show off. Great story telling! Thanks for writing it.

IAmRightHere