Oh wow.. how heartwrenching. Poor Rodney.

Great story!! I like the flashback.

aw that was broke my heart. I would love a sequel though.

Wow! I really love this story... I can't wait for the sequel! :D This is so going on my favs. :)

This is well-written and stays nicely in-character, despite your claim to prefer sappiness. I like it! Nice character insight.

On a separate topic, I noted that you like Doctor Who as well as SGA - If you are familiar with the OLD series, check out my story 'Time Passages' - you'll get a kick out of it!

w00t, I really liked this! :D But yea, I would've loved to hear Rodney talk about the memory with Shepard or something. Still, it was awesome. x3 Great job! :D

Struck a chord. Rodney isn't the only one with this issue unresolved. Mothers are cruel and die when we are too young (16 for me), and how are we ever supposed to get past the conflicting issues and the mess they leave behind, even when we become adults??

This is well done; I apologize for getting so emotional.

Innogen

I know EXACTLY what he's been doing in your fic. It's called repression... I likened it to shoving all the nasty thoughts, memories and feelings down into a deeply buried bottle within me, and then one day the pressure inside the bottle became so great that everything just violently exploded outwards.
Personally, that was an experience I NEVER want to repeat. And I have a feeling that since Rodney's been able to somehow keep his from exploding for much longer than mine held out, when his inner "bottle" explodes, it's gonna be a meltdown of solar system devastation proportions.
;)
Can't wait to see where you take this in the sequel!
-}-@
Krys

interesting... i wonder what the others would've said had he told them... i look for ward to the sequel!

This was Awesome! I was so engrossed in your story I couldn't make myself get up and put on a sweater even though I'm in the proscess of freezing to death. ...I think I'll go and get my sweater now...

Oh, another great story from you!! You depicted Rodney's childhood very well, so well that I really loathe Mum!! The way you used the word inconvenience as a trigger word for Rodney to bring up bad memories was very good! As for this being unresolved, yes it is, but this defense mechanism of his is going to have be how he deals with his childhood, for now anyway. You did leave yourself open for a sequel - "Prehaps, in time, he could learn a new way." Hopefully you will have a sequal, I will have my fingers crossed. I will be waiting for your next story!!

Nice and angsty. It doesn't really need a resolution, although it would be nice to have one when they reach those ruins. Or maybe the first step towards one.

You'd think mum would care that Rodney got to his piano lesson on time since somebody must be paying for them.

BTW, Rodney has blue eyes, not grey.

Thanks for writing.

Oy, I'm just itching to give advice...you're probably right that it couldn't be resolved any time soon. That makes your fic more honest. To write an...honest, sequel, something that feels real, perhaps you could have a fic where the team (or just Sheppard) finds out and McKay hasn't told them? Ooh, I'm getting images of that memory device used on Carter in some old SG-1 episodes...

Anyways, I think it could be a really sweet fic just to BEGIN to deal with all of it, and the repercussions, and to have Rodney do some involuntary sharing. Because I can't see him doing it voluntarily.

Great fic!

I loved this story, I hope you will write a (longer) sequel very soon so Sheppard can fix everything and make our Rodney smile again!!

Wow. GREAT story! I simply loved it.

You made me hate his mother, how could anyone act so badly with such a bright and cute child? especially as it was HER OWN SON! Oh, well, you wrote her well, anyway, so well you got me mad at her! :D

You used the challenge so nice and included the word and all the meaning so well... Poor Rodney, how could anyone not love him?!

Again, it was a wonderful story... and it's going to my favourites! :)

Definitely write the sequel asap, O really look forward to it!