I have been in a Stargate Atlantis mood the last few days and stumbled on one of your new fics, Monster, without looking at the pen name. I finsihed reading, said to myself "this author is GREAT!" and then saw it was Stealth Dragon...Of course!
I then proceded to read and reread many of your fabulous fics. I have commented on some of your stories in the past, tho I have been entirely selfish sometimes and not commented on all that I have read.
Please keep Atlantis alive! I loved SG1, loved Atlantis more (I did not think that would be possible after all those years of Jack) and now I hope that I will learn to like Universe. So far my opinion of that show sucks, but then, I hold a grudge. :) No doubt if you write a fic about Universe, I will learn to like them too. Hey, please write a Universe fic so that I will, for sure, have another love affair with a Stargate show!!
To recap: You rock!

*smiles*

Ren- "Hi, how may I help you today?"
OC- "What the heck it that thing?!"
Ren- "Oh, that's just my depleted ZPM that I use as a paper weight."

I loved it...
but then I love anything which features Sheppard
in a lot of trouble...
I am coming to almost like Rodney too due to
your ff and some others...which are empathetic
when it comes to McKay...
LOL

Very good -- how much do you keep on taking on the off chance this time...

I enjoyed this - the friendship, the introspection, the continual search that never yields any fruit. Well done.

Oh that was wonderful! Such a touching friendship fic, I really enjoyed it! :D

Oh man, this was absolutely beautiful. It had everything I like to see in a fic, and all in one chapter. I always love to see new posts from you.

Very nicely done!

This was cute! OK torture, deprivation, abuse isn't cute but the story is. A nice look at character and what makes our boy tick.

"John was good at anger. Rodney was the prince of lashing out, yelling, cajoling, insulting, but John – John's anger was dangerous, the anger that forced action and got answers, all with a look, a stare, a stance, a single word. Sheppard will be angry, and it will be scary as hell, but if he ends up feeling anything else, the anger will hide it."

I must say that these lines describe Sheppard so well. Then you continue on to show us the rest of his character, the positive side. Great job. Love the interaction at the end between Shep and McKay. Right on target for those two. Thanks for sharing!

This was great! Love Rodney's throught process in the beginning:

Keep it simple, keep it simple, keep it simple... yes, you lunatic! “No. No, of course it wasn't. Last minute rescue. You scared the bad guys off and we chased them away. Lorne says good job, by the way.”

LOL. :)

Well written (as always), great characterizations (as always) and I love the theme to this... why the heck keep fighting when they never get the prize? Awesome job.

I love Rodney and John friendship fics and you did an awesome job with this one! Thanks!

Oh John :(. I could really see where Rodney was coming from, seeing what had been done to John and for so little gain. It really does make it seem like it's not worth the effort. But like John said, they won't ever find that one fully charged ZPM if they don't keep trying.

Some great insights into Rodney and his friendship with John.

Wonderful. I've thought before that all those failed efforts and near misses had to be discouraging at some point. I love the way this addresses that. And the conversation between pessimism and optimism was perfectly done and very accurate to their characters. And the slightly crazed John at the beginning was very sweet!! Great, as always.

Liked the interaction between Sheppard and McKay - the voices ring true in your story. Also, always hinting at torture is much more effective than saying exactly what happened - it's more scary when your mind fills in the blanks. And I like it when McKay comes to the rescue of a nearly broken Sheppard.

And all that effort for a depleted ZPM. Nice helping of angst.