I love Rodney whump. In the series everything that happened to him seemed be pushed aside or used as comic relief which always pissed me off so to read a story where that was addressed so wonderfully was really great. Thank you so much for sharing x

Okay, first of all, Great story! I love seeing Ronan let his macho guard down and all of them openly care for each other.
My only problem; what the heck was with Tarin? Why was he trying to sell people with the ATA gene? And to whom? Why didn't it matter if McKay was alive?

Love it!

Fantastic story.
It was a little disorienting jumping from one scene to another sometimes without there being any discernible connectors (when the scene changed), but I still loved reading it. Beautifully done.

Hiya. I really, really liked your story. I for one have never been much for the theory that Rodney just uses his bluster to hide and inferiority problem but your take, well, I just GET it more that the others. So, yeah, I don't do psychological whump usually but you pulled it off really well. And your warning about hankies was not merely facetious. You honestly did make me cry. No amount of physical whump will make me cry for a character, I do, quite literally, squirm for them but no tears will come because someone got their ass handed to them (please don't tell anybody I said that, I've never used that particular euphemism for posterior before). However, the absolute agony that the characters felt over a stupid, childish game of the silent treatment caused me to cry like a baby. I couldn't imagine anything worse than my friends abandoning me to myself. I send them e-mails, texts, letters, and leave phone messages all the time in the hopes that they'll get them and reply and the days I don't get replies hurt. So I really get what you portrayed. I mean, if I get shunned because my bouncey ball happened to knock the doughnut out of our speech coach's hands than Rodney would have been treated like he was dead after blowing up five sixths of a solar system (even if the likely hood of there being any other habitable planets there were nil). So, just, thanks.

This was a good one, a lot of interesting stuff going on.

Although Carson was a bit of an entitled twit with his reaction to Doranda: "He’d been livid when he’d heard what had happened and had given McKay a fierce lecture, but when he saw the reaction Sheppard had, he pushed the anger away. He forgave Rodney for almost getting the pair of them killed –and as a result had witnessed first hand the effect that the Colonel’s barbs were having". How incredibly *generous* and *big* of Carson to forgive Rodney for doing something that has literally nothing to do with Carson. Seriously, why would Rodney care if Carson was livid after Doranda? He had no right to be - only Elizabeth, Radek and John had any cause to be angry. Who the hell does Carson think he is to lecture Rodney like that? Are we supposed to think that Carson is a wonderful kind person for "forgiving" Rodney, despite the fact that Rodney had done nothing that needed Carsons forgiveness? Would Carson have been grateful if Rodney had graciously deigned to forgive *him* after he killed half a planet? Or would he have been annoyed that Rodney presumed that Carson needed forgiving by Rodney? I'm sorry, it's just that particular characterisation of Saint Carson imparting his patronising brand of judgement, forgivness and wisdom instead of being a non-judgemental friend is a pet peeve of mine. Excellent fic though.

This is one of the best Stargate Atlantis fanfics I’ve ever read!

One question though, at the end, how does Rodney walk on crutches with a broken hand?

But anyway, defiantly one of the best!

Jess

Wow, loved this peice! Very well written ] go you, woo~~

That was a great story! I truly enjoyed it. Will be looking at the rest of your work soon!

Keep on writing!

*put the tissues away* Look, look what you have done! I' m sitting here with my logical, ecomony-trained mind and try to save the rest of the mascara!Happy now?

Thank you for sharing this story, it was awesome! Can't wait the next!

Wäh! My english writing is so bad...so I can't write, how I love this FF, proper...

So, you have to live with: I love it, I love it, I love it!

Glorious! Those boys just shouldn't fight, its not good! Great work as always.

A lovely and fitting end. I loved it!

Congrats! A thrilling and interesting story has grown up.. may there be many more to follow. :D

Very, very good. I am glad that the badgers stopped beating up Benji, and that the world will not be taken over by a cunning plan with cereal boxes and a pirate flag, but who knows what they will come up with next!

I'm glad that they made up. You captured the characters perfectly.

And thank you for the birthday present.