14 Valentines: Silk (and Pearls)
Title: Silk (and Pearls), or, How Jane Sheppard Got Her Groove Back (1/4)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: (SGA, sequel to Lustrous) “Oh, good,†Jane said. “I Googled you, too.â€
Posted as part of the 14 Valentines Project. To read today’s essay on arts and athletics, click here.
And for everybody who remembered that I said I wasn’t posting for every day of the two weeks this year, thank you.
I can’t believe you stopped there, you’re totally destroying my will to live. Now I’m going to go to the beach and try not to drown myself at the thought of waiting until tomorrow.
Hi! I’m a total lurker. But I wanted to speak up. I’m just impressed that you can work a full-time job and still write. I’m working and I barely have enough time to read anything, much less be creative. So I’m grateful for anything that you have time to get done. Most especially because it is always quality. Don’t listen to the greedy bastards.
Erinlee
p.s. More Jane!!! Yay!!
Amazing! I commented on your lj, but wanted to leave a note here as well.
Great story, evil cliffhanger, and hurray for more Jane! Thanks for sharing.
Dude. Jane and Lex? My words when I read it, “YOU DIDN’T.” And seriously, how can you make me actually enjoy Jane with Lex and pray to the heavens that Jane does not get together with Rodney? Seriously.
Also, podfic kills time at work, but barely being able to keep from snickering while processing trial studies for the FDA…not really a good thing. I’m a terrible person. Also, I hope that I didn’t erase something that I wasn’t supposed to. O.O That would be epically bad.
Ok, I’m saying this here because I can’t log onto the other site without a lj account - I love that Jane keeps missing vital information because she’s too busy concentrating on her food and trying not to stab people in the face. It’s like the story of my life, and she’s my new hero in fiction.
I think i love you. Seriously, not only do you remind me of how awesome we are as women but then you write this! I love Jane; she is so imperfectly perfect - she is insecure and strong and keeps on going. And I have to admit, I’m more than a little in love with the Colonel - just the faith that Jane had that he would come back from the dead and kill all those SOBs made my heart burst with joy. But Rodney! I think this story really captured how Atlantis changed Rodney, how it acted as a crucible that build confidence and trust and loyalty because I think that was the root of his issue with Jane - he couldn’t believe anyone like her would ever go for him so he didn’t trust her and drove her away to prove himself right and god! what a train wreck and yet…they were together at the end.
And Lex Luther is the best boyfriend EVER and I love the fact that you had Superman as a petulant 13-year. God love you. You are beautiful.
I loved this - I think even more than Lustrous, which is saying something since I loved Lustrous like whoa. But Jane has such an amazing inner voice; it’s really something to see the way she interacts with everyone, especially Lex. Which, *this* is the Lex Luthor that I kept wanting to show up in Smallville, someone who was a little bit lonlier, and conversely a little bit happier, a little bit more willing to open himself up to a math teacher he met at a science fair. (One day you’re going to have to write the ficlet that explains what Lex was doing at the fair. Did he lose a bet with Clark and have to do some kind of community service? Does he really go to them looking for the Next Big Thing? Was he drunk and wandering through after being kicked out of the Evil World Dominators’ Convention in the next hall over?)
And I love that this is an SGA story by only the most tenuous of threads - Rodney and Jeannie are there full force, but Sam is only there for a half-dozen words and no one else really shows up at all - and instead becomes its own world, a world that encompasses superheroes and the SGC, a dormant wraith and Lex Luthor, billionaire extraordinaire, and most of all Jane and Gabe and Rodney, who are so amazingly *original*, utterly unmistakable and easy to picture. This Rodney is so fantastically bitter and hateful and hopeful and desperately in love, it’s almost painful to watch him around Jane, like a little boy who keeps bending down to pick up the ball only to accidentally kick it further away.
Beautiful. Thank you so much for writing this and letting us read it.
Hello,
I’d like to read this story, but when I click on the link, I get a “forbidden” message. Will you post the 14 Valentine stories to your Glitterati site? Thank you,
-p