[Makebelieve] Fic: Vulnerable - SGA - Sheppard/McKay/ Sheppard/Sumner

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Vulnerable
by PEJA

Summary: McKay learns a horrible truth.
Fandom: SGA
Characters/Pairing (portrayed by): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, John
Sheppard/Marshall Sumner
Rating: FRT13
Prompt: mcsheplets challenge #89 is Vulnerable.
Warnings: angst
Word count: 192 words
Genre: slash
Series: No
Sand-box [open series]: Y
Permission to archive to WWOMB: Y
Acknowledgments/Notes:
Disclaimer.  SGA does not belong to me. no money made in this
Author's websites:
http://www.squidge.org/~peja/cgi-bin/viewuser.php?uid=1
http://peja1956.livejournal.com
http://peja.insanejournal.com
http://peja.dreamwidth.org

He's been acting strange ever since he shot Sumner.

It wasn't the killing. He's a soldier. Killed before. He knows killing
comes with the job, but there's something going on not quite right.
Something behind the death that hit him harder than it should have. I
don't mean because he killed a commanding officer. Knowing Sheppard
these last few months like I do, I'm willing to bet he's been tempted
to kill a superior officer on more than one occasion. Me too, for what
it's worth. John Sheppard is reckless enough to do just that given the
impetus.

But no...there's something...Not guilt.  Not remorse. But something....more.

Something that's killing me more than I can dare to express. Something
that bled all over our first night of bliss together.

Something....that leaves me scared, vulnerable.

He called Sumner's name in his sleep.  In the same voice he calls my
own name when I'm blowing his world.

And now I know...I know what that something has always been.

I know love when it's spoken in his voice.

God help me....

Can I keep his heart when the other man is the ghost who haunts him?


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