SGA - Cover Stories
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noracharlesTitle: Cover Stories
Rating: suitable for all audiences
Summary: Ronon and Amelia are living together in San Francisco while Stargate Command uses Atlantis as a training facility. Nothing has been declassified, and they can't tell anyone the whole truth about themselves.
Pairing: Ronon/Amelia
Notes: written for the coping mechanism challenge on![[info] - community](https://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sga_flashfic
Word count: 1430
Thank you nicci_mac for audiencing! You're a sweetie, and an inspiration.
Ronon tells their neighbors that his name is Ronan Dex. He says that she is a kick-boxing instructor, which is true, and which keeps people from asking awkward questions about where she was deployed. He says that he is a fashion designer, and makes clothing and jewelery out of all natural materials - vegan clothing available on request, which is also true. He models a bit on the side, to supplement their income, and she teaches Using Ancient Computers 101, but one is embarrassing to mention, the other illegal, so there's nothing odd about not telling anyone that. Even if having a boyfriend who is also a model is something to be proud of, and for some reason he doesn't mind modeling his own designs on the website... but no one ever said men had to make sense. Especially if they're space aliens.
Ronon tells people that before he moved to San Francisco and met her, he ran a boat chartering and scuba diving business in the Caribbean. Before that he worked as a wilderness survival expert taking tourists on extreme nature hikes in Canada and East Asia. And before that he owned a pet store specializing in reptiles. It only makes sense: he can use his extensive action movie watching experience to spin fun anecdotes, which no one they know would guess aren't true, and he can draw on his real life when describing what it's like to live on the ocean for 4 years, or explore jungles and mountains and steppes using only the most basic tools and whatever food you can scavenge. But he never does. Instead he likes to talk about clothes and martial arts and what was on TV last night. His favorite show is Mythbusters. Mostly he just shuts up and listens to her and their acquaintances talk, keeping his contribution to a sardonic look or a grunt here and there.
They meet up with their friends on Atlantis at least once a month, usually more often. He doesn't go into work with her when she teaches her classes, unless his friends are also going to be there. She doesn't know what he talks to them about - nothing much, probably. Who could, with Dr. McKay in the room? But she knows he told them about her, from the special effort Colonel Sheppard and Teyla make to greet her every time they see her.
Making friends is difficult, when you have to make up lies about what you do, and your boyfriend is mostly a silent, looming lump in the corner. It makes conversation difficult. But the sex is so totally worth it. And his warm eyes and sweet smile say more than words ever could. Mostly they have a superficial friendship with neighbors they know from the local gym and coffee shop. Ronon doesn't seem to feel they're too insular and co-dependent, and she socializes so much on Atlantis she's okay with just hanging out the two of them most days. Honestly, she's not that eager to work on any deep friendships when they could be called back to off-world duty any time. Hopefully, any day now. Earth is fine and all, but same old, same old is not what she signed up for.
~*~
Amelia is friendly and outgoing. She's fun to be around. When he wants to go out, to the gym or the cafe down on the corner, she's always up for it. Even if she just came from teaching her class at the gym, she just grins and says "sure!" if he suggests going there. But it's all on the surface. When they hang out with their friends, even just talking about TV shows and music, he can feel her holding back. She says her friends are on Atlantis. She says she could be re-deployed at any time. She says now is not a good time to be putting down roots.
Most days he works on his designs until lunch. He gets so absorbed in being creative, he doesn't feel alone, even if Amelia is not home. After lunch he works out, and visits his friends, unless a customer is scheduled to come over for a fitting. Their living room doubles as his shop, but they're both neat and tidy people, so that's fine. He visits Jose Manuel most weeks. Jose Manuel has a good deal with a leather wholesaler, and does some really cool things with stamping and burning. He likes to talk about his family and soccer a lot. He asked him once if he knew any shark skin suppliers from his time in the Caribbean, but he doesn't. Mostly his clients wanted to go sight-seeing, on and under the sea, and of course seeing sharks was inevitable, but he tried to stay away from them. Live and let live, don't kill anything unless you need to eat it or it's self-defense, is his motto.
He likes to work with cow and pig skin, by-products from butchering farm animals. Jose Manuel showed him some snake skins, with beautiful diamond patterns and bright colors. They're used for purses and footwear. It's hard not to covet them, they're perfectly smooth and soft, and maybe if they had been from farmed eating snakes in China, but they're not. Anyway, the eating snakes in China are not as beautiful, and are not treated well, so he has no intention of importing any skins from there. His clients often wanted to go to a traditional market after returning to civilization from a jungle hike, and he did enjoy the haggling and the throngs and the wide variety of food, but he never liked the animal markets, with the frightened and apathetic pigs and chickens and dogs and snakes.
He also hangs out with Cuiping once or twice a week. Cuiping designs websites, and teaches women to use computers down at the rec center. She designed his website for him, and taught him how to update it with new photos, but she only likes to talk about cooking and girlfriends and her pet iguana. She claims to be very jealous of him having Amelia, but he thinks she isn't half as jealous as he is of her having Groucho. When she is on the phone, he always goes to stand next to Groucho's heating lamp and try to coax him to climb on his arm. Groucho's toes are dry and hard, and a bit scratchy. He moves slowly, with the dignity and self-possession of a Zen master. If he didn't know the salmonella on iguanas can be dangerous for infants, he would like to keep reptiles again.
In the evenings, Amelia comes home. They watch TV and go to the gym together, and they have a lot of sex. Usually they have sex every morning, and often in the evenings too, if they're not tired. Amelia says only penetrative sex is real sex. She also says she doesn't snuggle and pet and kiss any of her friends like that, but that doesn't mean it's "real sex". She says many strange things. Ronan was raised to believe that love is what makes it "real", and he's starting to suspect that he and Amelia have never had real sex if that is the case.
Jose Manuel and Amparo, and Teyla and Kanaan have kids, and Rodney and Jennifer are expecting. John and Amelia are only biding their time until they can get back to the war. Cuiping says Amelia is crazy hot, and Ronan is a lucky, lucky guy. He is lucky, to have found a home in this vibrant city by the sea, to have a successful business doing what he loves - even if it burns having to take jobs modeling clothing for competitors sometimes, and to have so many true and loving friends. But he's starting to question the wisdom of having a marine for a girlfriend. He's gotten the wander-lust and hunger for adventure out of his blood after years of odd jobs all around the world, and is ready to settle down and start a family. Amelia says she could be re-deployed at any moment. He goes out to the military base with her every two-three weeks to meet John and Rodney and Teyla, who also work there, but he couldn't imagine living on base, let alone a base in enemy territory. When Amelia is re-deployed, maybe it would be best to just let her go. Cuiping says she knows lots of sweet, straight girls who know very little about computers but a lot about loving. She's corny like that.
The end.
Rating: suitable for all audiences
Summary: Ronon and Amelia are living together in San Francisco while Stargate Command uses Atlantis as a training facility. Nothing has been declassified, and they can't tell anyone the whole truth about themselves.
Pairing: Ronon/Amelia
Notes: written for the coping mechanism challenge on
sga_flashficWord count: 1430
Thank you nicci_mac for audiencing! You're a sweetie, and an inspiration.
Ronon tells their neighbors that his name is Ronan Dex. He says that she is a kick-boxing instructor, which is true, and which keeps people from asking awkward questions about where she was deployed. He says that he is a fashion designer, and makes clothing and jewelery out of all natural materials - vegan clothing available on request, which is also true. He models a bit on the side, to supplement their income, and she teaches Using Ancient Computers 101, but one is embarrassing to mention, the other illegal, so there's nothing odd about not telling anyone that. Even if having a boyfriend who is also a model is something to be proud of, and for some reason he doesn't mind modeling his own designs on the website... but no one ever said men had to make sense. Especially if they're space aliens.
Ronon tells people that before he moved to San Francisco and met her, he ran a boat chartering and scuba diving business in the Caribbean. Before that he worked as a wilderness survival expert taking tourists on extreme nature hikes in Canada and East Asia. And before that he owned a pet store specializing in reptiles. It only makes sense: he can use his extensive action movie watching experience to spin fun anecdotes, which no one they know would guess aren't true, and he can draw on his real life when describing what it's like to live on the ocean for 4 years, or explore jungles and mountains and steppes using only the most basic tools and whatever food you can scavenge. But he never does. Instead he likes to talk about clothes and martial arts and what was on TV last night. His favorite show is Mythbusters. Mostly he just shuts up and listens to her and their acquaintances talk, keeping his contribution to a sardonic look or a grunt here and there.
They meet up with their friends on Atlantis at least once a month, usually more often. He doesn't go into work with her when she teaches her classes, unless his friends are also going to be there. She doesn't know what he talks to them about - nothing much, probably. Who could, with Dr. McKay in the room? But she knows he told them about her, from the special effort Colonel Sheppard and Teyla make to greet her every time they see her.
Making friends is difficult, when you have to make up lies about what you do, and your boyfriend is mostly a silent, looming lump in the corner. It makes conversation difficult. But the sex is so totally worth it. And his warm eyes and sweet smile say more than words ever could. Mostly they have a superficial friendship with neighbors they know from the local gym and coffee shop. Ronon doesn't seem to feel they're too insular and co-dependent, and she socializes so much on Atlantis she's okay with just hanging out the two of them most days. Honestly, she's not that eager to work on any deep friendships when they could be called back to off-world duty any time. Hopefully, any day now. Earth is fine and all, but same old, same old is not what she signed up for.
Amelia is friendly and outgoing. She's fun to be around. When he wants to go out, to the gym or the cafe down on the corner, she's always up for it. Even if she just came from teaching her class at the gym, she just grins and says "sure!" if he suggests going there. But it's all on the surface. When they hang out with their friends, even just talking about TV shows and music, he can feel her holding back. She says her friends are on Atlantis. She says she could be re-deployed at any time. She says now is not a good time to be putting down roots.
Most days he works on his designs until lunch. He gets so absorbed in being creative, he doesn't feel alone, even if Amelia is not home. After lunch he works out, and visits his friends, unless a customer is scheduled to come over for a fitting. Their living room doubles as his shop, but they're both neat and tidy people, so that's fine. He visits Jose Manuel most weeks. Jose Manuel has a good deal with a leather wholesaler, and does some really cool things with stamping and burning. He likes to talk about his family and soccer a lot. He asked him once if he knew any shark skin suppliers from his time in the Caribbean, but he doesn't. Mostly his clients wanted to go sight-seeing, on and under the sea, and of course seeing sharks was inevitable, but he tried to stay away from them. Live and let live, don't kill anything unless you need to eat it or it's self-defense, is his motto.
He likes to work with cow and pig skin, by-products from butchering farm animals. Jose Manuel showed him some snake skins, with beautiful diamond patterns and bright colors. They're used for purses and footwear. It's hard not to covet them, they're perfectly smooth and soft, and maybe if they had been from farmed eating snakes in China, but they're not. Anyway, the eating snakes in China are not as beautiful, and are not treated well, so he has no intention of importing any skins from there. His clients often wanted to go to a traditional market after returning to civilization from a jungle hike, and he did enjoy the haggling and the throngs and the wide variety of food, but he never liked the animal markets, with the frightened and apathetic pigs and chickens and dogs and snakes.
He also hangs out with Cuiping once or twice a week. Cuiping designs websites, and teaches women to use computers down at the rec center. She designed his website for him, and taught him how to update it with new photos, but she only likes to talk about cooking and girlfriends and her pet iguana. She claims to be very jealous of him having Amelia, but he thinks she isn't half as jealous as he is of her having Groucho. When she is on the phone, he always goes to stand next to Groucho's heating lamp and try to coax him to climb on his arm. Groucho's toes are dry and hard, and a bit scratchy. He moves slowly, with the dignity and self-possession of a Zen master. If he didn't know the salmonella on iguanas can be dangerous for infants, he would like to keep reptiles again.
In the evenings, Amelia comes home. They watch TV and go to the gym together, and they have a lot of sex. Usually they have sex every morning, and often in the evenings too, if they're not tired. Amelia says only penetrative sex is real sex. She also says she doesn't snuggle and pet and kiss any of her friends like that, but that doesn't mean it's "real sex". She says many strange things. Ronan was raised to believe that love is what makes it "real", and he's starting to suspect that he and Amelia have never had real sex if that is the case.
Jose Manuel and Amparo, and Teyla and Kanaan have kids, and Rodney and Jennifer are expecting. John and Amelia are only biding their time until they can get back to the war. Cuiping says Amelia is crazy hot, and Ronan is a lucky, lucky guy. He is lucky, to have found a home in this vibrant city by the sea, to have a successful business doing what he loves - even if it burns having to take jobs modeling clothing for competitors sometimes, and to have so many true and loving friends. But he's starting to question the wisdom of having a marine for a girlfriend. He's gotten the wander-lust and hunger for adventure out of his blood after years of odd jobs all around the world, and is ready to settle down and start a family. Amelia says she could be re-deployed at any moment. He goes out to the military base with her every two-three weeks to meet John and Rodney and Teyla, who also work there, but he couldn't imagine living on base, let alone a base in enemy territory. When Amelia is re-deployed, maybe it would be best to just let her go. Cuiping says she knows lots of sweet, straight girls who know very little about computers but a lot about loving. She's corny like that.
The end.