katikat | Podfic rec: SGA (Reply)

"Coulda Shoulda Woulda" by liketheriverrun, read by revolutionaryjo. Gen. Summary: Caring for your injured CO isn't the easiest job for a Marine. And Sheppard's isn't the only team on Atlantis. Length: ~8.000 words/41min.

We finally gave Bernie a bear whistle after he got lost for the third time while taking a piss behind a tree, just so we could find him. Delph even made him up a GPS map of Atlantis showing all the key points...and to give him shit about his lack of direction. To pay him back, Bernie filled his bed with plastic spiders, because Scott gets the heeby jeebies if you recite Little Miss Muffet in his presence. Paulie gets faint at the sight of blood, but when I fell down a hill and ended up nicking an artery in my leg, he sat by my side and told me the stupidest knock knock jokes he could come up with while Bernie applied the compress to slow the bleeding until Scott could bring help from Atlantis. And as soon as the medics showed up, Paul moved off into the trees and sat with Bernie with his head between his knees so he wouldn’t faint. Everyone has their weaknesses and every team leader knows what they are for the people under his command. And, yeah, they’re fair game for ribbing for those on the team. But I guarantee if someone else had put those spiders in Scott’s bed, or gave Bernie shit about his lousy sense of direction, or goaded Paulie about nearly passing out, there would have been hell to pay. And you better believe Sheppard feels the same way about the members of his team.

I love the outsider's POV in this fic. The OCs are incredibly likable and so well-round, three-dimensional...