scribblinlenore | Gettin' hitched (Reply)

So I've spent all day so far daydreaming about John and Rodney getting married. I was never the kind of gal who fantasized about wedding dresses and who I'd ask to be my bridesmaids, so this is what I do instead. *g*

First, an aside. As I was daydreaming about John and Rodny getting married, I started thinking about slashy marriage stories in fandom. They're commonplace nowadays, but I was remembering back to my first fandom, Sentinel, and how marriage stories seemed really AU then, because as much as I believed it was unjust that gay people couldn't get married, the world didn't seem like it was going to be changing any time soon. Now John and Rodney could go get married in Canada. Yay for the world changing, even if it hasn't changed nearly enough.

But, anyway, back to John and Rodney getting married…

And, yes, this is going to be sappy.

I mean, awww, just imagine the proposal. Or, really, the fighting that finally ends in their deciding to get engaged. I'm thinking that John would be a little...commitment shy, shall we say? And I suspect Rodney would be a tad insecure, even though they've been together for a while now. He'd bring up the topic of marriage, and John would be John, find a million vague and charming ways to derail the conversation. Rodney keeps trying to insist that getting married won't change anything, and John keeps worming his way out of the discussion. And finally Rodney would get really mad and insist that John doesn't want to get married because he's keeping his options open. John would roll his eyes and say, "Yes, because marriage is such a foolproof way of ensuring fidelity." I'm guessing there's some backstory there about his parents, and he's not even sure what he's afraid of, that he won't be able to be faithful like his father, or he'll be an emotional basket case like his mother.

Eventually, Rodney will figure out that John's reluctance really doesn't have anything to do with him, and he'll ease up. "Okay," he'll say. "No more pushing. Just consider it, you know, an option. If you ever want to, that is. Absolutely no pressure." And John goes off and thinks about that, and maybe they get into a scrape on a mission, and one evening as they're sitting side by side in bed, catching up on some paperwork, John will just casually toss out, "So I guess we could get married." Rodney will give him a long-suffering look and say, "You are the most infuriating person in two galaxies, you realize that, right?" And John will grin and say, "You love me that way." And Rodney will be really irritated, because that's actually true and he has no snappy comeback.

I can't imagine either one of them wanting a really fancy wedding, but Rodney has a little streak of formality in him, so maybe he'd want to register on Earth for gifts. Then they'd have to argue whether they were going to register at Sharper Image ("How cool would that be?" John would say) while Rodney prefers the more tried-and-true Tiffany's ("As a future Nobel laureate, I'll need an appropriately well-appointed household to entertain important guests," Rodney insists.) Elizabeth plays the diplomat and points out that Target and Starbucks would be more practical given their current lifestyle. John gets a new Playstation and Rodney a year's supply of French Roast, and everybody's happy.

Let's say that their wedding is actually the first one on Atlantis, and everybody gets really excited about it. Teyla invites them to the mainland for a traditional Athosian betrothal celebration which involves a huge meal, many toasts and lots of forehead touching. Rodney pretends to grumble about it beforehand, but during the ceremony, he gets suspiciously bright eyed on more than one occasion, and during the jumper ride home, John says, "So not so bad, huh?" Rodney starts to get prickly, thinking that John is making fun of him, but then he sees how softly John is smiling, and he smiles back, "No, not so bad."

Of course, there'd be the question of who would have the legal authority to perform the ceremony. They'd like Elizabeth to do it, but it seems like maybe Caldwell as the captain of the Dedalaus is more qualified, and Teyla performs marriages among the Athosians, which John and Rodney think would be really cool, but again, not sure about the legalities. Finally, they decide to have the ceremony on Atlantis, and the next time they're on Earth, they'll go to the courthouse for a civil ceremony, to tie up those legal loose ends. They hold the wedding out on the one of the piers by the water, the whole thing decorated with flowers and plants, with Elizabeth officiating, Caldwell, assisting, Teyla and Ronon as their best people, Cadman and Carson doing readings, and the Marines insisting on doing that thing where they stand across from each other and hold up swords, and John and Rodney walk through after they're married.

There's a huge party afterwards, for which Radek supplies the booze (because I'm all about the fanon in my daydreams!), and everyone on Atlantis celebrates themselves into a stupor. John and Rodney have a week off for their honeymoon, and they've arranged to go to "Risa," their Star Trek name for PCX-M150, an advanced world where the people actually like them, a culture that's dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. They aliens put them up in a luxury cabin in this quiet valley next to a lake. The cabin comes outfitted with an indoor pool/Jacuzzi type thing, an enormous, round bed, and all manner of pleasure enhancers. There's a fully stocked kitchen, and meals are left at the door three times a day. It's the first time since John and Rodney have been together that there's no chance of being interrupted, and they have so much sex that they're finally, literally too sore to fuck one more time.

So they're lying in bed, kissing and lazing, and John holds his hand up against Rodney's, palm to palm, so he can admire their rings.

Rodney goes all smug, "See? I told you getting married wouldn't change anything."

John smiles at him fondly. "Rodney, it's changed everything." Before Rodney can go ballistic, he kisses him. "It's made everything better."

Then even though they're sore, they have more sex, because it's not every day John is a big sap and they need to commemorate it with blowjobs. And they live as happily ever after as two people in a galaxy full of live-sucking monsters possibly can.

The End!