Nantucket AU
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He thinks they might be friends, or something, but it makes his head hurt to think about it too hard.
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- Part 1 of Nantucket AU
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So this is the plan: wait.
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- Part 2 of Nantucket AU
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It's clumsy and urgent – as they kiss (hot, messy, nipping) it dawns on John that perhaps he's not the only one who's been holding himself in check.
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- Part 3 of Nantucket AU
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It's been a while, a long while, since John's had to take care of anyone but himself, and he thinks he might be a little rusty.
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- Part 4 of Nantucket AU
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John thinks this might be the end of things.
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- Part 5 of Nantucket AU
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- 373
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Rodney munches his sandwich, standing in the middle of the hallway, paper bag swinging from the fingers of one hand.
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- Part 6 of Nantucket AU
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A date.
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- Part 7 of Nantucket AU
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John likes to coax Rodney out of bed in the pale-gold morning.
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- Part 8 of Nantucket AU
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In which there is making out in a whaling museum.
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- Part 9 of Nantucket AU
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- 470
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John's not one for thinking too far ahead.
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- Part 10 of Nantucket AU
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- 205
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Rodney wishes he knew how to tell John how he feels.
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- Part 11 of Nantucket AU
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This is John's story.
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- Part 12 of Nantucket AU
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- 597
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- 5
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John wondered, sometimes, what Rodney left behind him in Colorado. Rodney was a hoarder, a creature of clutter, gathering books and pieces of paper, broken pens and odd blue socks around him at a pace John found almost frightening.
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- Part 13 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,435
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John's favorite piece of furniture.
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- Part 14 of Nantucket AU
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- 542
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- 3
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John limps in the back door at a quarter past 11, half an hour later than he should have been back.
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- Part 15 of Nantucket AU
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- 660
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- 3
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- 434
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The penalties of summer sun.
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- Part 16 of Nantucket AU
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- 526
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- 4
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The end of summer.
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- Part 17 of Nantucket AU
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- 809
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The lazy beginning to John's first birthday spent with Rodney on Nantucket.
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- Part 18 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,388
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It's raining, cold and damp, and the unrelenting gray is trying to creep in under the front door and through the windowpanes.
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- Part 19 of Nantucket AU
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- 442
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A reunion.
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- Part 20 of Nantucket AU
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- 707
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Part of Rodney's re-education, John's decided, is learning the value of doing absolutely nothing on Sunday afternoons.
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- Part 21 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,176
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- 6
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Making out in the Wagoneer.
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- Part 22 of Nantucket AU
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- 425
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John could take a run, or pick up some doughnuts from the Downyflake, or he could just stay here and watch Rodney stumbling his own way toward wakefulness.
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- Part 23 of Nantucket AU
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Words by Sheafrotherdon, art by Aesc.
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- Part 24 of Nantucket AU
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John gets Rodney's postcard.
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- Part 25 of Nantucket AU
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The postcard's tucked between two bills, hemmed in by the rising price of electricity and one month's insurance for the Wagoneer.
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- Part 26 of Nantucket AU
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"Stop that," John says, smacking the back of Rodney's hand as Rodney goes in for his sixth or seventh snack-sized Snickers bar in half an hour. "There'll be none left for the kids."
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- Part 27 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,289
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The first couple weeks after John gets out, he doesn't do much. The Air Force makes it pretty clear they don't want him to stay—no dishonourable discharge, but no possible way for him to stay and hold his head up high—but that doesn't mean he has anywhere to go. Cheap motel near the base the first few nights, then an impersonal little one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the town proper where he thinks idly about going some place with sun and surf and sand and anonymity—and John knows himself well enough to know that he could just go on like this for years, never let himself settle, keep on looking for the opposite of what he needs.
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- Part 28 of Nantucket AU
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Rodney is a January baby; a red-faced and squalling bundle placed gently into Janet McKay's arms while outside the hospital walls, Toronto's pedestrians and drivers alike curse the freezing rain.
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- Part 29 of Nantucket AU
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A snowstorm.
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- Part 30 of Nantucket AU
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- 590
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Rodney wakes up grumpy. It happens from time to time – a wave of disgruntlement that defies the logic of his warm bed, his shared home, the disheveled heap of John Sheppard beside him. Sometimes, when the grumps come to town, there's nothing to do but squint at the cold gray February morning that's mocking him from beyond the windows and huff in derision.
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- Part 31 of Nantucket AU
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This is the kind of month it's been: It's a blustery day at the end of March, and they're huddled on the beach at Great Point freezing their asses off, and, according to Rodney, they should have broken up by now.
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- Part 32 of Nantucket AU
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- 943
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It's been a year.
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- Part 33 of Nantucket AU
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- 815
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Nantucket is baking slowly in the July heat.
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- Part 34 of Nantucket AU
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They go to bed early, November 3 – John's working the polls next morning at 6am, and Rodney's driving old people to vote, a situation that is so completely insane Rodney hasn't stopped talking about it ever since the twenty-year old "flibberdigibbit" (Rodney's term) accosted him outside the bakery on an otherwise nondescript Thursday and persuaded him to volunteer for the Democratic party. "If you don't," she'd said, eyes wide, "it'll be clear you just hate . . . everything."
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- Part 35 of Nantucket AU
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- 605
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Cold Sundays on Nantucket in November start something like this.
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- Part 36 of Nantucket AU
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The first time Rodney does it, John thinks he might go crazy.
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- Part 37 of Nantucket AU
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- 318
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A question of sheets.
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- Part 38 of Nantucket AU
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- 344
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It all happens pretty fast.
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- Part 39 of Nantucket AU
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- 356
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If you've got to have a sort-of-almost sister-in-law in your life, John thinks, then you could do a hell of a lot worse than Jeannie Miller.
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- Part 40 of Nantucket AU
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It's entirely, undeniably John's fault that they've seen this movie five times now, and Rodney's beginning to doubt he's ever going to get to watch the whole thing from start to finish unless he sneaks out and goes on his own.
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- Part 41 of Nantucket AU
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Apocryphal.
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- Part 42 of Nantucket AU
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It's becoming a pattern. Well, no, not really, Rodney admits to himself a moment later: two occurrences do not much more than a statistical anomaly make.
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- Part 43 of Nantucket AU
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John and Rodney may have settled with surprising swiftness into a life of meandering domesticity, and Cash may have displayed an inordinate attachment to a certain sun-warmed patch of tile in the kitchen, but there was at least one bachelor in their little grey house who still lived the life of a raffish Lothario.
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- Part 44 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,153
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The day after, John comes home from work with that restless, irritable feeling in his chest that he knows from long experience is a sure arbiter of a bad mood later on.
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- Part 45 of Nantucket AU
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Teyla's little boy, they both agree, is the cutest kid ever to have been delivered unexpectedly in the back seat of Ronon's VW Bug on Nantucket.
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- Part 46 of Nantucket AU
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A story of five t-shirts.
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- Part 47 of Nantucket AU
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Mornings for Rodney start slow—shuffling to the kitchen table for a breakfast that consists of coffee, coffee, more coffee, and a bowl of cereal consumed with more enthusiasm than grace, milk dribbling down his chin—and go slower still on the days when John's feeling particularly energetic.
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- Part 48 of Nantucket AU
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The morning before he flies out, Rodney sits on the wooden steps leading up to their little porch and watches John down on the beach, mock-wrestling Cash for control of a very beaten up frisbee.
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- Part 49 of Nantucket AU
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From the air, Nantucket is weathered by winter still—a wide and generous curve of land held up in a grey ocean under a grey sky.
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- Part 50 of Nantucket AU
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Rodney loves, John would tell anyone, with a depth and tenacity that few could guess if they used his scathing words and pitying stares as a guide.
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- Part 51 of Nantucket AU
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- 355
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So, John has this hoodie. It's an indeterminate dark grey, and soft; he's had it for so many years that it's losing its shape, sagging, and it's a little ragged at the edges from being washed so much. Little bit threadbare, too, and there's a hole in one elbow, but John knows it for what it is—a comfort thing—and he wears it regardless.
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- Part 52 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,673
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The lightbulb goes—blows up, really, in a little shower of over-heated glass—while John's taking a nap, Rodney sitting up in bed next to him, glasses on while he reads through a an article he's peer-reviewing for Zelenka, red pen at the ready.
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- Part 53 of Nantucket AU
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- 744
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They arrange to meet with their bank manager at ten on Wednesday.
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- Part 54 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,296
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Rodney's learning to expect the way John kisses him each morning.
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- Part 55 of Nantucket AU
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- 1,602
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It's December 23rd and John tells Rodney that one of his Christmas gifts is hidden in the house. Madness ensues.
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- Part 56 of Nantucket AU
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There are days when they don't touch with intent: days John's away with clients, or when Rodney heads over to Boston to meet with Sam and Radek.
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- Part 57 of Nantucket AU
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It was a good run—the sand packed solid beneath his feet, the air burning cold and clear in his lungs—but John took the stairs from the beach up to the house too quickly.
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- Part 58 of Nantucket AU
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The night Rodney is awarded the Nobel, he gets a little tipsy during the award banquet; not enough for anyone else to notice it, the crowd made up of ambassadors and royalty, journalists and scientists and Teyla and her children, but John can tell.
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- Part 59 of Nantucket AU