After the Other
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Radek comes to visit him in July. It's only a flying visit, a couple of days snatched between a quantum physics conference in Bern and a lecture tour in America, but Radek is determined to make it.
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- Part 1 of After the Other
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Rodney eyes the gloves John gives him dubiously--they're thick and padded, as if they could just as easily be used during space walks, or when dealing with nuclear reactors. "This very easy job requires safety gear?"
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- Part 2 of After the Other
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It's been more than a year, and they still keep separate houses. Not because there's anything stopping them from moving in together—no disapproval from family or friends, no hindrance at work, no vile toenail-related habits revealed by weekends spent together—but because there's still some indefinable something between them, something which means that Rodney can't ask him, and John won't offer. It means that most evenings, they part at Front Gate with an absent-minded kiss, promises to call later, to not forget that CD in the morning; John turns to the left, Rodney to the right, and they both go home alone.
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- Part 3 of After the Other
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When Rodney was small, day trips down to the sea were a regular thing in the lazy warmth of July; his father driving with shirt sleeves rolled up, his mother humming along with the radio, Rodney and Jeannie crammed into the back with the picnic basket, the buckets and spades, the scratchy plaid blankets for sitting on.
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- Part 4 of After the Other
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They spend most of their days in low-key arguments; pitched battles over whether the Fourth Doctor could take the Ninth, a slow-burning war of attrition as to who gets the pleasurable task of clearing out George's litter box.
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- Part 5 of After the Other
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"Two flasks of tea. Six packets of Taytos. Egg mayonnaise sandwiches," John says, "chicken and bacon, ham salad, tuna and sweetcorn..." The carrier bag rustles some more. "Ploughman's and roast beef? Jesus, Rodney, we're going to Jeannie's for the weekend, not on an expedition to the moon."
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- Part 6 of After the Other
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These are the sounds of a back garden in a Dublin suburb on a summer afternoon.
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- Part 7 of After the Other
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John Sheppard was quite possibly the stupidest person Rodney had ever fallen in love with.
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- Part 8 of After the Other
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Ronon's been at Trinity for about three weeks by the time his department gets around to organising a welcome party for him (ah, Rodney says with a philosophical sigh as he tugs on his jacket before heading out the door with John, the mills of the Trinity administration grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly... well, 'lumpy and awkward' rather than 'small' and is there any particular reason why they're holding this thing at seven on a Tuesday?).
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- Part 9 of After the Other
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They miss the last bus, but Rodney refuses to wait around for the Nitelink and the pleasant fizz of alcohol in John's veins means he isn't in the mood for being cooped up in a taxi.
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- Part 10 of After the Other