crack_van | Hunger: A Symphony in Seven Parts by SylvanWitch (NC-17)

I thought I'd finish my time as Atlantis driver this month the way I began it – with Shep/Todd by SylvanWitch.

Fandom: STARGATE: ATLANTIS
Pairing: John Sheppard/Todd the Wraith
Length: 986 words
Author on LJ:

sylvanwitch
Author Website: SylvanWitch @ Wraithbait
Why this must be read:

"Hunger" is a series of short poems. To be honest, poetry is not my thing. I don't get what makes something poetry or know anything about...composition or style or anything like that. But I do like these poems because of the stories they tell. Each one is a different take on human/Wraith interaction from Todd's POV, set in or around "Common Ground" with hunger as the theme tying them all together.

First, he is nothing but fortuitous food,

his flesh hot and ripe beneath my hand.

There is iron in his blood, pulled from his spine with the screams,

and I am glad that he is strong.

Life equals life.

Later, his breath a song in my isolated ears,

I cannot help but watch him,

cannot stop myself from matching breaths.

There is an agony of distance

in the tease of his pounding heart.

But his eyes meet mine, cool,

and his breath evens,

and I see that he is not cattle to be culled.

And I wonder:

will he rise beneath me joyous if I let him?

Will he give me his life with a smile?

Will he ride me and be ridden?

Will I die to give back to him

the look he levels now?

I reach out my hand,

gauntlet to steel,

and the ringing sounds like freedom,

or the singing in the blood before

darkness falls.

He rises to meet me,

and I am his.

Hunger: A Symphony in Seven Parts