watering the roots
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“These kinds of departments usually have a lot of politics in them,” she says carefully. “There’s a lot of—impressing the right people, and keeping on certain boards’ good sides, and using just the right vocabulary to keep your funding. It usually turns into a popularity contest quickly.” She nods back at the physics lab. “Dr. McKay doesn’t run things like that.”
John says, “I see,” and then Dr. Betts inclines her head at him walks away. When he thinks about it, it even makes sense—naturally, Rodney McKay, notoriously unpopular man, wouldn’t run his department like a popularity contest.
(He will never admit it, but it’s kind of magnificent to watch Rodney hold court.)
Or: John muses on the Atlantis Expedition's CSO, while the science department takes part in Stupid Question Time.
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- Part 1 of watering the roots
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Secret Acrostic of a Lover’s Name by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
01 Feb 2026
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Charles looks up from his drink, eyes dancing. “You read Ginsberg,” he says, and then, “What am I saying—of course you read Ginsberg.”
Erik has read widely and studied extensively but is usually surrounded by people who assume he hasn’t. Charles has consistently been the exception to this. From anyone else, the comment would sound patronizing, but Charles says it as if it’s a wonderful fact that he’s somehow simply forgotten—right, of course sunshine feels good on your skin. Of course Erik Lehnsherr reads Ginsberg.
Erik's lips tilt up in half a smile. He feels something that Charles often makes him feel: the urge to rise to the occasion, to impress, to show off. He takes another drink of coffee, meets Charles’s eyes, then says, “I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world.”
Or: Soft sheets, post-sex coffee, and quoting literature as foreplay.
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- Part 2 of watering the roots