HEHE! The cow part I HAD to work in, because I thought if someone told ME I had to stop thinking of certain things I was afraid of, that's all I'd be able to do. Plus I really think Rodney might be curious as to what citrus tastes like. I think Jeannie probably teased him with it when they were kids...

I could almost feel his fear...and the way that it shows you how frightening things are to Rodney because he sees al the posssibilities in a way most people don't or can't.

One of my favorite things in fic is when you can sense characters' intelligence in their words and actions. The concept of 'you can't be real,' 'why not,' 'you kissed me back' were the first things I thought of when I saw clear_as_blood's art! I had to think of a plausible way to get to it, where not only did Rodney have to be faced with all these things that he was jealous about, but that he get a chance to HAVE John only to lose him, and then confuse the latter with the real John. I loved my first concept (that had Rodney being tortured by the Trust via the Tok'Ra memory device, and then stuck in some sort of virtual reality where he recognized that they were trying to get information out of him by constructing a scenario where he gets rescued and 'John' asks him what the Trust had wanted... and Rodney has to play along because the longer they think he's falling for it, the more time he gives his team to rescue him--but it just was.not.working and that's part of why this was so late! Argh!)

Yay for the last line! I love those happy accidents; I wrote to the end and was like--WAIT THE WATCH and then thought about how it would have counted down to zero...

I'd love to see this remixed from John's POV (hell, I'm even tempted myself...)

OMG I KNOW! I'm not-so-subtly hoping that my remixer for gateverse_remix hadn't picked one to do yet, hahaha.

Thank you so much for this wealth of feedback! I sat here and re-read it all day till I could be coherent enough to respond. And it didn't read dim *at all*, dear! <3