Word from the Author: You gotta love Rodney's hands. John sure as hell does.
Disclaimer: ...Oh, god, if only.
The Hands On Approach
There was something intimate about Rodney's hands. In the way they moved, they danced, the way they almost seemed to breathe. Sometimes it seemed like there was no thought involved with the process at all, as if they had a life of their own, an indescribable instinct that had saved them all time and time again. Sometimes it seemed as if they were full of nothing but thought, coalesced into a burning corporeal existence straight from Rodney's mind. This latter phenomenon could be seen in they way Rodney's hands always seemed to be willing to pick up where his words trailed off, spinning their own tales, and explanations, and on occasion the, literally, off-hand joke.
John thinks that the first thing he noticed about Rodney was not his brilliant blue eyes nor his startlingly crooked smile nor was it even the glaringly orange fleecy pullover of his. No, it was most definitely his hands. John knows this because the first thing he ever does when meeting a person is look at their hands. It had never really been what people might've considered a fetish; it had always been more about gathering information than anything else. Before Rodney, that is. John's military training meant having to learn about a lot of things others took for granted, searching for that which was spoken in silence – body language, basically.
For John, just as you could read a person's words from their lips, you could likewise read their body language from their hands. Rodney's hands spoke in code, in garbled chaos, spilling the secrets of a cryptically complex universe that absconded a part of John's mind right from the get go. A musician's hands, an artist's.
His heart followed not long after, all a flutter at the mere touch of those capable fingertips, ever swift, ever sure.
Seriously, John can't help but love Rodney just that little bit more every time he remembers that Rodney's meant to be a theoretical physicist.
He's sure as hell glad Rodney ended up choosing the hands on approach.
Finis.
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