The Wraith are never-ending (poem)

[mific]

Title: The Wraith are never-ending (on AO3)
Author: by mific
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gen - John Sheppard & Todd the Wraith
Characters: Rodney McKay, Todd the Wraith, John Sheppard
Additional Tags: Fanfiction, Poetry, Alternate Universe - Vegas, Telepathy, Partial Mind Control
Summary: Be careful, they can get in your head.

Notes:
In the Vegas episode, Season 5, McKay takes Sheppard to visit Todd who's imprisoned at Area 51 and slowly starving. I thought I'd take that part of the transcript and make it into a poem, since Todd's already halfway there. I was sort of using a villanelle structure, but this isn't a villanelle as sticking fairly closely to the episode script didn't allow for enough rhymes. The overall line structure is almost a villanelle's, but there are only suggestions of rhymes, and the partial rhyming alternates between Todd's and McKay's POVs.

This is for the current SGA_Saturday prompts Adjust and Rules - in that I tried to follow the rules for a villanelle, but had to adjust them. :) 
Or, there are rules about access to Todd for a reason, and Todd adjusts Sheppard's worldview.