Ronon and Rodney are captured and tortured — mostly Rodney. Ronon tries to assure Rodney and tries to effect an escape. When he is tortured as well, he turns to an old truth: pleasure runs faster than pain.
13k. Ronon starts to notice that whenever the team is expected to do a fertility ritual, somehow Rodney always has to participate, and he is hiding pain and dismay. Somehow John always frames it so Rodney can’t say no — and Rodney then has to talk him through the inevitable following homophobic freakout. Ronon then sees that Rodney is agreeing to sex with quite a few people, and always making them think it’s okay, and always unhappy. Tired of seeing Rodney hurting, Ronon decides to do something about it, but Rodney has trouble understanding what Ronon wants.