Stargate Fic Recommendations

Rec Category: John Sheppard & Rodney McKay friendship
Pairing: none
Category: humor, AU
Warning: none
Author on LJ: bratfarrar
Author's Website: n/a
Link: A Theory of Parallels snippets

Why This Must Be Read: This is a series of vignettes from an unfinished AU, but it still gives a lovely glimpse of John and Rodney under very different circumstances -- as entirely unwanted college roommates, reluctantly becoming friends. This is short, but smart and funny, and the two are wonderfully characterized as the start of the friendship begins to appear out of their (well ... Rodney's) initial antipathy.

“Um. Room 307. You’re Rodney McKay, right? I’m John Sheppard, your new roommate.” It’s been a shitty, shitty week, and most of that’s due to Rodney’s shitty ex-roommate, so he feels perfectly justified in shutting the door in the guy’s—John’s—face. “Hey!”