Stargate Fic Recommendations

Show: Stargate Atlantis
Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Madison Miller, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: John/Rodney
Categories: Slash, first time, alternate universe, humor, angst
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: N/A
Author's Website: respoftw @ ao3
Link: Learning To Share

Why This Must Be Read: John and Rodney share an office, though they work different shifts and thus do not run into one another. After Rodney learns this, they begin to converse, first through notes, then through emails. Meanwhile, Jeannie has sadly passed and Rodney now has custody of Madison. John's supportive as Rodney stumbles through parenthood. It's sweet (and a little angsty) and just a pleasant, quick read :)

Madison hadn’t managed to sleep for longer than thirty minutes at a stretch and Rodney was so exhausted the next morning that he’d forgotten about the lack of good coffee in his office until he reached for the door handle.

Groaning, he dumped his briefcase on his desk, fully prepared to go and scrounge some more from Radek until he was stopped short by the note addressed to ‘Dr. McAsshole’ on his keyboard.  His need for caffeine temporarily forgotten, Rodney sat in his chair and unfolded the note with an air of childish excitement.

He frowned, confused.  It was his own note, the one he’s left for Major Sheppard, the ‘Dr McAsshole’ having been written over a whited out ‘Major Jackass’.  As he read on, he realised that it wasn’t quite his own note; it had been heavily edited with a red pen, his occasional grammatical error and questionable spelling choices circled obstinately with suggestions on how to improve his wording in the margins.  Rodney caught himself grinning before he even got to the post-script.