Stargate Fic Recommendations

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Pre-slash, angst, fluff, post-series
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: bead
Author's Website: bead
Link: Freeze

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely Rodney McKay POV of John Sheppard, miserable, lonely, and distant, and while it shows what Rodney will do to make life better for John, it really shows how beautifully John responds to Rodney, both in his misery and when he's happy. This story is show not tell and does it with such grace, you hardly know you've read the whole thing until the last line.



“So nothing funky happened with your family?” he asks leadingly. John shakes his head, smile quirking a little wider and half-heartedly tries to block Rodney’s next steak-swipe.

“And it’s not like I’m going to bend your ear about Jennifer,” he says blithely, “’cause I did alllll that with Jeannie and Teyla while you were stuck at the SGC, and I have to just say….” Suddenly, he realizes John’s face has frozen and his grip is white-knuckle tight on his glass.

“Oh my God, that’s it,” he says. “You thought I was going to bend your ear about my latest tragic failure in the romance department. That I was going to tell you about all my boo-boo feelings of heartbreak and self-recrimination.”

“Your…” John blinks at him, stunned. “Boo-boo?”

“Shut up,” Rodney stabs the air with his fork. “I’m telling you, that elk had it coming.”

“Elk?” John says faintly.