stargateficrec | Taking the Long Way Home, by sardonicsmiley. (R)

Rec Category: McKay/Sheppard
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Category: Atlantis, AR, angst, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Warning: possible disturbing content
Author on LJ:

sardonicsmiley
Author's Website: A list of her Stargate: Atlantis fanfiction can be found in this post.
Link: Taking the Long Way Home

Summary: It starts with the fortune cookies, spilt soup, and more Johns than Rodney can shake a stick at. Or maybe that’s how it ends.

Why This Must Be Read:

This is an awesome use of the quantum mirror trope. Johns are wandering through the realities to find their way home. To Rodney.

I love how humour and angst are entwined. They complement each other very well here. The use of fannish tropes are great, but underlying them there are some very true observations. These Johns are different from each other, but at their core there's something that makes every John John. And that's a brilliant piece of characterization.

And I love Rodney in this, desperately trying to bring his John home. So very true to himself.

There are more stories written in this universe. You can find them in this post.

A story I love to re-read.

It starts with the fortune cookies.

Okay, fine, the Dumplings of Great Cultural Significance. That just happened to look an awful lot like fortune cookies and came complete with little strips of white paper nestled inside. And had numbers on the back for no reason their hosts could provide. They’d even been stale.

So. Fortune cookies. They’d been delivered at the end of the twelve course meal that was held to celebrate their new trading agreement with the Bejwahl. They’d been in individual plastic bags. Rodney had crushed his, inadvertently, and read his little piece of profound drivel to avoid the displeased looks that John and Teyla had been shooting him.

It had said: Home.