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stargateficrec2009-06-07 12:24 pm
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Entry tags:
The Unexpected by PurpleYin (PG)
Rec Category: AU
Pairing: None
Category: AU, Rodney McKay, Gen, Peter Grodin
Warning: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
missyvortexdv
Author's Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/149631/PurpleYin
Link: The Unexpected
Why this must be read: I'm a sucker for 'fics where Peter Grodin survives the events of The Siege (Part 1), because he's one of my favorite Season One secondary characters. It was a shame that the writers decided to write him off so soon, but the way PurpleYin writes this story, it makes me think that this could've actually happened, and Peter's still out there somewhere.
Recon had told them there were remains of an Ancient outpost on the planet's larger continent.
The puddle jumper flight was routine enough, though much had changed since the battle for Atlantis. There'd been the typical banter between himself and Sheppard about who should fly the jumper down to the planet. He hadn't convinced Sheppard, but then he'd not really been trying. He was still the same old snarky McKay to those who worked with them, but there was something different that the people who truly knew him could probably now see. He'd tried to keep to himself in his own way, pushing away anyone who tried to get close, but there were some who took his insults and sarcasm with ease, who gave as good as they got and let it roll off their backs, accepting him as he was. They were the ones that knew he was troubled.
And every time he thought of the technology they might discover somewhere like this, he always wondered about Peter Grodin; what he'd say, what he'd do with it all when they brought anything back.
Rodney was, of course, smarter, but there had been times Grodin had seen a problem from a different perspective, one that had proved useful. That was the one thing absent from his city these days. It felt like Atlantis was missing one of its keepers. He couldn’t deny the Brit had been the best when it came to dealing with the Atlantian computer system, but now, like Grodin, that database was gone. Zelenka was doing a good job taking over and working with what they had left, but it still wasn't right. The situation didn't sit well with Rodney. It all came down to guilt, that it could as easily have been him...An irony that picking the short straw had actually saved him and condemned Peter.
Pairing: None
Category: AU, Rodney McKay, Gen, Peter Grodin
Warning: None
Author on LJ:
missyvortexdvAuthor's Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/149631/PurpleYin
Link: The Unexpected
Why this must be read: I'm a sucker for 'fics where Peter Grodin survives the events of The Siege (Part 1), because he's one of my favorite Season One secondary characters. It was a shame that the writers decided to write him off so soon, but the way PurpleYin writes this story, it makes me think that this could've actually happened, and Peter's still out there somewhere.
Recon had told them there were remains of an Ancient outpost on the planet's larger continent.
The puddle jumper flight was routine enough, though much had changed since the battle for Atlantis. There'd been the typical banter between himself and Sheppard about who should fly the jumper down to the planet. He hadn't convinced Sheppard, but then he'd not really been trying. He was still the same old snarky McKay to those who worked with them, but there was something different that the people who truly knew him could probably now see. He'd tried to keep to himself in his own way, pushing away anyone who tried to get close, but there were some who took his insults and sarcasm with ease, who gave as good as they got and let it roll off their backs, accepting him as he was. They were the ones that knew he was troubled.
And every time he thought of the technology they might discover somewhere like this, he always wondered about Peter Grodin; what he'd say, what he'd do with it all when they brought anything back.
Rodney was, of course, smarter, but there had been times Grodin had seen a problem from a different perspective, one that had proved useful. That was the one thing absent from his city these days. It felt like Atlantis was missing one of its keepers. He couldn’t deny the Brit had been the best when it came to dealing with the Atlantian computer system, but now, like Grodin, that database was gone. Zelenka was doing a good job taking over and working with what they had left, but it still wasn't right. The situation didn't sit well with Rodney. It all came down to guilt, that it could as easily have been him...An irony that picking the short straw had actually saved him and condemned Peter.