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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings:Highlight: Apocafic, just about everyone dies off-page. John and Rodney live.
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhiannonhero
Author's Website: RhiannonRave
Link: The Temptation of Adam
Why This Must Be Read:
A dark story about the end of the world that's compelling in its starkness. The second person narrative form in this story emphasizes John's disaffection and descent into madness inside an apocalyptic retreat, where he's been left with a big red button to push when it's time. When Rodney arrives in the bunker to find an impossible solution he's almost larger than life, and he drags John back into living in what's left of the world and then beyond.
Excerpt:
The missile silo is quiet. Cavernously silent. The kind of silence that feels like the weight of the universe pressing down on you if you think about it too much. So, you don’t think about it. Instead, you study the walls, carved from stone and supported by metal, and you watch the soundless sweep of the second hand on the giant wall clock above the control panel, rubbing your thumb over the giant button, ridiculous in its prominence, red and glaring like a single eye, while you keep your back to the giant projectile behind you, huge and upright like an old oak tree, as you wait. And wait. And wait.
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Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings:Highlight: Apocafic, just about everyone dies off-page. John and Rodney live.
Author on LJ:
rhiannonheroAuthor's Website: RhiannonRave
Link: The Temptation of Adam
Why This Must Be Read:
A dark story about the end of the world that's compelling in its starkness. The second person narrative form in this story emphasizes John's disaffection and descent into madness inside an apocalyptic retreat, where he's been left with a big red button to push when it's time. When Rodney arrives in the bunker to find an impossible solution he's almost larger than life, and he drags John back into living in what's left of the world and then beyond.
Excerpt:
The missile silo is quiet. Cavernously silent. The kind of silence that feels like the weight of the universe pressing down on you if you think about it too much. So, you don’t think about it. Instead, you study the walls, carved from stone and supported by metal, and you watch the soundless sweep of the second hand on the giant wall clock above the control panel, rubbing your thumb over the giant button, ridiculous in its prominence, red and glaring like a single eye, while you keep your back to the giant projectile behind you, huge and upright like an old oak tree, as you wait. And wait. And wait.
...
