Destiny Revisited by Lavvyan (PG13)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Crossover
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay, Merlin/Arthur
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warning: vague spoilers up to and including Season 5; Merlin spoilers through 1x10
Author on LJ: lavvyan 
Author's Website: Fic listing on LJ, AO3
Link: Destiny Revisited

Why this must be read:

Crossover with: Merlin

Oh, what an out of this world fusion! There's not a lot of ways one can fuse these two very different fandoms and canons, but lavvyan does it without batting an eye. Through the vehicle of reincarnation, lavvyan makes you believe!! She takes us throughout the Atlantis canon, viewing the events and the people we meet through "Merlin" glasses. By the end of this, I wanted to cuddle Rodney/Merlin so bad and just cheer at the last three lines. This is a unique and superb crossover that will stay with you for days.

Also available in podfic here

Story Summary: This time, Merlin is the one saying words like "idiot" and "moron," and Arthur has the stupid ears.

His name's not Merlin in this incarnation, of course. It's Rodney – at least, Merlin says it's Rodney, because that's better than the other one – and he's not a sorcerer as much as… well, a magician perhaps. Because these days, science is magic, and Merlin has learned so much that of all the people on Earth, he's still among the most powerful.

He's met some of the others over the years, of course, even though they didn't recognise him. Never as many as this time around, and perhaps that should have told him something. He's met Nimueh in the form of Sam Carter, fierce and free without Uther's betrayal weighing her down. He's met Geoffrey, still more comfortable behind a stack of books than anywhere else, excited that he's finally solved the mystery of Atlantis. Gaius is still a physician, and his incarnation of Carson Beckett falls quickly back into his old friendship with Merlin, without quite realising why. Will is related to him by blood this time, even if Merlin hasn't spoken to him in three years after he severed their closeness to go and marry an English major.

Four at once, more than ever before, and he was hoping that it were a sign of the circle finally coming to a close, leaving him to get some rest.

Still, he didn't see John Sheppard coming; dark-haired and pale-eyed and weary beyond his years, but cocky as Arthur's ever been. He didn't expect the way it would make him feel.