Positively Charmed by toomuchplor ()
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toomuchplor
Author's Website: toomuchplor's fanfiction
Link: Positively Charmed
Why This Must Be Read:
This sweet and funny story is set post Enemy At the Gate, after Rodney has broken up with Jennifer. The thing is, John's not positive about what's going on with Rodney lately, but he thinks that maybe they're dating.
He definitely likes his new socks, although he's not happy about the bath salts.
Excerpt:
It was the feeling of a new page turning, like the first day of school or a brand new posting where no one knew John or his checkered past.
They were back in Pegasus at long last, having spent nearly eight months languishing in boredom and suspense on Earth. It had been long enough that most of the Lantean crew had drifted away to other projects, coring their close-knit culture, leaving only the highest- and lowest-ranking behind.
But then, like a storm after a drought, the IOA had said yes, go, go back and the city had filled right up again, filled up fuller than before, and things were moving and people were shouting and it had all happened very quickly. John got promoted, his first promotion below the zone in his entire career, and the Air Force gave him more pilots and more marines. Woolsey took the chance to reorganize the entire city and restock it until it was packed to the gills. Rodney came back from some mysterious project at Area 51, dragging a dozen new engineers and scientists in his wake.
And, okay, that was when it happened, in the midst of all the chaos and yelling and excitement, smack in the middle of that dizzying fresh-start feeling. John had just been rounding a corner, heading off to the gateroom, and there Rodney was, belligerent and obnoxious and berating someone new, and John didn’t know what came over him except he was grinning and sprinting and then he had McKay, awesome shouting angry McKay, in a full-on Ronon-style squeeze.
“Oof, Sheppard, nice to see you too, you’re very”—and John checked himself, pulled away quickly, but couldn’t wipe the shit-eating grin off his face so he slapped Rodney on the back and shoulder a few times, saying inanely, “You’re back, this is great, how are you?”
And Rodney blinked, as if no one had asked him that in recent memory, and then his blue eyes met John’s, and he said, “I’m, I’m good – I mean, we’re going home, aren’t we?” and John had helplessly slapped him again, giddy and glad, and agreed, “Yeah, we are.”
“So,” said Rodney, suddenly slipping into something like nervousness, and he stuck his thumb over his shoulder at his new frightened subordinate, “I should, uh.”
“Oh, yeah,” said John, and waved him back to it. “Just saying hi.”
“Right,” said Rodney, and his chin went up, and his eyes slid to the left, over John’s shoulder, and then he pivoted back towards the cowed scientist and said, almost politely, “Where was I? Right. The many reasons why you idiots can’t run around doing random power-sucking tests on the star drive whenever the mood hits you,” and John took a few steps down the corridor, incorrigibly happy, and it was the first day of school, the first day of a new posting, the first time through the gate to a really cool new planet with lots of awesome guns to share.
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Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:
toomuchplorAuthor's Website: toomuchplor's fanfiction
Link: Positively Charmed
Why This Must Be Read:
This sweet and funny story is set post Enemy At the Gate, after Rodney has broken up with Jennifer. The thing is, John's not positive about what's going on with Rodney lately, but he thinks that maybe they're dating.
He definitely likes his new socks, although he's not happy about the bath salts.
Excerpt:
It was the feeling of a new page turning, like the first day of school or a brand new posting where no one knew John or his checkered past.
They were back in Pegasus at long last, having spent nearly eight months languishing in boredom and suspense on Earth. It had been long enough that most of the Lantean crew had drifted away to other projects, coring their close-knit culture, leaving only the highest- and lowest-ranking behind.
But then, like a storm after a drought, the IOA had said yes, go, go back and the city had filled right up again, filled up fuller than before, and things were moving and people were shouting and it had all happened very quickly. John got promoted, his first promotion below the zone in his entire career, and the Air Force gave him more pilots and more marines. Woolsey took the chance to reorganize the entire city and restock it until it was packed to the gills. Rodney came back from some mysterious project at Area 51, dragging a dozen new engineers and scientists in his wake.
And, okay, that was when it happened, in the midst of all the chaos and yelling and excitement, smack in the middle of that dizzying fresh-start feeling. John had just been rounding a corner, heading off to the gateroom, and there Rodney was, belligerent and obnoxious and berating someone new, and John didn’t know what came over him except he was grinning and sprinting and then he had McKay, awesome shouting angry McKay, in a full-on Ronon-style squeeze.
“Oof, Sheppard, nice to see you too, you’re very”—and John checked himself, pulled away quickly, but couldn’t wipe the shit-eating grin off his face so he slapped Rodney on the back and shoulder a few times, saying inanely, “You’re back, this is great, how are you?”
And Rodney blinked, as if no one had asked him that in recent memory, and then his blue eyes met John’s, and he said, “I’m, I’m good – I mean, we’re going home, aren’t we?” and John had helplessly slapped him again, giddy and glad, and agreed, “Yeah, we are.”
“So,” said Rodney, suddenly slipping into something like nervousness, and he stuck his thumb over his shoulder at his new frightened subordinate, “I should, uh.”
“Oh, yeah,” said John, and waved him back to it. “Just saying hi.”
“Right,” said Rodney, and his chin went up, and his eyes slid to the left, over John’s shoulder, and then he pivoted back towards the cowed scientist and said, almost politely, “Where was I? Right. The many reasons why you idiots can’t run around doing random power-sucking tests on the star drive whenever the mood hits you,” and John took a few steps down the corridor, incorrigibly happy, and it was the first day of school, the first day of a new posting, the first time through the gate to a really cool new planet with lots of awesome guns to share.
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Date: 2011-04-20 01:30 am (UTC)