Before the Whales Come Crashing Down, by linziday (PG13)

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Show: Stargate Atlantis
Rec Category: John & Rodney friendship
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warning/Spoilers: "Mild language, traumatic hallucinations" | None
Author on LJ: linziday
Author's Website: LinziDay at Fanfiction.net
Link: Before the Whales Come Crashing Down

Why this must be read:
Summary: One person. Awake five days. And this time it's not Rodney. (2.2k words)

I'm a total sucker for sleep-deprivation fics, and this is a particularly charming one. Rodney's usually the one subjected to this particular discomfort, and in this story he expects to undergo the required period of sleeplessness once more ... but the locals insist on John. So Rodney carefully selects which periods he'll monitor, because he knows what embarrassments his friend would prefer no one else see.

Excerpt:
The next morning, Sheppard forgot why he was there and demanded to be released. It took Ronon, then Teyla, then Rodney to convince him to stay.

Headache. Loopiness. Staring. Irritability. Irrationality. Memory lapse. Rodney knew better than anyone what would come next.

It's why he'd volunteered for the last shift.

"You owe me, Colonel," Rodney said, watching Sheppard stare at the ceiling. "Next overnight mission, you take my watch. And the mission after that. And possibly all the overnight missions ever, because the video I didn't take of you singing Gilbert and Sullivan would have been worth all the kona coffee and dark chocolate in the city."

Comments

[linziday.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! I'm glad you liked it enough to rec.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

:) A pleasure!