stargateficrec | Subliminal by esteefee (NC-17)

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

esteefee
Author's Website:
Link: Subliminal

Why This Must Be Read:

John's connection with Atlantis is more than a hum in the back of his mind in this sensual story set in early S1. Bursts of flavor and color accompany John's voyeuristic glimpses into Rodney's whereabouts and activities.

Excerpt:

The first time John realizes he can actually hear what Rodney in particular is feeling, he's so weirded out he barely touches the walls for a week. Which makes it really damned hard to do much of anything.

It isn't that John doesn't want to know; it's just that eavesdropping is plain creepy, and also he has a sneaking suspicion he knows just why Atlantis has decided to let him hone in on that particular wavelength.

After a while, though, he gets too curious, and telling himself it's as good a way as any to keep tabs on one of the most important people on the crew—strike that, the most important person to the expedition's survival, really—he listens in again. Just enough to figure out that Rodney has had way too little sleep in contrast to way way too much coffee. So John cruises by the lab and nudges Rodney out the door and to bed, telling him they have a mission the next day; which, if Rodney hadn't been out on his feet with exhaustion, he would have known was a big old lie.

John pats himself on the back and just smirks at Rodney the next morning when he comes stomping into mess, looking well rested but seriously pissed off.

So, John has pretty much resigned himself to being a little bit of a babysitter, which makes it all that much freakier when the next time he listens in, he catches McKay in the middle of a jerk-off session.

John drops his hand like the wall is on fire.

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