stargateficrec | Solitary by esteefee (R)

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

esteefee
Link: Solitary

Why This Must Be Read:

John has his routines for handling imprisonment, but this time he has too much damn time to think about the things he won't talk about. I really enjoy the wry humor in this piece.

Excerpt:

There are some people who think being imprisoned in a six foot by eight foot slime-covered cell on a backwater planet at the edge of the Pegasus Galaxy is a catastrophe that merits a lot of moaning and bitching about the cold and the damp and the missed opportunities for working on grand poobah theories or proving the Reese's Pieces Hypothesis or what have you, but John prefers to think of it as a terrific opportunity to take a break and catch up on all the shut-eye he's missed out on. As long as his jailers feed him his twice-daily stale bread and scummy gruel and keep the roughing up to a bare minimum, he's cool.

It isn't his fault he's stuck here. John will do a lot for Atlantis—take a bullet, turn into a bug, ride a nuke into a hiveship—but he's really, really not willing to have his team bend over for a ritual that includes, from what he gathered from Teyla's horrified double-speak, a holy enema.

Fortunately, Ronon had his back on that, and double-fortunately McKay wasn't on the mission to shriek hysterically. However, Teyla and Ronon had proved once again that youth beat age any old day when it came to a flat out, panicked, four-mile sprint to the Gate with disappointed Celebrants nipping at their heels, and John got lassoed of all things and now he's in jail—

"Hello! Hello Dad! Hi, I'm in jail! Say hi to Mom, from j-j-jail!"

How proud they would be. John's parents had always said he would come to "no good end," but he'd never anticipated being stuck in the hoosegow quite this often. As near as he can figure it, this makes his thirty-seventh stay behind bars of one kind or another.

John wonders if there's a record. If there is, he's pretty sure he can beat it.

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