paper cranes (upstairs, downstairs) by Verity (R)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: none.
Author on LJ:
Author's Website: sauntering vaguely upwards, on AO3
Link: paper cranes (upstairs, downstairs)

Why This Must Be Read: This story has a lot of my favorite ingredients: it's first time, set earthside, we meet John's family and DADT has been repealed. John's brother Dave is getting married and Rodney accompanies him to the wedding. There are a few surprises in store for our heroes, including one of the bridesmaids.

The author has their voices down pat. I love the humour and the snark in this story.

Rodney follows John through the door at the other end of the room and into the study, which has a lot of books and a large painting of a dog with a fox in its mouth that's hanging over the fireplace. The dog looks happy, like its tail was caught in mid-wag; the fox looks dead, but in an artistic, slumped way, not like a vulpine St. Sebastian. The antique desk in front of the window appears on the verge of nervous collapse.

"You didn't tell me anything," Rodney says again, turning his back on the dog and its prize to find its complement on the opposite wall, the determination and terror on the fox's face rendered lovingly with broad brushstrokes. "I realize that having to actually explain yourself to me is causing you physical pain, but I am underinformed and underdressed and I have plenty of experience with rich people, John, but the ones who have millions of dollars from making incredibly tiny microprocessors or, or weapons or something. Not the ones with, you know, hundreds of tiny forks."

"Don't call them rich," John hisses, "It's—" He frowns, rubs his forehead.

"Oh my God," Rodney says, stricken. "This is—this is one of those British costume dramas Ronon always wants to watch and I'm the uncouth American!"

Comments

[popkin16]

I love this fic so much. I keep rec'ing it to people :P

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much for the rec!

If it's okay, though, can you take off the link to my personal website? There's nothing fannish up there - I usually just direct people to AO3. <3