stargateficrec | Marriage of Inconvenience by Tzigane and Zaganthi (NC17)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard Jeannie McKay Ronan Dex Teyla Emmagan Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Slash Alternate Universe, Cliche, First Time, Romance
Warnings: Non Con Force Marriage
Author on LJ: Tzigane and Zaganthi not on LJ
Author's Website: Caffiends Asylum
Link: Marriage of Inconvenience

Why This Must Be Read: The summary says “No seemed the best way in which to express precisely what eighteen-year-old Meredith McKay thought of his father's suggestion. The one syllable two letter word was nigh on a universal constant, a negative in almost any given language” Harlequin stories, forced marriage so cliché and I love them. John and Rodney are perfect for fics like this and as you all know I adore anything with them in as a couple.

"No!"

No seemed the best way in which to express precisely what eighteen-year-old Meredith McKay thought of his father's suggestion. The one syllable two letter word was nigh on a universal constant, a negative in almost any given language.

It didn't seem to affect his father in the least. Very little did once business magnate Roderick McKay made up his mind about a given subject. "I owe the man, Meredith. I offered everything, I even offered him Jeannie--"

"Jeannie!" Meredith -- god, how he hated that name! -- shrieked. Jeannie was only fourteen, not old enough for marriage or... or whatever debauchery the pervert who owned Pegasus Shipping had in mind.

"He didn't want her. He only wants the best and the brightest of the McKay clan." Oh. Meredith had seen that sneer before, intimately familiar with its mockery. "The truth is that he wants to humiliate me. If he can do that and make his queer pretty boy of an heir happy at the same time, then that's apparently even more of a delight."

"You can't just, just marry me off, though! How much do you owe him? What did he do that you're just handing your firstborn over to him?!" Not to mention his second born. Meredith had always known that his father didn't think much of Jeannie, of having a daughter, but there was not thinking much and then there was practically trying to sell her off like that.

Roderick scowled at him, leaning back in his executive chair. "You don't need to know, Meredith. You simply need to do as you're told."

Ha! As if he would just allow his father to dictate what happened to him, never mind that Meredith hadn't ever been able to tell his father no about anything. He'd always been intimidating, bigger than life, and this wasn't any different than it had ever been.

"Like hell I'm doing what I'm told! I'm not marrying anyone. I don't want to marry!" He folded his arms over his chest, staring down at his father even though he knew it wasn't doing to do a damn thing for him.

"Yes, you will." Roderick had that look, the one that had terrified Meredith since birth. "Sheppard has managed to manipulate most of our shareholders and all of our shares into a position where he now has a controlling interest in McKay Incorporated. He could break us." His father leaned forward. "Do you want to see your mother on the streets?"

Oh.

God.

His mother.

Elizabeth McKay had never been very strong, and having Jeannie had damaged her health greatly. Meredith could barely remember a time when his mother wasn't lying in bed, propped up by pillows, dark-eyed and tired.

She was still brilliant, though, and full of life. She was always writing, penning something, consulting the old fashioned way, she said. But it wasn't the same. She'd been bright and vibrant, once, amazing and... "You shouldn't have let him do that."

"When you're old enough to run your own business, tell me that again. In the mean time, Meredith, you need to do as you're told."

"But, marriage. I don't even know him, and that's not, that's not nothing!"

"No, but it will be everything." Roderick was firm and, for lack of a better word, vicious. Meredith honestly didn't want to believe he was Roderick's child, but they looked too much alike to doubt it. "It will give me time to regain control, Meredith, and then we'll crush the Sheppards. You'll get a chance to revenge yourself on the man and his son."

He exhaled hard, and ran a hand back through his hair. Married off. He was going to be married off, just like that, to a man, no choice, no consideration by his father about what he wanted, but at least it wasn't Jeannie. "When?"

"You're to meet him two days from now. The ceremony will be a week from today."