Freedom's Chance by ladysorka (PG-13)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:
Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, slight Katie Brown/Carolyn Lam and past Rodney McKay/Katie Brown
Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama, First Time, Het, Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladysorka
Author's Website:
Link: Freedom's Chance
Why This Must Be Read:
The author describes this as a space opera AU and it's a wonderful one. A wanted man blows into 'town' and shakes up everyone's lives, well, at least Rodney's life. There are spaceships! And an evil empire, of sorts. *grin*
"Nice of you to join us, McKay," Catherine said, looking at him. "You're late."
"By three minutes!" Rodney protested.
"Yeah, well, we're on the clock here," Catherine said.
"Are we waiting on Katie?" Carolyn asked, glancing at the third still empty chair.
"Not today." Catherine looked slightly guilty, but didn't elaborate. "We have an independent spacer coming in for emergency repairs. Says his hyper is damaged."
"This required a meeting? I have things I need to be doing!" Rodney crossed his arms and glared.
"What's so special about him?" Carolyn asked, looking just as annoyed as Rodney felt.
Catherine sighed. "This." She pressed a button and a picture of a man popped up on the screen behind her. Rodney stared at him. The disheveled hair and cocky smile gave him a kind of rogueish charm, if you liked that sort of thing. There was something about the eyes, though. They seemed almost haunted.
"What did he do?" Carolyn asked. Rodney flushed and tore his eyes away from the man's face. It was a standard Fleet and Core wanted poster, nothing else on it but name and bounty. John Sheppard, 100 million. Rodney stared. The largest bounty he'd ever seen before was 50 million, and that had been for a man who'd single-handedly killed an entire base of over 5000 people in the middle of the Core. Why were the pretty ones always crazy?
"That's just it," Catherine said. "I have no idea. The attached information code says theft, but with that bounty?"
"And this is our spacer?" Carolyn asked, frowning.
Catherine nodded. "Personal ID number and ship registration match those in the description."
"Wait," Rodney said, "he has a bounty that big on his head, and he's hasn't changed his registration or ID? He's either completely insane or there is something very not right here."
"My thoughts exactly," Catherine said. "Which is why I want this to stay between the three of us for now and this poster is not going on the public server. I'd like the two of you to try and figure out what our spacer did to make F&C so mad at him, and if he even knows they are. I'm not turning someone over to those bastards if I don't think they deserve it."
Rodney and Carolyn nodded. That explained why Katie wasn't there, at least. Katie was probably going back to the Core as soon as her research was finished, and Catherine would never trust something like this to someone who believed in the image F&C projected. Not after what they'd done to her husband. Rodney wasn't sure he would either, if he was honest with himself. Not since Jeannie had vanished without a trace after she started working for them. He couldn't prove anything, but you never could with Fleet and Core.
"What's his ETA?" Rodney asked.
"About an hour." Catherine stood up. "Rodney, Carolyn, you need to promise me you'll tread lightly and not spook Mr. Sheppard into running. We could be walking into a giant pile of shit here that none of us wants."
"So you want me to do the actual investigating, then?" Carolyn grinned. Rodney opened his mouth to protest, then closed it and shrugged. He was a brilliant man of many talents, but treading lightly wasn't one of them.
Catherine glared. "Medic Lam, Engineer McKay, I want your word that you'll be cautious and not get yourselves or this base into anything we can't get out of again, do you hear me?"
Carolyn glanced at Rodney and he nodded. She spoke for both of them. "You have our word, Director Langford."
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:
Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, slight Katie Brown/Carolyn Lam and past Rodney McKay/Katie Brown
Categories: Action/Adventure, Drama, First Time, Het, Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:
ladysorkaAuthor's Website:
Link: Freedom's Chance
Why This Must Be Read:
The author describes this as a space opera AU and it's a wonderful one. A wanted man blows into 'town' and shakes up everyone's lives, well, at least Rodney's life. There are spaceships! And an evil empire, of sorts. *grin*
"Nice of you to join us, McKay," Catherine said, looking at him. "You're late."
"By three minutes!" Rodney protested.
"Yeah, well, we're on the clock here," Catherine said.
"Are we waiting on Katie?" Carolyn asked, glancing at the third still empty chair.
"Not today." Catherine looked slightly guilty, but didn't elaborate. "We have an independent spacer coming in for emergency repairs. Says his hyper is damaged."
"This required a meeting? I have things I need to be doing!" Rodney crossed his arms and glared.
"What's so special about him?" Carolyn asked, looking just as annoyed as Rodney felt.
Catherine sighed. "This." She pressed a button and a picture of a man popped up on the screen behind her. Rodney stared at him. The disheveled hair and cocky smile gave him a kind of rogueish charm, if you liked that sort of thing. There was something about the eyes, though. They seemed almost haunted.
"What did he do?" Carolyn asked. Rodney flushed and tore his eyes away from the man's face. It was a standard Fleet and Core wanted poster, nothing else on it but name and bounty. John Sheppard, 100 million. Rodney stared. The largest bounty he'd ever seen before was 50 million, and that had been for a man who'd single-handedly killed an entire base of over 5000 people in the middle of the Core. Why were the pretty ones always crazy?
"That's just it," Catherine said. "I have no idea. The attached information code says theft, but with that bounty?"
"And this is our spacer?" Carolyn asked, frowning.
Catherine nodded. "Personal ID number and ship registration match those in the description."
"Wait," Rodney said, "he has a bounty that big on his head, and he's hasn't changed his registration or ID? He's either completely insane or there is something very not right here."
"My thoughts exactly," Catherine said. "Which is why I want this to stay between the three of us for now and this poster is not going on the public server. I'd like the two of you to try and figure out what our spacer did to make F&C so mad at him, and if he even knows they are. I'm not turning someone over to those bastards if I don't think they deserve it."
Rodney and Carolyn nodded. That explained why Katie wasn't there, at least. Katie was probably going back to the Core as soon as her research was finished, and Catherine would never trust something like this to someone who believed in the image F&C projected. Not after what they'd done to her husband. Rodney wasn't sure he would either, if he was honest with himself. Not since Jeannie had vanished without a trace after she started working for them. He couldn't prove anything, but you never could with Fleet and Core.
"What's his ETA?" Rodney asked.
"About an hour." Catherine stood up. "Rodney, Carolyn, you need to promise me you'll tread lightly and not spook Mr. Sheppard into running. We could be walking into a giant pile of shit here that none of us wants."
"So you want me to do the actual investigating, then?" Carolyn grinned. Rodney opened his mouth to protest, then closed it and shrugged. He was a brilliant man of many talents, but treading lightly wasn't one of them.
Catherine glared. "Medic Lam, Engineer McKay, I want your word that you'll be cautious and not get yourselves or this base into anything we can't get out of again, do you hear me?"
Carolyn glanced at Rodney and he nodded. She spoke for both of them. "You have our word, Director Langford."
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