http://melodysparks.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] melodysparks.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2014-08-29 05:35 pm

Teamwork by Magus Minor (onthewaters) [NC-17]

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Carson Beckett, Laura Cadman, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth Weir, Jack O’Neill, Marshall Sumner
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard Carson Beckett/Laura Cadman
Elizabeth Weir/Radek Zelenka
Categories: HET & Slash
Warnings: Adult Themes
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Magnus Minor on Wraithbait
Link: Teamwork by Magnus Minor On Wraithbait
Author's Website: Onthewaters on AO3
Link: teamwork by Onthewaters on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: The summary says: There is an Earth where things have turned out a little differently, and the people who go to Atlantis aren't quite the ones we know.

AKA The one where Rodney is a Mountie.

RODNEY IS A MOUNTIE!!! Staff Sargent Rodney McKay, RCMP to be precise and John is Dr John Sheppard, a mathematician. Not their usual roles I know but still fun all the same. When Rodney picks his off world team he drags John through the Stargate with him but also takes along with them, the very nervous Dr. Carson Beckett who is not the Chief Medical Officer and Lieutenant Laura Cadman who is making it her life’s work to flirt with Carson. They get the boring missions and none of the risky exciting ones and are nicknamed “Team Misfit” but so what, they are team and they work.



When Rodney McKay first heard about the Stargate from a tipsy Czech, he thought some people had flipped their collective lids. A gate to different planets, sure. What was next? Actual beaming people up? Tarot cards predicting earthquakes? Vampires?

He didn’t care that much, though – he was warm, he had eaten well, and the night might have been rather pleasant if the CSIS hadn’t interrupted them having the first sex in far too long.

Then he was dragged off to military arrest for six hours while some Inspector of the CSIS shouted at him for violating national security with a Czech. Said Czech, Rodney explained, was an old friend from a long-ago hockey friendly, and he didn’t see what sex had to do with national security.

The Inspector looked as if she was about to have a coronary, and screamed at him that it was not about the sex, and, indeed, not even about the hockey.

After that, they brought in an American General name of O’Neill, who sat down across from Rodney and talked about hockey for half an hour. Rodney drank coffee and listened. Then suddenly the conversation switched from hockey and Canada to Czechs and hockey, then to Czechs and sex – again – and the stockade. Or an alternative, which the General was happy to explain. The Pegasus Galaxy was mentioned, as was a grand adventure, the word liaison was dropped, and in the end, Rodney walked out free and with no more stockade threats, having agreed to the crazy scheme which he didn’t believe in at all.

His Czech, Radek, met him for coffee, rotating like crazy and forgetting how to speak English occasionally. Radek kept trying to tell him that it was all true, all real, and that they would go together, that Radek would figure out scientific artifacts and Rodney would shoot at aliens and they would have sex when they weren’t too busy with something else and it would be a great adventure!

Rodney nodded at the right places, hmm’d at others, and wondered when Radek had forgotten to take his medication and what that medication might be.

But he did pack, he did tell his sister to take care of the cat, and he did slam his brother-in-law against the wall and told him that if he made Jeannie unhappy, he was going to be dog food when Rodney got back.

The American base turned out to be inside a mountain; General O’Neill welcomed him and Colonel Sumner, the commanding officer of the military presence on – of all things – Atlantis, took one look at his uniform and growled something which might be translated to “Do what you want and stay out of my way.”

So when Dr. Weir called for them to go through, when his world view exploded in a wash of blue, Staff Sergeant Rodney McKay of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police screwed his courage to the sticking place and walked off the face of the Earth.


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