Do not hide, see the view by that_which [PG]

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Jennifer Keller
Pairings: Sheppard/McKay
Categories: Slash Humor Angst
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: that_which
Author's Website:
Link: Do not hide, see the view

Why This Must Be Read:

A 2012 McShep Match entry, this Rising to post-EATG story has a wonderful Jennifer Keller, in addition to clueless John.


Just a very few years ago, John Sheppard was, if not happy, as close to it as he expected to come – an enclosed unit, with the chopping of his helicopter blades dissolving into the vast silence of Antarctica. He was as sure as his fatalistic turn of mind allowed that life had run out of things to take away from him.

Sitting under a mountain, with seven hundred and fifty miles dividing him from the sea, tons of rock dividing him from the sky, and a long wormhole ride dividing him from Pegasus and home, he feels a little stupid not to have considered that he could lose an entire galaxy.

Stupidity holds a very prominent place in John's personal list of reasons to beat the crap out of himself.

Stupid not to have considered acts of the Pegasus galaxy’s gods, in all their unearned complacency and entitlement. Being extinct for thousands of years hadn’t stopped them from crippling the lives of everyone else in their galaxy. He has to be Jiminy fucking Cricket to have failed to consider the possibility that they would come back to life to screw with him personally.

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On the other side of the scale, there's Rodney. Difficult, diamond-bright brilliant, bulldog-loyal Rodney McKay, who never fails to save the day – to save John, and incidentally everyone else – always to an soundtrack of ego and bluster and frightened whining.

Double-Doctor McKay, who has the best and the brightest of the Earth as his terrorized also-rans, and who takes shit from John Sheppard like it's his job.

John probably has more than he wants to think about in common with the people he's pretty sure fucked with Rodney back in high school. He rarely resists the urge to mess with the man himself. He likes to think of it as a public service to keep the McKay ego under control. Besides, Rodney gets it. It's just their thing.

All the same, Rodney – privately, because it’s not the sort of thing you want to admit in front of marines – had become something like his personal lodestar, something he can use as a beacon and still pretend to be winging it home.

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