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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard
Pairings: Sheppard/McKay
Categories: Drama Humor First Time Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lunasky
Author's Website:
Link: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Why This Must Be Read:
This a quirky mystery set on Atlantis, requiring McKay and Sheppard to wander the halls with potato flashlights while they try to figure out why the power's gone out and people are acting weird.
1430 hrs
Five doors, two hundred and sixty-three steps later, Rodney had the sinking suspicion that they were lost.
"Okay, this is either the transporter, the entrance to the cafeteria or the door to stairwell A5," Sheppard said jovially.
"You're awfully chipper for someone who could be facing imminent death at any minute." Rodney scowled.
"And you're awfully miserable for someone in the same condition. If these are our last few hours alive, Rodney, don't you want to spend them being happy?"
Rodney figured it would be wise to refrain from answering that. "Aren't you at all freaked out by the fact that we haven't run into anyone yet?"
Sheppard started humming. "Not really. We had less than half the people on board, remember? Atlantis is pretty big for only a hundred people. So which do you think this is?"
"What?"
"The transporter, the entrance to the cafeteria or the door to stairwell?"
Rodney sighed. "Knowing our luck it's probably the entrance to the waste disposal section. Come on, let's just do it." He settled into the routine of cozying-up so Sheppard could stand behind him and force the doors far enough apart for Rodney to get a fingerhold between them.
There was an odd glow as they pried the doors open. "Hello? Anyone there?"
"Rodney? Is that you?" came a feminine voice from inside.
"Katie?" The light was strong enough that Rodney could see Katie standing deep in a pile of...things... looking happily at him.
"Rodney?"
It appeared they'd actually found the botany lab. Stranger still, the odd green glow was all around them.
"Rodney! It's so good to see you. I was getting worried that something had happened to you."
Rodney stared at her in shock. "Something happened to all of us. Didn't you feel that crash that jolted us out of hyperspace?"
Katie gave him a smile. "I figured it was something like that. But then I couldn't reach you on the radio—"
"Because you can't reach anyone on radio. What are you doing here? Where's everyone else?"
Katie gestured around the lab. "I'm helping people, Rodney. In case you haven't noticed, it's dark. Here, have a potato."
Rodney barely had time to catch what she threw at him, especially because he was still trying to understand what she'd just said. "A potato?"
Sheppard went over to her, looked her up and down and then grabbed a potato of his own. "Can we eat them?"
Katie giggled nervously. "They're not bad if you cook them first, but applying heat makes them loose their phosphorescent properties. At the moment, they'll probably give us about fifteen hours of light."
Rodney stuck his finger in his ear and gave it a good shake but when he was done Katie and Sheppard were still talking about triplet states and forbidden quantum mechanical states as they applied to potatoes. "If I'm not interrupting, you said you're helping people. Have you seen anyone else since we dropped out of hyperspace?"
"Sure," Katie said, reluctantly putting down the potato she'd been playing with. "Radek came by here a half hour ago. I gave him, Peterson, Hansen, and Miller three potatoes each."
"Where'd they go?"
Katie shrugged. "I'm not sure. They said something about rewiring the panels on B-3...or maybe it was V-3. I don't know."
"Did Zelenka say what had caused us to drop out of hyperspace?"
"No..." Katie trailed off. "But now that you mention it, he was acting a little nervous. He wanted to know where you were. When I said I didn't know, he told me to stay here until midnight and to tell anyone I saw to do the same. Err...except you. He wanted you to go help Simpson. I offered to pack him some carrots as he was leaving, but he said he wouldn't need them."
"What do you do with the carrots? Use them for heat?" Sheppard asked.
Katie gave him a look. "No, you eat them. It sounded like he would be gone a while."
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard
Pairings: Sheppard/McKay
Categories: Drama Humor First Time Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:
lunaskyAuthor's Website:
Link: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Why This Must Be Read:
This a quirky mystery set on Atlantis, requiring McKay and Sheppard to wander the halls with potato flashlights while they try to figure out why the power's gone out and people are acting weird.
1430 hrs
Five doors, two hundred and sixty-three steps later, Rodney had the sinking suspicion that they were lost.
"Okay, this is either the transporter, the entrance to the cafeteria or the door to stairwell A5," Sheppard said jovially.
"You're awfully chipper for someone who could be facing imminent death at any minute." Rodney scowled.
"And you're awfully miserable for someone in the same condition. If these are our last few hours alive, Rodney, don't you want to spend them being happy?"
Rodney figured it would be wise to refrain from answering that. "Aren't you at all freaked out by the fact that we haven't run into anyone yet?"
Sheppard started humming. "Not really. We had less than half the people on board, remember? Atlantis is pretty big for only a hundred people. So which do you think this is?"
"What?"
"The transporter, the entrance to the cafeteria or the door to stairwell?"
Rodney sighed. "Knowing our luck it's probably the entrance to the waste disposal section. Come on, let's just do it." He settled into the routine of cozying-up so Sheppard could stand behind him and force the doors far enough apart for Rodney to get a fingerhold between them.
There was an odd glow as they pried the doors open. "Hello? Anyone there?"
"Rodney? Is that you?" came a feminine voice from inside.
"Katie?" The light was strong enough that Rodney could see Katie standing deep in a pile of...things... looking happily at him.
"Rodney?"
It appeared they'd actually found the botany lab. Stranger still, the odd green glow was all around them.
"Rodney! It's so good to see you. I was getting worried that something had happened to you."
Rodney stared at her in shock. "Something happened to all of us. Didn't you feel that crash that jolted us out of hyperspace?"
Katie gave him a smile. "I figured it was something like that. But then I couldn't reach you on the radio—"
"Because you can't reach anyone on radio. What are you doing here? Where's everyone else?"
Katie gestured around the lab. "I'm helping people, Rodney. In case you haven't noticed, it's dark. Here, have a potato."
Rodney barely had time to catch what she threw at him, especially because he was still trying to understand what she'd just said. "A potato?"
Sheppard went over to her, looked her up and down and then grabbed a potato of his own. "Can we eat them?"
Katie giggled nervously. "They're not bad if you cook them first, but applying heat makes them loose their phosphorescent properties. At the moment, they'll probably give us about fifteen hours of light."
Rodney stuck his finger in his ear and gave it a good shake but when he was done Katie and Sheppard were still talking about triplet states and forbidden quantum mechanical states as they applied to potatoes. "If I'm not interrupting, you said you're helping people. Have you seen anyone else since we dropped out of hyperspace?"
"Sure," Katie said, reluctantly putting down the potato she'd been playing with. "Radek came by here a half hour ago. I gave him, Peterson, Hansen, and Miller three potatoes each."
"Where'd they go?"
Katie shrugged. "I'm not sure. They said something about rewiring the panels on B-3...or maybe it was V-3. I don't know."
"Did Zelenka say what had caused us to drop out of hyperspace?"
"No..." Katie trailed off. "But now that you mention it, he was acting a little nervous. He wanted to know where you were. When I said I didn't know, he told me to stay here until midnight and to tell anyone I saw to do the same. Err...except you. He wanted you to go help Simpson. I offered to pack him some carrots as he was leaving, but he said he wouldn't need them."
"What do you do with the carrots? Use them for heat?" Sheppard asked.
Katie gave him a look. "No, you eat them. It sounded like he would be gone a while."
