Romancing Rodney (Or, Ronon Dex Gets His Man) by msgordo

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: SGA humour
Characters: Ronon Dex, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagen, Miko Kusanagi
Pairings: Ronon/Rodney
Categories: slash, humour, Harlequin
Warnings: None
Author's Website: msgordo (kipplemine) at Ao3
Link: Romancing Rodney (Or, Ronon Dex Gets His Man)

Why This Must Be Read: Oh dear oh dear oh dear... this was the first time I dipped a small, wary and wildly bemused toe into Ronon Dex/Rodney McKay slash, and oh dear oh dear oh dear... I loved it. It's pure farce, taking both of them (and everyone else) almost to Keystone levels of comedy, and all the more hysterically funny for it. Ronon kicking the whole thing off by asking an adorably appalled Sheppard for permission to woo is enough to make me fall over giggling as it is, but then when we find out where - and from whom - Ronon gets his ideas about romancing Earth-style... and McKay's oblivious, perfectly him reaction to being wooed... just read it and laugh.


"Research?" John repeated hoarsely.

"Yeah." Ronon reached for his leather coat that he had thrown across the back of his chair when they had entered John's quarters, rooted in one of the pockets and pulled something out to hold it aloft triumphantly. "Look."

John looked. There, clutched in Ronon's hand, was a tattered paperback. The kind he vaguely remembered his mother buying slightly shame faced at the supermarket checkouts and hiding from his dad when they got home. John shut his eyes, opened them and then squinted when the book stubbornly remained a rather lurid purple and red with the words 'An Uncivilised Seduction' emblazoned across it in gold letters.

(And now I have this mental picture of Ronon a la Fabio...)