stargateficrec | Advantage (by Resonant) (E)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Slavefic
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: slash
Warnings: dubcon, being slavefic, but see the notes below
Author on LJ:

resonant
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: Advantage on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: Everyone will already know this one of course, but it was last reccd here 12 years ago, the link wasn't to the AO3, and it just has to be in a set of slavefic recs. :) This is also a tribute as 'Advantage' was my gateway drug into SGA fandom, especially to McShep. It's definitely slavefic but with a wonderful take on the trope, and it's by turns hilarious, touching, and hot. John's accidentally enslaved to Rodney off-world (like you get), but the fic is about Rodney trying very hard - first to ignore John's enslavement, and then trying hard not to be a dick about it (with patchy results - this is Rodney, after all). Along the way there's a massive amount of snark, romance, and even some action. Run, don't walk, if you've never read it, and if you have, time for a re-read! It's a classic.

(There are two podfic versions as a bonus as well, by me and dodi )

"And so we got nowhere, revealed our presence, and showed them the gate and the jumper for nothing, and now Major Sheppard thinks he's my slave, and just please, please tell me you can undo this, Carson, because I can't have him tagging after me like an oversized kid brother --"

"Hey," Sheppard said irritably.

"He seems all right," Elizabeth said.

"Major?" Rodney tossed him three of the very delicious khama nuts that were the one and only good thing to come of this trip. "Here. Juggle."

"I can't juggle," Sheppard said, sending two of them flying at once. "Never had the knack," he went on as the third one joined them, three perfect parabolas, over and over.

Elizabeth glanced at Rodney and back at Sheppard. "Looks like you can," she said.

"No, no, I've tried," Sheppard said, still tossing nuts. "I always drop them."

For a long moment they all watched Sheppard juggle, and then Rodney said, "You can quit any time you want."

"OK," Sheppard said. "Hey, cool, watch this," and he switched to a circle pattern. "Toss me another one." He caught it in midair and sent it flying with the rest.

"So, hey," Rodney said, "you can do impossible things if I tell you to? Go walk on the ceiling."

Sheppard gave him a look of withering scorn. "Right."

"At least it doesn't seem to have affected his personality," Elizabeth said.