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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate universe (ocean-themed)
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Evan Lorne, Acastus Kolya, Richard Woolsey
Categories: Gen
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:ladyofastolat
Author's Website: See the AO3, or see Rhymer23's own website, preserved by the wonders of the Wayback Machine. The art for these two stories (great period pencil drawings, also by Rhymer23) can be seen on Rhymer's own website (the art links on AO3 are sadly defunct photoshop ones).
Link: The Pirate's Prisoner on AO3 (and on Rhymer's site) and its sequel on AO3 The Price of a Pardon (and on Rhymer's site)
Why This Must Be Read: Rhymer writes wonderfully plotty genfic, often featuring Sheppard!whump, when the stories aren't primarily humorous. These two rollicking tales set in the Age of Sail are about how Dr Rodney McKay is captured by the pirate captain John Sheppard, and what becomes of him (and all our usual suspects). Excellent writing, plotty and suspenseful and full of adventures and character, they're really good reads. In short, Regency-era pirates!
The door opened, letting in the light of a lovely day, sunlight filtering down from the hatch at the top of the steps. The light was more than enough to show him that the woman was beautiful. It was also quite sufficient to show him the knives that she wore at her belt, and he already knew how strong her grip was, and how she moved, not like a lady at all.
"Seemly?" she said. He thought there was ferocity in her lovely smile.
"Not that you pirates care about such things," he said, "but it matters for respectable people like me." Rodney! Have you no shame? I will unable to show my face in public for a whole season! That foul smell and the yellow smoke…! And in front of the Dowager Lady Burnett as well! "Well, it matters to some people. There isn't… You haven't got a… a… chaperone."
"I do have Ronon." She moved to one side, and the light was blocked out by the figure of the large man who took up his place behind her. He was even more terrifying in the sunlight, his shadow reaching right into the room.
"Ah." He swallowed. "Have you come to drag me away to dreadful torment. I won't break, you know."
"I have come to take you to the captain."
"Oh." His mouth was dry. He had drifted towards slumber with defiant speeches echoing in his mind, and at the very cusp of sleep he had come up with a perfect one, but all of that seemed to have slipped from his mind. He was all alone on a pirate ship, and there must have been hundreds of villainous crewmen within shouting range, ready to cut him down with their cutlasses and bait him with the pointed ends of their swords. All he could do was go calmly and defiantly, then, like Socrates taking the hemlock, and…
"Coming!" he gasped, when she placed her hand on the handle on her knife. "Coming!"
Rec Category: Alternate universe (ocean-themed)
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett, Evan Lorne, Acastus Kolya, Richard Woolsey
Categories: Gen
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:
ladyofastolat Author's Website: See the AO3, or see Rhymer23's own website, preserved by the wonders of the Wayback Machine. The art for these two stories (great period pencil drawings, also by Rhymer23) can be seen on Rhymer's own website (the art links on AO3 are sadly defunct photoshop ones).
Link: The Pirate's Prisoner on AO3 (and on Rhymer's site) and its sequel on AO3 The Price of a Pardon (and on Rhymer's site)
Why This Must Be Read: Rhymer writes wonderfully plotty genfic, often featuring Sheppard!whump, when the stories aren't primarily humorous. These two rollicking tales set in the Age of Sail are about how Dr Rodney McKay is captured by the pirate captain John Sheppard, and what becomes of him (and all our usual suspects). Excellent writing, plotty and suspenseful and full of adventures and character, they're really good reads. In short, Regency-era pirates!
The door opened, letting in the light of a lovely day, sunlight filtering down from the hatch at the top of the steps. The light was more than enough to show him that the woman was beautiful. It was also quite sufficient to show him the knives that she wore at her belt, and he already knew how strong her grip was, and how she moved, not like a lady at all.
"Seemly?" she said. He thought there was ferocity in her lovely smile.
"Not that you pirates care about such things," he said, "but it matters for respectable people like me." Rodney! Have you no shame? I will unable to show my face in public for a whole season! That foul smell and the yellow smoke…! And in front of the Dowager Lady Burnett as well! "Well, it matters to some people. There isn't… You haven't got a… a… chaperone."
"I do have Ronon." She moved to one side, and the light was blocked out by the figure of the large man who took up his place behind her. He was even more terrifying in the sunlight, his shadow reaching right into the room.
"Ah." He swallowed. "Have you come to drag me away to dreadful torment. I won't break, you know."
"I have come to take you to the captain."
"Oh." His mouth was dry. He had drifted towards slumber with defiant speeches echoing in his mind, and at the very cusp of sleep he had come up with a perfect one, but all of that seemed to have slipped from his mind. He was all alone on a pirate ship, and there must have been hundreds of villainous crewmen within shouting range, ready to cut him down with their cutlasses and bait him with the pointed ends of their swords. All he could do was go calmly and defiantly, then, like Socrates taking the hemlock, and…
"Coming!" he gasped, when she placed her hand on the handle on her knife. "Coming!"
