stargateficrec | The Dark Side (by astolat) (E)

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate Universe - Dark (dark!John &/or dark!Rodney)
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: M/M
Words: 7497
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:

astolat
Author's Website: astolat on AO3
Link: The Dark Side on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: Another classic here, but why not re-read it! In this story John starts out dark, well, dark-ish, as he's a Sith lord, but of course, with a troubled past to explain things. Rodney's an unlikely Jedi whose talents with the Force mainly lie in fixing machinery, which isn't a skill Jedi value overmuch. This is delightfully full of tropes - misfits in love (eventually), dark-side fic, redemption and finding yourself arcs for them both, and the classic: enemies to lovers. It's also very funny and a wonderfully clever Star Wars fusion. Well worth regular re-reads, and highly entertaining.

The Sith looked up and said, "For your sake, I hope you actually made some progress."

"Drop the idiotic threats," Rodney said. "Not only do you not have a prayer of fixing her on your own—nice work on the launch circuits, by the way, it'll only take me a couple of days to undo the extra damage you did trying to patch them—but if I wasn't here, you wouldn't have a prayer of getting her fixed at all outside a shipyard. You damaged her hyperlift. I don't know how you managed to do that without skimming a black hole."

The Sith Lord looked vaguely embarrassed.

"You did skim a black hole?" Rodney said incredulously. "What are you, a moron?"

"I didn't do it on purpose," the Sith drawled, his eyes narrowing dangerously. "I was in just a little bit of a hurry at the time."

"Yes, of course, chop, chop, worlds to destroy, innocents to slaughter," Rodney said sarcastically.

"Enough," the Sith said, standing up; his lightsaber jumped into his hand. "I'm not interested in being judged by one of you," he said, advancing, the red humming blade pointing at Rodney thirstily. "Can you fix the Atlantis or not?"

"I can fix anything," Rodney said, swallowing nervously. "The question is will I."

The Sith Lord said softly, "Oh, I think I can be... persuasive."