Shifting Paradigm, by deep13 (E)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Words: ~5k
Author's Journal: N/A
Author's Website: AO3
Link: Shifting Paradigm
Why This Must Be Read: This is a first SGA fic from a long-time lurker, and it's a fantastic take on the aftermath of the episode Tao of Rodney. deep13 has written beautiful and gentle McSheppy correction of the "In the way a friend…feels about another friend" line in a blanket of smut, and it handles the complex denial and what if's and Rodney's wants and fears. Deep enough to stick with you and light enough for a quick read.
Rodney had never been friends with Sam before he'd let his libido do the talking; he had the opposite entirely happen with John, even as he slowly, inevitably grew fonder than a friend.
Fonder than he'd ever been, maybe.
Obviously John must have noticed something, if he was enforcing a boundary even as Rodney lay dying.
"As a friend feels about a friend.”
And it hurt, maybe, but really this ache inside him wasn't really any worse than it had been before, and at least he knew now that there was nothing worth getting his hopes up. He'd never step over the line, now he knew that John had quietly but pointedly drawn it in the sand for him.
Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Words: ~5k
Author's Journal: N/A
Author's Website: AO3
Link: Shifting Paradigm
Why This Must Be Read: This is a first SGA fic from a long-time lurker, and it's a fantastic take on the aftermath of the episode Tao of Rodney. deep13 has written beautiful and gentle McSheppy correction of the "In the way a friend…feels about another friend" line in a blanket of smut, and it handles the complex denial and what if's and Rodney's wants and fears. Deep enough to stick with you and light enough for a quick read.
Rodney had never been friends with Sam before he'd let his libido do the talking; he had the opposite entirely happen with John, even as he slowly, inevitably grew fonder than a friend.
Fonder than he'd ever been, maybe.
Obviously John must have noticed something, if he was enforcing a boundary even as Rodney lay dying.
"As a friend feels about a friend.”
And it hurt, maybe, but really this ache inside him wasn't really any worse than it had been before, and at least he knew now that there was nothing worth getting his hopes up. He'd never step over the line, now he knew that John had quietly but pointedly drawn it in the sand for him.
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Date: 2022-06-29 06:47 pm (UTC)