It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay (M)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney Mckay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Sam Carter, Jennifer Keller, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, David Parrish
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Rodney McKay/Jennifer Keller, Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Categories: slash, alternate timeline, episode related, episode s04e20 the last man
Warnings: none
Words: 9560
Author's Journal: n/a
Author's Website: sgamadison on AO3
Story Link: It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay
Podfic Link: (Podfic)It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay by Itstartedwithalex
Cover art Link: (Cover Art) It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay by cassiope25
Author’s summary: Returning home after installing the program he hopes will change his timeline, Rodney McKay gets some surprise guests.
Why This Must Be Read: This is a wonderful fic. It's so sad and bittersweet and yet loving and hopeful. It's the story of alternate Rodney who dedicates his life to 'rescuing' John from the stargate accident that sent him to the far future. It's not a happy life Rodney is living, alone at last, with only one goal worth living for.
It's still a story full of hope and love and contentment, all embedded in this Christmassy time of the year.
There's also a wonderful podfic for which I had the pleasure to make the cover art that's also an illustration for the story.
I post all links here and wish everyone a wonderful, happy Christmas time.🎄🌟
The bleakness of his potential future existence wrapped itself around his heart and squeezed. After so many decades of single-minded devotion to solving the problem of bringing John back to the right point in time, it felt weird to have nothing to work on. No project to keep him occupied. No reason for living. He wasn’t an old man by today’s standards: today’s seventies was the new forties, right? But he remembered what he’d been like in the prime of his forties and he knew this wasn’t it. His eyesight wasn’t what it used to be, and he had to be careful with his knees. A part of him knew that it was a very good thing that the final solution had come to him when it did, because his brain wasn’t quite as sharp as it had been, either. He’d been rapidly running out of time to solve The Problem, and he knew it. He should feel relieved, accomplished, and celebratory, but instead, he only felt drained and empty.
He could only hope it had been enough. Otherwise, he’d lived a third of his life in vain.
It had been worth it, though. He pounded the steering wheel fiercely with one gloved fist. If there had even been the slightest chance of bringing John back, then it had all been worth it. All the years of frustration: teaching physics to kids who only wanted to pass by the skin of their teeth, walking away from Atlantis, from any sort of prestigious position in his field. A long time ago he’d fixated on the loss of John Sheppard as being why everything had gone wrong in his world. He was lucky he was such an egomaniac that he thought changing the timeline within his capabilities. Otherwise, he’d have given up years ago.
Like Jeannie had.He couldn’t deny that he’d probably been impossible to deal with in his obsession with fixing the timeline. No doubt a bit scary, too.
Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney Mckay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Sam Carter, Jennifer Keller, Elizabeth Weir, Evan Lorne, David Parrish
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Rodney McKay/Jennifer Keller, Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Categories: slash, alternate timeline, episode related, episode s04e20 the last man
Warnings: none
Words: 9560
Author's Journal: n/a
Author's Website: sgamadison on AO3
Story Link: It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay
Podfic Link: (Podfic)It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay by Itstartedwithalex
Cover art Link: (Cover Art) It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay by cassiope25
Author’s summary: Returning home after installing the program he hopes will change his timeline, Rodney McKay gets some surprise guests.
Why This Must Be Read: This is a wonderful fic. It's so sad and bittersweet and yet loving and hopeful. It's the story of alternate Rodney who dedicates his life to 'rescuing' John from the stargate accident that sent him to the far future. It's not a happy life Rodney is living, alone at last, with only one goal worth living for.
It's still a story full of hope and love and contentment, all embedded in this Christmassy time of the year.
There's also a wonderful podfic for which I had the pleasure to make the cover art that's also an illustration for the story.
I post all links here and wish everyone a wonderful, happy Christmas time.🎄🌟
The bleakness of his potential future existence wrapped itself around his heart and squeezed. After so many decades of single-minded devotion to solving the problem of bringing John back to the right point in time, it felt weird to have nothing to work on. No project to keep him occupied. No reason for living. He wasn’t an old man by today’s standards: today’s seventies was the new forties, right? But he remembered what he’d been like in the prime of his forties and he knew this wasn’t it. His eyesight wasn’t what it used to be, and he had to be careful with his knees. A part of him knew that it was a very good thing that the final solution had come to him when it did, because his brain wasn’t quite as sharp as it had been, either. He’d been rapidly running out of time to solve The Problem, and he knew it. He should feel relieved, accomplished, and celebratory, but instead, he only felt drained and empty.
He could only hope it had been enough. Otherwise, he’d lived a third of his life in vain.
It had been worth it, though. He pounded the steering wheel fiercely with one gloved fist. If there had even been the slightest chance of bringing John back, then it had all been worth it. All the years of frustration: teaching physics to kids who only wanted to pass by the skin of their teeth, walking away from Atlantis, from any sort of prestigious position in his field. A long time ago he’d fixated on the loss of John Sheppard as being why everything had gone wrong in his world. He was lucky he was such an egomaniac that he thought changing the timeline within his capabilities. Otherwise, he’d have given up years ago.
Like Jeannie had.He couldn’t deny that he’d probably been impossible to deal with in his obsession with fixing the timeline. No doubt a bit scary, too.
