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logicgunn ([personal profile] logicgunn) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2023-04-28 07:06 pm

Solitary, by esteefee (M)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John/Rodney
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, OCs, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Slash
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: [personal profile] esteefee
Author's Website: AO3
Link: Solitary

Why This Must Be Read: I could rec an esteefee fic every post. I reread this one recently and I love John's attempts to appear cool and composed while imprisoned in solitary for 4 days, and his attempts to remain so when he finally gets rescued. His inner Rodney Dialogue is fabulous, and esteefee always gets John in a way I relate to and writes him trying to fool himself as much as everyone else so well.


He gets a surprise visit in the afternoon by his not-so-friendly neighborhood guard who is carrying, incongruously, a digital camera, Earth-made. John is so boggled for a second he almost laughs when the guard fumbles with it, but he doesn't want to earn another swipe of the baton, and after more fumbling the guard manages to push the right buttons and get a probably hugely unflattering picture of John—he's assuming for proof of life—before walking out again.

At least it means they're working to get John out of here.

He's tired of messing with the Johnny carving—there's something wrong with it, anyway. Johnny looks a little sinister, almost, with one eye too small and tilted sideways where John's knife slipped. It's hard to play prime/not-prime with himself; ditto, chess. He's already drafted a formal proposal that they arm all gate teams with hand-held stunners to prevent future occurrences of this kind.

And if he jerks off any more, his dick will fall off.