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Rec Category: "kidfic" - a high school teen AU
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Rodney's parents, John's father, Jeannie McKay, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Laura Cadman, Evan Lorne, Katie Brown, etc.
Categories: M/M
Words: 102,541
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:smittywing
Author's Website: Smitty/Smittywing on AO3, Smitty's old site on Wayback
Link: The Best Things in Life are Free on Wayback - the easiest way to read it as it's all in one post.
Why This Must Be Read: This is a classic and it's been reccd here before, but that was 16 years ago and the old website link's expired. It's a long, plotty, slow-burning teenage AU where Rodney has a crush on (far cooler) John and inviegles John into befriending him as payment for getting John out of a jam. The characterization's great and their friendship and relationship develop gradually and realistically. It's a wonderful novel-length read, a tour de force that led to a whole 'verse.
Check out the cover page for the fic which links to other fics inspired by this one, and art. Most of the links are on Wayback, except for:
Life Lived as a John Hughes Movie by Zoe Rayne
Reunions Are for Boasting by reccea
Dear John and Other Theses by reccea
Five Things You Won't Learn About Will Sheppard From The Best Things in Life are Free by Smitty
There's also podfic, as celtic_tigress recorded about 3/4 of the fic (in itself a massive undertaking) and it can be streamed or downloaded from the Audiofic Archive.
"Actually, Dad, there's a big party and I sorta have a big date and I was hoping I could borrow the De Lorean."
"Not a chance," his father said instantly.
"Dad!"
"I know you want to impress Elizabeth -- "
"Elizabeth and I broke up last month." It wasn't exactly accurate -- John and Elizabeth had an 'agreement' since she'd moved away to college upstate. It meant he could put his moves on the new girl at Dex's party tonight.
" -- but until your physics grade approaches acceptable and I stop getting reports of you skipping class, my answer is no. You understand me?"
John sighed silently. "Yes, sir," he answered dutifully. He looked away and saw, for the first time, the rucksack leaning on the wall by the door.
"Duty driver'll be picking me up at 1700," Colonel Sheppard said. "You going to be okay until Tuesday?"
"Sure," John said. His father had an account set up with the nearest pizza shop so John could order all the pizza he needed while the Colonel was TDY.
"All right." William smiled and clapped his son on the shoulder. "Get that physics grade up, will you?"
Whatever he was going to say next was lost in the loud, precise knock on the door, and thirty seconds later, the Colonel was gone to John-didn't-even-know-where. The house was quiet in his wake and John crossed to the front hall table and slid open the drawer. Two sets of keys sat inside, one to the 1973 Chevy Nova that had been in the family since his dad was a major and his mom was alive. The other set of keys belonged to Will Sheppard's 1983 DeLorean. PRV V-6 engine with a five-speed manual transmission, capable of 170 horsepower before emissions regulations knocked it down to 130, and the literature promised that it could go from 0-60 in eight-point-eight seconds.
John had wet dreams about that car.
He reached into the drawer and touched the keys reverently. It was one party. What could happen?
Rec Category: "kidfic" - a high school teen AU
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Rodney's parents, John's father, Jeannie McKay, Radek Zelenka, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Laura Cadman, Evan Lorne, Katie Brown, etc.
Categories: M/M
Words: 102,541
Warnings: No AO3 warnings apply
Author on DW:
smittywing Author's Website: Smitty/Smittywing on AO3, Smitty's old site on Wayback
Link: The Best Things in Life are Free on Wayback - the easiest way to read it as it's all in one post.
Why This Must Be Read: This is a classic and it's been reccd here before, but that was 16 years ago and the old website link's expired. It's a long, plotty, slow-burning teenage AU where Rodney has a crush on (far cooler) John and inviegles John into befriending him as payment for getting John out of a jam. The characterization's great and their friendship and relationship develop gradually and realistically. It's a wonderful novel-length read, a tour de force that led to a whole 'verse.
Check out the cover page for the fic which links to other fics inspired by this one, and art. Most of the links are on Wayback, except for:
Life Lived as a John Hughes Movie by Zoe Rayne
Reunions Are for Boasting by reccea
Dear John and Other Theses by reccea
Five Things You Won't Learn About Will Sheppard From The Best Things in Life are Free by Smitty
There's also podfic, as celtic_tigress recorded about 3/4 of the fic (in itself a massive undertaking) and it can be streamed or downloaded from the Audiofic Archive.
"Actually, Dad, there's a big party and I sorta have a big date and I was hoping I could borrow the De Lorean."
"Not a chance," his father said instantly.
"Dad!"
"I know you want to impress Elizabeth -- "
"Elizabeth and I broke up last month." It wasn't exactly accurate -- John and Elizabeth had an 'agreement' since she'd moved away to college upstate. It meant he could put his moves on the new girl at Dex's party tonight.
" -- but until your physics grade approaches acceptable and I stop getting reports of you skipping class, my answer is no. You understand me?"
John sighed silently. "Yes, sir," he answered dutifully. He looked away and saw, for the first time, the rucksack leaning on the wall by the door.
"Duty driver'll be picking me up at 1700," Colonel Sheppard said. "You going to be okay until Tuesday?"
"Sure," John said. His father had an account set up with the nearest pizza shop so John could order all the pizza he needed while the Colonel was TDY.
"All right." William smiled and clapped his son on the shoulder. "Get that physics grade up, will you?"
Whatever he was going to say next was lost in the loud, precise knock on the door, and thirty seconds later, the Colonel was gone to John-didn't-even-know-where. The house was quiet in his wake and John crossed to the front hall table and slid open the drawer. Two sets of keys sat inside, one to the 1973 Chevy Nova that had been in the family since his dad was a major and his mom was alive. The other set of keys belonged to Will Sheppard's 1983 DeLorean. PRV V-6 engine with a five-speed manual transmission, capable of 170 horsepower before emissions regulations knocked it down to 130, and the literature promised that it could go from 0-60 in eight-point-eight seconds.
John had wet dreams about that car.
He reached into the drawer and touched the keys reverently. It was one party. What could happen?
