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stargateficrecShows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Original characters, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Categories: M/M
Length/Words: 04:11:31 / 46,642
Content notes: No AO3 warnings apply. Contains imprisonment, state-imposed amnesia, and mind-altering devices that act very like torture.
Author on DW:librarychick_94
Author's Website: maisierita on AO3, librarychick_94 on AO3
Link: Forget Me Not [fic] on AO3, Forget Me Not [podfic] on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: The story may well be widely known, so this is just as much to recommend the podfic that librarychick_94 completed recently. This is a wonderful story and an excellent podfic, an epic work at over four hours. Librarychick_94 reads with great pace, nuance, and characterisation and it's a really gripping listen. The story itself I found unputdownable when I first read it - one of those fics that keeps you up into the small hours to finish reading. Despite having had their memories wiped as a judicial punishment by an off-world civilisation, Rodney and John remain very much themselves. Rodney, as a scientist, has higher status in the prison complex, with his own apartment, and John is assigned to him as his servant. The worldbuilding is intriguing, and the ending very satisfying. Both the podfic and the fic are highly recommended!
John the servant turns out not to be anything like Rodney would have imagined. He's tall and thin, with fading bruises on his face Rodney knows better than to ask about, and the slightly perplexed expression Rodney's come to associate with people who've recently been Treated, even though Raku says it's been over a month.
Predictably, on the day John is due to start work, Rodney gets stuck in the lab and gets home later than usual; his first clue that John's arrived is when he walks through the door and sees that his apartment, which he had always assumed was too small to get messy, is unrecognizably immaculate.
"Hello?" he calls out uncertainly. He fumbles for the control device Raku gave him. He doesn't want to use it—ever, really—but if its purpose is to serve as a deterrent, John needs to know he has it so it can, presumably, deter him.
A man emerges from the bathroom, a dirty rag in one hand and a bottle of cleaning solution in the other. He dips his head deferentially. "Are you Rodney? I'm John." Then he looks up a little hesitantly, gripping the rag so hard his fingers turn white. "Raku let me in. You weren't here."
"No," Rodney says. "No, I wasn't. I was working late. I do that a lot. It's, uh ... you'll have to expect that. So." He waves his hand in general at the apartment. "You cleaned."
John looks panicked for a second, and Rodney realizes with amazement that John is by far the more nervous one here. That he is making John nervous. Rodney's never been in that sort of position of power before. At least, he doesn't think so. Anything could have been possible before he came here, but speculating about the infinite possibilities of his past existence is one sure way to speed the pace at which he's heading for a nervous breakdown, so Rodney, in general, prefers to assume his life before incarceration was pretty much the same as it is now, at least in all the significant ways that don't have to do with being locked up and having no memory.
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Original characters, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Categories: M/M
Length/Words: 04:11:31 / 46,642
Content notes: No AO3 warnings apply. Contains imprisonment, state-imposed amnesia, and mind-altering devices that act very like torture.
Author on DW:
librarychick_94 Author's Website: maisierita on AO3, librarychick_94 on AO3
Link: Forget Me Not [fic] on AO3, Forget Me Not [podfic] on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: The story may well be widely known, so this is just as much to recommend the podfic that librarychick_94 completed recently. This is a wonderful story and an excellent podfic, an epic work at over four hours. Librarychick_94 reads with great pace, nuance, and characterisation and it's a really gripping listen. The story itself I found unputdownable when I first read it - one of those fics that keeps you up into the small hours to finish reading. Despite having had their memories wiped as a judicial punishment by an off-world civilisation, Rodney and John remain very much themselves. Rodney, as a scientist, has higher status in the prison complex, with his own apartment, and John is assigned to him as his servant. The worldbuilding is intriguing, and the ending very satisfying. Both the podfic and the fic are highly recommended!
John the servant turns out not to be anything like Rodney would have imagined. He's tall and thin, with fading bruises on his face Rodney knows better than to ask about, and the slightly perplexed expression Rodney's come to associate with people who've recently been Treated, even though Raku says it's been over a month.
Predictably, on the day John is due to start work, Rodney gets stuck in the lab and gets home later than usual; his first clue that John's arrived is when he walks through the door and sees that his apartment, which he had always assumed was too small to get messy, is unrecognizably immaculate.
"Hello?" he calls out uncertainly. He fumbles for the control device Raku gave him. He doesn't want to use it—ever, really—but if its purpose is to serve as a deterrent, John needs to know he has it so it can, presumably, deter him.
A man emerges from the bathroom, a dirty rag in one hand and a bottle of cleaning solution in the other. He dips his head deferentially. "Are you Rodney? I'm John." Then he looks up a little hesitantly, gripping the rag so hard his fingers turn white. "Raku let me in. You weren't here."
"No," Rodney says. "No, I wasn't. I was working late. I do that a lot. It's, uh ... you'll have to expect that. So." He waves his hand in general at the apartment. "You cleaned."
John looks panicked for a second, and Rodney realizes with amazement that John is by far the more nervous one here. That he is making John nervous. Rodney's never been in that sort of position of power before. At least, he doesn't think so. Anything could have been possible before he came here, but speculating about the infinite possibilities of his past existence is one sure way to speed the pace at which he's heading for a nervous breakdown, so Rodney, in general, prefers to assume his life before incarceration was pretty much the same as it is now, at least in all the significant ways that don't have to do with being locked up and having no memory.
