The Remnant by Isabell Ashe (Rated K+)

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Rec Category: Atlantis Other Het

Pairing: Radek Zelenka/Kate Heightmeyer, also implied Sheppard/Weir, Ford/Teyla, and unrequited Zelenka/McKay, Heightmeyer/McKay and McKay/Weir...
Category: UST, angst, apocalyptic/tragedy
Warning: For character deaths
Author on LJ: isabellesmuse
Author's Website: N/A

Link: The Remnant

Why This Must Be Read: Not only because it has well done rarer ships, but because it's tragically tender and angsty, but with an oddly hopeful ending for some. As someone who ships Mckay/Weir I was still quite satisfied with the Sheppard/Weir in this story, and the addition of all the unrequited feelings added an odd but decent complexity to how everyone was; they are all truly messed up on both personal and public levels, and somehow it lends to everything making a strange sense. They're clinging to what they still have, pulling together in the face of tragedy and I think that's what makes it powerful; they're surviving, however dysfunctional they are in the relationships they need each other because there's so little left.