Hunting Parties by Victoria Custer (NC-17)

[aithine]

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Character: John Sheppard/Original Male Character
Category: Action/adventure, episode-type adventure, slash
Warning: Slash, HOTW (*g*)
Author on LJ: unknown to me
Author's Website: The LTLJverse
Link: Part one, part two

Why This Must Be Read: We've seen on screen that John Sheppard seems to have fairly relaxed standards when it comes to choosing sex partners (alive, breathing and throwing themselves at him seem to be the qualifications), and for the most part his rather juvenile behavior is tolerated (though not quietly by any means) by his teammates when it doesn't endanger them.

I'm not fond of those episodes at all (obviously *g*), nor am I fond of stories where one-half of my favorite pairing ends up in bed with someone other than the other half of the pairing. *g* But I like this story anyway, because its focus is mostly on John's adventures in being captured by slavers and waiting to be rescued by his team while he's incapacitated.

This story feels like an episode to me. Well, an episode we could see if the SFC would actually tolerate a well-written story where the openly bisexual nudist aliens' very male leader ends up as Sheppard's babe of the week. And really, I mean that in the best way. *vbg*

Comments

[othercat.livejournal.com]

This seems like a fairly back handed rec to me. If you dislike any pairing except for McShep, why would you rec Sheppard/OMC?

I liked this fic because it almost seemed like a "missing episode," all the characters were *in* character instead of being cardboard cut outs, and the last line of the fic; "...The story the Tasiben told was much better, about the Isveni raiders who were finally defeated, who were foolish enough to steal a beautiful alien prince from a warrior race who now lived in the city of the Ancestors." Makes me laugh.

Also? If anything John in the context of the story is the "babe of the week" for the Tasiben leader.