Primum Mobile by Ella Minnow (PG)

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Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Pairing: John/Rodney
Category: Slash
Warning: none
Author on LJ: ella_minnow
Author's Website: unknown
Link: http://ella-minnow.livejournal.com/51125.html

Why This Must Be Read: Another AU from the reel_sga challenge, this one based on The Cross of Lorraine. Rodney and John are POWs in a WWII prison camp. They have their mental strategies for keeping sane. This fic wonderfully gets inside each man's head, and makes it so natural that, mentally isolated from their fellow prisoners, they would gravitate to each other.

Excerpt:
Rodney's life was full of significant numbers that lent meaning to all the insignificant detritus that filled his days. Rodney loved--loved--his ID number. It was marked, along with his last name, on the breast of his POW-grey shirt.

McKay – 5050.

It was a good number, an elegant number. Not as flashy as some, but graceful and solid. 5050: the sum of all the numbers from one to a hundred. Added in reducing pairs (1 + 100, 2 + 99) all sets equalled 101. Fifty pairs between one and a hundred, multiplied by 101, equalled 5050.

He loved his dorm assignment, too. Men's Dorm 3. Three: prime number, triangular number, Fibonacci number.