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Show: SG-1, SGA, minor NCIS

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Tony Dinozzo
Pairings: implied Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson, pre-John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Categories: slash, Earth based, team
Warnings: swearing, minor discussion of human experimentation, Jennifer Keller bashing
Word Count: 2500, 4000, 4300
Author's Website: Personal Website
Link to Fic: Read in this order is my suggestion; Gathering the Troops and Calvary are intertwined, so you can read those however you like.
--Orders
--Gathering the Troops
--Calvary

Author's Summary:

Based on the one sentence prompt: “John Sheppard is contemplating retiring and going back to Earth, but McKay has quite a bit to say about that stupid idea.”

Why This Must Be Read:

Part one, Orders, is pure John/Rodney and on Atlantis. Jack doesn't show up until Gathering the Troops, but he jumps in with both feet, kicking ass and taking names.

Tony Dinozzo is only a bit player in these stories, and he's really in only Gathering the Troops.

It's fun, with all of our (well, at least my) favorite characters being BAMF.

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em_kellesvig

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Pre-slash, angst, fluff, post-series
Warnings: None
Author's Journal:

bead
Author's Website:

bead
Link: Freeze

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely Rodney McKay POV of John Sheppard, miserable, lonely, and distant, and while it shows what Rodney will do to make life better for John, it really shows how beautifully John responds to Rodney, both in his misery and when he's happy. This story is show not tell and does it with such grace, you hardly know you've read the whole thing until the last line.

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melagan

Show: SGA

Rec Category:John/Rodney
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, assorted characters
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (preslash)
Categories: Mature
Warnings: Off-screen underage sex (assuming Rodney is sixteen)
Author's Journal: iibnf
Author's Website: iibnf at AO3

Link: A Victim of the Time

Why This Must Be Read: This is the young Rodney McKay prostitute fic you've been looking for.

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sg1jb

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Action/Adventure
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c (plus an OC, and guest appearance by SG-3's Makepeace)
Pairings: includes one passage with obvious pre-slash content (Jack/Daniel)
Categories: Fic can be read as mostly Gen/Friendship, however is intended as and does contain pre-slash elements
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: unknown
Author's Website: Jennifer Lyon (JennyAnn) on the Wayback Machine
Link: In Our Own Backyard

Why This Must Be Read: This story was written back toward the beginning of it all, and is one of the very first on-world action/adventure stories I encountered, way back then, in which a Goa'uld threat is found on Earth ... and in fact this one is the very first story I ever read that used the premise and setting of an archaeological dig site as being the source of that threat. All these years later, I still remember how new to me the concept was (at that time), and how much I enjoyed it. Having re-read it recently and discovering that I still like it every bit as much as before (especially the bit with the rings), I decided to rec it here, in case some of you out there have never heard of or read some of the golden-oldies such as this. I hope you like it.

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princessofgeeks

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Characters: Jack and Daniel, Team, Narim, Original Alien
Pairings: Jack/Daniel, Sam/Narim
Categories: Slash (actually what this story is, we used to call preslash.), Humor, Mission
Warnings: NONE
Author's Journal: Merryish on LJ (I don't use LJ any more so I do not know if this is current
Author's Website: Unknown
Web Archive Link: Downtime

Why This Must Be Read:

This is a totally non-explicit Jack Loves Daniel fic, suitable for all audiences. I am still totally in love with this fic.

In rereading it to make this rec, I was struck by the importance of the narrative voice. Merry writes a very understated and humorous Jack, and this is her Jack in a very mellow mood. Her take on Jack's voice is what makes this story work. If you love Jack as a character and believe that Jack/Daniel is in any way plausible, you will enjoy this story.

It's an offworld mission involving a hilarious alien, rain, the Tollans (yay), all told from a gorgeous Jack POV, and the spine of the story is Jack getting to hang with Daniel. That's it. But it's so gorgeously told -- like Merry is lovingly sifting through her treasure box of SG-1 goodness and telling the old, old story again, once again, just for us. This story will cheer you up if you are down.

smilebackwards.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: Gen/pre-slash (John/Rodney)
Warnings: Medical condition, angst
Author on LJ:

devikun
Link: Cassandra Never Did

Why This Must Be Read: Last month I recced a fic where Rodney lost his voice and John tried to help him through it. This story reverses the situation. John temporarily loses his voice to aliens that need him to act as their oracle, and in a way it frees him to say things that he's kept locked down and opens the possibility that someday he'll say them again when people can hear.

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smilebackwards.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: Gen/pre-slash
Warnings: Medical condition, angst
Author on LJ:

lavvyan
Author's Website: Lavvyan at AO3
Link: Logopetria

Why This Must Be Read: This is a lovely if somewhat heartbreaking fic where Rodney contracts 'logopetria' which forces him to speak in objects. John, who is naturally a man of few words, tries to help Rodney, who is essentially forced to become a man of few words, deal with this and isn't wildly successful but it ends on a note of hope.

Extra: Equally lovely John/Rodney sequel. Eloquence by Taste_is_Sweet. This posting of it on AO3 has an extra missing scene as chapter 2 that I'd never read before.

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morena-evensong.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Chuck Campbell
Pairings: pre-Rodney/John
Categories: Slash (sort of), Humour, Crack
Warnings: Creative (miss)use of a national anthem
Author on LJ:

trinityofone
Author's Website: AO3 Dashboard
Link: on LJ, on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: Because Canada's trying to take over the world. You mean you didn't know that?

Lol, this story is a gem. It's ridiculous in a way that is entirely different to all the other cracktastic wonders I've found in the Altantis fandom (and SGA breeds its own special sort of crack). Mostly because the 'crack' part doesn't come from any random 'alien trinket of the day', but from a more Earth-grown variety -- in the form of Rodney the Superspy. From Canada. As a Canadian myself I, of course, heartily disapprove of his betrayal of our home and native land and will glare at him a lot. Eventually. Once I stop laughing.

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mific.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: John Sheppard (bug!John subcategory)
Characters: Ronon Dex, John Sheppard
Pairings: Ronon Dex/John Sheppard
Categories: pre-slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

telesilla
Author's Website: see the AO3
Link: Not Safe With Anybody Else on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: I'm fond of bug!John stories, so that's what I'm reccing for December. Many of them are AUs but this one's canon-compliant. It's about John in recovering-but-still-dangerous bug mode, almost losing it when Ronon visits him. I like the accurate-feeling portrayal of a somewhat bitter, aggressive and disinhibited John struggling against the bug-instincts to try and make Ronon get out for his own safety - despite Ronon's dangerous attraction to him.

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rissabby.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Angst
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Jennifer Keller, Radek Zelenka, Samantha Carter
Pairings: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: Pre-slash, Angst
Warnings: NONE
Author on LJ:

lavvyan
Author's Website: Ao3 author's page
Link: Logopetria

Why This Must Be Read: Rodney has a very unusual Pegasus illness. Rodney and John try to cope with a fascinating, and sometimes strangely beautiful disease that affects Rodney's ability to communicate. 1715 words. There is a link to a follow-up story by a different author at the story page.

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mific.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe [Historical - Regency England, C19th (early 1800s)]
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Jeannie McKay, (and a few of the usual suspects in the background)
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: pre-slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

siriaeve
Author's Website: (see the AO3)
Link: Escapade on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: Still on All Things Historical, and we've worked our way up to the Regency period now. There are several great fics set at this time and this is a relatively short one, but I love it as Siria's really nailed the period language and feel. It's a tantalizing glimpse of a Regency-era John and Rodney's first encounter, with charming banter and bonding.

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danceswithgary

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard
Pairings: Sheppard/McKay
Categories: Angst Pre-Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Author's Website:
Link: Breathe in two countries

Why This Must Be Read:

So very bittersweet in sometimes funny, often beautiful phrasing.

So John needing Rodney.

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brumeier.livejournal.com

Show: Stargate Atlantis

Rec Category: AU
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Categories: Pre-slash, AU, First Meetings
Warnings: Mention of past homophobic behavior
Author on LJ:

yin_again

Link to Fic (AO3): Complimentary Colors

Why This Must Be Read: This is a quiet, moody piece that just really sucks you in. It takes place primarily in Rodney's apartment/art studio, so it's a very self-contained fic as well. Rodney is very much in character here, focused on the work and little else. But he slowly gets to know his new model, John, who is fresh from an Air Force discharge and is clearly ill at ease with the whole modeling process at first.

The art details in this are very nice - Rodney mixes his own paints, stretches his own canvas, and is incredibly particular about lighting and curves vs. lines. The slow progression of his friendship with John is lovely, and his finished pieces - done for an art show - are a wonderful tie-in to the series. I really love this story!

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morena-evensong.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, Todd, other wraith, Team
Pairings: hinted one-sided Rodney/Todd, pre-Rodney/John
Categories: Gen, Angst
Warnings: violence, language, mind-fuckery
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: no more tears
Link: Permutationality

Why This Must Be Read: Author's summary reads: "Rodney gets a crash course in the inner workings of a Wraith Hive. John gets him back."

On the surface that sounds extremely straight-forward. What I love about this story is that it's really not. Just beneath the premise of Rodney spending months on board a wraith hive ship (thankfully he's captured by Todd's hive back when they still had a queen) as a prisoner, forced to help them with their part of the Wraith Civil War. It's an obvious parallel to when Todd was on Atlantis helping to defeat the replicators. sardonicsmiley takes that premise one step further, though, and shows us a side of the hive we didn't get to see on the show, the one that stems from the reality of the hive being an organism. And, of course, the longer Rodney spends in the hive, the more he begins to understand how it works and the more he begins to see the wraith themselves as more than just evil spacemonsters.

The term Stockholm Syndrome is never once out-right stated and I think what actually happens isn't quite as straightforward as that. While Rodney does start seeing his captors as individuals, he never truly does sympathize with them and his end goal never stops being rescuing the humans being kept on board as food. Even if he does accidentally save the Queen. Oops.

Word of warning: while the hinted one-sided Rodney/Todd is actually done in a way that isn't nearly as creepy as it sounds, if the idea of the pairing really does squick you then DO NOT go on to the follow-up snippet linked to at the bottom of the story. It does actually add a bit more context to the story itself, but not in a way that's necessary. And it's rated R with dub-con Rodney/Todd and Rodney/Hive (no orgies and no tentacles though, I promise).

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danceswithgary

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard
Pairings: Sheppard/McKay (Beckett/Ford)
Categories: Humor, Pre-Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

soraya2004
Author's Website:
Link: Crush

Why This Must Be Read:

This one always makes me giggle just imagining their faces.

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Carson Beckett/Rodney McKay
Characters: Carson Beckett, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan
Pairings: Carson Beckett / Rodney McKay
Categories: Humour, Pre-slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Kill Me If I'm Cute
Author's Website: AbylityMaren on wraithbait
Link: Sparring

Why This Must Be Read:

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: John Sheppard, Radek Zelenka, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

Categories: Angst, Alternate Universe Pre-slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Freyja on Wraithbait
Link: A Rough Road Leads to the Stars

Why This Must Be Read: The Summary says: 1960s. John's an astronaut, a perpetual alternate for the latest mission to the moon. Rodney's an acerbic rocket scientist who's been on loan to NASA from Canada. When one of the other astronauts can't go, John gets picked to go on the mission. Naturally, everything goes wrong, and it turns out that Rodney's the only one who can bring them back home.

This is sort of a SGA remix of Apollo 13 although Apollo 13 flew to the moon in 1970. They are 3 years earlier in this universe, because the authors prompt said that this has to take place in the 60s. John, Ronan and Teyla (Lovell-Hanks, Swigert-Bacon and Hayes-Paxton on Apollo 13 movie) are astronauts flying to the moon when the mission goes wrong and Rodney is the flight director (Gene Krantz-Harris on Apollo 13 movie) who helps bring them home.

Apollo 13 is one of my all time favourite movies as SGA is one of my all time favourite TV shows so remix the two and this is the fic you get.

I have always had a passing fascination with the space race, and moon landings. One of my earliest memories is on holiday with my family back in July 1969 looking up at a tiny whote TV screen with fuzzy pictures of Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon of of later news reports of the Apollo missions.

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Characters: Evan Lorne David Parrish
Pairings: Evan Lorne/David Parrish
Categories: Pre Slash,
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

welfycat
Author's Website: Finding What You Never Knew Was Lost
Link: All the Time in the Universe on LJ
Author's Website: Welfycat on AO3
Link: All the Time in the Universe on AO3

Why This Must Be Read: The Summary says: Dating on Atlantis is harder than it seems.
David has asked Evan out on a date but something always comes up. This is a cute sweet and adorable little fic

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squidgiepdx

Show: Stargate Atlantis

Rec Category: Slash
Characters: Evan Lorne, David Parrish, Original Characters
Pairings: Lorne/Parrish (Pre-Slash)
Categories: Slash (Pre-Slash), Alternative Universe
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

mific
Author's Website: Polymorphous Perversity
Link: Divergence, Convergence

Why This Must Be Read: There is simply not enough Lorne/Parrish alternate universe out there, and this one is adorable. It was written for the recent SGA Santa festival, but seems to have been overlooked - and needs some love from all of us Porne fans. If you have a sweet spot for artist!Lorne, then this is the one for you!

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Evan Lorne / David Parrish
Characters: David Parrish, Evan Lorne, Laura Cadman, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Rodney McKay Miko Kusanagi
Pairings: Evan Lorne / David Parrish
Categories: Pre Slash, Romance, Angst
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

squidgiepdx
Author's Website: Captain Awesome von Baconpants (Usually tired, sometimes hungover, always reading fanfiction)

Author's Website: squidgie on AO3
Link: Fairly Tripping Over All The Clues
Why This Must Be Read: The Summary says: David Parrish figures that he must be in hell, what with all the time he suddenly seems to be forced to spend with the beautiful, yet unattainable, Major Evan Lorne.

Poor David Parrish is pining over Evan Lorne but he can't see what is right in front of him.

And because my darling Squidgie wrote it for me. Thank you lovey.

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Chaya,
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Pre-slash, AU, Alternate Universe
Warnings: None except taxes
Author on LJ:

runaroundkid
Author's Website: Run-Around-Kid in a Get-Go Car.

Link: Taxed Return (Part 1 of 4) with links to the following parts

Why This Must Be Read: The summary says: “Do you have something to hide, Mr. Sheppard?” McKay asked gravely, eyes drifting to look down the hallway at the closed doors. He was probably imagining bright, flashing neon signs proclaiming John’s status as a tax evader; long manifestos tacked to the walls outlining the downfall of the IRS and modern society, and fat stacks of cash spilling from overstuffed mattresses

Rodney McKay is an IRS Auditor who has to audit John’s taxes. John Sheppard is an actor has a parasitic ex-wife who is driving him crazy and two good friends down at the local restaurant. He tries to befriend Rodney but Rodney is too by the book no matter how much he wants to be friends with John

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Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Waiting for the end of the day
Current Music: Pointer SIsters - Slow Hand

melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Jennifer Keller, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Acastus Kolya, Peter Kavanagh, Carson Beckett
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard Rodney McKay/Jennifer Keller Elizabeth Weir/ Radek Zelenka
Categories: Alternate Universe, Humour, pre-slash
Warnings: Adult themes Author on LJ:

pir8fancier
Author's Website: pir8fancier's ship
Link: Head Of The Class

Why This Must Be Read: The summary says AU featuring Rodney McKay as a U.C. Berkeley physics professor who absolutely cannot stand the new faculty hire, John Sheppard. Although not intentional, this ended up being very "You’ve Got Mail"-ish.

Rodney has been wrangled by Elizabeth into appearing on the Interdisciplinary Faculty Feud contest team which incidentally also has the new faculty member John SHeppard whom everyone likes except Rodney. In the meantime he has also joined an online RPG game in the role of Chief Science Officer Dr David Hewlett set in the city of Atlantis alongside Major Joseph Flanigan, USAF the CMO with whom he is fast becoming friends. I bet you can see where this is going.

I for one love the movie You’ve Got Mail which this fic is a superb twist not to mention the cameo roles of the real actors names. Also when I first went online back in 1998 I was a member of one of these such email/IM RPG games and they were so much fun and incidentally and its from there I created my username so thats one of the reasons why I have a fondness for this fic

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay John Sheppard Elizabeth Weir Carson Beckett

Pairings: Rodney McKay/OMC, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: Pre slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:

valderys
Author's Website: Valderys
Link: Concubia Nocte

Why This Must Be Read: Written for undermistletoe - Day 5: Romantic Movie Week - While You Were Sleeping. The The noise is what John hears first. Trouble is always preceded by its accompanying warning. Except when it isn’t. If he were a more philosophical man, he would remember it as being the moment when he knew. But he honestly doesn’t.

He never sees these things coming.

I have to admit that I love AU fic based on actual movies and this fic pretty much has a similar plot to the movie it is based on but SGA style

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melodysparks.livejournal.com

Show: SGA
Rec Category: Carson Beckett/Radek Zelenka
Characters: Carson Beckett, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Carson Beckett/Radek Zelenka
Categories: Slash, First Time, Pre-relationship
Warnings: Slash, First Time, Pre-relationship
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Jalabert on Wraithbait
Link: A Cry in the Dark

Why This Must Be Read: The summary says: Carson isn't always the caregiver. Occasionally, he's the patient.

Carson has been hurt, he is afraid and feels so alone. Radek comes to his rescue. Carson and Radek always seem to go so well together as their characters seem to complement each other and that work in this fic.

melodysparks.livejournal.com

White by Deirdre (PG13)

Show: SGA

Rec Category: Carson Beckett, Radek Zelenka
Characters: Carson Beckett, Radek Zelenka
Pairings: Carson Beckett/Radek Zelenka Pre Slash
Categories: Pre-slash Friendship
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Deirdre on Wraithbait
Link: White

Why This Must Be Read: This is a pre-slash friendship between Carson and Radek from Radeks POV. A sweet little fic about Carsons mice

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Entries tagged with pre-slash

Orders, Gathering the Troops, Calvary by Ladyholder (PG)

Freeze by bead [PG]

A Victim of the Time by iibnf (Mature)

In Our Own Backyard, by Jennifer Lyon (PG-13; pre-slash)

Downtime, by Merry (G)

Cassandra Never Did by Devikun (PG-13)

Logopetria by Lavvyan (G)

The Universe is Not Enough by trinityofone (PG)

Not Safe With Anybody Else by Telesilla (M)

Logopetria by lavvyan (General Audiences)

Escapade by Siria (G)

Breathe in two countries by spiny (spilinski) (M)

Complimentary Colors, by yin_again (Teen & Up)

Permutationality by sardonicsmiley (PG-13)

Crush by Soraya (soraya2004) (T)

Sparring by AbylityMaren [PG-13]

A Rough Road Leads to the Stars by Freyja (PG13)

All the Time in the Universe by Welfycat (PG13)

Divergence, Convergence by mific (PG)

Fairly Tripping Over All The Clues by squidgiepdx (PG13)

Taxed Return by runaroundkid PG-13

Head of the Class by pir8fancier [R]

Concubia Nocte by valderys (PG)

A Cry in the Dark by Jalabert [PG-13]

White by Deirdre (PG13)

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