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crack_van2010-04-22 02:39 pm
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The Best Things In Life Are Free by Smitty (NC-17)
Fandom: STARGATE: ATLANTIS
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Length: 100,000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smittywing
Author Website: Smittyworld 2.0
Why this must be read:
First of all, I love high school!AU's. And this is definitely one of my favorites out of any fandom that I've read. Based off the movie Can't Buy Me Love, it's your classic dork buying into the popular group and inevitably, the two mains fall in love, but not without complications.
What makes this fic special though, is not just the fabulous characterization of John and Rodney, the excellent and well-rounded secondary characters we love, or the hilarious antics. It is, in fact, the back story. Written before we found out papa!Shep was a corporate tycoon and that John also had a brother who was kind of a dick, in this fic we get an awkward-and-not-quite-sure-how-to-be-a-dad Air Force colonel who's wife died. Colonel Sheppard is a great addition to this story, because it's so obvious he loves his son even if he isn't number one dad of the year. Additionally, we get a Jeannie McKay who's like her big brother and loves him and is also kind of a wonderful 12 year-old brat.
The family stories, the humor and the brilliant charcterization make this a wonderful, must read fic.
"OKAY!" John said as loudly as possible. "Let's try this again. And try not to step on my foot this time. Kind of angle yourself to the side."
"Right, right," Rodney muttered and stepped forward before John was ready. John stepped back anyway and found Rodney much closer to him than he'd expected and stepped back. Rodney didn't follow. "Can I step with the other foot now?" Rodney asked.
"Knock yourself out," John said tiredly. He shifted his foot back slightly as Rodney stepped, just to keep things even, and said, "Try stepping in time with the music."
Rodney did have a good sense of rhythm and could follow the music well but he was stiff and awkward. John wanted to stop him and squeeze his shoulders and tell him to slow down and relax and to pull him into the music and demonstrate what he needed to do, but his dad was sitting right there, right behind them, and John was suddenly very aware of the lines he could never cross and all the things he could never say to his father, out loud or otherwise.
"Okay, look," he said quickly, pulling away from Rodney. "I have to go pick up Katie soon and -- " He cut himself off when Rodney's mouth fell open.
"You're taking Katie to Homecoming?" he asked, stricken.
"Yeah," John said, mystified and a little angry. Rodney obviously hadn't wanted to take Katie, judging from the state he'd found Katie in at the library. In fact, John's only reason (and a shitty one at that, as his father had pointed out) for taking Katie was because she was so upset that Rodney wouldn't go with her.
"But I dated Katie!" Rodney protested and John's temper flared.
"Yeah, well, I slept with Vala!" he shot back.
Rodney's face somehow managed to look even more stricken than before. "You -- you did?" he faltered.
"All right," the Colonel declared, standing up and folding his paper. "I'll be in the garage composing my resignation from fatherhood speech if anyone needs me."
The Best Things In Life Are Free
Cover Page (has links to other drabbles and fic art)
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Length: 100,000 words
Author on LJ:
smittywingAuthor Website: Smittyworld 2.0
Why this must be read:
First of all, I love high school!AU's. And this is definitely one of my favorites out of any fandom that I've read. Based off the movie Can't Buy Me Love, it's your classic dork buying into the popular group and inevitably, the two mains fall in love, but not without complications.
What makes this fic special though, is not just the fabulous characterization of John and Rodney, the excellent and well-rounded secondary characters we love, or the hilarious antics. It is, in fact, the back story. Written before we found out papa!Shep was a corporate tycoon and that John also had a brother who was kind of a dick, in this fic we get an awkward-and-not-quite-sure-how-to-be-a-dad Air Force colonel who's wife died. Colonel Sheppard is a great addition to this story, because it's so obvious he loves his son even if he isn't number one dad of the year. Additionally, we get a Jeannie McKay who's like her big brother and loves him and is also kind of a wonderful 12 year-old brat.
The family stories, the humor and the brilliant charcterization make this a wonderful, must read fic.
"OKAY!" John said as loudly as possible. "Let's try this again. And try not to step on my foot this time. Kind of angle yourself to the side."
"Right, right," Rodney muttered and stepped forward before John was ready. John stepped back anyway and found Rodney much closer to him than he'd expected and stepped back. Rodney didn't follow. "Can I step with the other foot now?" Rodney asked.
"Knock yourself out," John said tiredly. He shifted his foot back slightly as Rodney stepped, just to keep things even, and said, "Try stepping in time with the music."
Rodney did have a good sense of rhythm and could follow the music well but he was stiff and awkward. John wanted to stop him and squeeze his shoulders and tell him to slow down and relax and to pull him into the music and demonstrate what he needed to do, but his dad was sitting right there, right behind them, and John was suddenly very aware of the lines he could never cross and all the things he could never say to his father, out loud or otherwise.
"Okay, look," he said quickly, pulling away from Rodney. "I have to go pick up Katie soon and -- " He cut himself off when Rodney's mouth fell open.
"You're taking Katie to Homecoming?" he asked, stricken.
"Yeah," John said, mystified and a little angry. Rodney obviously hadn't wanted to take Katie, judging from the state he'd found Katie in at the library. In fact, John's only reason (and a shitty one at that, as his father had pointed out) for taking Katie was because she was so upset that Rodney wouldn't go with her.
"But I dated Katie!" Rodney protested and John's temper flared.
"Yeah, well, I slept with Vala!" he shot back.
Rodney's face somehow managed to look even more stricken than before. "You -- you did?" he faltered.
"All right," the Colonel declared, standing up and folding his paper. "I'll be in the garage composing my resignation from fatherhood speech if anyone needs me."
The Best Things In Life Are Free
Cover Page (has links to other drabbles and fic art)