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crack_van2011-11-04 11:54 am
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One Piece At A Time by argosy (PG)
I'm MF Luder and I'll be this month's SGA van driver. I'm disgustingly excited about this, mainly because I've been missing the show a lot lately and thus began another series rewatch. Most of what you'll see this month is McShep in various forms. I hope you enjoy the trip!
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Length: ~9,800
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
argosy
Author Website: Complete Fic List
In which Sheppard decides he needs to build something and refuses most everyone's help, where Teyla has a baby Sheppard is terrified of, and Rodney tries to figure out the puzzle that is Sheppard because Rodney has a need to solve every puzzle. And then there's some awesome Athosian detective work, gender (sex) switch, clueless!Rodney, and, of course, a happy ending.
The writing is sharp, not overly sappy, and amusing. You just kind of want to yell exasperatedly at Rodney because seriously, Sheppard and you have been dating all this time, how do you not see it?? But it's so damn cute and written in common every day (for Atlantis) moments that make it come together seamlessly and honest.
Sheppard had somehow gotten his crates to the South Pier--no doubt via the unauthorized usage of military personnel--and was apparently using it as some sort of workshop. The scientists had been traipsing in and out of the labs for the last few days, muttering mysteriously about aluminum skin, and stubby clecos. If one more scientist reported to work with that vaguely manic gleam in his eye, and the phrase "workbench jig" under his breath, Rodney was going to have to ban visits to Sheppard's little playground.
How did Sheppard have time for hobbies, anyway? Last Rodney had checked, he was still military commander of Atlantis. It was true that the Replicator threat had been mostly neutralized; the Wraith had left only busily-rebuilding pockets of resistance. And the Wraith themselves were reeling from the Replicator Wars. Still--hobbies? Rodney's own very important job didn't leave him any time for cross-stitch or badminton. Work was a perfectly good leisure activity.
He still didn't know what Sheppard was building over there. He was curious, but Simpson had come to him with a star ten light-years away that was exhibiting anomalous behavior, and Carter had found a list of possible ZPM addresses in the Ancient database. Radek had submitted yet another in his long line of harebrained proposals to study quantum entanglement of all things, so Rodney had a lot on his plate and Sheppard's latest weirdness would have to wait. What would a man like him want to build, anyway? He was probably trying to reverse-engineer a DeLorean.
Or a light saber. That would be cool.
Who knew Sheppard was so do-it-yourself, anyway? If he was the kind of man that required his own workshop, he should have been in the trenches getting his hands dirty during any one of the thousand times their plumbing had failed. If Rodney did go to see Sheppard's project, and discovered he knew his way around a distributor wrench, he was not getting out of Tuesday Night Puddlejumper Maintenance.
One Piece At A Time
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Length: ~9,800
Author on LJ:
argosy Author Website: Complete Fic List
In which Sheppard decides he needs to build something and refuses most everyone's help, where Teyla has a baby Sheppard is terrified of, and Rodney tries to figure out the puzzle that is Sheppard because Rodney has a need to solve every puzzle. And then there's some awesome Athosian detective work, gender (sex) switch, clueless!Rodney, and, of course, a happy ending.
The writing is sharp, not overly sappy, and amusing. You just kind of want to yell exasperatedly at Rodney because seriously, Sheppard and you have been dating all this time, how do you not see it?? But it's so damn cute and written in common every day (for Atlantis) moments that make it come together seamlessly and honest.
Sheppard had somehow gotten his crates to the South Pier--no doubt via the unauthorized usage of military personnel--and was apparently using it as some sort of workshop. The scientists had been traipsing in and out of the labs for the last few days, muttering mysteriously about aluminum skin, and stubby clecos. If one more scientist reported to work with that vaguely manic gleam in his eye, and the phrase "workbench jig" under his breath, Rodney was going to have to ban visits to Sheppard's little playground.
How did Sheppard have time for hobbies, anyway? Last Rodney had checked, he was still military commander of Atlantis. It was true that the Replicator threat had been mostly neutralized; the Wraith had left only busily-rebuilding pockets of resistance. And the Wraith themselves were reeling from the Replicator Wars. Still--hobbies? Rodney's own very important job didn't leave him any time for cross-stitch or badminton. Work was a perfectly good leisure activity.
He still didn't know what Sheppard was building over there. He was curious, but Simpson had come to him with a star ten light-years away that was exhibiting anomalous behavior, and Carter had found a list of possible ZPM addresses in the Ancient database. Radek had submitted yet another in his long line of harebrained proposals to study quantum entanglement of all things, so Rodney had a lot on his plate and Sheppard's latest weirdness would have to wait. What would a man like him want to build, anyway? He was probably trying to reverse-engineer a DeLorean.
Or a light saber. That would be cool.
Who knew Sheppard was so do-it-yourself, anyway? If he was the kind of man that required his own workshop, he should have been in the trenches getting his hands dirty during any one of the thousand times their plumbing had failed. If Rodney did go to see Sheppard's project, and discovered he knew his way around a distributor wrench, he was not getting out of Tuesday Night Puddlejumper Maintenance.
One Piece At A Time