A Thing Decided (res judicata); Solitary Pursuit

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Title: A Thing Decided (res judicata)
Author: yin_again
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Julian Lodge
Prompt: Crossover
Rating: NC-17
Length: long
Brief summary:

This is a crossover with the brief-lived Supreme Court drama First Monday, but you don't need to watch the show to read the fic. In fact, it's probably better not to; it's a really, really bad show. So why the crossover? Julian Lodge, senior-clerk to the Chief Justice, is played by Joe Flanigan.

The imminent declassification of the Atlantis project brings a string of dignitaries to Atlantis, including the Chief Justice. Rodney gets roped into diplomatic duty, escorting and briefing Julian Lodge in preparation for the Chief Justice's visit. The attraction between Rodney and Julian is immediate and genuine. Rodney is interested in Julian for himself, not merely because of his uncanny resemblence to John. Nevertheless, Julian's arrival is also the catalyst for a change in John and Rodney's relationship. yin_again deftly balances both relationships, creating a compelling triangle with a resolution that is true and fitting for all three characters.

Link to the story: A Thing Decided (res judicata)


Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Title: Solitary Pursuit

Author: lysora
Characters: Rodney McKay, Samantha Carter
Prompt: Vacation
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary:

Sam visits Atlantis and surprises both Rodney and herself. A fascinating study of isolation and loneliness, and the need for human contact, for connection. Sam is struck by the vast emptiness of the city, by the resident's isolation from earth and from the rest of the Pegasus galaxy. But it is Sam who is truly isolated, finding a connection in the close-knit community of Atlantis, that has been eluding her on earth. I love the way Sam and Rodney's relationship is drawn here, not as a grand love, but as a simple need for touch, for connection. There is tension between them, his unrepentent, unsubtle flirting, her casual cutting him down and brushing him off, but there's no malice in it, just familiarity and a spark of something more.

Link to the story: Solitary Pursuit

Some Things Never Change ; A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Some Things Never Change
Author: giddygeek
Characters: Sheppard, the Atlantis Team and one big, moody, powerbars-munching dinosaur.
Prompt: 29: Oops
Rating: PG
Length: Short
Brief summary: A heart-wrenching tail of a scientist, who suffers an eccident and can't even use a laptop to save his own very large hide. The team goes to an alien planet, McKay cuts his hand and gets turned into a dinosaur. Oops... The story is short and funny, but not without sweet sentimental moments.

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Link to the story: Some Things Never change

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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
Author: trinityofone
Characters: McKay, Sheppard, Teyla, Zelenka, Kolya, Caldwell
Prompt: 23: Time
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: The story was written as a part of reel_sga challenge, and is based on the movie The Searchers. It's an AU, where young Rodney and his non-related uncle John spend years looking for Rodney's sister Teyla, who was kidnapped by the Genii. Sheppard hates the Genii, and as McKay is part Genii and also young and inexperienced, there are some clashes of personalities and ideologies. As always with trinityofone, the story is written beautifully, as you get a feeling of the time and the place and the reality in which the characters live.

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Link to the story: A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours

The Killing Frosts; Old Familiar Sting

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Title: The Killing Frosts
Author: silverspar
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Sam Carter
Prompt: Confession
Rating: R
Length: long
Brief summary:

A shivery tense AU based on the movie "Brigadoon". silverspar takes a much darker slant on the premise of the movie, creating a dark and chillingly apocolyptic alternate earth from which John and Rodney find their way to Atlantis. Atlantis is a perfect stand-in for the mythical Brigadoon, a peaceful village, a place of respite out of time and space. Structurally, the story is wonderfully complex, beginning with the conceit of a story told in a bar to a stranger, but then breaking out of that mould at the end, breaking out of Rodney's self-flagellating narrative to reveal a more complex, and ultimately hopeful truth underneath.

Link to the story: The Killing Frosts

Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Title: Old Familiar Sting
Author: ladycat777
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Prompt: Dark
Rating: R
Length: medium
Brief summary:

This is darkfic at it's best, taking the familiar characters and turning their own worst characteristics against them to chilling effect. This hurts to read, but it hurts because the aching, awful potential is there, hovering around the edges of canon. It hurts because no one's happy, John and Rodney have both lost control of their situation, letting it spin out into something painful and impossible. ladycat777 gets inside the mind of the victim, but also the victimizer, making the reader ache for both of them, and for the hopeless, tangled mess they've made of their lives.

Link to the story: Old Familiar Sting