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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Title: Wish You Were Here: Rosebud/Up Into the Silence
Author: Auburn (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
auburnnothenna)
Characters: Sheppard/McKay
Prompt: 26 - Death
Rating: Mature
Length: medium
Brief summary:"Rosebud" and "Up Into The Silence" are paired stories, which "Rosebud" following Rodney's POV and "Up Into The Silence" showing John's. Rodney's story is more of a mystery, while John's story answers the questions it asks. Beautifully written, evocative, and heart-breakingly cruel, the author plays with time in this, delaying the moment of the reveal for as long as possible.
"Atlantis."
He always had to have the last word, even dying.
His breath rattled in his chest, stuttered, and stopped.
Rodney McKay was dead.
"Atlantis?" one of the doctors echoed as the others shut off the monitors. "Was that some project he worked on for the government?"
No one noticed the crumpled picture that fell from his hand and landed beneath the hospital bed.
A nurse pulled a sheet over the body. She moved quickly and efficiently, without any affection. Rodney McKay had not been an easy patient. The US Air Force major standing out of the way next to McKay's nephew, Will, didn't fault her; he knew exactly how Rodney McKay had been, he'd seen and heard it all in the last few days.
So he kept his expression blank.
"Not that I know of," he said.
The doctor shrugged, nodded to McKay's nephew, and left the room.
The major had been assigned to make sure McKay didn't babble anything classified on his deathbed. McKay had the personality of a rabid viper, even in old age, and had bitterly assured the young major that he'd been keeping secrets since before the major's daddy slipped it to his mother for the first time. He'd added waspishly that he'd hated the military for forty-two of those years and he wouldn't be spilling the secret of creating a ZPM, either. It was going to the grave with him.
It had, too.
The major was of the opinion McKay had chosen his last word merely to confound everyone.
He was wrong.
Link to the story: Wish You Were Here: Rosebud and Up Into The Silence
Claim: Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Title: Wish You Were Here: Rosebud/Up Into the Silence
Author: Auburn (
auburnnothenna)Characters: Sheppard/McKay
Prompt: 26 - Death
Rating: Mature
Length: medium
Brief summary:"Rosebud" and "Up Into The Silence" are paired stories, which "Rosebud" following Rodney's POV and "Up Into The Silence" showing John's. Rodney's story is more of a mystery, while John's story answers the questions it asks. Beautifully written, evocative, and heart-breakingly cruel, the author plays with time in this, delaying the moment of the reveal for as long as possible.
"Atlantis."
He always had to have the last word, even dying.
His breath rattled in his chest, stuttered, and stopped.
Rodney McKay was dead.
"Atlantis?" one of the doctors echoed as the others shut off the monitors. "Was that some project he worked on for the government?"
No one noticed the crumpled picture that fell from his hand and landed beneath the hospital bed.
A nurse pulled a sheet over the body. She moved quickly and efficiently, without any affection. Rodney McKay had not been an easy patient. The US Air Force major standing out of the way next to McKay's nephew, Will, didn't fault her; he knew exactly how Rodney McKay had been, he'd seen and heard it all in the last few days.
So he kept his expression blank.
"Not that I know of," he said.
The doctor shrugged, nodded to McKay's nephew, and left the room.
The major had been assigned to make sure McKay didn't babble anything classified on his deathbed. McKay had the personality of a rabid viper, even in old age, and had bitterly assured the young major that he'd been keeping secrets since before the major's daddy slipped it to his mother for the first time. He'd added waspishly that he'd hated the military for forty-two of those years and he wouldn't be spilling the secret of creating a ZPM, either. It was going to the grave with him.
It had, too.
The major was of the opinion McKay had chosen his last word merely to confound everyone.
He was wrong.
Link to the story: Wish You Were Here: Rosebud and Up Into The Silence
