Given a Choice, It Would Always Be Sunday & Another Word for Optimism

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis - Rodney McKay
Title: Given a Choice, It Would Always Be Sunday
Author: godofwine
Characters: Rodney McKay, et al.
Prompt: 11. Character Study.
Rating: R.
Length: short.
Brief summary: Whimsical tone, glimpses into life past and future, and Rodney's caffeine addiction as a metaphor for his caffeine addiction—among other things.

When Ford's goons were dragging Rodney away, Sheppard said: This was not part of the plan.

Rodney said: Help, Colonel, help! but what he meant was duh and what he thought was oh my god oh my god coffee oh my god, where coffee equals wraith enzyme.

That was how he knew he was addicted.

Link to the story: Given a Choice, It Would Always Be Sunday

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis - Rodney McKay
Title: Another Word for Optimism
Author: Celli Lane, aka celli
Characters: Rodney McKay, et al.
Prompt: 12. Humor.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: short.
Brief summary: Cute, cute little thing about Rodney, the Ancient gene, putting two and two together, and team spirit (or some people's lack thereof).

It was an immutable law of the universe: Rodney McKay never woke up in a good mood. Never. The sun could shine, the birds could sing, the Nobel committee could nominate him, but he always woke up three steps from homicide. (Which was why the coffeemaker was two steps from his bed.)

On this particular morning, however, Rodney awoke to find himself almost...maybe...just a little...cheerful. He even smiled before he got to the bottom of his first mug of coffee.

Link to the story: Another Word for Optimism