rec50 | He's Having Her Baby!/He's Having His Baby!

Last one of the set! I had hope to post it before Escapade, but didn't manage it. At least I snuck it in before the final deadline. I'm going to take a break from round three, and maybe write something of my own. *g*

My Sheppard/McKay rec50 table.

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Title: He's Having Her Baby!/He's Having His Baby!
Author: pru (

rageprufrock)
Characters:
Prompt: 50 - Reccer's Choice
Rating: Mature
Length: long
Brief summary: Brilliant dialog, fun characterization, and an outrageous premise: these stories showcase the best traits of crack!fic. Pru got me with the first story-- which is not!mpreg, a fact that I repeated over and over to myself to when testing out the idea of clicking on the story -- and I ended up loving it. It starts with John being a jerk and yanking Rodney's chain, but then the joke gets out of hand, and Rodney's sweetness and concern for him ends up hurting John as he can't seem to put the brakes on the situation at all. Rodney's a force of nature in this that reality itself can't stop -- he refuses to believe that John's not pregnant.

Is it any wonder, then, after being the butt of a very bad joke, that Rodney won't buy that John is really pregnant in the sequel?

"You can tell me," Rodney said earnestly.

John stared at him. He folded his hands in his lap. Then, he folded them again, opening his mouth and shutting it with a click of his teeth.

Rodney's brow furrowed. "I'm right, aren't I? She just left you like that, didn't she?"

Part of John knew it would be in his own interest to put a hand on either of McKay's shoulders, to look into his blue eyes and ask in very short syllables if he'd eaten anything that had been green, fuzzy, sentient, or all three. Part of John wanted to cry, or cry laughing.

Part of John was still seventeen, and wanted to see where this would go.

So after a second, he worked his jaw open again and said, deadpan, "How did you know?"

Rodney smacked a fist into his opened palm, looking triumphant, practically glowing with discovery. "I knew it," he crowed. "It was so obvious once you took in the various physiological side-effects and the fact that, well, you've been putting on some weight and--"

John put his hands over his stomach self-consciously.

"--you have been dragging around like your hamster just died." Rodney paused. "Or, you know, a crazy alien priestess knocked you up and dumped you."

Link to the story: He's Having Her Baby! and He's Having His Baby!