The Guy Who Came In From the Cold & Up From the Depths

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis - Rodney McKay
Title: The Guy Who Came In From the Cold
Author: Danvers, aka sdraevn
Characters: Rodney McKay, Sam Carter, Svetlana Markov.
Prompt: 46. Reccer's Choice.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: medium.
Brief summary: If we never find out more about what Rodney's time in Siberia was like, that's okay, because that's what this story is for. This is one of my definitive Rodney stories, from his backstory and actions to his voice and characterization.

"The food here is like the women," Rodney tells his assistant one day. "Always cold and hard to stomach."

It causes one scientist to accidentally spill coffee on him and for the chefs to suddenly not remember what dish has lemon in it. On some days, everything has lemon.

Rodney could be irritated that the Russians are putting up a fight against his blunt nature, trying to weaken his reserve, but there is a part of him that is so pissed off with Major Samantha Carter, that he actually welcomes these distractions. It stands to reason that if he's pissed off, everyone else should be too.

Link to the story: The Guy Who Came In From the Cold

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Claim: Stargate: Atlantis - Rodney McKay
Title: De Profundis - Up From the Depths
Author: Otter, aka agentotter
Characters: Rodney McKay, Sam Carter, John Sheppard, et al.
Prompt: 47. Reccer's Choice.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: medium.
Brief summary: In which Sam Carter comes to Atlantis because (as the author's notes say) Sam wanted to talk about the events in Grace Under Pressure.

And that, he thinks, is just the cap on a very long, very tiring, very terrible day, and if he's going to keep pursuing Colonel Carter with his usual amount of completely uncharacteristic optimism, he's going to need rest first. While he's finishing his coffee, he sends an email to Zelenka -- a pair of long and overly-complicated equations which pretty much end in McKay = Godzilla and Zelenka = Tokyo, respectively -- and then he picks up his datapad and his tray, buses his dishes back to the kitchen, and makes the short journey to the infirmary once again.

Link to the story: De Profundis - Up From the Depths