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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Four Quarters
Author: [personal profile] trinityofone
Characters: John, Rodney, Teyla, Ford, Ronon, Zelenka, Sumner, also Jack O'Neill and Sam Carter
Prompt: 02: AU
Rating: R
Length: Long
Brief summary: There are many brilliant SGA AUs out there. I chose this one not only because it's my favorite, but also because of the wonderful writing, the spot-on characterisation, the way it perfectly weaves the canon into the AU and because of the plot, that has music and friendship and dreams.

John blinked back at him. The flicking motions of his thumb stopped; he laid the book flat on his stomach. “You are with me on this, aren’t you, Rodney?”

No. Rodney’s mouth formed the word: silently, stagnantly. He stared out across the ocean.

“No,” he said finally. “John, it’s been great, but—”

John sat up, his sunglasses sliding down his nose, back into place.

“—But I can’t,” Rodney said. “You—you can’t seriously be asking me to drop out of school to—”

“Not drop out,” John said quickly, flashing a smile. “Just: don’t go.”

Link to the story: Four Quarters