rec50 | Waltz, Tango, Foxrot ; Your Inavitable Unhappy Ending

My McShep table

Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Waltz, Tango, Foxrot
Author: out_there
Characters: McKay and Sheppard, featuring Christine as Rodney's girlfriend and John's studio as... John's studio.
Prompt: 30: Seduction
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: It's an AU. McKay's bullied into taking dance lessons. John is the (sexy) instructor. Seduction through dancing. Need I say more?

Rodney really wanted to hate John. It wasn't enough that he was lithe and gorgeous, not enough that he had a dazzling smile and a body that allowed Rodney to count the separate muscle groups. Not enough that John managed, despite his appearance, to be interesting, but he had to be smart, too?

It was such an insult.

But that was a flawed deduction. A bachelor's degree didn't automatically make John a Mensa candidate. After all, Rodney's grad students proved that. It probably meant that John had a reasonable short-term memory, didn't do terribly bad in exams, and was able to charm lecturers into letting him pass.

That made Rodney feel a little better. "So why are we working on posture and not, say, teaching me steps so I stop tromping on everyone's toes?"

"Dancing isn't steps."

"It isn't? I must have been confused by all those lessons where you taught us steps. Now I see the error of my ways. Nothing to do with steps, it's clearly all about, about-- penguins and sea-monkeys!" It wasn't the best insult he'd ever come up with, but this was frustrating. "I swear, this is like playing Monopoly with Jeannie. She'd always change the rules half-way round the board."

"Steps are a part, a small part, of dancing. The more important part is the connection, the bond between the dancers."

"You're not going to suggest super-glue, are you?"

Link to the story: Waltz, Tango, Foxrot

Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Your Inavitable Unhappy Ending
Author: Helen
Characters: Mckay, Sheppard, the Atlantis team and a baby. Oh yeah, and John's huge huge crush.
Prompt: 07: Love
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: This is THE story, for me. One I've read don't know how many times, and still coming back to it. It has everything: it's funny and sad and everyone is so in-character that it physically hurts to read some times. I can count on one hand the number of SGA stories when the L word from either Sheppard or McKay doesn't make you feel uncomfortable and this would be the numero uno.

He had thought, at the very least, that Rodney would talk about it more—talk and talk and talk, corner him, make him wish nothing had ever happened, but Rodney was improbably silent about the whole thing. He found he didn't enjoy looking at Rodney as much anymore—his hands or his eyes or the one t-shirt he had left from earth which was thin, shot with pinholes on his left shoulder—it reminded him of the socks he'd felt too guilty to throw away, balled up in his bottom drawer, blameless. He fucked the first person who asked him after that, just a woman on some planet with a lot of pretty hair, someone Rodney could never in a million years have gotten into bed. She seemed to think his name was Jonas. Close enough. He made sure Rodney didn't find out, just in case.

Link to the story: Your Inavitable Unhappy Ending