Tannhauser Gate ; The Roads Never Lead Where They're Supposed to Go

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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Tannhauser Gate
Author: trinityofone
Characters: John, Rodney, Carson, Elizabeth
Prompt: 19: Dark
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: There's something about Sheppard, something everyone else knows, except him.
Who is John Sheppard? What motivates him? This story gives us a truely terrifying answer. It's scary and beautiful and feels so real.

“Tell me,” Rodney would sometimes say, “about the town where you grew up.”

John didn’t generally like answering questions about his past, but there was something wonderfully innocuous about sharing anecdotes from his early childhood. Also, it was odd, and oddly pleasurable, to watch Rodney react: he actually listened—quiet, lips pressed together, firm. His eyes would flicker across John’s face, and he’d smile at all the right moments; chuckle at all the right moments; look nostalgic and slightly sad at all the right moments, too.

Football and Ferris wheels and hot summer nights.

“What about you, McKay?” he asked once. “How does the typical Canadian youth compare?”

Rodney’s face shut down. “I don’t really want to talk about it,” he said. And he never did.

Link to the story: Tannhauser Gate


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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: The Roads Never Lead Where They're Supposed to Go 
Author: eleveninches
Characters: McKay, Sheppard, the Atlantis team, crazy Beckett and dinosaurs....
Prompt: 12: Humor
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Was written for the B-Movie Ficathon. One of the coolest and funniest fics. It's an AU, where the McShep are both scientists, Sheppard being a scateboarding botanist! It's beautifully written, with glimpses to the future. They start out as friends and fellow explorers, and it's so funny and strangely in-character.  

"Remember that dinosaur?" Sheppard asked.

"No," Rodney said flatly.

"Word on the street is it was wearing dogtags," Sheppard said.

"But its arms were so tiny," Rodney said. "How did it put the tags on?"

Sheppard just looked at him.

Rodney cleared his throat. "So the dinosaur had been a human before. Right. Who was it?"

"Someone named Kate Heightmeyer. Parrish said she was the company shrink. You know her?"

"I knew of her," Rodney admitted, remembering seeing her in the mess, "but I didn't know her personally."

Link to the story: The Roads Never Lead Where They're Supposed to Go