Close Encounters ; Hearing is Believing

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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Close Encounters
Author: amific (amireal)
Characters: The McShep
Prompt: 11: Character Study
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: A FirstTime fic. John & Rodney keep getting stuck in very small places during missions, and John discovers the physical effects it's having on McKay, which the latter explains as a crush. This one is a classic, with great McShep moments, and Sheppard trying not to freak out, because of his own feelings. The story also has a sequel, All Brand New, by seperis 

They wait in oppressive silence, and John has never wanted to talk about the weather more in his life. However, being stuck weaponless in what amounts to Victorian England with the Gestapo on their asses, means he's got to conentrate on other things, and not focus on the utterly strange feeling of McKay pressed into his inner thigh, hot and hard and foreign.

So he's trapped for the moment, breathing hard, adrenaline pumping through him. John's eyes finally adjust to the darkness and when he looks at McKay, he can see a low flush high on his cheeks. "Can you run?" he blurts out before he can stop himself.

Rodney's head snaps back, eyes dilated , to stare at John in shock. "What?"

"Well," John makes the mistake of trying to gesture, succeeding in only wedging them together further. Rodney sucks in a sharp breath, eyes closing abruptly. John watches his throat swallow rapidly before continueing. "I think it's sort of self explanatory now."

"It's just a goddamned crush," Rodney whispers, more to himself than to John. "It's stupid and expected and really I should know better, two more weeks and this wouldn't have been a problem."

Link to the story: Close Encounters

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Claim: Stargate:Atlantis, McKay/Sheppard
Title: Hearing is Believing
Author: vanwaelda
Characters: McShep and the Evil Aliens
Prompt: 09: Hurt/Comfort
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Paraphrasing the grandfather from The Princess Bride, the story is about capture, torture, chases, escapes and true love. Sheppard wakes up in the infirmary, without McKay, and has flashbacks of what happend to them. That's how we learn that they were captured, tortured, chased and escaped... But then something bad happened.
The story has a good pace and the author navigates brilliantly between the past and the present, and the ending is beautiful.  

“Oh,” McKay replied and there was a pause. “I’m fine. A few bruises, probably a concussion from being dragged around,” he grumbled. “But no, I… I’ve got all my clothes actually, boots and everything. Huh,” he mumbled something and John couldn’t catch it.

“What?” John asked, lifting his head to hear better.

“Oh Jesus,” McKay replied, and John heard a grinding noise, and then McKay’s hands scrabble at the wall between them. “Colonel, about now would be a good time to rescue us, okay?” he demanded, and his voice was high and shrill. “Nice natives, please don’t hurt me, there…. Argh!” he yelled, as John heard something heavy smacking into flesh. He pressed his hands against the dividing wall and tried to kick at it with his already bruised feet. “That’s my hand! I need my hand!” McKay shouted, and then screamed again. It was a long, drawn out, horrible scream – ending in sudden silence, and John renewed his battering on the wall.

“No! NO! McKay? McKay!?” he screamed, panicking as he heard nothing more from the other cell.

That was when they came for him the first time.

Link to the story: Hearing is Believing