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This is it! My last two prompts. My completed table of 50 Rodney McKay-centric recs can be found here.

Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Prompt: Break-Up
Title: Still Ahead
Author: [livejournal.com profile] ladycat777
Rating: PG
Length: short
Brief summary:

John finds Rodney marking an anniversary. This is a short, contemplative little piece, the kind of fic that's all talk and no action. And it's beautiful. There's a casual intimacy to Rodney and John's interaction here that just fills me with joy, and a nice bit of Rodney backstory that rings very true.

Link: Still Ahead

Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, Rodney McKay
Prompt: Reccer's Choice
Title: 264 Hours
Author: [livejournal.com profile] scribblinlenore
Rating: NC-17
Length: long
Brief summary:

A fabulous post-Siege story. Sleep deprivation and insomnia, the remnants of desperate frantic fear, impossible desire and anger, fierce and tight, all conspiring to drive Rodney more than a little around the bend. One of the best descriptions of insomnia I've ever read, full of that frantic, buzzing, exhausted energy that comes when your body simply refuses to shut down on cue. Sleep deprivation brings all Rodney's issues to the foreground, finally culminating in a confrontation that is everything I could ever want in a post-Siege fic. [livejournal.com profile] scribblinlenore has a gift for well-crafted turns of phrase, packing sharp emotional punches into deceptively simple sentences. Really just a terrific story.

Link: 264 Hours