Something goes wrong during the evacuation of Atlantis, stranding members of the Atlantis expedition and SG-1 on a very strange world.*
Rodney was like a planet, he drew people into his orbit; graduate students, students, colleagues; and spat them out again, often dazed, usually bitter, but always better scientists for it.*
After the first day, McKay had sniffed imperiously, chin tipped up, and told him that he wasn’t a complete idiot, and his shame would only be marginal if they were seen together outside of class. Instead of telling him to fuck off, John had grinned sardonically and drawled a mocking, “Thanks,” and McKay took that as the olive branch it wasn’t and bullied his way into John’s daily life.*
There are a lot of things John hates about his job. He hates the Wraith. He hates the Replicators. He hates losing people. He hates it when villagers who have only just worked their way up to inventing gunpowder shoot at his team. He hates turning into a giant scaly insect. (It hasn’t happened again–yet–but John is nothing if not a pessimist when it comes to turning into giant scaly insects.) But most of all, John hates debriefing Major Bryar’s gate team.*
Jack knew that stepping through the gate changed his life, but he didn’t think one more time would make that much of a difference; he was wrong. Now, Jack O’Neill, John Sheppard, and Rodney McKay are intertwined in an adventure of a lifetime, starting with how the hell to get back to being a grownup.*
In the course of an investigation, Ray comes across a big metal circle and winds up in Atlantis. Watch as he interacts amusingly with the locals! See the different worldviews clash!*
Atlantis has been invaded and her people sold as slaves. Rodney struggles to survive his harsh new life and lives in hope of being reunited with is lovers – Beckett and Sheppard.*
He went home with two slices of leftover pizza and the strange impression that McKay could almost have been a nice guy, if he hadn’t been an asshole.*
Rodney claimed he would have figured it out eventually, that he was a genius, and it was only a matter of time and – if case John hadn’t noticed – he’d been a little busy saving Atlantis from imminent doom of one sort or another, so excuse the hell out of him if he wasn’t actually aware that the head of Atlantis’s military was pining away with big gay love for him.*
John and Rodney are stranded on a planet together, and Rodney finds out John isn’t exactly the guy he thought he was.*
SGC finally stops calling him by December. Rodney celebrates by writing a final exam for his relativity class so difficult that it reduces four students to tears in the exam hall. Upon reflection, he decides to be merciful and offer partial credit.*
“You’re incredibly weird, do you know that? And gorgeous. And also annoying, and entirely too smart and too charming for anyone’s good, and I should completely and utterly loathe you.”*
It was the tenth time they’d done this. It was their eleventh kiss.*
John deserves this after being kicked out, sent away, and cast adrift on a planet that didn’t make any sense and had no real use for him.* John/Rodney/Ronon threesome. Spoilers for The Return Part 2.
Rodney crossed his arms under his breasts. “Well, this is stupid. And typical. Both my opportunities for hot gay sex and heterosexual sex are ruined!”*
When Rodney decides to expand their sexual repitoire, John learns some things he wasn’t expecting.*
Doctor Rodney McKay might be the most intelligent man in two galaxies, capable of saving Atlantis and all who live in her a dozen times a week (before and after coffee, even, although the first means nobody wants to get close enough to give him any help), but some things still evade him.*
Earth is gone, lost to the Ori and Atlantis has to take a hard look at how to survive now that they’re on their own.*
“I’m here to propose an arrangement. Between us. I assume you remember our talk from earlier today and how… challenging dating can be on Atlantis. And since we’ve established that you’re attracted to me, I think it would be mutually beneficial for us to have sex.”*
The Ancients’ genes didn’t just confer the power to activate their technology. For ten percent of Earth’s population, like John Sheppard, the ATA gene also gave them Gifts: special abilities that made them admired, envied, and feared. Sheppard was a Charmer, one of the feared ones, whose particular Gift let him create faith whenever he needed to be trusted or believed. But Sheppard didn’t trust himself not to destroy what he loved most. And somewhere along the line, amid the terror and chaos of the Expedition’s first year in the Pegasus Galaxy, what Sheppard loved most had become Rodney McKay. McKay didn’t trust anyone. As soon as you started trusting people, you started counting on them, depending on them, and that was when you became vulnerable. And vulnerable things didn’t survive. So just when, exactly, had he started trusting Sheppard? And what was going to happen, now that he did?*
“At least it wasn’t a Russian mail order bride.”* Set during those mostly-missing six weeks on Earth in episode 3×10 – The Return Part 1.
“All I’m saying,” Rodney complained, and John heard him take the flashlight out of his mouth so he could pronounce consonants, “is that you could have tried a little harder to resist Princess Sparkleberry over there.”*
John ends up refurbishing a supermarket two blocks from campus, and finds that this might be home.*
“So, uh,” Wharton said, with a little nervous cough. “You’re not so much his mathmetician as you are his ‘mathmetician’.”*
The summer before college, Rodney the camp counselor meets John the lifeguard at Camp Atlantis. Homesick kids, campfires, and Scooby Doo Mysteries ensue.*
The fallout from the Arcturus project might be more complicated than it seemed to be at first.*
“General O’Neill never said anything about mad Czech scientists blowing up stills,” he said conversationally. This is easily the funniest thing ever. This always makes me feel better.*
Carson Beckett encounters a piece of Ancient technology which changes his life in more ways than one.*
Just to be clear from the very start: I take no responsibility for this whatsoever. It is all Luthien’s fault. She it was who pimped SGA to me tirelessly until I succumbed, and she it was who directly prompted this, this – whatever it is. (author’s note)*
When Rodney is being culled, John suddenly has to deal with the loss of his best friend. As for Rodney, things get downhill from there.* Set somewhere after The Hive, spoilers up to that episode.
Well, what happened is svmadelyn wrote It Stops Being Funny At Skirts about John Sheppard turning into a woman, and in the midst of laughing my own ass off at the story, I realized there seemed to be a little scene missing, and I asked svmadelyn if I could fill it in, and she said yes, and then… genderfuckery.*
This story starts at svmadelyn’s It Stops Being Funny At Skirts, takes the optional scenic route along thisisbone’s Skirting the Issue, (both of which you should read first), and then veers off and takes the side road in a different direction.*
Life is great for Dr Rodney McKay, a research theorist at Berkeley. He’s managed to arrange it so that he sees students only rarely, and he’s getting laid frequently by fellow MENSA member and ecology professor Christine. What more could a man want? Unfortunately for Rodney, it turns out that Christine wants more. Faced with her demands that he learn to dance or she’ll dump him, Rodney turns to John Sheppard: part-time dance instructor and full time bank-teller, with a dream of becoming a pilot. John’s supposed to be teaching him how to waltz, but Rodney’s learning a lot more than that! But what will happen when the music ends?*
“This,” Rodney said with a finger-pokey gesture and a sneer mostly hidden in the depths of his parka, “is all your fault.”*
AU in which John never gets to Antarctica. He and Rodney meet anyway.*
He was an intelligent, intuitive pet, but he wasn’t going to start sniffing out ZPMs or hidden Ancient weaponry or detailed instructions on how to kill a Wraith with a common household item. A pen, for instance.*
Rodney McKay meets international playboy Johnnie Sheppard on a cruise to the French Riviera.* Written for Reel_SGA challenge.
Children are going missing, and Detective Sheppard’s first suspect is the solitary musician living on the edge of the swamp.*
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay’s relationship takes an unexpected turn after the Meet and Greet party for Atlantis’ new staff. Picks up right after Intruder.*
Colonel John Sheppard knew, from the moment he first met Dr. Rodney McKay, that the man would be in trouble.* This novel-length story is a prequel to General and Dr. Sheppard telling the story of how the AU John and Rodney first got together.
So, what if John and Rodney were hairdressers?* The author titles this series of John/Rodney ficlets as “Three John/Rodney AUs I’m Totally Not Writing.”
What if John was a lifeguard and Rodney was a scientist studying algae?* Number 3 in the “Three John/Rodney AUs I’m Totally Not Writing.” series.
John inherits a farm, Rodney ends up entirely out of his element, and there is much ado about baseball.* First in the series.
Rodney catches a cold.* Second in the A Far In Iowa Series.
An accident with Ancient technology sucks a John and Rodney from an alternate universe onto Atlantis – and they have very different ideas about sex, marriage, and relationships.* Link goes to first chapter. To view the rest, go to the first page of the journal.
“Okay, since I’m obviously not getting through to you using words of more than one syllable, let me put it as simply as possible: No.”*
Don’t be sily, John says. You’re Bob and I’m Bing; now get in the car and let’s go find ourselves a Dorothy.*
“But… but why would Canada need spies? It’s one of our major allies,” John insisted. “It- you haven’t even fully broken ties with Britain, you’re hardly a major player in international politics, your army is like, three mounties and a wolf…”*
Being on the same planet with John Sheppard was aggravating enough, sometimes; being in the same body was an order of magnitude worse.*
And John pouted, which was on his list of things he really regretted he could no longer see. Because John Sheppard, Lieutenant Colonel, with his lips pursed out and shoulders slightly slumped was the exact incarnation of the best five-year-old’s pout he had ever witnessed.*
Picks up where “A Farm In Iowa” left off – Rodney makes his move, John finds Star Wars a hell of a lot more taxing than he’d ever imagined, and Katie Brown throws a curveball, just to keep things interesting.* Second in the Fram In Iowa series.
There is much freaking. Scroll a bit for this one… It fits… someplace in the A Farm In Iowa series after And Then There Was Finn.*
They don’t touch afterward – they untangle, sometimes laugh softly, trade well-meaning insults, and roll apart.*
In which Radek Zalenka tackles crises, both immediate and at one remove.*
Big spider. Slash. Lemon bars. Everyone almost dies… don’t you love it?*
Rodney accepted that one day he might die on an alien planet… he just didn’t want to be killed by giant bats… or giant anything for that matter.*
Rodney rolled his eyes. “It wasn’t that offensive. If your scientists were worth anything, they’d have thicker hides than that!” “Besides, was perfectly valid criticism,” Zelenka added. John held up the recorder again, and pressed play. “Quack quack quack,” it said, in Rodney’s voice. “Quack honk quack quack honk honk!”*
Rodney tangled a hand into John’s sweaty hair. “It was good right? What you wanted?” John pushed his head back against Rodney’s palm. “You mean the ‘fuck me’ and ‘harder’ and all the begging didn’t clue you in?”*
“If I could not kill him without bloodshed,” said Teyla, emerging from the tent with a pleased smile on her face, “I would not be worthy of my people.” “You didn’t kill him, right?” Sheppard asked, straight-faced. Teyla inclined her head to him, but said nothing. Not looking at each other, Rodney and Sheppard shuffled a little closer together.*
Rodney has written the single greatest composition to ever be played by a violin. John plays that violin.*
Bob finds out what Ronon does for a living.* Follows Along the Wire and Heavy Connection.
Bob meets Ronon in an emergency room in Colorado. That fact…yeah, says something about the both of them when you consider that it was a tragic accident involving a sander, some duct tape, and one of Gerard’s shoes that landed Bob there, while Ronon was hit by a fucking bus and is still conscious.*
Bob might not remember why he decided to try to out-hardcore someone who was hit by a bus and remained conscious, but he’s totally invested in it now. And if Ronon just thought about it, he’d see just how badass Bob totally is. *
Mikey came awake to the buzzing of his pelvis and the annoyed realization that he’d clearly fallen asleep on his phone. He pulled it up, peered at the screen and noticed the time first. Three oh seven. Normally, that would have been enough for Mikey to just turn over and go back to sleep, figure he could deal with it in the morning, but there was only one number in the world that could bypass Mikey’s block on unidentified callers. Mikey pressed talk. “Ronon?”*
Set during first season, prior to “The Brotherhood”. Rodney doesn’t realize everything there is to know about John.*
This. This was something that needed to be taken care of. In a non-traditional sense.*
In the aftermath of Arcturus, Rodney deals with John’s loss of trust. Then John has to deal with the loss of Rodney.*
“Good morning, Elizabeth,” Rodney said cheerfully, getting into line behind her.*
“For this,” Zelenka told him, when Rodney related the horrific tale from the beginning to end, “for this we need vodka.”*
It annoys Rodney a great deal at first, because with every new second they spend together he’s begun thinking MINE. It’s irrational and stupid. But seriously, mine he thinks more than often.*
He didn’t know who started it but there was a wall on the Northeast Pier that the populace of Atlantis called “The Confessional”.*
Sentinel John Sheppard thought he’d spend his life unbonded and then he met Dr. Rodney McKay. The mission to Atlantis is their mutual path and they will gather the strongest, brightest, and best for the mission that will take them to another galaxy.*
Rodney McKay thought his biggest failure was the Arcturus Project and the destruction of 4/5ths of a solar system. John Sheppard thought losing his confidence in Rodney was the hardest loss he would ever face.
But their most terrible failures were yet to come, and they would each face losing everything, including themselves.* Sequel to Aegis.
In the beginning of their fourth year on Atlantis, the Expedition has survived the attack by the Asurans’ wormhole-powered satellite, and successfully flown Atlantis to a new planet with little damage and no casualties. But the city has barely landed when Rodney McKay receives a devastating message, and that’s just the beginning of a new and terrible threat.
Now, with all the Gifted on Atlantis in danger and Rodney facing imminent death, Rodney, Elizabeth Weir and John Sheppard are in a race against time to save the most powerful and vulnerable members of the Expedition. For John, that means confronting his deepest fears about his Gift—and even that might not be enough to save Rodney’s life.* Sequel to Aegis and Enthrall.
When Alec and Eliot bring Ronon home, some parts of the paradigm get shifted around.*
“Elizabeth,” he said, aggrieved. “She calls me. At my house. When I refused to answer her questions, she hacked my Tivo and erased all my backlogged Simpsons episodes. She snuck off-world once disguised as an adolescent Jaffa. With her around, it’s impossible to keep any kind of secret. Frankly, she’s a menace.” Set after SGA’s The Siege Part III. Futurefic for Veronica Mars.*
The expedition marks two years without help from Earth and by a stroke of luck finds a full ZPM. Installing that ZPM in their sleeping city has lasting consequences for the entire expedition.*
This is an alternate universe series in that Rodney McKay never went to Atlantis, the mission failed within it’s first two years and John Sheppard finds himself back on Earth as the second in command of Stargate Command under the leadership of Major General Jack O’Neill. Characters from the Atlantis series and the original SG1 series will figure prominently in all of the novellas in this series. McShep and many other pairings throughout.*
When a serial killer murders three marines on Atlantis, NCIS are called in to investigate. However, their arrival brings complications for everyone – revealing a lie, a prophecy, a secret and a nemesis. *
Who would have thought that defeating the Wraith was the least of Rodney’s worries?*