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slashthedrabble #71 - Masks
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darkhavensDamnation! Last night (okay, early this morning :P) I wrote this piece for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
slashthedrabble, meaning to post and then close the challenge. I got distracted by CSI Miami. Ryan Wolf is cute, but Delco's still in mourning for Tim Speedle and Horatio just does nothing for me at all, so while Wolf's eminently slashable he will remain unslashed. Not that I'd write anything, but it's amusing to know that my slash goggles are working so well I can actually find someone slashable without anyone to slash him with. *g*
Author: darkhavens
Title: Never Strangers 1/1
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General viewing
Words: 200
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Notes: written forslashthedrabble #71 - Masks
John wears Colonel Sheppard like a mask, all rank and distance, ridiculously casual but always unattached. He wears his duty like a shroud, prepared to sacrifice himself so others never have to die for him.
Rodney's mask is him, with minor edits; it's ingenious. He talks and talks and rants and talks some more, focussing on his genius, his brain, his worth, his allergies.
He quantifies how they're going to die on any given day, spewing out the fine minutiae of his calculations.
No one ever tries to cut through all that bluster, pomp and ego to ask him how he really feels or what he really wants - they think they know. They've heard him talk for hours on food, on science, on blondes, on how he's going to win the Nobel Prize as soon as he can publish just a lone percentage point of what he knows. They think he has no secrets.
The more time John and Rodney spend together, the more naked they become. Masks slip and slide, eventually discarded. They see each other - they think they always have. These men beneath the masks were never strangers.
Their first 'thank God you're alive' kiss still surprises them.
slashthedrabble, meaning to post and then close the challenge. I got distracted by CSI Miami. Ryan Wolf is cute, but Delco's still in mourning for Tim Speedle and Horatio just does nothing for me at all, so while Wolf's eminently slashable he will remain unslashed. Not that I'd write anything, but it's amusing to know that my slash goggles are working so well I can actually find someone slashable without anyone to slash him with. *g* Author: darkhavens
Title: Never Strangers 1/1
Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: General viewing
Words: 200
Disclaimer: Not mine, never will be. No harm, no foul, no money made.
Notes: written for
slashthedrabble #71 - MasksJohn wears Colonel Sheppard like a mask, all rank and distance, ridiculously casual but always unattached. He wears his duty like a shroud, prepared to sacrifice himself so others never have to die for him.
Rodney's mask is him, with minor edits; it's ingenious. He talks and talks and rants and talks some more, focussing on his genius, his brain, his worth, his allergies.
He quantifies how they're going to die on any given day, spewing out the fine minutiae of his calculations.
No one ever tries to cut through all that bluster, pomp and ego to ask him how he really feels or what he really wants - they think they know. They've heard him talk for hours on food, on science, on blondes, on how he's going to win the Nobel Prize as soon as he can publish just a lone percentage point of what he knows. They think he has no secrets.
The more time John and Rodney spend together, the more naked they become. Masks slip and slide, eventually discarded. They see each other - they think they always have. These men beneath the masks were never strangers.
Their first 'thank God you're alive' kiss still surprises them.
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on 2006-04-09 09:17 pm (UTC):)
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on 2006-04-16 11:55 pm (UTC)*continues to spam you with overdue fb replies*
One day I will get caught up! This is what comes of posting fic five or six times a week. Do you think I should stop that? *g*
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on 2006-04-17 12:56 am (UTC)I'm perfectlyl happy to be spammed if it means all those fics.
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*bounce*
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on 2006-04-17 05:20 am (UTC)Yay!
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Heheh. Good on you!
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on 2006-04-09 09:54 pm (UTC)No one ever tries to cut through all that bluster, pomp and ego to ask him how he really feels or what he really wants - they think they know.
I really liked this line.
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on 2006-04-17 12:05 am (UTC)I'm sure our Rodney has umplumbed depths. Now, if only John would get a move on and start plumbing! *g*
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on 2006-04-09 10:13 pm (UTC)Is it ok if I friend you?
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on 2006-04-09 10:24 pm (UTC)Absolutely love your header. 4 of my favourite guys in one place, what more could a girl ask for?
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on 2006-04-09 11:14 pm (UTC)Good job!
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on 2006-04-17 12:06 am (UTC)Thank you!
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on 2006-04-17 12:07 am (UTC)I can see that kiss happening so clearly after some near-death experience or another, and then the stunned expressions and the dawning realisation... *happy sigh*
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on 2006-04-10 07:41 am (UTC)Many of my fan friends think we know so much about McKay and so little of Sheppard. But I say the you hear McKay speak more, but he doesn't say much more than Sheppard does about his background.
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on 2006-04-17 12:12 am (UTC)And yes, exactly. We know he's allergic to citrus, and he played the piano as a kid and built a bomb, but beyond that, it's pretty much as cloudy as John's former life. he's a sneaky one, that Rodney. :D
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on 2006-04-17 12:14 am (UTC)They're both very good at hiding like that, and it just makes me watch even more eagerly, waiting for them to let slip some tiny detail. :D
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