[Stargate: Atlantis] Rodney McKay's Sooper Sekrit Scrapbook
Title: Rodney McKay's Sooper Sekrit Scrapbook
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard, pre-slash
Genre: CRACK
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Summary: Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, so when Radek comes to him about this Thing, Rodney can't really say no.
Notes: I'm trying to break out of my writer's block and have been tinkering with old snippets and wahtnot. This started as an idea I had stuck in my head about a year ago based on this stupid little thing I did in Photoshop, but I couldn't find a way to make it work the way I'd planned, so it's been sitting on my harddrive gathering dust. Um. So. It's changed a bit since then.
Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, so when Radek comes to him about this Thing, Rodney can't really say no.
(Well, okay, he can. He really, really can, but he also really, really, really can't.)
So.
There's a tiny little voice in the back of his mind telling him what a horrible idea it is, that it's all going to end in disaster of some form - and quite possibly tears on someone's part - but he gives the okay and Radek smiles.
(That's when Rodney remembers that he's dealing with Radek and prepares himself for the worst.)
Every Friday after that Radek and a surprisingly large number of the scientists - some of whom Rodney would never had expected - take over a lab on the lower levels for their nefarious purposes and Rodney pretends he has absolutely no idea what goes on down there.
(Only he does, god help him, he does.)
Somehow, Rodney's never really sure how, Sheppard catches on and goes to investigate. Rodney just stares at him when he tells him, because Sheppard is bouncing on his feet and has this...this highly disturbing twinkle in his eye and god, he's like a little kid.
Rodney's not all that surprised when Sheppard gives up his stint as a junior detective and joins Radek and the others in their endeavors, mainly because it's Sheppard. He does things like that.
(Rodney doesn't even try to understand anymore, he just nods and pretends to listen when Sheppard tells him about whatever they're doing while making plans to deny, deny deny should Elizabeth happen to ask.)
A few months after Sheppard begins taking part in Radek's Thing - Rodney refuses to call it anything else because he likes to imagine he has some semblance of dignity - Rodney realizes he's made a terrible, terrible mistake.
(It's embarrassing, really, that he didn't stop to think that letting Radek run 'Drunken Scrapbooking Night' out of one of the labs might lead to something like this.)
He just kind of stares at Radek and Sheppard when they present him with a -
"It's a scrapbook, Rodney." Sheppard says, "It's not going to...I don't know, jump up and bite you or anything."
Rodney continues to stare, because yes.
"Colonel," Radek shifts uneasily and looks over at Sheppard. "Do you not remember - "
Rodney can see the exact moment Sheppard does remember, his eyes going wide with realization.
"Oh. Oh, yeah. But that only happened that one time, and besides, how was I supposed to know that was going to happen?"
Radek stares at Sheppard this time. Even if they hadn't known what the device would do, there's really no other way to interpret 'Colonel, no! Don't touch that!'
"Anyway," Sheppard taps the scrapbook's cover. "Take a look at it, McKay. Everyone worked on it."
Sheppard leaves after that, and Radek takes a moment to say absolutely nothing as he watches Rodney.
Rodney's about to ask him if he has nothing better to do with when Radek's face lights up with this, this smile, and Rodney has to fight the urge to back away slowly.
"Just so you know, the Colonel helped with it as well." There's no mistaking the look in his eyes. "He spent a great deal of time and effort on it."
Rodney waits until Radek leaves, chuckling quietly to himself in a wholly disconcerting manner, before he opens the scrapbook. And then kind of wishes he hadn't, because he'd never realized that his people were really secretly fourteen year-old girls. There's enough glitter and sparkles and eye-blinding colors for a whole herd, or pack or whatever of teenage girls, and he kind of wants to cry.
Only kind of, but that's before he reaches what has to be Sheppard's contribution to the truly horrendous piece of work. That's when he wonders if he's finally snapped, just gone over the edge and -
"I totally mean that." Sheppard's voice comes out of nowhere, and Rodney almost drops the scrapbook when he turns around to see him standing in the doorway of the lab.
"Sheppard - "
Sheppard smiles and takes something out of his pocket. "This is for you."
He's staring again, at a complete loss for words. His life can't be this strange, can it?
Apparently it can, because Sheppard's suddenly right there, leaning in to whisper. "You're so totally my best friend forever, Rodney."
Rodney jerks his head back to look at him, eyes narrowed, but beneath the infuriating smirk he sees, well.
"You - “
Sheppard reaches out and presses what he's holding into Rodney's free hand. “Meet me by the lockers for lunch tomorrow?” He says, sounding completely serious despite the dorky smile on his face.
Rodney rolls his eyes and nods, not even surprised that they're both thinking along the same lines, and wonders if Sheppard's going to have have Radek pass him a note in sixth period or something equally juvenile and stupid.
“You do realize that we're not actually in high school here, don't you?” He has to ask, just to be sure. There's never any telling in Pegasus.
Sheppard just smiles and walks away, leaving Rodney alone with his stupid scrapbook and a heart-shaped necklace with the words 'Best Friends' engraved on it.
(He doesn't plan on keeping either of them because he's not a fourteen year-old girl. At least, that was what he tells himself, right before he stuffs the scrapbook it into the back of the the bookshelf in his quarters with the necklace pressed between the pages.)
Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, and then there are times when it's definitely worth it.
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard, pre-slash
Genre: CRACK
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Summary: Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, so when Radek comes to him about this Thing, Rodney can't really say no.
Notes: I'm trying to break out of my writer's block and have been tinkering with old snippets and wahtnot. This started as an idea I had stuck in my head about a year ago based on this stupid little thing I did in Photoshop, but I couldn't find a way to make it work the way I'd planned, so it's been sitting on my harddrive gathering dust. Um. So. It's changed a bit since then.
Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, so when Radek comes to him about this Thing, Rodney can't really say no.
(Well, okay, he can. He really, really can, but he also really, really, really can't.)
So.
There's a tiny little voice in the back of his mind telling him what a horrible idea it is, that it's all going to end in disaster of some form - and quite possibly tears on someone's part - but he gives the okay and Radek smiles.
(That's when Rodney remembers that he's dealing with Radek and prepares himself for the worst.)
Every Friday after that Radek and a surprisingly large number of the scientists - some of whom Rodney would never had expected - take over a lab on the lower levels for their nefarious purposes and Rodney pretends he has absolutely no idea what goes on down there.
(Only he does, god help him, he does.)
Somehow, Rodney's never really sure how, Sheppard catches on and goes to investigate. Rodney just stares at him when he tells him, because Sheppard is bouncing on his feet and has this...this highly disturbing twinkle in his eye and god, he's like a little kid.
Rodney's not all that surprised when Sheppard gives up his stint as a junior detective and joins Radek and the others in their endeavors, mainly because it's Sheppard. He does things like that.
(Rodney doesn't even try to understand anymore, he just nods and pretends to listen when Sheppard tells him about whatever they're doing while making plans to deny, deny deny should Elizabeth happen to ask.)
A few months after Sheppard begins taking part in Radek's Thing - Rodney refuses to call it anything else because he likes to imagine he has some semblance of dignity - Rodney realizes he's made a terrible, terrible mistake.
(It's embarrassing, really, that he didn't stop to think that letting Radek run 'Drunken Scrapbooking Night' out of one of the labs might lead to something like this.)
He just kind of stares at Radek and Sheppard when they present him with a -
"It's a scrapbook, Rodney." Sheppard says, "It's not going to...I don't know, jump up and bite you or anything."
Rodney continues to stare, because yes.
"Colonel," Radek shifts uneasily and looks over at Sheppard. "Do you not remember - "
Rodney can see the exact moment Sheppard does remember, his eyes going wide with realization.
"Oh. Oh, yeah. But that only happened that one time, and besides, how was I supposed to know that was going to happen?"
Radek stares at Sheppard this time. Even if they hadn't known what the device would do, there's really no other way to interpret 'Colonel, no! Don't touch that!'
"Anyway," Sheppard taps the scrapbook's cover. "Take a look at it, McKay. Everyone worked on it."
Sheppard leaves after that, and Radek takes a moment to say absolutely nothing as he watches Rodney.
Rodney's about to ask him if he has nothing better to do with when Radek's face lights up with this, this smile, and Rodney has to fight the urge to back away slowly.
"Just so you know, the Colonel helped with it as well." There's no mistaking the look in his eyes. "He spent a great deal of time and effort on it."
Rodney waits until Radek leaves, chuckling quietly to himself in a wholly disconcerting manner, before he opens the scrapbook. And then kind of wishes he hadn't, because he'd never realized that his people were really secretly fourteen year-old girls. There's enough glitter and sparkles and eye-blinding colors for a whole herd, or pack or whatever of teenage girls, and he kind of wants to cry.
Only kind of, but that's before he reaches what has to be Sheppard's contribution to the truly horrendous piece of work. That's when he wonders if he's finally snapped, just gone over the edge and -
"I totally mean that." Sheppard's voice comes out of nowhere, and Rodney almost drops the scrapbook when he turns around to see him standing in the doorway of the lab.
"Sheppard - "
Sheppard smiles and takes something out of his pocket. "This is for you."
He's staring again, at a complete loss for words. His life can't be this strange, can it?
Apparently it can, because Sheppard's suddenly right there, leaning in to whisper. "You're so totally my best friend forever, Rodney."
Rodney jerks his head back to look at him, eyes narrowed, but beneath the infuriating smirk he sees, well.
"You - “
Sheppard reaches out and presses what he's holding into Rodney's free hand. “Meet me by the lockers for lunch tomorrow?” He says, sounding completely serious despite the dorky smile on his face.
Rodney rolls his eyes and nods, not even surprised that they're both thinking along the same lines, and wonders if Sheppard's going to have have Radek pass him a note in sixth period or something equally juvenile and stupid.
“You do realize that we're not actually in high school here, don't you?” He has to ask, just to be sure. There's never any telling in Pegasus.
Sheppard just smiles and walks away, leaving Rodney alone with his stupid scrapbook and a heart-shaped necklace with the words 'Best Friends' engraved on it.
(He doesn't plan on keeping either of them because he's not a fourteen year-old girl. At least, that was what he tells himself, right before he stuffs the scrapbook it into the back of the the bookshelf in his quarters with the necklace pressed between the pages.)
Life in Pegasus isn't impossible, but there are days, weeks, months when it feels like it, and then there are times when it's definitely worth it.