Kisstory

[luthien]

Kisstory
by luthien
Rating: PG
Summary: Rodney's kisstory.
Word count: ~2500
Note 1: I found this lurking on my hard drive, almost finished. So... I finished it.
Note 2: This story mentions various additional pairings, including McKay/Keller, McKay/Brown and McKay/various OFCs

Comments

[mecurtin]

Your awesomeness cannot be encompassed by mere text.

I find this version of Rodney 100% believable: he tried to use science! he did! but there's nothing that dooms an experiment like looking at the wrong variables.

In my mind, I shall link this Rodney up with the incarnation from "A Farm in Iowa", whose Big Gay Freakout came because he felt *stupid* -- the worst of feelings, for him. This Rodney might be like that too, might self-sabotage because he'd been so *dumb* all those years, just assuming he was straight.

Wonderful, excellent! I really need to make a fireworks icon.

[luthien]

Thanks! I'm really, really happy that his scientific perspective of this problem worked so well for you. :-) It's always a bit of a wild ride getting back into Rodney's brain when I haven't written from his POV for a while. *g*

I hadn't thought of Iowa Rodney in relation to this one, but you're right, it's definitely the same sort of blindness and epiphany. I have some pretty clear ideas about what will happen the next morning for these two, and neither of them is going to be anything like as relaxed as they are right now. I don't think this Rodney will have a Big Gay Freakout, exactly, but once he really starts to think about how lacking in self-awareness he's been, he's not going to be too happy. And then, of course, there's the novel experience of actually wanting to kiss someone and trying to stop himself from doing it too much. ;-)

[mecurtin]

I ENDORSE THIS FIC IDEA IN CAPSLOCK! And am prepared to cheer, beta, or just wave my pom-poms in your general direction should you be moved to write it. \o/

[luthien]

Thanks. :-) I had planned to include all that in the story originally, actually, which is why I'm pretty sure of where things would go next.

I have another story to write that is promised to someone and has been held up by RL getting in the way for the past few months, but now I'm back in a writing phase I should be able to do both. I'd like to do both, anyway. Once Rodney gets stuck in your head, he's hard to shift!

[mecurtin]

also -- I don't think this Rodney will have a Big Gay Freakout, exactly, but once he really starts to think about how lacking in self-awareness he's been, he's not going to be too happy.

Yes, that's what I meant to be saying, sorry if I wasn't clear.

I find it hard to buy *any* Rodney (except for some pretty farout AUs) having a true Big Gay Freakout, but it's really easy to imagine him having a Big Stupid Freakout. To discover that he had been *thinking wrong*, that would be kind of crushing for him.

[luthien]

Oh, I see what you meant now. (Duh.) Yes, I agree. He gets all defensive about some of the things that he knows are not his strong points, but *thinking* is a central part of what he does well. To realise that he's been doing that so wrong that he didn't even notice... *wince*