I'm in class. I'm bored. Radio AU snippet happened.
John wouldn't call himself stupid -- he considers himself a pretty smart guy, actually, although he doesn't necessarily let people see it all that often. And after all, he has the math degree to prove it.
But despite this -- despite this -- it never even occured to him. O'Neill said "some radio guy" was his next assignment; Rodney (no, John reminds himself, McKay, because calling him by his first name is just going too far somehow) is on a publicity tour... And yet, John never even considered putting two and two together.
So when the guy who looks strangely familiar sticks his hand out impatiently and says, "Rodney McKay, and can we please get the boring introductions over with so I can go to my hotel room?", John realizes two things: A, oh, Rodney -- McKay -- is apparently just like his radio persona, and B, he has been extremely, monumentally stupid (and also C, that explains the familiarity, because John might have, once or twice, a long time ago, looked at the radio channel's website, and, more specifically, Rodney's picture. He looks better in real life, John thinks, and then sternly tells himself not to go there).
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Yeah. (Oh, and yes, maybe I should clarify... In this AU, right now, at least, though that might change if/when I ever seriously write it... John is some security type person.)
But despite this -- despite this -- it never even occured to him. O'Neill said "some radio guy" was his next assignment; Rodney (no, John reminds himself, McKay, because calling him by his first name is just going too far somehow) is on a publicity tour... And yet, John never even considered putting two and two together.
So when the guy who looks strangely familiar sticks his hand out impatiently and says, "Rodney McKay, and can we please get the boring introductions over with so I can go to my hotel room?", John realizes two things: A, oh, Rodney -- McKay -- is apparently just like his radio persona, and B, he has been extremely, monumentally stupid (and also C, that explains the familiarity, because John might have, once or twice, a long time ago, looked at the radio channel's website, and, more specifically, Rodney's picture. He looks better in real life, John thinks, and then sternly tells himself not to go there).
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Yeah. (Oh, and yes, maybe I should clarify... In this AU, right now, at least, though that might change if/when I ever seriously write it... John is some security type person.)