Case At Hand by neevebrody (M)
Show: SGA
Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: neevebrody
Author's Website:
Link: Case At Hand
Why This Must Be Read:
John Sheppard as a detective always seems like a natural fit and this AU is a perfect example. He and freelance medical examiner Rodney are on the trail of a very different type of killer and the case might hit a little too close to home.
Excerpt:
The name's John Sheppard. I work as a private investigator here in the city. I've worked every kind of case from corporate espionage to busting cheating spouses, but for the past couple of years, I've had the dubious fortune of working some of your more unusual cases. My partner in crime, so to speak, is Doctor Rodney McKay.
People think it's a joke when he describes himself as a freelance medical examiner, but that's really what he is. He's associated through the FBI and someone there once told me that McKay was a brilliant med student, could have walked right into a six figure a year practice, but he turned it down. He's from one of those old money families upstate. A famous orthopaedic surgeon, it was his father who wanted him to be a doctor, but Rodney's his own man. He never wanted to practice medicine - you have to deal with people all the time and have a modicum of a bedside manner - and Rodney's not your basic people person, he's perfectly happy with his dead bodies. I personally think he went to med school just so he could prove he knew more than any of the instructors and his old man put together.
He may be all arrogance and bluster, but make no mistake; he's damn good at what he does. He can find an elusive cause of death where three other MEs can't. He has ways to make a dead body talk to him, seriously a real talent.
How we got together isn't really important. Let's just say we met while both of us were consulting on a case with the cops. I mentioned the Twelfth Precinct. My contact there is a guy named Ronon Dex. He calls me up sometimes when he's got an unusual case. Great guy, a no excuses, no holds barred, take no prisoners kind of cop. We hit it off right away. As an ex-CID officer, I guess we just see things the same way. The work with Dex is strictly pro bono. We work those cases for the sheer challenge and the thrill of helping catch the bad guys.
McKay and I were like oil and water at first, but by the end of that first case, which he solved by the way, we were kind of inseparable. A couple of months later, he invited me to share his townhouse, where he lived alone. I think I'm just about the only live person he can stand being around on an extended basis, and I was having a hard time trying to make the paycheck from one investigating job stretch to the next, so I didn't need much convincing. Don't get me wrong, I pay my way around here, even though Rodney tries to refuse me every time. It's a great arrangement and besides, McKay stimulates my brain and believe me, there aren't too many people I can say that about.
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Rec Category: Sheppard/McKay
Characters:: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Het/Slash/Gen: Slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: neevebrody
Author's Website:
Link: Case At Hand
Why This Must Be Read:
John Sheppard as a detective always seems like a natural fit and this AU is a perfect example. He and freelance medical examiner Rodney are on the trail of a very different type of killer and the case might hit a little too close to home.
Excerpt:
The name's John Sheppard. I work as a private investigator here in the city. I've worked every kind of case from corporate espionage to busting cheating spouses, but for the past couple of years, I've had the dubious fortune of working some of your more unusual cases. My partner in crime, so to speak, is Doctor Rodney McKay.
People think it's a joke when he describes himself as a freelance medical examiner, but that's really what he is. He's associated through the FBI and someone there once told me that McKay was a brilliant med student, could have walked right into a six figure a year practice, but he turned it down. He's from one of those old money families upstate. A famous orthopaedic surgeon, it was his father who wanted him to be a doctor, but Rodney's his own man. He never wanted to practice medicine - you have to deal with people all the time and have a modicum of a bedside manner - and Rodney's not your basic people person, he's perfectly happy with his dead bodies. I personally think he went to med school just so he could prove he knew more than any of the instructors and his old man put together.
He may be all arrogance and bluster, but make no mistake; he's damn good at what he does. He can find an elusive cause of death where three other MEs can't. He has ways to make a dead body talk to him, seriously a real talent.
How we got together isn't really important. Let's just say we met while both of us were consulting on a case with the cops. I mentioned the Twelfth Precinct. My contact there is a guy named Ronon Dex. He calls me up sometimes when he's got an unusual case. Great guy, a no excuses, no holds barred, take no prisoners kind of cop. We hit it off right away. As an ex-CID officer, I guess we just see things the same way. The work with Dex is strictly pro bono. We work those cases for the sheer challenge and the thrill of helping catch the bad guys.
McKay and I were like oil and water at first, but by the end of that first case, which he solved by the way, we were kind of inseparable. A couple of months later, he invited me to share his townhouse, where he lived alone. I think I'm just about the only live person he can stand being around on an extended basis, and I was having a hard time trying to make the paycheck from one investigating job stretch to the next, so I didn't need much convincing. Don't get me wrong, I pay my way around here, even though Rodney tries to refuse me every time. It's a great arrangement and besides, McKay stimulates my brain and believe me, there aren't too many people I can say that about.
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