rec: out of west [stargate: atlantis, mckay/sheppard]
Out of West
Stargate: Atlantis. McKay/Sheppard, AU.
Summary: In 1991, Desert Storm began, Pete Rose got banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Rodney McKay was framed for academic fraud.
This is. Just. So fucking beautiful, and it hurt, the first time reading this - echoes of what if, what if pressed into the narrative like bruises, the empty and the quiet. This is Rodney's story - Silicon Valley tycoon, driving cross-country to return the car he took from his ex - but also sort of John's; it's the story of a sunset-stained roadtrip, and another one twenty years earlier, different passengers but the same ghosts in the back seat. It's pulled, evocative, and their relationship unfurls slowly, beautifully, like bright cloth unwound by the wind. It's just. I really. Have no words, I've said too much already.
Stargate: Atlantis. McKay/Sheppard, AU.
Summary: In 1991, Desert Storm began, Pete Rose got banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Rodney McKay was framed for academic fraud.
This is. Just. So fucking beautiful, and it hurt, the first time reading this - echoes of what if, what if pressed into the narrative like bruises, the empty and the quiet. This is Rodney's story - Silicon Valley tycoon, driving cross-country to return the car he took from his ex - but also sort of John's; it's the story of a sunset-stained roadtrip, and another one twenty years earlier, different passengers but the same ghosts in the back seat. It's pulled, evocative, and their relationship unfurls slowly, beautifully, like bright cloth unwound by the wind. It's just. I really. Have no words, I've said too much already.