McShep Match 2009 Masterlist!
The polls are now closed and votes will be counted as soon as possible - look out for the results coming to this community on Thursday.
Entries for the guessing game are also closed, and we'll be announcing the winners of the contest on Friday.
All particpant names should be on entries now, along with any beta thanks and other author notes you included with your submission. If we've missed any, or if you want to add beta thanks, please just let us know. Same applies if you spot any errors, though we've checked as best we can.
Please note that the fest is not over yet - you'll be able to post your entries for the fest to your own journal and/or website once the results are up, but please wait until then.
Before we head off to tackle the massive pile of votes, we'd like to say a huge thank you to our fantastic Team Captains lavvyan and kassrachel for all their hard work, to our artists aesc (who made the artwork and icons for this year's communities) and anna_luna (whose fabulous prize artwork you'll be able to admire soon) - and of course to everyone who took part and made the whole fest possible. Special thanks also go to our fabulous backup volunteers callmerizzo, curia_regis, gblvr and roaringmice. We can't possibly express how grateful we are for your help.
We'd also like to thank all our participants on both teams, who not only made that the shortest list of backup volunteers we've had yet, but organised their own interviews and volunteered themselves to offer prizes for the winners of the guessing contest. We always know we're lucky to have great participants in this fest, but you all went above and beyond and your enthusiasm for every part of the fest was very much appreciated by your mods.
Now for the masterlist of entries, and although I'm sure the voters had as much difficulty choosing as we would - may the best team win!
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Fanart
A Piece of the Action by sian1359 (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Piece of the Action
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Book Cover
Commeatus by leyna55 (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Leave of Absence
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Commeatus (latin): a furlough, or leave of absence, granted at the discretion of the military commander.
Far Away and Forever by mashimero (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Red Herring
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Under this blue sky the future seems so far away. John and Rodney take a trip to Red Herring Surf.
Holding On by chkc (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Top of the World
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Characters in varying states of dead/injured/unconsciousness. This is up to your interpretation.
Summary: Aftermath of a war against the Wraith. References: Quotes from the Art of War are from here: http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html. Ancient font is from here: http://www.thescifiworld.net/fonts.htm
House of Atlantis by jhava (Team War) [G]
Prompt: House of Cards
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (implied)
Warnings: None
Summary: An AU interpretation of Atlantis where swords are trump.
His Handicap by berlinghoff79 (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Line in the Sand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "Rodney used to have standards, lines he wouldn't cross. But with John, he just doesn't see them anymore."
M.I.A. by elli (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Red Herring
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Where do all those Sheppards come from?
Stargate Atlantis, War Stories, Comic add. by ladyamarra (Team War) [PG to slight NC-17]
Prompt: Tooth and Claw
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: A little nudity on page three, mindcontrol by a Wraith.
Summary: This is a preview for a part 9 of a 15 part fictional graphic novel called "Stargate Atlantis War Stories", presented like you would see it on Amazon or other pages. There are a few pages to preview the different colouring styles, and give a teaser of the plot. You will be able to follow the Atlantis Expedition in their struggles of war, cought between the Binary's Wraith fleet and the Replicators, and especially the story of Dr. Rodney McKay and John Sheppard who are the leading characters throughout the entire graphic novel.
Sunday Morning Catch by velocitygrass (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Fish Out of Water
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Uhm, implied interspecies romance and/or semi-animal transformation? Questionable treatment of mermaids (though I swear John will be happy with Rodney after ranting about how he wouldn't have had to use a net to catch him!)
Summary: A quiet Sunday morning away from the office gives Rodney more than he bargained for... The catch of his life!
Unsent Letters from the Water Planet by bmouse (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Dead Letter
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney is bad with vacations, even forced, our-jumper-burned-out-on-Waterworld vacations. Before too long he starts going through his backlog of journals, writing dead letters to old academic rivals to the tune of "Sometimes I get shot at, but my life is still better than yours! Also, your theory is wrong." John's just there to make sure he doesn't leave anything out...
Fanfic
7-9-13 by pollitt (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Knock on Wood
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney finds his faith.
A Heart Needs a Home by shrift (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: A House Divided
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes when a door closes, a closet opens.
Atmosphere by indy_go (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Top of the World
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Nowhere else to go but up.
Bargaining by elementalv (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Creature Comforts
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None, other than men being men and Ancient tech being Ancient tech.
Summary: “Broken. Dick.”
Coda by callmerizzo (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Swan Song
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: The silver Swan, who living had no Note / when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. (Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swan)
Daytime Drama by hyperfocused (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Open Season
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (plus various background canonical and fictional pairings)
Warnings: References to off-screen injury, occasional mention of fictionalized sexual and other crimes. Many soap opera tropes were harmed in the making of this story. 99.44% pure.
Summary: Will hero pilot John Sheppard accept the offer to start a new life as soap opera hunk Shep Johnson? Will “Atlantis!” wunderkind Rodney McKay (Rod Ingram/Meredith Ingram/series co-writer) finally win his first Zeddy? Will they find love, on-screen or off? Tune in past the cut to find out.
De Las Fantasmas by gblvr (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Skeleton in the Closet
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John has a secret....
Epiphanies Aren't Just For Ancients (and Other Hard Learned Lessons) by reddwarfer & djin7 (Team War) [PG-15]
Prompt: Balance of Power
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John Sheppard knows that sometimes, the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. But if he has to go down, he's taking Rodney with him.
Except For a Few Small Bruises by justbreathe80 (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Swan Song
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: He'd been living like this long enough to know what being scared felt like, and yet this wasn't like any of that. Rodney hadn't wanted to know so that he could hurt John or laugh at him or pigeon hole him as the bratty rich boy. He'd wanted to know John, and John knew that if he could keep from running, he might finally be free.
Five things that were in the cards, or, how love saved the pegasus galaxy by eccentricweft (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: House of Cards
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John wondered if there was a card for miraculously turn gay and fall in love with your best friend.
Fly Away by badwolf36 (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Fool's Paradise
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, Ronon/Amelia, Teyla/Kanaan
Warnings: Graphic torture (mostly off-screen)
Summary: Rodney has his perfect life with John on a sabbatical away from Atlantis. And a few nightmares were just the rewards of actually surviving to retirement age in the Pegasus Galaxy. Nothing to worry about at all.
Good Hunting by skinscript (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Open Season
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Character deaths.
Summary: Atlantis sends teams to compete in the once in a generation Pegasus fighting competition Shaur'Atan. Once there, it's open season and everyone gets more than they bargained for.
Grace, Too by perspi (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Fish Out of Water
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "One dance, and then we'll talk cease-fire," John promises, using his free hand to carefully slide Rodney's glasses off and fold them into his shirt pocket. "You'll be home in an hour."
Grounded by kassrachel (Team Peace) [Adult]
Prompt: Down to Earth
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (+ McKay/Keller)
Warnings: None
Summary: "Good news," John said, apparently ignoring his question. "Atlantis is returning to Pegasus!"
He Makes a Solitude and Calls it Peace
by villainny (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Fool's Paradise
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "I always thought the Vulcans had a point."
Heroes With A Plan by monanotlisa (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Carpe Diem
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (plus canon pairings of Season Five)
Warnings: None
Summary: The present was yesterday.
Imagine Whirled Peas by flyakate (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Sleight of Hand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, Teyla/Kanaan
Warnings: None
Summary: In which there are failed magic tricks, peanut butter and naps. Or, John and Rodney, Supportive Uncles and Master Babysitters.
It Doesn't Take a Genius by roaringmice (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Alter Ego
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Slash, swears, comedy.
Summary: Rodney is a man with a mission.
Late for the Arrival by deltacephei (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Writing on the Wall
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: It was no secret that people weren't Rodney's strong suit. This was probably the reason why he hadn't caught on before. The proverbial clue bus had rolled by four times before realization finally hit him like an expertly delivered kick to the head.
Like Gravity (It Doesn't Matter If You Believe In It) by pogrebin (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Down to Earth
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (minor McKay/Keller, Sheppard/Vala)
Warnings: Spoilers up to Season 10 of SG-1
Summary: Summary: What's left after the war is over; a series of snapshots in a life.
Like Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat by curia_regis (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Sleight of Hand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: When they discover alien ships heading towards Atlantis, Rodney has yet another brilliant plan to save them. Unfortunately, this plan goes horribly wrong.
Memento Mori (Seize the New Day) by neevebrody (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Carpe Diem
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Adult Situations, Language, Futuristic Earthside AU
Summary: Disgraced and shunned, Rodney McKay finds a way to fight back with the help of a rogue cop and a motley band of scientists.
(Murphy's) Laws Of War by mirasol (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Balance of Power
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: It is a bad thing to run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at the same time.
Pulled Out From Inside by altyronsmaker (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Around the Clock
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Manipulative sex
Summary: While exploring an uninhabited planet for future recreational use, John's team gets kidnapped, and he must fight his way to the outpost beyond the Ancient City to take back the team that was stolen.
Rise Above the Rest by soleta (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Knock on Wood
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard preslash
Warnings: None
Summary: When they lost Atlantis, he'd never thought they'd pay so dearly.
Romance Not Included by danceswithgary (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Call of the Wild
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Carter, Carter/O'Neill (implied)
Warnings: Gratuitous abuse of geography, ornithology, botany, and quite a few other 'graphies and 'ologies and 'anies to support the boys' adventure in the great outdoors.
Summary: There's one important thing to remember about islands; the only way to guarantee you'll find what you're looking for is to bring it with you.
Saving Sheppard by ldyanne (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Line in the Sand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney was eight the first time he met Death.
Shine Like the Sun by busaikko (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Point of No Return
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Canon character death. Violence.
Summary: Detective John Sheppard knew Ava Dixon was trouble as soon as she walked into his office looking for her brother. (7200 words, Vegas-verse Outcast AU)
Something to Remember You By by hestia_lacey (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Paper Tiger
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: None
Summary: In 1942, John Sheppard meets Rodney McKay.
Stars Against the Sun by almostnever (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Skeleton in the Closet
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: BDSM
Summary: Fighting the Wraith turns out to be the easy part.
Sticks and Stones (May Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me) by emeraldsword (Team War) [All]
Prompt: Feet of Clay
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "Are we going to crawl in there, assuming I can even fit through that gap, to get our faces chewed off by rodents with space-rabies?" - Set just after 'The Shrine'.
Storm Front by lavvyan (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Call of the Wild
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "What, so I'm going to end up a vegetable in some hospital bed while my mind goes frolicking among the waves, is that it?"
Technical Perspective: a civilised discourse in interior design by pennyplainknits (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Creature Comforts
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Melena, Vega/Mehra, but all in the background)
Warnings: None
Summary: Interior Designers AU, based very loosely on the Doris Day movie Pillow Talk. John Sheppard is a reclusive new designer, who invents an alter ego in order to get close to sarcastic but genius designer Rodney McKay, of Athos Partners. But what is truth, and what is a lie? And what will Rodney do when he finds out?
That Will Break You by mz_bstone (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Skin and Bone
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (+ McKay/Keller)
Warnings: Canonical character death, spoilers including dialogue for "The Last Man")
Summary: Life can break your bones. It can also stitch you back together.
The Color of His Heartbeat by sonadorita (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Dead Letter
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Can be interpreted as death!fic
Summary: After a tragic explosion, Rodney is caught between believing in alien tales and doubting his own sanity.
The Dread and Fear of Kings by valderys (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Coup de Grâce
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Angsty, some violence.
Summary: They were used to odd happenings and sudden danger, even on Atlantis itself. A woman's voice calling John to come away? That wasn't even a blip on the scanner - until John began to listen to it.
The Ethical Life by sabinelagrande (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Around the Clock
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: Some offensive language.
Summary: Rodney's system is already perfect, but it could be better.
The Fourteenth of Green by kyuuketsukirui (Team War) [Adult]
Prompt: Writing on the Wall
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Disturbing content.
Summary: It has been three weeks. Rodney marks another line on the wall. These ones are in red, a clean break to mark the days without John.
The Ingenious Dr. Rodney McKay of Atlantis by propinquitine (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Tilting at Windmills
Pairing(s): John/Rodney, with background Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Who would have thought that defeating the Wraith was the least of Rodney's worries?
The Ones You Leave Behind by taste_is_sweet (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Skin and Bone
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Squick; Sort of major character death
Summary: "I love you," Rodney said. "You can't die anymore."
The Weakness See by mamadeb (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Feet of Clay
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: For once, no one was attacking them.
This Side of the Mountain by wickedwords (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Tooth and Claw
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Zombie Apocalypse, 10 years later. A fusion with World War Z.
Those Three Words by argosy(Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Point of No Return
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John has something he wants to say, but it won't be easy.
Till It Shines (The Secret Life of Rodney McKay) by wesleysgirl (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Alter Ego
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: In an alternate universe where John Sheppard is a science fiction writer, he's getting his ass kicked by writer's block and moves to a small town in Maine for a fresh start in the form of one Rodney McKay, who as it turns out is more than meets the eye.
Twice Blessed by chellefic (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Coup de Grâce
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, McKay/Sheppard/Keller
Warnings: Het content
Summary: Even when things are peaceful, John can't seem to keep from doing dangerous things.
Wake by my_scheherazade (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Leave of Absence
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Character death
Summary: "Oh the blood and the treasure, and then losing it all. The time that we wasted, and the place where we fall. Will we wake in the morning and know what it was for, up in our bedroom, after the war?" -- The Beginning After the End by Stars
Walking Backwards by wintercreek (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Paper Tiger
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney's getting everything he always thought he wanted. But what if he already had it and didn't know?
War Games by kisahawklin (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: A House Divided
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Memories and discussion of torture, violence that could be read as dub-con. Discussion of roofies that ties into the potential dub-con violence.
Summary: Sheppard needed Rodney for his plan to work. Convincing Rodney was the hardest part of the plan.
Where the Brave Dare Not Go by telesilla (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Tilting at Windmills
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John Sheppard has had over twenty years to come to grips with the fact that every four or five weeks, he turns into a mountain lion. Like most Were, he accepts that that's just the way it is, and so he's not particularly interested when he learns that researchers at the local university are trying to to develop drugs that will help Were control their cycles. Then he meets Dr. Rodney McKay, a brilliant but irascible biochemist with reasons of his own for spearheading the university's Were research and John suddenly finds himself struggling with more than just his attraction to McKay.
Zugzwang by earlwyn (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Piece of the Action
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (brief mention of past McKay/Keller)
Warnings: None
Summary: Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. Rodney finds that relationships are a lot like that, too.
Entries for the guessing game are also closed, and we'll be announcing the winners of the contest on Friday.
All particpant names should be on entries now, along with any beta thanks and other author notes you included with your submission. If we've missed any, or if you want to add beta thanks, please just let us know. Same applies if you spot any errors, though we've checked as best we can.
Please note that the fest is not over yet - you'll be able to post your entries for the fest to your own journal and/or website once the results are up, but please wait until then.
Before we head off to tackle the massive pile of votes, we'd like to say a huge thank you to our fantastic Team Captains lavvyan and kassrachel for all their hard work, to our artists aesc (who made the artwork and icons for this year's communities) and anna_luna (whose fabulous prize artwork you'll be able to admire soon) - and of course to everyone who took part and made the whole fest possible. Special thanks also go to our fabulous backup volunteers callmerizzo, curia_regis, gblvr and roaringmice. We can't possibly express how grateful we are for your help.
We'd also like to thank all our participants on both teams, who not only made that the shortest list of backup volunteers we've had yet, but organised their own interviews and volunteered themselves to offer prizes for the winners of the guessing contest. We always know we're lucky to have great participants in this fest, but you all went above and beyond and your enthusiasm for every part of the fest was very much appreciated by your mods.
Now for the masterlist of entries, and although I'm sure the voters had as much difficulty choosing as we would - may the best team win!
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Fanart
A Piece of the Action by sian1359 (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Piece of the Action
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Book Cover
Commeatus by leyna55 (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Leave of Absence
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Commeatus (latin): a furlough, or leave of absence, granted at the discretion of the military commander.
Far Away and Forever by mashimero (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Red Herring
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Under this blue sky the future seems so far away. John and Rodney take a trip to Red Herring Surf.
Holding On by chkc (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Top of the World
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Characters in varying states of dead/injured/unconsciousness. This is up to your interpretation.
Summary: Aftermath of a war against the Wraith. References: Quotes from the Art of War are from here: http://www.chinapage.com/sunzi-e.html. Ancient font is from here: http://www.thescifiworld.net/fonts.htm
House of Atlantis by jhava (Team War) [G]
Prompt: House of Cards
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (implied)
Warnings: None
Summary: An AU interpretation of Atlantis where swords are trump.
His Handicap by berlinghoff79 (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Line in the Sand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "Rodney used to have standards, lines he wouldn't cross. But with John, he just doesn't see them anymore."
M.I.A. by elli (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Red Herring
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Where do all those Sheppards come from?
Stargate Atlantis, War Stories, Comic add. by ladyamarra (Team War) [PG to slight NC-17]
Prompt: Tooth and Claw
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: A little nudity on page three, mindcontrol by a Wraith.
Summary: This is a preview for a part 9 of a 15 part fictional graphic novel called "Stargate Atlantis War Stories", presented like you would see it on Amazon or other pages. There are a few pages to preview the different colouring styles, and give a teaser of the plot. You will be able to follow the Atlantis Expedition in their struggles of war, cought between the Binary's Wraith fleet and the Replicators, and especially the story of Dr. Rodney McKay and John Sheppard who are the leading characters throughout the entire graphic novel.
Sunday Morning Catch by velocitygrass (Team Peace) [G]
Prompt: Fish Out of Water
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Uhm, implied interspecies romance and/or semi-animal transformation? Questionable treatment of mermaids (though I swear John will be happy with Rodney after ranting about how he wouldn't have had to use a net to catch him!)
Summary: A quiet Sunday morning away from the office gives Rodney more than he bargained for... The catch of his life!
Unsent Letters from the Water Planet by bmouse (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Dead Letter
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney is bad with vacations, even forced, our-jumper-burned-out-on-Waterworld vacations. Before too long he starts going through his backlog of journals, writing dead letters to old academic rivals to the tune of "Sometimes I get shot at, but my life is still better than yours! Also, your theory is wrong." John's just there to make sure he doesn't leave anything out...
Fanfic
7-9-13 by pollitt (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Knock on Wood
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney finds his faith.
A Heart Needs a Home by shrift (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: A House Divided
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes when a door closes, a closet opens.
Atmosphere by indy_go (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Top of the World
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Nowhere else to go but up.
Bargaining by elementalv (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Creature Comforts
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None, other than men being men and Ancient tech being Ancient tech.
Summary: “Broken. Dick.”
Coda by callmerizzo (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Swan Song
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: The silver Swan, who living had no Note / when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. (Orlando Gibbons, The Silver Swan)
Daytime Drama by hyperfocused (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Open Season
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (plus various background canonical and fictional pairings)
Warnings: References to off-screen injury, occasional mention of fictionalized sexual and other crimes. Many soap opera tropes were harmed in the making of this story. 99.44% pure.
Summary: Will hero pilot John Sheppard accept the offer to start a new life as soap opera hunk Shep Johnson? Will “Atlantis!” wunderkind Rodney McKay (Rod Ingram/Meredith Ingram/series co-writer) finally win his first Zeddy? Will they find love, on-screen or off? Tune in past the cut to find out.
De Las Fantasmas by gblvr (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Skeleton in the Closet
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John has a secret....
Epiphanies Aren't Just For Ancients (and Other Hard Learned Lessons) by reddwarfer & djin7 (Team War) [PG-15]
Prompt: Balance of Power
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John Sheppard knows that sometimes, the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. But if he has to go down, he's taking Rodney with him.
Except For a Few Small Bruises by justbreathe80 (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Swan Song
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: He'd been living like this long enough to know what being scared felt like, and yet this wasn't like any of that. Rodney hadn't wanted to know so that he could hurt John or laugh at him or pigeon hole him as the bratty rich boy. He'd wanted to know John, and John knew that if he could keep from running, he might finally be free.
Five things that were in the cards, or, how love saved the pegasus galaxy by eccentricweft (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: House of Cards
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John wondered if there was a card for miraculously turn gay and fall in love with your best friend.
Fly Away by badwolf36 (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Fool's Paradise
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, Ronon/Amelia, Teyla/Kanaan
Warnings: Graphic torture (mostly off-screen)
Summary: Rodney has his perfect life with John on a sabbatical away from Atlantis. And a few nightmares were just the rewards of actually surviving to retirement age in the Pegasus Galaxy. Nothing to worry about at all.
Good Hunting by skinscript (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Open Season
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Character deaths.
Summary: Atlantis sends teams to compete in the once in a generation Pegasus fighting competition Shaur'Atan. Once there, it's open season and everyone gets more than they bargained for.
Grace, Too by perspi (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Fish Out of Water
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "One dance, and then we'll talk cease-fire," John promises, using his free hand to carefully slide Rodney's glasses off and fold them into his shirt pocket. "You'll be home in an hour."
Grounded by kassrachel (Team Peace) [Adult]
Prompt: Down to Earth
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (+ McKay/Keller)
Warnings: None
Summary: "Good news," John said, apparently ignoring his question. "Atlantis is returning to Pegasus!"
He Makes a Solitude and Calls it Peace
by villainny (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Fool's Paradise
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "I always thought the Vulcans had a point."
Heroes With A Plan by monanotlisa (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Carpe Diem
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (plus canon pairings of Season Five)
Warnings: None
Summary: The present was yesterday.
Imagine Whirled Peas by flyakate (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Sleight of Hand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, Teyla/Kanaan
Warnings: None
Summary: In which there are failed magic tricks, peanut butter and naps. Or, John and Rodney, Supportive Uncles and Master Babysitters.
It Doesn't Take a Genius by roaringmice (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Alter Ego
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Slash, swears, comedy.
Summary: Rodney is a man with a mission.
Late for the Arrival by deltacephei (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Writing on the Wall
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: It was no secret that people weren't Rodney's strong suit. This was probably the reason why he hadn't caught on before. The proverbial clue bus had rolled by four times before realization finally hit him like an expertly delivered kick to the head.
Like Gravity (It Doesn't Matter If You Believe In It) by pogrebin (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Down to Earth
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (minor McKay/Keller, Sheppard/Vala)
Warnings: Spoilers up to Season 10 of SG-1
Summary: Summary: What's left after the war is over; a series of snapshots in a life.
Like Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat by curia_regis (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Sleight of Hand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: When they discover alien ships heading towards Atlantis, Rodney has yet another brilliant plan to save them. Unfortunately, this plan goes horribly wrong.
Memento Mori (Seize the New Day) by neevebrody (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Carpe Diem
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Adult Situations, Language, Futuristic Earthside AU
Summary: Disgraced and shunned, Rodney McKay finds a way to fight back with the help of a rogue cop and a motley band of scientists.
(Murphy's) Laws Of War by mirasol (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Balance of Power
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: It is a bad thing to run out of airspeed, altitude and ideas all at the same time.
Pulled Out From Inside by altyronsmaker (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Around the Clock
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Manipulative sex
Summary: While exploring an uninhabited planet for future recreational use, John's team gets kidnapped, and he must fight his way to the outpost beyond the Ancient City to take back the team that was stolen.
Rise Above the Rest by soleta (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Knock on Wood
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard preslash
Warnings: None
Summary: When they lost Atlantis, he'd never thought they'd pay so dearly.
Romance Not Included by danceswithgary (Team Peace) [R]
Prompt: Call of the Wild
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Carter, Carter/O'Neill (implied)
Warnings: Gratuitous abuse of geography, ornithology, botany, and quite a few other 'graphies and 'ologies and 'anies to support the boys' adventure in the great outdoors.
Summary: There's one important thing to remember about islands; the only way to guarantee you'll find what you're looking for is to bring it with you.
Saving Sheppard by ldyanne (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Line in the Sand
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney was eight the first time he met Death.
Shine Like the Sun by busaikko (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Point of No Return
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Canon character death. Violence.
Summary: Detective John Sheppard knew Ava Dixon was trouble as soon as she walked into his office looking for her brother. (7200 words, Vegas-verse Outcast AU)
Something to Remember You By by hestia_lacey (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Paper Tiger
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: None
Summary: In 1942, John Sheppard meets Rodney McKay.
Stars Against the Sun by almostnever (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Skeleton in the Closet
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: BDSM
Summary: Fighting the Wraith turns out to be the easy part.
Sticks and Stones (May Break My Bones But Words Will Never Hurt Me) by emeraldsword (Team War) [All]
Prompt: Feet of Clay
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "Are we going to crawl in there, assuming I can even fit through that gap, to get our faces chewed off by rodents with space-rabies?" - Set just after 'The Shrine'.
Storm Front by lavvyan (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Call of the Wild
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: "What, so I'm going to end up a vegetable in some hospital bed while my mind goes frolicking among the waves, is that it?"
Technical Perspective: a civilised discourse in interior design by pennyplainknits (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Creature Comforts
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Melena, Vega/Mehra, but all in the background)
Warnings: None
Summary: Interior Designers AU, based very loosely on the Doris Day movie Pillow Talk. John Sheppard is a reclusive new designer, who invents an alter ego in order to get close to sarcastic but genius designer Rodney McKay, of Athos Partners. But what is truth, and what is a lie? And what will Rodney do when he finds out?
That Will Break You by mz_bstone (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Skin and Bone
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (+ McKay/Keller)
Warnings: Canonical character death, spoilers including dialogue for "The Last Man")
Summary: Life can break your bones. It can also stitch you back together.
The Color of His Heartbeat by sonadorita (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Dead Letter
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Can be interpreted as death!fic
Summary: After a tragic explosion, Rodney is caught between believing in alien tales and doubting his own sanity.
The Dread and Fear of Kings by valderys (Team War) [PG]
Prompt: Coup de Grâce
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Angsty, some violence.
Summary: They were used to odd happenings and sudden danger, even on Atlantis itself. A woman's voice calling John to come away? That wasn't even a blip on the scanner - until John began to listen to it.
The Ethical Life by sabinelagrande (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Around the Clock
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Warnings: Some offensive language.
Summary: Rodney's system is already perfect, but it could be better.
The Fourteenth of Green by kyuuketsukirui (Team War) [Adult]
Prompt: Writing on the Wall
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Disturbing content.
Summary: It has been three weeks. Rodney marks another line on the wall. These ones are in red, a clean break to mark the days without John.
The Ingenious Dr. Rodney McKay of Atlantis by propinquitine (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Tilting at Windmills
Pairing(s): John/Rodney, with background Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Who would have thought that defeating the Wraith was the least of Rodney's worries?
The Ones You Leave Behind by taste_is_sweet (Team War) [R]
Prompt: Skin and Bone
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Squick; Sort of major character death
Summary: "I love you," Rodney said. "You can't die anymore."
The Weakness See by mamadeb (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Feet of Clay
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: For once, no one was attacking them.
This Side of the Mountain by wickedwords (Team Peace) [PG-13]
Prompt: Tooth and Claw
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: Zombie Apocalypse, 10 years later. A fusion with World War Z.
Those Three Words by argosy(Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Point of No Return
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John has something he wants to say, but it won't be easy.
Till It Shines (The Secret Life of Rodney McKay) by wesleysgirl (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Alter Ego
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: In an alternate universe where John Sheppard is a science fiction writer, he's getting his ass kicked by writer's block and moves to a small town in Maine for a fresh start in the form of one Rodney McKay, who as it turns out is more than meets the eye.
Twice Blessed by chellefic (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Coup de Grâce
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, McKay/Sheppard/Keller
Warnings: Het content
Summary: Even when things are peaceful, John can't seem to keep from doing dangerous things.
Wake by my_scheherazade (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: Leave of Absence
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Character death
Summary: "Oh the blood and the treasure, and then losing it all. The time that we wasted, and the place where we fall. Will we wake in the morning and know what it was for, up in our bedroom, after the war?" -- The Beginning After the End by Stars
Walking Backwards by wintercreek (Team Peace) [PG]
Prompt: Paper Tiger
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller, Teyla/Kanaan, Ronon/Amelia
Warnings: None
Summary: Rodney's getting everything he always thought he wanted. But what if he already had it and didn't know?
War Games by kisahawklin (Team War) [PG-13]
Prompt: A House Divided
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: Memories and discussion of torture, violence that could be read as dub-con. Discussion of roofies that ties into the potential dub-con violence.
Summary: Sheppard needed Rodney for his plan to work. Convincing Rodney was the hardest part of the plan.
Where the Brave Dare Not Go by telesilla (Team War) [NC-17]
Prompt: Tilting at Windmills
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Warnings: None
Summary: John Sheppard has had over twenty years to come to grips with the fact that every four or five weeks, he turns into a mountain lion. Like most Were, he accepts that that's just the way it is, and so he's not particularly interested when he learns that researchers at the local university are trying to to develop drugs that will help Were control their cycles. Then he meets Dr. Rodney McKay, a brilliant but irascible biochemist with reasons of his own for spearheading the university's Were research and John suddenly finds himself struggling with more than just his attraction to McKay.
Zugzwang by earlwyn (Team Peace) [NC-17]
Prompt: Piece of the Action
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard (brief mention of past McKay/Keller)
Warnings: None
Summary: Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. Rodney finds that relationships are a lot like that, too.