Remember Paul Van Riper, by paradise_city

[paradise_city]

Title: Remember Paul Van Riper
Pairing: McKay/Brown, McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7700
Challenge: Sickness
Summary: There's more than one battlefield on which to play a war game.

Comments

[panisdead]

"Then I guess I'm just 77.17392% better than you are."

Heeeeee.

This was a lot of fun.

[paradise_city]

Thanks! The way I see it, they're living in a floating, flying Ancient city. What's not fun about that? I dig fic that reflects the general omgwtfery of it all. :)

[spankys]

This story was very sweet and well written. Go Zelenka. (Although I don't know who Paul Van Riper is...)

[paradise_city]

Thanks, glad you liked it. Zelenka was one of my favorite bits to write.

And in case you were still curious, Paul Van Riper was a military general who took part in this huge, expensive American wargame. He was essentially set up to lose, and then surprised everyone (and totally screwed everything up) when he won. I imagine it was quite the scandal at the time.

Anyway, thanks for reading!

[winterknight]

I'm so glad I read this. This totally made my evening and I laughed so hard. Really nicely done. It made for a lovely break.

(And now I go back to pounding out a novel for deadline.)

[paradise_city]

Awesome. Being able to make strangers laugh is one of the best parts of fandom. :)

Good luck with the deadline!

[mirabile_dictu]

Charming and smart and funny. Thank you so much!

[paradise_city]

Thanks for reading -- glad you enjoyed it. I don't think anyone's called my fic "smart" before. Sweet. :)

[elyssadc]

I couldn't have loved this more. Absolutely delightful and well written and the characterizations thrilled me to no end. Just fantastic.

[paradise_city]

Thank you so much! I was trying to challenge myself here to write believable characterizations that didn't automatically call for a suspension of disbelief, so I am thrilled that they worked for you. :)