First Night Challenge by Speranza

[cesperanza]

Title: Just Like Christmas
Author: Speranza
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay

Comments

[verstehen]

"I have the hand of power."

Classic!

Don't take this the wrong way, but reading this made me even more tired than I already am. Good job. ;)

[cesperanza]

Uh, thanks--I think? *g* I'm hoping this means that there was something realistic about the exhaustion, not that I bored you silly. *g* Thanks for commenting!

[verstehen]

Oh, that's it exactly. The exhaustion made me even more tired. I thought the sense of it was really well embedded in the story. ;)

[farwing]

I should be asleep. Instead I am reasing this. But I think I'll go to sleep now. Erg...not coherant. Sorry.

[cesperanza]

It's okay!--it's a perfectly reasonable response to a story about being sleepy. *g* Hope you liked!

[farwing]

Oh. Yes. I liked very much. Which I managed not to say in my comment. What a doof.

[merryish]

Man, you had me right off the bat, but this is where I fell in love:

It didn't seem very long at all before a very chipper looking Ford came in and said, "Hey, Doc; I didn't know you were fielding early shift," and then Ford must have gotten a good look at him because he recoiled, raising his arms to protect his face and said, "Whoa, okay. No coffee yet?"

Such a cool one-two punch of Ford and McKay characterization; I bought into both of them right there.

And this:

"Okay, so I will love you forever if you can make sure the goddamned thing never, ever talks to me again."

I may now have nightmares about talking coffeemakers. If there's any appliance anywhere that *shouldn't* talk to people, it's the coffee machines, man. Talking coffee machines would just be adding injury to insult. And yet I can buy the Ancients having them, because there's something about those people that just wasn't right, dude. :: shudder ::

[cesperanza]

Talking coffee machines would just be adding injury to insult.

Yeah, totally; shutting up is just what you'd want!

And hey, we did it, we did it! First story posted--high-five!

[ex_danvers514]

Sometime after that, Beckett did a near-perfect double take, first looking at Rodney and then his watch and then Rodney again. "Rodney--for God's sake!"

Loved that part the most. Very cool fic.

[cesperanza]

Thanks so much! I appreciate it! Writing in a new fandom is a terrifying thing, so I'm happy to know I was even in the yard. Yay!

[daughtershade]

McKay and Shep as neighbors.... hmmm that'd be interesting. Lovely as usual. Silly boys. :D

[cesperanza]

Yeah, it does have a sad, sick sitcom feeling, doesn't it? *g* Anyway, thanks!--glad you liked it.