searching for a McShep fic

[ladderbacksock]

I have searched and searched for this fic to no avail, even tho I read it on Ao3 quite recently. It’s set on Atlantis, and starts with the discovery of 5(?) more chairs, which opens up all kind of new possibilities for the city’s inhabitants. A key character is the Head of Security, a mathematically/scientifically gifted South Asian woman whose

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[runpunkrun]

Sounds like it might be:

Indelible (128382 words) by shaenie
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Evan Lorne
Additional Tags: Space Battles, ritual spanking, Podfic Available
Summary:
John has a useful gift for compartmentalization: he discards the irrelevant and moves on. Then Rodney makes an ill-considered move on a mission, John steps up to take responsibility for making reparations to the locals, and things take a turn for the complicated as Rodney, an alien society, and an armada of ships make standard operating procedure completely impossible.

[ladderbacksock]

🎉Thank you, thank you, thank you - this is the one. 🙏🎉