SGA: The Best Things in Life Are Free (3/8)

[smittywing]

A longer part this time. Thanks always to reccea for the beta and also miss_porcupine for entertaining my grumpiness of yesterday? Tuesday? monanotlisa made the adorable Young!Rodney icon. :D

The Best Things in Life Are Free (Link goes to summary link post with previous parts and additions.
High School AU
Rated: R (really, this time)
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay (eventually)

Comments

[amothea]

rofl, great chapter. :) thanks so much for sharing. I don't think I smiled this much reading a story in a long time.

[smittywing]

Thank you! I'm glad you're having as much fun reading it as I am writing it. :)

[marag]

Heh. I love that Rodney memorized the bartending book!

[smittywing]

*grin* Thank you! He had to be prepared you know! If there's one thing Rodney knows how to do, it's study.

[fatuorum]

I'm grinning all the way through and loving every bit of this *G* Go Smitty, go!

yay for them watching top gun!

[smittywing]

Yay! Thank you. :)

(Yeah, that's why I was watching Top Gun in the first place - I needed actual reference scenes for them to squee over.)

[trinityofone]

I get so excited now when I see a new part of this, and you never disappoint. It's so sweet, but it's also real--all the emotions resonate. I think what really gets me is that while they have a lot of the same angst--navigating high school can seem just as deadly as navigating the Pegasus Galaxy, and I am not being facetious when I say that--they're so young, and there's so much hope for the future. That just kills me.

[smittywing]

Wow, my socks are most completely rocked by your comment. :) What you say sort of reminds me of Joss Whedon's explanation of high school and how Buffy just gave the monsters a name and a face instead of an abstract construct. I think possibly Rodney and Joss would understand each other pretty well. Thank you very very much. :)

[rageprufrock]

No, for real, I get this hilariously tardtastic smile on my face every time I see that you've posted another chapter of this deliciously funny, superbly 80's story. Totally gut-busting throwbacks to my own childhood. Also? John needs to become unnaturally excited by Top Gun. I'm just saying.

[smittywing]

It is taking all my willpower not to use the word "tardtastic" in a professional capacity these days. THANKS.

Top Gun is probably the closest John and Rodney get to simultaneous orgasms. Thank you. :) (Without the sarcastic overtones of above.)