new fic: Reaction (SGA/MENSAverse)

[hth]

Reaction
by Hth

"McKay & Mrs. Miller" alternate universe (aka, the MENSAverse)
John Sheppard/Rod McKay (yes, really)
5600 words, PG-13ish


"If you shut up a second, I’m trying to ask you to dinner," Sheppard said.

"Isn’t that what– Oh," Rod said abruptly. "Oh, so – key word...not dinner, then."

Comments

[tharaist.livejournal.com]

Wow, I absolutely love this story!

I love what you've done with their personalities and their chemistry. Surprisingly I found myself liking your Rod, when usually I think he's just a creepy version of Rodney. The whole dinner scene was really awesome, protective!John and casual!Rod doing their thing. *g*

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you! See, and I tend to think of him as the version of Rodney who isn't as hobbled by his fears and is also pretty good at treating other people like they're as interesting as he is. I'm a fan, really. And I love the idea -- I don't know how well it comes across in prose, but -- the idea that just like Rod is physically looser and more relaxed and comfortable than Rodney is, which you see in McK&MM, that Sheppard would be the reverse of that, and take on his tensions physically so that he'd trade in that kind of slouchy-cool canon physicality for a really nervous, military sort of bearing. I don't know, I'm not usually a very visual writer, so I have my doubts about how well I did it, but a lot of the story for me was a way to play with that casual bearing that John has in our universe and Rod has in his -- and the reverse of it.