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

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've noticed that one of those tropes I do over and over without really planning it is to have someone freak out over something wildly inconsequential, where it actually turns out that the event in question is just a trigger-point for some weird, deep-seated issue. I don't know where that comes from, except that I think most of us really are like that -- our Big Things are just too big to think about, so we funnel all that energy into tangentially related Little Things. I don't know, or it's just a quick and easy storytelling device *g*

I *adore* Jeannie, so that's always a big pull for me to writing MENSAverse fiction -- I can legitimately bring her in for a bit, because she and Rod really *are* close! The biggest sign for me that Rod has his life together way more than Rodney does is that only a very screwed-up person wouldn't fully appreciate having a sister as cool as Jeannie. (*checks watch to count down for "Miller's Crossing" next week...*)