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Title: Checkmate 'Verse
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Bead
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Category: M/M
Pairing: McShep (but not until the end when John is human again)
REC
The McShep fandom was well known for having the crackiest crackfic around. There was ice cube tray fic, hothouse flower fic, the legendary Girl Scout cookie fic, and an entire subgenre of penguin fic. This particular fic started out as a one-scene LJ short of John Sheppard--who has been transformed into a domestic short-haired house cat--back seat driving a chess game between Rodney and Radek. ThenBead started writing other scenes with Cat!John, and it eventually turned into a whole storyline. As a result, I was reading the scenes out of order as she was posting them, but they're in internal chronological order on AO3 (the original scene is now chapter 14).
I love this fic because it's cute and funny, and John Sheppard's personality stays entirely intact while in cat form. I also love that Rodney--being both a long-time cat owner and John's best friend--basically becomes the Cat!John whisperer.
TEASER
"Sheppard? It's me."
"Aowr," said a tiny, sad voice.
Rodney knelt on the floor about five feet from the equipment John was hiding in or under and peeked into a storage compartment with a sliding door. He could just make out a furry face peering back at him.
"Hey, there," he said softly. "Good spot."
"Meeeer!" John said.
"Don't yell at me, I got here as soon as they called me." Rodney knelt on the floor, well away from the machine. John continued to peer at him.
"What did you do to Teyla and Ronon?" he asked conspiratorially. "They look like they've been though a tiny wood chipper."
"Mow. Mow ow." John complained.
"I'm sure they deserved it at the time."
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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Category: M/M
Pairing: McShep (but not until the end when John is human again)
REC
The McShep fandom was well known for having the crackiest crackfic around. There was ice cube tray fic, hothouse flower fic, the legendary Girl Scout cookie fic, and an entire subgenre of penguin fic. This particular fic started out as a one-scene LJ short of John Sheppard--who has been transformed into a domestic short-haired house cat--back seat driving a chess game between Rodney and Radek. Then
I love this fic because it's cute and funny, and John Sheppard's personality stays entirely intact while in cat form. I also love that Rodney--being both a long-time cat owner and John's best friend--basically becomes the Cat!John whisperer.
TEASER
"Sheppard? It's me."
"Aowr," said a tiny, sad voice.
Rodney knelt on the floor about five feet from the equipment John was hiding in or under and peeked into a storage compartment with a sliding door. He could just make out a furry face peering back at him.
"Hey, there," he said softly. "Good spot."
"Meeeer!" John said.
"Don't yell at me, I got here as soon as they called me." Rodney knelt on the floor, well away from the machine. John continued to peer at him.
"What did you do to Teyla and Ronon?" he asked conspiratorially. "They look like they've been though a tiny wood chipper."
"Mow. Mow ow." John complained.
"I'm sure they deserved it at the time."
