Fancake

Fandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, OMC
Rating: Explicit
Length: 10,048
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: LavenderProse on AO3
Themes: Journey and travel, Mutual pining, Established relationship, Huddling for warmth, Missing scenes

Summary: He crowds Shane into the hood of the car, hands up under his shirt and jacket again. October is getting cold; nights are getting colder. The places where Ilya is touching him are the only parts of Shane’s body that are warm right now. Maybe that’s why he wraps his arms around Ilya’s neck and clings to him, though he doesn’t necessarily surprise himself with it. They don’t even kiss for a moment. Ilya busies himself breathing into the crook of Shane’s neck, trying to regain control. Shane opens his eyes and gazes over Ilya’s shoulder at the dark field and realizes that an utterly foreign feeling has risen up in him. It’s Ilya’s broad shoulders and beautiful hair between Shane and the world and he feels — small. Protected.
“Oh my God,” Shane whispers, completely ashamed of the feeling and hungry for it. It curls warm in his stomach. His toes arch inside his shoes. Something about being so close to this man, something about Ilya putting himself between Shane and — the world. Whatever lurks in the deep night. It’s a feeling like a ghost, something that Shane isn’t allowed to look directly at except for moments like these. Quiet and dark.

Shane, Ilya, Vermont. Meeting in the middle.

Reccer's Notes: This is set during the episode four montage of hook-ups, with Shane and Ilya driving some distance (and in Shane's case, crossing a national border) to meet up a couple of times in Vermont, midway between Montreal and Boston. At this stage they still haven't admitted their feelings, but the logistics, and an unexpected interruption, lead to them spending more time together than usual. Excellent writing, amusing and poignant, with lovely intimacy and hotness. Great sense of place in both locations where they meet (surprisingly outdoorsy for city-boy Ilya, especially given the weather). Recommended!

Fanwork Links: I Was Raised Out in the Cold

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Radek Zelenka, Evan Lorne, Ronon Dex, Hermiod
Rating: Teen
Length: 1885
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: LtLJ on AO3
Theme: Missing scenes, hurt/comfort, friendship, team as family

Summary: If Rodney wanted to express his frustration with life by ripping Hermiod's oversized head off, John really didn't care at the moment.

Reccer's Notes: a lovely scene set after No Man’s Land in season 3 (the one where they transform and kill the Wraith on a Hive and capture the ship). Rodney is exhausted and driving everyone nuts, so John’s called in to wrangle him. Rodney’s amusingly punchy and also handsy, but they’re on a Hive Ship so that kills the mood - and then Ronon turns up as well. A satisfying read.

Fanwork Links: Burnout (log in to read it)

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, alt!Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Rating: M
Length: 9560
Content Notes: canon character deaths (in the canon AU)
Creator Links: sgamadison on AO3
Theme: Missing scenes, AU: Fork in the Road, Parallel universe travel, Fix-it, Comfort fic, Friendship

Summary: Returning home after installing the program he hopes will change his timeline, Rodney McKay gets some surprise guests.

Reccer's Notes: In this heartwarming story, sgamadison  fills in the missing scene after old Rodney of The Last Man arrives home at Christmas to his neglected, messy apartment, hungry and nearly out of funds after installing the hologram programme in Atlantis. Only his adopted alley cat is there to greet him and eat the last food in Rodney's cupboards. Then there's a knock at the door... The story takes the magic of the alternate reality drive and uses that to give alt!Rodney a far nicer Christmas than he was expecting, and the best present of all - to know what happened in the alternate timeline due to his extraordinary intervention. It's a Christmas classic and a comfort read, as well as an excellent fix-it.

Fanwork Links: It's a Wonderful Life, Rodney McKay (need to be logged in to read it)
And the podfic by itstartedwithalex is here

Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard
Rating: G
Length: 1100
Content Notes: No AO3 warnings apply.
Creator Links: LtLJ on AO3
Theme: Missing scenes, Genfic

Summary: A vignette set during the episode Epiphany.

Reccer's Notes: This is an excellent missing scene as canon somewhat glosses over how adandoned John felt during Epiphany. It's brought home here as we see the initial days from John's POV. In canon we're in the rest of the team's POV mostly, as the writers explain the time dilation field to us. But John has zero idea what's going on and is increasingly worried. Angry at the delay, yes, but imagining all sorts of reasons, and fearing that something terrible's happened to them. Then the pack is thrown through after two days when dehydration is becoming a real issue, with very little in it and no explanation. It feels like a fuck you, and John's abandonment issues from his crappy family and failed marriage kick in. Maybe Rodney should have taken the time to scribble a brief note? But that might have delayed John receiving the pack another day, and Rodney, of them all, was running the numbers in his head, panicked by how much time had already passed. It's a real window into John's psyche, angsty and very well written. You need to be logged in to read it. 

Fanwork Links: Abandonment Issues