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kat_lair ([personal profile] kat_lair) wrote2015-09-25 06:35 pm

Stargate Atlantis Drabble: Arrangement

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Title: Arrangement
Author: Mistress Kat /  [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Zelenka
Genre: AU
Rating: PG
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing.

Summary: Radek had arrived two weeks ago.

Author notes: Written as part of the [livejournal.com profile] broadstairsbacc writing challenge where we all wrote a drabble to same fandom, a randomly picked prompt (arranged marriage) and then individual Loveheart phrase which needed to be included. My Loveheart said ‘I’m shy’.



Rodney leaned against the lab door, surreptitiously watching his new husband build… Well, he had no idea what but it looked interesting.

Radek had arrived two weeks ago, as part of the War Obligation scheme marrying talented people from the losing states to individuals of considerable means, like himself. It was slavery dressed as philanthropy but Rodney had found no way of escaping his ‘duty’.

“You didn’t say you could do that,” he remarked.

Radek didn’t startle. “I’m shy,” he said drily, a raised eyebrow implying how useless he’d thought sharing that would’ve been.

“We’ll work on that,” Rodney laughed.



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[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-25 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you very much :)

[identity profile] kronette.livejournal.com 2015-09-25 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
awwwww!

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
*beams at you*

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Loads of back story and indeed a whole AU there! I feel the need for more... espccially if Rodney is going to work on Radek's shyness.
And by the way, it should be losing, not loosing.
I promise to get mine typed up during the next week.

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, I'll try never to say never as that only leads to embarrassment in the long run :D

I think Rodney and Radek bond over SCIENCE! and then get attracted and IN LOVE and then there's angst because Rodney is all 'but I can't because it would be creepy because Radek has no choice!) and Radek is all 'but I can't because Rodney has made it perfectly clear he didn't want a husband' and then they pine a lot until somethingsomethinghappyendingwithkisses :D

Thanks for catching the typo, fixed!

[identity profile] moth2fic.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
OK - thank you - I now have enough to write it all satisfactorily in my head. I tend to do that, and use the results as bedtime stories that send me off to sleep happy. I shall enjoy this one for some time!

Of course, you could always offer it somewhere as a plot bunny in need of adoption and see if anyone wants to add all the detail. But the bare bones are making me happy as they stand!

[identity profile] boneverse.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad to have provided enough material for bedtime stories :D Enjoy!

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-26 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
And switches back to this account... At least you knew it was still me!

[identity profile] margaret-r.livejournal.com 2015-09-28 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
I can see this scene clearly - Radek so sarcastic and Rodney so obtuse, wonderful! :D

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-28 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Radek would be uncertain at first of talking back, afraid that he'd be sent back. I bet the first time they have an argument about science he'll bet terrified afterwards of the consequences...

[identity profile] margaret-r.livejournal.com 2015-09-29 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
You do realise this cannot be left unwritten, don’t you? Unlike Moth – I want to know how the pining two of them get it together … ;)

[identity profile] kat-lair.livejournal.com 2015-09-30 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...