Isis ([info]isiscolo) wrote,
@ 2005-07-31 13:10:00
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Entry tags:fic, sga

Stargate Atantis fic: Double Occupancy (McKay/Sheppard, NC17)
Yay! The story that ate my brain is finally finished! I hope it eats your brains, too. Mmm, brains.

Title: Double Occupancy
Author: Isis ([info]isiscolo)
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Rating: NC17
Length: about 18,000 words
Summary: Being on the same planet with John Sheppard was aggravating enough, sometimes; being in the same body was an order of magnitude worse.
Spoilers: For most of season 1, particularly Underground, The Storm/The Eye, The Brotherhood, and The Defiant One. No spoilers for season 2, as this story is set pre-Siege, but with the airing of Duet this story becomes AU.
Notes: Credit is due to my incredible betas, [info]fabularasa, [info]z_rayne, and [info]amanuensis1 for helping to whip this into shape. Special thanks to [info]cathexys for providing me with the crack season 1 as well as the encouragement to go ahead and write this story - this one's for you.

Double Occupancy


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[info]chopchica
2005-07-31 12:15 pm UTC (link)
I haven't read it yet (although EEEEE! You wrote SGA!), but I just wanted to tell you that you should post on SGA noticeboard.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 12:19 pm UTC (link)
I'm just doing that now, thanks! (And thanks for the EEEEE! I hope you still feel that way after you read it. :-)

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[info]wychwood
2005-07-31 12:50 pm UTC (link)
Damn, that was good. Hard, and difficult, and *good*. I liked the way you had them bickering together the whole time in Rodney's body; funny and characteristic. Then learning to cooperate, all over again, like they did when they first met, and the mission against the Genii... I really liked it. Then the separation, which... just so painful. This was really good. Thank you.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:45 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much. The bickering, of course, was great fun to write!

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[info]astolat
2005-07-31 01:05 pm UTC (link)
Yay! This was just terrific. Really nice twist on the body-switching cliche, spot-on voices for both of them, plus the great fun of the action against the Genii. It's entirely believable by the end that they can't stand the separation -- as the reader I almost don't want them to be separate myself.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Oh, thanks, I'm very glad you liked it! Coming from HP fandom of course we have done the body-switching cliche six ways to Sunday, so it was a lot of fun to sink my teeth into a totally new fandom with new ways to explore it. And the subtexty canon relationship between John and Rodney is so rich and so much fun to write.

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[info]ngaio
2005-07-31 01:19 pm UTC (link)
That was great, I had favourite lines but as they aren't up there ::points to your post:: I can't tell you which ones. Of course, I also loved the Zelenka-glimpses.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Aw, just say you love all of them :-)

I particularly enjoy writing Zelenka. He's one of my favorite characters. Although I wouldn't kick any of them out of bed, really. Having seen The Siege (look, spelled correctly!) and grooved on the McKay/Zelenka interactions there, I'm psyched to write some geek love soon.

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(no subject) - [info]ngaio, 2005-08-02 11:32 am UTC (Expand)

[info]ruggerdavey
2005-07-31 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Wow. That was really, really awesome. I love the whole story line, and, yeah, it was really, really great.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Thank you very much!

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[info]ladyjestyr
2005-07-31 01:20 pm UTC (link)
That was fabulous! One of the best SGA fics I've read so far, and given the quality of fics in the fandom, that's saying something. The pacing's perfect, the voices are perfect, and the concept is really well-executed. The pain of their separation is really tangible without being overly melodramatic. I think the best part of it, for me, was the equality between them; the sense that they fit really well together, and complement each other. They really are equals here, and that just adds the extra bit of shine to an already excellent story.

Just... brilliant.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:53 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I really am flattered, because there are some excellent fics in this fandom. I enjoyed writing this story very much, partly because the canon does have that subtext of closeness and complementary skills, so I felt as though I was only making clear something that was really already there.

I'm particularly pleased that you single out the angsty bit as being painful but not overly melodramatic, because I tend to write more humor than angst, and so I found those scenes difficult to shape. I'm glad they worked for you.

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[info]fairestcat
2005-07-31 01:21 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that is really really good. The way the lines between them kept blurring more and more and then the pain of the seperation, that just seemed so right. And you got a nice balance between what was going on in their heads and the external threat of the Genii and then the awkward hurt at being apart. Really nicely done.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much. I had a lot of fun planning it out, working on the transition as they slowly merged, and I'm glad it came through ok. And don't the Genii make great bad guys? Oh, yes. Glad you liked it!

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[info]aruna_sharat
2005-07-31 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Great! Thank you!

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for your thanks!

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[info]casspeach
2005-07-31 01:54 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that was, just amazingly good. In character and sweet and funny and sad and hot and perfect.

I am incoherent with enjoyment and jealousy!!

Brilliant

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 06:01 pm UTC (link)
Thanks so very much. I vote incoherence as a GOOD thing. And I'm glad you liked the bit with John wanting to calm Rodney down - Rodney's a bit excitable, isn't he?

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[info]cimness
2005-07-31 02:29 pm UTC (link)
mmmmmm, that was a really nice, satisfying read. i love the concept! and i love the themes of alienation and closeness. lots of bright little funny moments, too.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much! I had a lot of fun working the arc out, getting them from alienation to closeness and back again. And the funny moments, of course, are what I like doing the best - I'm terrible at whumping my characters, I just want to pet them and tell them to hang on to the end, but I love giving them silly little lines. I'm very pleased you liked it.

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[info]casspeach
2005-07-31 02:48 pm UTC (link)
And now that I am slightly more coherent, can I just say how much I loved the idea of Sheppard forcing Rodney to relax and calm down and take deep breaths, and then wishing he still could once they were separated again.

I can?

I think that will stay with me for a long long time

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[info]ladyagnew
2005-07-31 04:02 pm UTC (link)
I didn't want them to separate either! The bit where John talks about destroying the machine b/c the temptation to just merge together and stay that way forever was too great, ahh! A hint of sadness even though they're going to be boffing like bunnies. I also really liked that John seemed to be taking the separation worse than Rodney, which strikes me as somehow in-character.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! Yeah, the story did actually take a bit of a more serious turn there than I intended, when I got to the point where they were separating and realized just how hard it was going to be on them, how hard it had to be, considering how merged they had been. So it is sort of a bittersweet ending. But! They have sex!

And yeah, John takes it a little worse, because John is used to having a lot of friends and a lot of relatively superficial relationships - and then he has this incredibly intense relationship and it's like, wow, to the nth degree. Rodney I see as being a little more isolated, because of his arrogance and his view that nobody measures up to him as an equal, so he hasn't formed all that many relationships. He's used to being alone, as he says. But he still is strongly affected.

Ok, enough meta. I can ramble on about my stories all day! Thanks very much for your feedback.

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[info]darkhavens
2005-07-31 06:23 pm UTC (link)
Love it!

I felt so damn sorry for them once they were both alone again. Made me shiver. You created some wonderful Ancient tech there. :D

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 06:36 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much, I'm glad it worked for you. And it's fun to make up Ancient tech! It's like Clarke's law - any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Which is why it wasn't so much of a stretch for me to come from HP to SGA.

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(no subject) - [info]darkhavens, 2005-07-31 06:48 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]z_rayne
2005-07-31 06:29 pm UTC (link)
Yay! Love the changes you've made since the last time I saw it. And I don't think I ever singled it out, but I really love this bit:

Anything to get skin next to skin. Which was clearly the best idea in the universe, Rodney decided, once they had achieved complete reciprocal nudity and were sprawled in a fractal tangle on his bed.

It's so perfectly in character with the way Rodney would think about things, with reciprocal nudity and fractal tangles. Mmmm.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 06:38 pm UTC (link)
Er, I didn't run those changes by you since you were having your own crises, sorry - I got Fab to look at them, though, and since both of you pointed to the same scene as being weak I knew I had to do something about it!

And I'm glad you like that sentence, because I love it too. Me being a geek, and all.

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(no subject) - [info]z_rayne, 2005-07-31 06:42 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]isiscolo, 2005-07-31 06:46 pm UTC (Expand)
(no subject) - [info]z_rayne, 2005-07-31 06:49 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]workerb
2005-07-31 07:26 pm UTC (link)
This fic was so engrossing, I almost forgot where I was or what I was doing after I read it.

I love how they could occupy the same space, be two separate characters at the same time and eventually become part of each other.

And I think you broke me with their separation. *whimper* Beautiful job.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 08:29 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I'm glad it worked for you. Writing angst is tough for me, so it makes me happy that I made you sad. Um. You know. :-)

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*claps*
[info]raveninthewind
2005-07-31 07:27 pm UTC (link)
This is fantastic, Isis. You took a rather cliched scenario and made it deeper, giving us an episode-worthy plot and emotiomal truths. I think I liked best the John POV, because he's more of an unknown factor to me. We've only seen occasional glimpses of the real John Sheppard, but this story feels true.

I liked the layers of details: Zelenka's cameo, Rodney's terror at the poaaible Genii threat, Rodney's in character physical modesty (espec. the whole issue of Rodney being too tense for a BM), Kavanaugh's misstep at the end, Teyla in action at the end.

My only quibble is just how inexperienced ROdney is sexually--I think canon Rodney has had a bit more luck than your Rodney. But that's a minor point, so I can go with your version.

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Re: *claps*
[info]fabularasa
2005-07-31 07:46 pm UTC (link)
I think canon Rodney has had a bit more luck than your Rodney.

Hmmm. I dunno. It's a debatable point, just how much experience he's had of any sort. But I gotta think that a guy who tells a gorgeous woman that he wanks while thinking about her -- no matter how many uppers he's on at the time -- is not a guy who is going to generate a whole lot of successful pick-up lines when sober.

One of the cool things about a TV show, I think, is how little time/space can be devoted to filling in all of these blanks for the characters in 52 minutes a week. We get to fill it all in ourselves. So we get former-male-prostitute Rodney in one fic, and never-been-kissed Rodney in another, and it all adds up to more sex for me, the reader, so whee!

And oh, yeah, Isis. Nice story. *g*

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*blushes* - [info]isiscolo, 2005-07-31 08:36 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]amothea
2005-07-31 08:25 pm UTC (link)
My brain melted reading this story. :) it was fantastic, wonderful, brilliant and I'm so glad I read it. :) I've always loved the concept of two people sharing one body but I never expected someone would take that concept and do such a great job with it. Like you did in this story. I think I'm going to end up comparing this story to the upcoming episode of Duet and I have a feeling that your story will fare better in the comparision. It was sweet, sad, funny and I loved that it took them more than 10 minutes to figure out how to function together. thanks so much for sharing.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Thank you very much, and sorry about the brain. :-) I came up with this idea before I even knew about Duet, because I love body-switch and telepathy type stories, which of course HP is rife with. At the time I'd only seen the first few episodes and read a lot of fic. So I asked [info]cathexys if anyone had written a body-switching story, and I was so bummed when she told me it was going to be canon second season! But she talked me into writing it anyway, and I enjoyed doing it, and I am just happy I managed to get it out before the show will air. And of course my story will be better - I will bet you anything that there will be no sex in Duet :-)

No, seriously, thanks very much, I am glad you liked it.

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(no subject) - [info]amothea, 2005-07-31 09:56 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]spikedluv
2005-07-31 08:30 pm UTC (link)
I enjoyed this story immensely!! Loved how this forced intimacy helped them understand each other, and how they figured out how to work together and communicate. The loss they felt when torn apart made me ache for them. But they settled for second best, which is pretty good in my book. *bg*

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 08:43 pm UTC (link)
Thanks very much. It was a lot of fun to write their slow accommodation to each other (and very not fun to write their misery and loss).

And, hey, sex with either John or Rodney is a damn good second best, as far as I'm concerned.

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[info]panisdead
2005-07-31 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Yay! I've been waiting for a body-switch type story since I started reading SG:A. This was lots of fun, and hot to boot.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-07-31 09:02 pm UTC (link)
Thanks so much! I love body-switch stories, I do.

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[info]the_star_fish
2005-07-31 10:25 pm UTC (link)
Really lovely, Isis. It did, indeed, eat my brain. Thank you.

:)

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[info]isiscolo
2005-08-01 07:25 am UTC (link)
You're very welcome. It was a hoot to write, and a relief to get it out of my brain and where it could infect others. Kinda like a story virus! I'm glad you liked it.

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[info]cathexys
2005-07-31 10:36 pm UTC (link)
oh, all mine!!!! squee :-)

and i'm on my way to the airport and won't have access for another week...thanks for the heads up last night and yeah for you writing sga...i'll be your crack rovier any day, hon (well, as soon as i'm back and have access again myself :-)

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[info]ficbyzee
2005-07-31 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Oh, this was *wonderful.* I loved the mis of angst, humor, hotness, adventure--this had it all! I loved it.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-08-01 07:27 am UTC (link)
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. Yay for angst, humor, hotness, and adventure!

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[info]paraphobic
2005-07-31 10:53 pm UTC (link)
That was great, you have their personalities down perfectly. I could not stop laughing at first but it was so heart breaking to see how much they missed each other. Loved it!

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[info]isiscolo
2005-08-01 07:28 am UTC (link)
Thank you very much. I had intended it to be a much lighter story, of course, and it was a lot of fun at the beginning (I'm glad the humor worked for you! I love writing those zingers!), but when I realized the implications of the plot I'd come up with, it definitely took a turn for the angst. I'm glad you liked it.

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[info]the_green_sheep
2005-07-31 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Oh, this was fantastic. I could feel the pull after they were separated. And the image of John thinking at Rodney to soothe him was very sweet, like a caress from the inside.

Thank you, I loved this.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-08-01 07:29 am UTC (link)
Thanks very much!

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[info]claire
2005-07-31 11:30 pm UTC (link)
This was awesomely good. Just... I really have no words for how much I enjoyed it.

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[info]isiscolo
2005-08-01 07:29 am UTC (link)
Incoherence is good! After all, that's what makes sex scenes hot :-) Thanks very much for reading and commenting.

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