Other Plans
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Life's what happens when you make other plans.
Rodney McKay gets back from his unjust Siberia exile and takes a consulting gig that lets him work from home. He picks a random city, gets a cat, and starts cultivating his eccentricity.
His upstairs neighbor is an insanely hot guy whose cop uniform either means the obvious, or that his night job is a stripper. Rodney doesn't care which, he's busy becoming the old lady with the twitching lace curtains who watches everything. (And, yeah, thinking about what that strip routine might look like. Are those real handcuffs?)John Sheppard quit the Air Force in a last-ditch attempt to save his marriage, since there was a kid on the way. It didn't work, and in fact backfired spectacularly, so now he's left with child support payments and a mortgage on a house he doesn't live in (his dad's a dick), an ex-wife who still loves him enough to yank more little bits out of his heart every chance she gets, a kid he gets to see for a few hours every other week, and a job where he gets shot at almost as much as the one he used to love that he quit. (He's a cop. He's okay at it. That's a hard adjustment to make.)
But at least his new downstairs neighbor is hilarious.Series
- Part 1 of Other Plans
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John starts his new part-time job at the SGC.
Predictably, he touches something that gets him into trouble.
Can he figure out what's real and what's not? Can he use the knowledge he gains to help the SGC find Atlantis?
Can he deal with confronting what he might have been, in another life?This is the immediate sequel to Other Plans. While I attempt to have most of my works readable as stand-alones, this one may not work so well if you haven't read OP. To sum up, though, OP is 100,000 words of an AU where John quit the Air Force and had a kid, then got divorced anyway. He's working as a cop, and falls in love with his downstairs neighbor Rodney, who he discovers semi-accidentally works with alien technology. They discover John has the gene and immediately recruit him part-time to the SGC (he's keeping his day job).
Also, John's dad is an asshole.
Note on warnings: There is no non-con or sexual abuse of a minor *in* this story, but there is discussion of it happening to a character in the past. Kids might get a bit traumatized in the story, but they're not getting molested on-screen, as it were.
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- Part 2 of Other Plans
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This is a home for some of the bits I've written that fit into the universe of Other Plans, but not into the storyline. So far it's just a few offcuts and some things I couldn't shoehorn in anywhere else. Some of these bits are quite old and some are new.
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- Part 3 of Other Plans