Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

Another idea gone sideways... The original plan was to do a quartet of vignettes centered around a theme. But I failed halfway through and so this is a four part harmony reduced to a duet. I'm running them as separate entries because while they tackle the same idea, I think they may work stronger apart than together -- they are essentially both tags for unrelated episodes. Thanks to smittywing for the help.

Rodney, take two...

Hollowest of Victories
genfic; Rodney McKay; 1500 words; First Season.
( It's been ten years since McKay has willingly taken second-author credit on a journal article )

So the story that eventually became The Jenny Code had a vastly different origin. It wasn't even supposed to be about John Sheppard. It was supposed to be Rodney in captivity and making similar choices. And then when I worked the story backward to its starting point, it ended up being Sheppard's tale. This... this is the story it started out as.

This was originally posted in my journal as a couple of scene fragments. It has been doubled in length and tweaked a bit, but it is still not quite my usual linear narrative and maybe should still be a fully fleshed-out story instead of a series of linked vignettes. It's also my first public attempt to write Rodney POV, so that I'm doing this essentially unbetaed and with severe sleep deprivation... But if you can't experiment for your own challenge prompt, then when can you experiment? Comments and whatnot are appreciated because, dude, writing Rodney is hard.

Genfic (duh); ~2000 words. Generic first half of Season Two, but no spoilers.

( Pedagogically speaking, Rodney has learned as much as he's taught )