Fic: Beasts of War and Burden (McKay/Sheppard, NC-17)

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Title: Beasts of War and Burden
Author: taste_is_sweet
Recipient: tarlanx
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard; Background het pairings
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 38,000
Disclaimer: Definitely not mine, though I do have a lot of fun with them.
Warnings: Graphic violence and depiction of injuries.
Author's Notes: I was lucky enough to get tarlanx! I've enjoyed her stories starring the myriad of actor David Hewlett's characters for years and was really happy to have the chance to give her something back this time. She wanted a McKay-centric story with angst, hurt/comfort, drama, action/adventure and humor, but mostly a plot. :) She also really wanted a story using one of the alternate universes from the TV series.

All I can say is that I tried very, very hard to give you the kind of story I thought you'd like, Tarlanx. (This fic is try number four, as a matter of fact.) I really hope you enjoy this!

Happy holidays! And thank you again for all your wonderful stories.

I also want to thank my Betas of Awesome: squeakyoflight and anna_bird. You both are hugely appreciated, as always. Any inadvertent goofs or suckage was put in after they went over the story, and are entirely my fault.

Summary: "Oh my God. We've landed on fucking Pern."

( Beasts of War and Burden )

Comments

[tarlanx]

Just finished reading it and I LOVED IT! I won't go spoiling it here but I adored the ending where Jeannie helps figure out how to save her AU brother. Such a lovely story :) THANK YOU!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

You are very, very welcome. I'm truly delighted that you enjoyed the story, since it was very important to me to write something that you would like. I was a little concerned that the story wasn't McKay-centric enough because there were no scenes from his point of view (Rodney's my favourite character too, so I definitely knew what you wanted), but I hope it was okay that he was nonetheless the most important character in the story (to my mind, anyway...).

[tarlanx]

I saw mention of a sequel to this...so I'm going to see if I can check it out :) It was a great story and I loved how you saved Rodney at the end :)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Again, thank you. :D