Rebuilding Babel (link to original post)

[fiercelydreamed]

I think a number of you have already seen this, but for those who missed it, here's what I spent the last month and a half working on. In which I really stretch the term "flashfic" past the limit, and in which I am apparently not over my affection for breaking Rodney McKay.

Title: Rebuilding Babel
Summary: He wondered if this was how it felt to go crazy -- you didn't lose your mind, it just stopped synching up with the world around you. The Pegasus galaxy makes Rodney an expert in what he can survive without.
Details: 21,000 words, Sheppard/McKay, adult/explicit. Spoilers through S2.
Notes: Written for the sga_flashfic wordless challenge. Huge thanks to secrethappiness and cathexys for betaing (thoroughly and within time constraints -- man, but they're kind people), and to cindyjade, shaenie, and celli for audiencing. Also, two counts of thanks to cesperanza for using the prompt and for extending the challenge deadline.

Download the soundtrack.


Read it at the community:
( The rise and fall of Sheppard's voice was like a pawn dropped lazily onto the chessboard: let the games begin. )