Rodney and Music

[sara-wolf.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for fics where Rodney plays the piano. One-time thing, never gave it up, teaching someone else (bonus points if it's kid-fic), just anything with music.

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[rellan.livejournal.com]

This one

http://www.infinitum4.com/or/rword.html

and it's sequel

http://www.infinitum4.com/or/rword2.html

are faves.

[theantipam.livejournal.com]

One of my favorites - AU McShep, rated PG. John struggles to help Rodney rediscover a life worth living after a trauma steals Rodney's memory.

By thedrifterwrites (fiercelydreamed)

"Unidentified"
http://fiercelydreamed.livejournal.com/8714.html

And the sequel "Coda" -
http://fiercelydreamed.livejournal.com/9218.html#cutid1

[mandykaysfic.livejournal.com]

Glastonbury '87-'07
An AU in which a twenty year old John Sheppard goes to a music festival and meets a young man named Rodney.

http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=11831&warning=12

[trish51.livejournal.com]

Wassail by dashamte. This link goes to her LJ and the three parts of the story starts on December 21st. http://dashamte.livejournal.com/

[laconicneeds.livejournal.com]

Sheppard's Law (http://trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Sheppardslaw.html). "Weird? You don't know what weird is. Weird is being in a-- with the-- and the crazy alien--" He stopped, incoherent, hands flailing. "And then your best friend is twelve, and you're his piano teacher. That--now, you're talking weird!"

Atlantis City Limits (http://sardonicsmiley.livejournal.com/29007.html). John finds a new obsession with Rodney when he discovers Rodney playing the guitar. Unfortunately, so does the rest of Atlantis. And the Pegasus Galaxy.

[patk.livejournal.com]

"The Price That Life Exacts" by Cathalin from last year's Big Bang: http://sgabigbang.talkoncorners.net/?view=fic&id=38

Wonderful story and Rodney playing the piano plays a big role in it.

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. I was just checking to see if anyone else had recommended it!

[trystings.livejournal.com]

He doesn't play the piano in this one (not as main theme), but you also said "just anything with music" and anyway, it's gorgeous.

String Theory, A Concerto for Violin in D Minor (http://toft-froggy.livejournal.com/190025.html) by toft_froggy. Rodney is a composer/conductor and John a violinist. Orchestra AU / McSchep.

[eye-queue.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorites: Counterpoint (http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=4332) by Nestra, in which Rodney the pianist/composer hires John as an assistant.

"This is what I need," the man said, plopping down on the piano bench. "Someone to run errands for me, handle some of the more mundane tasks in my life, and occasionally lift heavy things. I'm in the middle of a very important project, and I don't have time do deal with these things myself. If my genius was rewarded at a level commensurate with my value to the community, I could afford to pay you more. Although I probably wouldn't."

[danceswithgary]

The following have Rodney playing the piano. (McShep)

Title: All I Ask
Author: lavvyan
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He wanted to be with Rodney, too. He wanted to live with him, day and night; wanted to take down the mask and say that he loved him into Rodney's ruined face.

Title: La Vie En Rose
Author: indybaggins
Rating: PG
Summary: The ballet AU I was never going to write.

Title: Starcrossed
Author: lavvyan
Rating: PG-13 for swears and allusions to nekkidness
Summary: So there Rodney was, a thirty-six year old pianist with seven unimaginative albums to his 'credit', bitter, lonely and utterly mediocre.

Title: Overture
Author: maverick4oz
Rating: PG
Summary: Sonata de Rodney

Title: All You Can Be
Author: beingothrwrldly
Rating: PG-13
Summary: AU, set during Desert Storm.

Title: Atlantis Rising
Author: ankhmutes
Rating: PG
Summary: How anyone could believe that Rodney McKay lacked passion -- about anything -- escaped him. It was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard.

Title: McKay's Symphony of Two In Ten
Author: Medie
Rating: R
Summary: "Asshole," John growls affectionately, kissing his neck. "You always have to spoil my fun."

Title: Come Back Later
Author: cottontail
Rating: R (adult situations)
Summary: Pretend Rodney actually ascended in Tao of Rodney. John returns to Earth to deal with the memorial and his own issues with the loss. Eventually Rodney comes back down from ascension. John must help him remember who he is and who they are to each other.

Title: Cultural Exchange
Author: lamardeuse
Rating: R
Summary: “What does he think we are, Fine Arts majors?” Rodney demanded.

Title: Mona Lisa Box
Author: tzzzz
Rating: R
Summary: Rodney McKay is one of the geniuses who created Skynet. John Sheppard is sent back in time to find him.

Title: Time in a Bottle
Author: astolat
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John and Rodney are stranded together in a VR.

Title: Alternative Medicine
Author: Madison
Rating: NC-17
Summary: As punishment for breaking a cultural taboo, Rodney is sentenced to death in a virtual reality of his own making. Can John help him find his way back to reality before it's too late?

Title: It's What You Don't See
Author: telesilla
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Rodney McKay's been a loner for close to 400 years now, which is why it makes no sense when he falls hard for a Blood Bank worker named John Sheppard.

Title: Thicker Than Water
Author: Julad
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John and Rodney visit Canada on shore leave.

Title: Ancient Music
Author: linaerys
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Doppelganger fic. A Sheppard and McKay who might have been encounter the ones that are. Romance, action, and bickering.

Title: King of Wishful Thinking
Author: margarks
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Based on the movie Pretty Woman, but with an SGA twist.

[danceswithgary]

And more piano-playing McShep (ran out of space in previous comment)

Title: The Seat of Talents
Author: xparrot
Rating: PG
Summary: The team gets caught in a trade deal that will have an unexpected cost for one of their four.

Title: Without Love
Author: lamardeuse
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Loosely based on the 1945 film "Without Love".

Title: Si Muovo
Author: Kass and Sihaya Black
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The one with the Jesuit priest and the pilot.

Title: A Dangerous Desire or McKay Makes a Match
Author: janne_d
Rating: R
Summary: A Novel of Romance by a Lady

Title: Liminal
Author: viva_gloria
Rating: NC17
Summary: AU. England, 1946: the war is over, and John Sheppard has nowhere to go. The new Atlantis community, founded by Mrs Elizabeth Weir out on the bleak east coast, is as good a place as any ...

Title: Resilience
Author: Tira Nog
Rating: NC-17
Summary: John Sheppard and Rodney McKay's friendship undergoes some radical changes after contact with Earth is reestablished. Spoilers through Trinity.

Title:Life Lived as Bell's Theorem
A Raising Madison Story
Author: MrsHamill
Rating: NC-17
Summary:The John and Rodney Show moves to Toronto and raises a child.

Title: What Might Have Been Series
Author: keiramarcos
Rating: NC-17
Summary: This is an alternate universe series in that Rodney McKay never went to Atlantis, the mission failed within it’s first two years and John Sheppard finds himself back on Earth as the second in command of Stargate Command under the leadership of Major General Jack O’Neill.

Title: Interlaced
Author: danceswithgary
Rating: R
Summary: It was a chance to start over, a new life. Now, he's not sure it was such a good idea. (SGA/SG-1 fusion with 2002 movie, 'Cypher')

[hickman1937.livejournal.com]

And again you've made my day. Thanks for these stories. It's my birthday and I'll be reading all day!