Revelations and Expectations (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6768950/1/Revelations_and_Expectations). John/Teyla. Very heavy on the comfort. Total id-pleaser.
Snow Had Fallen Snow on Snow (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_santa/220810.html). John/Ronon. Kind of fits even if the focus isn't really on the h/c.
I'm aware of sheppard_hc but I'm not in the right space of mind at the moment to dig through thousands of fics that focus more on the hurt than on the comfort to find the comfort fics... Sorry.
Hm, I figured it was something like that, but it never hurts to make sure. So, here are a few recs (Sorry for the not-so-nice links, am lazy and copy-pasting).
✭ http://www.subtle-salvation.com/v5/viewstory.php?sid=274&index=1 The Other's Each by ladycat777 Summary: John was aware that he stood awkwardly in the middle of someone else’s living room, cast in beleaguered grays, a remnant from another place and time. Madison was a sharp contrast, standing in the doorway leading towards the kitchen, thumb-prints smudged on clean white paint. She thrummed with life. // After everything in the episode "Outcast", John seeks refuge with the people he considers part of his family--the Millers.
✭ http://yin-again.com/suddenly.htm suddenly at last by yin_again Summary: Rodney's a genius, you know - that means he can figure stuff out. Eventually. // It took Elizabeth nineteen days to negotiate John's release. On the morning of the nineteenth day, the wormhole engaged and John's limp, naked body was tossed through to land abruptly on the gate room floor. Rodney was at his side before the wormhole disengaged, screaming into his headset for Carson. John opened the eye that wasn't swollen shut and managed to whisper, "Miss me?" before passing out.
✭ http://yin-again.com/suddenlyagain.htm suddenly again by yin_again Summary: a suddenly at last future snippet.
✭ http://mcsheplets.livejournal.com/221421.html Family by melagan "However you looked at it, the Ancients were shifty bastards and too busy looking after their own skins to care about what kind of consequences they were leaving behind for the humans in this galaxy. Now, thanks to Carson, he’d just found out he was one of them. A 100% Ancient throwback bastard."
✭ http://yin-again.com/kidfears.htm kid fears by yin_again "After three days of almost frighteningly good behavior, John starts slowly returning to form. He cows the Marines with orders that they can't help reflexively obeying. He throws carefully timed tantrums, and the people those don't work on get big teary green eyes turned in their direction, after which they fold like towels."
✭ http://yin-again.com/bcdrabble.htm bad cop by yin_again "But I do not want to do this! I don't even believe in it!" Rodney flops into a chair, defeated. // John is de-aged, and is a hell-raiser. Elizabeth orders Rodney to discipline him, since nothing else is working.
✭ http://kellifer-fic.livejournal.com/20114.html Almost by Kellifer_fic Summary: “Oh, you’re awake. Thank god.” “Were you lecturing me while I was unconscious?” sga mckay/sheppard ronon teyla angst drama romance <1.000 rating:r author:Kellifer_fic estab-rel
✭ http://mcshep-match.livejournal.com/100166.html So Happy I Could Die by reddwarfer Summary: Rodney works very hard to make sure John gets everything he needs, everything he's ever wanted. But John is still hungry for more. And Rodney never does anything halfway. // AU, and yet, not. Surfer!John and his husband, video game designer Rodney. Sweet story that turns bittersweet with the ending twist.
✭ http://sgahcchallenges.livejournal.com/37404.html Don't Tell Mama by pansychubb The team is off-world, and yet another mission gone wrong ends up with John hurt. There's been a cave-in, and they find help in the form of a kid. Told from the kid's pov.
✭ http://sgahcchallenges.livejournal.com/27498.html Lovesick (No, Really) by pansychubb "Seriously, Sheppard, only you would have a severe allergic reaction to an alien aphrodisiac."
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/117616 Quite Possibly The Story of Rodney's Life by sheafrotherdon "Okay, okay, I can handle this, I can - I am Rodney McKay, you hear that? Fuck you, bacteria, fuck you, colds." // When Teyla, Ronon and John come down with something off-world and don't even feel well enough to go back to Atlantis, it's falls on to Rodney to take care of them.
✭ http://sga-santa.livejournal.com/300607.html?format=light Break-Out by elegantpi Summary: Sheppard is separated from his team, but he has to blackmail them into rescuing him. // Very sweet teamfic.
✭ http://hawksong.com/~momskitchen/SGA_Fic/excoriation.htm Excoriation by Mrs Hamill Summary: "If I give you what you want, will you stop trying to kill yourself?"
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/117987 Bare by sheafrotherdon Summary: John. The name seems solid if not familiar, a passable identity – nothing about it makes him cringe, at least, and he's been called other things (he thinks) these past few days that weren't so benign.
✭ http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/773398.html Desperate Measures by hazelthewitch Summary: They're trapped on a volcano planet. Things get worse from there. // ...Worse, as in, Sheppard slowly dying from a wound, having only a cave with some water to sustain them until the rescue comes--a rescue that seems to be less likely with each passing day. And since it seems so likely they will not survive this, Sheppard confesses his feelings and fantasies. Rodney is pretty sure he's straight, but it seems a small thing to give Sheppard a little bit happiness, so he pretends he's always been pining away as well. [ Alternate link: http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=13981&index=1 ]
✭ http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=2446 Entanglements by Barb G Summary: John falls down, and gets rescued. One is worse than the other. // A supposedly routine mission ends with John and Rodney kidnapped by Kolya and his men. Problem is, Kolya is not out to extract information or cooperation from them. His objective is to as painful a torture for John as possible, to break his spirit, before he finally kills him. And Rodney helps John as much as he can, doing his best to keep John's spirit unbroken.
✭ http://www.mediafans.org/rachael/sga/2007_sga_pretreat.html Preferential Treatment by Rachael Sabotini Summary: It's not really a rescue if Kolya's involved. Remix of Entanglements by Barb G // McKay pov.
✭ http://lilysaid.livejournal.com/198469.html visiting hours (1/2) by lilysaid A mission gone wrong. Sheppard's team is kidnapped and almost killed by the natives, who apparently kill everyone that visits the planet in an attempt to hide their presence. In the end, Sheppard remains hostage, the rest of the team sent back alive, with the threat to kill Sheppard if they come back, and with only Rodney allowed weekly visits. A rescue mission is not viable because the place is Ancient-built and secure. But as the weeks pass, without a possibility of rescue in sight, Sheppard gets restless, slowly losing his mind. Rodney has to do something.
✭ http://kristen999.livejournal.com/56917.html?format=light Desperation by kristen999 The whole point of the mission with Davis was to explore the warehouse of little mini labs. That was before the Team found out Sheppard had left early with Sergeant Psycho in tow. Before Rodney found Sheppard laying on the floor bleeding. Before the lockdown. “You're just not satisfied with women falling all over you, now you have to attract stalkers? Murderous, homicidal maniac stalkers.”
✭ http://tacittype.livejournal.com/11804.html Reckoning (1/2) by tacit_uk How John and Rodney become team and learn to rely on each other, and how McKay gets very good with field medic. A "now and then" story that's set in Season 4, but is nevertheless a tag to the episode "The Defiant One".
✭ http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2331065/1/Subterfuge Subterfuge (1/3) by liketheriver Summary: The team suffers separation anxiety, Sheppard gets whumped by the Genii, and McKay MacGyvers a bomb out of an MRE.
✭ http://www.elementalvision.org/second-story.html Second Story by elementalv “Are you all right, Sheppard?” “Yeah. Fine.” Only not, because somehow, Rodney’s Wayback Machine had allowed John to alter his life at a fundamental level, and that was just — it was too much and not enough, because Mama still died when John was a boy, but the second time around, it was an airplane crash, and it hurt a hell of a lot more than the first time she’d died. // [ Alternate link: http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/857966.html ]
✭ http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/824414.html Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda by liketheriver Summary: Caring for your injured CO isn't the easiest job for a Marine. And Sheppard's isn't the only team on Atlantis. // "Being the armchair quarterback is easy; throwing the Hail Mary pass in the big game is something else entirely."
✭ http://mfsd.talkoncorners.net/fanfic/2006/01/27/the-one-where-they-are-gladiators/ The One Where They Are Gladiators by svmadelyn What the title says. Imprisoned, John and Rodney (mostly Rodney) have to survive being pitted against gladiators every day. [ Alternate link: http://svmadelyn.livejournal.com/330551.html?format=light ] // “They said they’d kill us if one of us didn’t take twenty rounds in the gladiator pits. Twenty in a fucking row.”
To be honest, there is maybe more focus on the hurt than you want in these, but I can't be sure. That's why I'm adding the summaries so you can judge for yourself. Let me know if they fit.
✭ http://thegrrrl2002.slashcity.org/atlantis/01/light.html Into the Light by The Grrrl Summary: A rescue. And then—warm fuzzies.
✭ http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&sid=5015&textsize=0&chapter=1 Aiden Ford's Bad Day by ToraK Being in prison, his CO high on drugs and being all giggly and cuddly with McKay is so not what Aiden ever wanted to see.
✭ http://hawksong.com/~momskitchen/SGA_Fic/insomnia.htm A Cure for Insomnia by mrshamill Rodney gets John out of a virtual environment he's in after a hostage situation.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/116799 However Improbable by Zoe Rayne During visiting one of their trading partners, the Jumper crashes. Rodney is okay, but John needs brain surgery. Rodney says he's John's lifemate and his permission should be enough for operation.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/170435 Comfort by velocitygrass Summary: When John is hurt, it's not just him. sga mckay/sheppard angst romance dadt <500 rating:g author:velocitygrass estab-rel
✭ http://www.area52hkh.net/asd/dasha/untalent.php Untalented And Completely Unprepared, But Giving It His Best Shot Anyway by Dasha When John goes into anaphylactic shock because of a bug bite, Rodney's the one keeping him alive.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/72948 Dog Days by Argosy Summary: "It's a dog," Rodney said. "For all intents and purposes." || To cheer him up, Rodney builds John an extremely sophisticated AI dog, since a live pet isn't doable on Atlantis. All of Atlantis falls in love with the adorable little guy. [ Alternate links: http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=14357&index=1 or: http://argosy.livejournal.com/86906.html + http://argosy.livejournal.com/87155.html ]
Holy Moley, what an awesome list. Some favorites, some I'd forgotten all about and some I've never read. Forget about paying my bills - I've got reading to do! :-)
Glad to hear that. Enjoy. :) And yes, good fics are extremely addicting, aren't they?
(Actually, this was the short list--there are about 90 Sheppard H/C fics more, but it'd be too much, and I didn't quite remember how the H and C were apportioned in them, you know? But since it's a txt file sitting on my HD anyway, I could email it to you if you want? Just a thought.)
except when Firefox starts crashing due to too many open tabs
Oh the dangers of fanfic addiction. :) I feel your pain. Used to happen to me too a lot. There's an easy solution to that: Use the firefox add-on session manager, adjust settings accordingly, and then it won't matter if it crashes, you'll have the exact tabs you had before. And/or, something just as useful: the add-on "TabGroups Manager", which lets you hibernate tab groups without an entry into your firefox bookmarks.
The tabs are always there again when I restart Firefox (Thank God I figured that one out very soon) but the "TabGroups Manager" sounds interesting! Thank you!
Ok, now I'm shutting up. *g*
Don't! I'm always happy when someone points something out to me since I'm a bit clueless/overwhelmed regarding all the options and add-ons Firefox has...
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Date: 2011-10-01 01:26 pm (UTC)Snow Had Fallen Snow on Snow (http://community.livejournal.com/sga_santa/220810.html). John/Ronon. Kind of fits even if the focus isn't really on the h/c.
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Date: 2011-10-01 02:09 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-10-01 04:41 pm (UTC)Did you know there's a whole community for Sheppard H/C?
http://sheppard-hc.livejournal.com/
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Date: 2011-10-01 08:49 pm (UTC)I'm aware of
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Date: 2011-10-02 08:44 pm (UTC)✭ http://www.subtle-salvation.com/v5/viewstory.php?sid=274&index=1
The Other's Each by ladycat777
Summary: John was aware that he stood awkwardly in the middle of someone else’s living room, cast in beleaguered grays, a remnant from another place and time. Madison was a sharp contrast, standing in the doorway leading towards the kitchen, thumb-prints smudged on clean white paint. She thrummed with life. // After everything in the episode "Outcast", John seeks refuge with the people he considers part of his family--the Millers.
✭ http://yin-again.com/suddenly.htm
suddenly at last by yin_again
Summary: Rodney's a genius, you know - that means he can figure stuff out. Eventually. // It took Elizabeth nineteen days to negotiate John's release. On the morning of the nineteenth day, the wormhole engaged and John's limp, naked body was tossed through to land abruptly on the gate room floor. Rodney was at his side before the wormhole disengaged, screaming into his headset for Carson. John opened the eye that wasn't swollen shut and managed to whisper, "Miss me?" before passing out.
✭ http://yin-again.com/suddenlyagain.htm
suddenly again by yin_again
Summary: a suddenly at last future snippet.
✭ http://mcsheplets.livejournal.com/221421.html
Family by melagan
"However you looked at it, the Ancients were shifty bastards and too busy looking after their own skins to care about what kind of consequences they were leaving behind for the humans in this galaxy. Now, thanks to Carson, he’d just found out he was one of them. A 100% Ancient throwback bastard."
✭ http://yin-again.com/kidfears.htm
kid fears by yin_again
"After three days of almost frighteningly good behavior, John starts slowly returning to form. He cows the Marines with orders that they can't help reflexively obeying. He throws carefully timed tantrums, and the people those don't work on get big teary green eyes turned in their direction, after which they fold like towels."
✭ http://yin-again.com/bcdrabble.htm
bad cop by yin_again
"But I do not want to do this! I don't even believe in it!" Rodney flops into a chair, defeated. // John is de-aged, and is a hell-raiser. Elizabeth orders Rodney to discipline him, since nothing else is working.
✭ http://kellifer-fic.livejournal.com/20114.html
Almost by Kellifer_fic
Summary: “Oh, you’re awake. Thank god.”
“Were you lecturing me while I was unconscious?”
sga mckay/sheppard ronon teyla angst drama romance <1.000 rating:r author:Kellifer_fic estab-rel
✭ http://mcshep-match.livejournal.com/100166.html
So Happy I Could Die by reddwarfer
Summary: Rodney works very hard to make sure John gets everything he needs, everything he's ever wanted. But John is still hungry for more. And Rodney never does anything halfway. // AU, and yet, not. Surfer!John and his husband, video game designer Rodney. Sweet story that turns bittersweet with the ending twist.
✭ http://sgahcchallenges.livejournal.com/37404.html
Don't Tell Mama by pansychubb
The team is off-world, and yet another mission gone wrong ends up with John hurt. There's been a cave-in, and they find help in the form of a kid. Told from the kid's pov.
✭ http://sgahcchallenges.livejournal.com/27498.html
Lovesick (No, Really) by pansychubb
"Seriously, Sheppard, only you would have a severe allergic reaction to an alien aphrodisiac."
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/117616
Quite Possibly The Story of Rodney's Life by sheafrotherdon
"Okay, okay, I can handle this, I can - I am Rodney McKay, you hear that? Fuck you, bacteria, fuck you, colds." // When Teyla, Ronon and John come down with something off-world and don't even feel well enough to go back to Atlantis, it's falls on to Rodney to take care of them.
✭ http://sga-santa.livejournal.com/300607.html?format=light
Break-Out by elegantpi
Summary: Sheppard is separated from his team, but he has to blackmail them into rescuing him. // Very sweet teamfic.
✭ http://hawksong.com/~momskitchen/SGA_Fic/excoriation.htm
Excoriation by Mrs Hamill
Summary: "If I give you what you want, will you stop trying to kill yourself?"
Part 2
Date: 2011-10-02 08:47 pm (UTC)Bare by sheafrotherdon
Summary: John. The name seems solid if not familiar, a passable identity – nothing about it makes him cringe, at least, and he's been called other things (he thinks) these past few days that weren't so benign.
✭ http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/773398.html
Desperate Measures by hazelthewitch
Summary: They're trapped on a volcano planet. Things get worse from there. // ...Worse, as in, Sheppard slowly dying from a wound, having only a cave with some water to sustain them until the rescue comes--a rescue that seems to be less likely with each passing day. And since it seems so likely they will not survive this, Sheppard confesses his feelings and fantasies. Rodney is pretty sure he's straight, but it seems a small thing to give Sheppard a little bit happiness, so he pretends he's always been pining away as well. [ Alternate link: http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=13981&index=1 ]
✭ http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=2446
Entanglements by Barb G
Summary: John falls down, and gets rescued. One is worse than the other. // A supposedly routine mission ends with John and Rodney kidnapped by Kolya and his men. Problem is, Kolya is not out to extract information or cooperation from them. His objective is to as painful a torture for John as possible, to break his spirit, before he finally kills him. And Rodney helps John as much as he can, doing his best to keep John's spirit unbroken.
✭ http://www.mediafans.org/rachael/sga/2007_sga_pretreat.html
Preferential Treatment by Rachael Sabotini
Summary: It's not really a rescue if Kolya's involved. Remix of Entanglements by Barb G // McKay pov.
✭ http://lilysaid.livejournal.com/198469.html
visiting hours (1/2) by lilysaid
A mission gone wrong. Sheppard's team is kidnapped and almost killed by the natives, who apparently kill everyone that visits the planet in an attempt to hide their presence. In the end, Sheppard remains hostage, the rest of the team sent back alive, with the threat to kill Sheppard if they come back, and with only Rodney allowed weekly visits. A rescue mission is not viable because the place is Ancient-built and secure. But as the weeks pass, without a possibility of rescue in sight, Sheppard gets restless, slowly losing his mind. Rodney has to do something.
✭ http://kristen999.livejournal.com/56917.html?format=light
Desperation by kristen999
The whole point of the mission with Davis was to explore the warehouse of little mini labs. That was before the Team found out Sheppard had left early with Sergeant Psycho in tow. Before Rodney found Sheppard laying on the floor bleeding. Before the lockdown.
“You're just not satisfied with women falling all over you, now you have to attract stalkers? Murderous, homicidal maniac stalkers.”
✭ http://tacittype.livejournal.com/11804.html
Reckoning (1/2) by tacit_uk
How John and Rodney become team and learn to rely on each other, and how McKay gets very good with field medic. A "now and then" story that's set in Season 4, but is nevertheless a tag to the episode "The Defiant One".
✭ http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2331065/1/Subterfuge
Subterfuge (1/3) by liketheriver
Summary: The team suffers separation anxiety, Sheppard gets whumped by the Genii, and McKay MacGyvers a bomb out of an MRE.
✭ http://www.elementalvision.org/second-story.html
Second Story by elementalv
“Are you all right, Sheppard?”
“Yeah. Fine.” Only not, because somehow, Rodney’s Wayback Machine had allowed John to alter his life at a fundamental level, and that was just — it was too much and not enough, because Mama still died when John was a boy, but the second time around, it was an airplane crash, and it hurt a hell of a lot more than the first time she’d died. //
[ Alternate link: http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/857966.html ]
✭ http://sga-flashfic.livejournal.com/824414.html
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda by liketheriver
Summary: Caring for your injured CO isn't the easiest job for a Marine. And Sheppard's isn't the only team on Atlantis. // "Being the armchair quarterback is easy; throwing the Hail Mary pass in the big game is something else entirely."
Part 3/3
Date: 2011-10-02 08:50 pm (UTC)✭ http://mfsd.talkoncorners.net/fanfic/2006/01/27/the-one-where-they-are-gladiators/
The One Where They Are Gladiators by svmadelyn
What the title says. Imprisoned, John and Rodney (mostly Rodney) have to survive being pitted against gladiators every day. [ Alternate link: http://svmadelyn.livejournal.com/330551.html?format=light ] //
“They said they’d kill us if one of us didn’t take twenty rounds in the gladiator pits. Twenty in a fucking row.”
To be honest, there is maybe more focus on the hurt than you want in these, but I can't be sure. That's why I'm adding the summaries so you can judge for yourself. Let me know if they fit.
Part 4
Date: 2011-10-02 09:15 pm (UTC)✭ http://thegrrrl2002.slashcity.org/atlantis/01/light.html
Into the Light by The Grrrl
Summary: A rescue. And then—warm fuzzies.
✭ http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?action=printable&sid=5015&textsize=0&chapter=1
Aiden Ford's Bad Day by ToraK
Being in prison, his CO high on drugs and being all giggly and cuddly with McKay is so not what Aiden ever wanted to see.
✭ http://hawksong.com/~momskitchen/SGA_Fic/insomnia.htm
A Cure for Insomnia by mrshamill
Rodney gets John out of a virtual environment he's in after a hostage situation.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/116799
However Improbable by Zoe Rayne
During visiting one of their trading partners, the Jumper crashes. Rodney is okay, but John needs brain surgery. Rodney says he's John's lifemate and his permission should be enough for operation.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/170435
Comfort by velocitygrass
Summary: When John is hurt, it's not just him.
sga mckay/sheppard angst romance dadt <500 rating:g author:velocitygrass estab-rel
✭ http://www.area52hkh.net/asd/dasha/untalent.php
Untalented And Completely Unprepared, But Giving It His Best Shot Anyway by Dasha
When John goes into anaphylactic shock because of a bug bite, Rodney's the one keeping him alive.
✭ http://archiveofourown.org/works/72948
Dog Days by Argosy
Summary: "It's a dog," Rodney said. "For all intents and purposes." || To cheer him up, Rodney builds John an extremely sophisticated AI dog, since a live pet isn't doable on Atlantis. All of Atlantis falls in love with the adorable little guy. [ Alternate links: http://www.wraithbait.com/viewstory.php?sid=14357&index=1 or: http://argosy.livejournal.com/86906.html + http://argosy.livejournal.com/87155.html ]
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-03 12:41 am (UTC)Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-03 12:59 am (UTC)(Actually, this was the short list--there are about 90 Sheppard H/C fics more, but it'd be too much, and I didn't quite remember how the H and C were apportioned in them, you know? But since it's a txt file sitting on my HD anyway, I could email it to you if you want? Just a thought.)
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-06 11:36 am (UTC)Thank you and sorry for my late response!
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-06 11:51 am (UTC)(And no, of course no offence taken.)
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-06 12:00 pm (UTC)Thank you again! :)
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-06 12:12 pm (UTC)Oh the dangers of fanfic addiction. :) I feel your pain. Used to happen to me too a lot. There's an easy solution to that: Use the firefox add-on session manager, adjust settings accordingly, and then it won't matter if it crashes, you'll have the exact tabs you had before. And/or, something just as useful: the add-on "TabGroups Manager", which lets you hibernate tab groups without an entry into your firefox bookmarks.
Ok, now I'm shutting up. *g*
Re: Part 4
Date: 2011-10-06 12:23 pm (UTC)Ok, now I'm shutting up. *g*
Don't! I'm always happy when someone points something out to me since I'm a bit clueless/overwhelmed regarding all the options and add-ons Firefox has...