John has a dirty little secret...he's sleeping with Rodney

[thetruegoddess.livejournal.com]

I have realized that McShep is my comfort OTP. SGA and McKay/Sheppard fanfic are what I seem to return to when things in my life are becoming too much and I need a break. Soooo I'm baaaack lol.
This time I'm looking for stories where John and Rodney are in or start a relationship/sleeping together/become friends with benefits etc. However John is a emotionally repressed jerk and prefers to hide their involvement. He goes out of his way to overcompensate either by being mean to Rodney around others or by flirting/sleeping with anything in a skirt. Stories set in Atlantis are my preference and because I'm looking for some escapism happy endings only please. They don't have to necessarily end up together (although that is my preference) if they end up separate but a good place emotionally that would be ok too.
As always please no MPreg. Any recs you can suggest would be very much appreciated.
TIA
Meeshi

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[melagan.livejournal.com]

Try Kid A (http://www.trickster.org/speranza/cesper/KidA.html).

[thetruegoddess.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Thank you

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

A short but classic fic by crimsonclad: The PURRRRRR-fect Solution (to unfortunate borderline abusive sex with military types), or, Build Me Up, Buttercup (http://crimsonclad.livejournal.com/84243.html). :-)

[thetruegoddess.livejournal.com]

Love this one! Thanks

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

I was just going to suggest Build Me Up Buttercup! :D

[mific.livejournal.com]

This Gun's for Hire by Helenish is a bit like that, with a seriously repressed John.
http://helenish.talkoncorners.net/gun.html

Be Loved by Velocitygrass has John with internalized homophobia.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/188896

Listen to Me by Blackchaps is a post-tao of Rodney fic, in which Sheppard is mostly a dick, until the end. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1971258

[thetruegoddess.livejournal.com]

Can't wait to read these ones, thanks!

[wanted-a-pony.livejournal.com]

iibnf wrote a long, quirky & funny list of post-"Trinity" fics (http://iibnf.livejournal.com/1328223.html) (where John, & usually others too, treat Rodney badly after Doranda), rated for shunning/angst on a scale of zero to ten Lemon Chickens. One in particular that fits this search is Happy Birthday Rodney McKay (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3182883/1/Happy_Birthday_Rodney_McKay) by AngelTalion/Tali on FanFiction.net.

[lestrades-lady.livejournal.com]

This one isn't quite like that, but it's close enough that it came to mind when I read your post.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1074050