McShep Match

Title: Precipice
Author: shaddyr
Team: Time
Prompt: out of line
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 6,000
Warnings: Angst, swearing.
Summary: Rodney can't protect John against – well, everything. It's making him a little bit crazy.
Author’s Notes: Thanks to my dear beta, who as usual, was fabulous.

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Title: The Coming Tide
Author: ladysorka
Team: Time
Prompt: act of god
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, past Sheppard/Holland
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 6,100
Warnings: Some violence.
Summary: The cultists have been moving further north.

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Title: You call this fun?!
Artist: syble4
Team: Time
Prompt: rock the boat
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: It's a great day for sailing.

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Title: Somewhere on Bosworth Field, 1485
Author: wneleh
Team: Time
Prompt: Tower of Strength
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: G
Word count: 1100
Warnings: None
Summary: King Richard's name a tower of strength may be;
But still our heroes find they wish to lead
A life apart from kings (but not from wings).
Author’s Notes: Thanks go to beta-readers yet unnamed;
Remaining errors are, of course, my own,
Be they in meter, spelling, or grammar.

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Title: Self-made man
Author: admiralandrea
Team: Time
Prompt: nick of time
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 7,108
Warnings: Contains always-a-female-John transformed into a male. Has transformed!John engaging in sex both alone and with Rodney, but from a female POV.
Summary: Even the simplest city-based mission can go wrong in the Pegasus Galaxy, leading to unexpected changes for Colonel Sheppard.

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Title: Nowhere Man
Author: neevebrody
Team: Time
Prompt: lock, stock, and barrel
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: G
Word count: ~12,900
Warnings: None
Summary: Why didn't he go beyond the Ring? With a mind like his, what kept him bound to a place where no one had wanted him? Pride, pettiness, spite... what hold did this place have?
Author's Notes: This is a story to be read with a grain of salt, a flight of fancy, and a hand over your heart. I want to thank my beta readers mischief5 and lilyfarfalla for their time, patience, and valuable input – the story is much better for them having their hands in it.

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Title: Yeah, but.
Author: mandykaysfic
Team: Time
Prompt: gift horse
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: PG
Word count: 2,880
Warnings: None
Summary: Imagine you're offered a sapphire necklace, and you say “yeah, but I really wanted a jade bracelet.” Rodney invoked the 'yeah, buts' all of his life, until he finally realized he didn't need to.
Author’s Notes: Acknowledgement to Mark Twain, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Buddha and Wallace D. Wattles for their quotations on the subject of gratitude, Charlie Gilkey for the 'yeah, buts' and Johnny Cash for Thanksgiving Prayer and the lines I'm thankful a pair of shoes etc.
Grateful thanks to my betas neevebrody and lilallisun. When it comes to betas I never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Title: paper cranes (upstairs, downstairs)
Author: ladyofthelog
Team: Time
Prompt: blast from the past
Pairing(s): John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Dave Sheppard/OFC
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 19,000
Warnings: None
Summary: "Oh my God," Rodney says, stricken. "This is —this is one of those British costume dramas Ronon always wants to watch and I'm the uncouth American!"
Author’s Notes: Set in October 2011, one month after the repeal of DADT.

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Title: Heart's Desire
Author: weebeanie
Team: Time
Prompt: fly in the ointment
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard, McKay/Keller
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 3,650
Warnings: None
Summary: A grateful alien race grants McKay his Heart's Desire. But is his new life truly perfect?

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