Title: Small Primes and Square Roots
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, humor, drama, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: none

Author on LJ: liviapenn
Author Website: n/a

Review:
My favorite kid!fic ever. Actually, one of the five or so kid!fics I've ever managed to finish -- one of my favorite aspects of slash fic is that it's not strange if the guys *don't* have a kid. 

In his twenties, John Sheppard is on leave when he bumps into Jeannie McKay, who asks him an awful lot of questions about the quality of his genes and then asks him for a favor (hint: little swimmers are involved). Ten years later he comes back to town to find Jeannie has died in a car accident and that Rodney was the one who ended up taking care of Jeannie's daughter, Sara. Rodney agrees to take John to dinner so that John can spend some with Sara and from there you have one of the best letter-romances ever (primarily because there's very little romance involved).

Looking back over this review, it's hard to say why I like this story so much. It has a kid. I hate kids. It has letters (well, e-mails). I hate letter fic. It has long distance romance. I ha-- well, you get the point. However, all of these things that usually annoy me are just done so well here that I can't even get frustrated. Sara's a great character, managing to be both a realistic teenager and the product of Rodney's upbringing without being at all irritating (a miracle, obviously). The e-mails are well-written and snarky and sound so much like Rodney and John that you forget you're reading a letter. Even the long-distance bit works, because the e-mails are so satisfying. Just a sweet, funny, brilliant story.

Small Primes and Square Roots, pt. 1 pt. 2 

Title: Small Primes and Square Roots
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, humor, drama, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: none

Author on LJ: liviapenn
Author Website: n/a

Review:
My favorite kid!fic ever. Actually, one of the five or so kid!fics I've ever managed to finish -- one of my favorite aspects of slash fic is that it's not strange if the guys *don't* have a kid. 

In his twenties, John Sheppard is on leave when he bumps into Jeannie McKay, who asks him an awful lot of questions about the quality of his genes and then asks him for a favor (hint: little swimmers are involved). Ten years later he comes back to town to find Jeannie has died in a car accident and that Rodney was the one who ended up taking care of Jeannie's daughter, Sara. Rodney agrees to take John to dinner so that John can spend some with Sara and from there you have one of the best letter-romances ever (primarily because there's very little romance involved).

Looking back over this review, it's hard to say why I like this story so much. It has a kid. I hate kids. It has letters (well, e-mails). I hate letter fic. It has long distance romance. I ha-- well, you get the point. However, all of these things that usually annoy me are just done so well here that I can't even get frustrated. Sara's a great character, managing to be both a realistic teenager and the product of Rodney's upbringing without being at all irritating (a miracle, obviously). The e-mails are well-written and snarky and sound so much like Rodney and John that you forget you're reading a letter. Even the long-distance bit works, because the e-mails are so satisfying. Just a sweet, funny, brilliant story.

Small Primes and Square Roots, pt. 1 pt. 2 

Title: Small Primes and Square Roots
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, humor, drama, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: none

Author on LJ: liviapenn
Author Website: n/a

Review:
My favorite kid!fic ever. Actually, one of the five or so kid!fics I've ever managed to finish -- one of my favorite aspects of slash fic is that it's not strange if the guys *don't* have a kid. 

In his twenties, John Sheppard is on leave when he bumps into Jeannie McKay, who asks him an awful lot of questions about the quality of his genes and then asks him for a favor (hint: little swimmers are involved). Ten years later he comes back to town to find Jeannie has died in a car accident and that Rodney was the one who ended up taking care of Jeannie's daughter, Sara. Rodney agrees to take John to dinner so that John can spend some with Sara and from there you have one of the best letter-romances ever (primarily because there's very little romance involved).

Looking back over this review, it's hard to say why I like this story so much. It has a kid. I hate kids. It has letters (well, e-mails). I hate letter fic. It has long distance romance. I ha-- well, you get the point. However, all of these things that usually annoy me are just done so well here that I can't even get frustrated. Sara's a great character, managing to be both a realistic teenager and the product of Rodney's upbringing without being at all irritating (a miracle, obviously). The e-mails are well-written and snarky and sound so much like Rodney and John that you forget you're reading a letter. Even the long-distance bit works, because the e-mails are so satisfying. Just a sweet, funny, brilliant story.

Small Primes and Square Roots, pt. 1 pt. 2 

Title: Small Primes and Square Roots
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, humor, drama, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: none

Author on LJ: liviapenn
Author Website: n/a

Review:
My favorite kid!fic ever. Actually, one of the five or so kid!fics I've ever managed to finish -- one of my favorite aspects of slash fic is that it's not strange if the guys *don't* have a kid. 

In his twenties, John Sheppard is on leave when he bumps into Jeannie McKay, who asks him an awful lot of questions about the quality of his genes and then asks him for a favor (hint: little swimmers are involved). Ten years later he comes back to town to find Jeannie has died in a car accident and that Rodney was the one who ended up taking care of Jeannie's daughter, Sara. Rodney agrees to take John to dinner so that John can spend some with Sara and from there you have one of the best letter-romances ever (primarily because there's very little romance involved).

Looking back over this review, it's hard to say why I like this story so much. It has a kid. I hate kids. It has letters (well, e-mails). I hate letter fic. It has long distance romance. I ha-- well, you get the point. However, all of these things that usually annoy me are just done so well here that I can't even get frustrated. Sara's a great character, managing to be both a realistic teenager and the product of Rodney's upbringing without being at all irritating (a miracle, obviously). The e-mails are well-written and snarky and sound so much like Rodney and John that you forget you're reading a letter. Even the long-distance bit works, because the e-mails are so satisfying. Just a sweet, funny, brilliant story.

Small Primes and Square Roots, pt. 1 pt. 2 

Title: Small Primes and Square Roots
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, humor, drama, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: none

Author on LJ: liviapenn
Author Website: n/a

Review:
My favorite kid!fic ever. Actually, one of the five or so kid!fics I've ever managed to finish -- one of my favorite aspects of slash fic is that it's not strange if the guys *don't* have a kid. 

In his twenties, John Sheppard is on leave when he bumps into Jeannie McKay, who asks him an awful lot of questions about the quality of his genes and then asks him for a favor (hint: little swimmers are involved). Ten years later he comes back to town to find Jeannie has died in a car accident and that Rodney was the one who ended up taking care of Jeannie's daughter, Sara. Rodney agrees to take John to dinner so that John can spend some with Sara and from there you have one of the best letter-romances ever (primarily because there's very little romance involved).

Looking back over this review, it's hard to say why I like this story so much. It has a kid. I hate kids. It has letters (well, e-mails). I hate letter fic. It has long distance romance. I ha-- well, you get the point. However, all of these things that usually annoy me are just done so well here that I can't even get frustrated. Sara's a great character, managing to be both a realistic teenager and the product of Rodney's upbringing without being at all irritating (a miracle, obviously). The e-mails are well-written and snarky and sound so much like Rodney and John that you forget you're reading a letter. Even the long-distance bit works, because the e-mails are so satisfying. Just a sweet, funny, brilliant story.

Small Primes and Square Roots, pt. 1 pt. 2