Title: Fade to Black
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairing: hints of McKay/Sheppard
Categories: AU, dark, horror, humor
Length: Long (~25,000 words)
Warnings: character death, not a happy ending (you’ve been warned)

Author on LJ: whizzy
Author Website: AO3 (the order of this AO3 is not the best)

Review:
When Rodney is made into the scapegoat at Dreamland Industries for a patent scandal, he does the only thing he can think of, packs everything up and moves into his Uncle Morty’s former cable television studio to have a nice quiet mid-life crisis. He’s getting along with the locals swimmingly when he picks up a distress signal over his giant dish.

This is an insidious little gem. It starts out with some of the best Rodney-babble you’ll see anywhere, establishing his former job as something completely plausible for another possible position Rodney might have had if things had been a bit different. The slow build-up to an out and out horror story is just thrilling.

Now let’s bring up a couple of other reasons why everyone should read this. The OCs in this fic (with the exception of Steve who I’ll mention later) are all taken from “Arsenic and Old Lace” which kicks some serious butt. The truly superb part of this is the fact that the whole 'Brewster' line was barking mad in the movie. Steve and some of the general plot of this fic are actually also a part of whizzy’s other fantastic work, the “Black Helicopters” ‘Verse. If you do happen to read them both you’ll catch quite a different take on the same initial plot. These are great reads that have all of the characters down.

Fade to Black