I have always wanted to read the unbound genius post Trinity story that started with all the things we love so much, the staff meeting from hell where Rodney is put on probation and removed from Head of his dept and from his Team, cold distant Elizabeth and John etc, etc, but:
What if Rodney doesn't spend a lot of time stumbling around Atlantis mourning his lost John, just buries himself in work?
What if he becomes so productive in projects and research that Radak becomes worried, he never wanted Rodney's job and now his contacts at the SGC are telling him that the IOA is starting to notice.
What if Radak decides to alert Elizabeth that Rodney might not want to resume his former responsibilities.
How would distant!Elizabeth and distant!John figure out how to A) repair their relationships with McKay and B) try to entice McKay back into wanting to resume his roles as department Head and Team member, without diminishing his culpability for Doranda?
How especially John deal with all of this given that he and Rodney were, ahem, close.
When you (unwittingly) relieve a genius of all his distractions, what happens? Bonus points for Rodney believably oblivious to the machinations till the end, but was he?
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Date: 2016-01-03 03:20 am (UTC)What if Rodney doesn't spend a lot of time stumbling around Atlantis mourning his lost John, just buries himself in work?
What if he becomes so productive in projects and research that Radak becomes worried, he never wanted Rodney's job and now his contacts at the SGC are telling him that the IOA is starting to notice.
What if Radak decides to alert Elizabeth that Rodney might not want to resume his former responsibilities.
How would distant!Elizabeth and distant!John figure out how to A) repair their relationships with McKay and B) try to entice McKay back into wanting to resume his roles as department Head and Team member, without diminishing his culpability for Doranda?
How especially John deal with all of this given that he and Rodney were, ahem, close.
When you (unwittingly) relieve a genius of all his distractions, what happens? Bonus points for Rodney believably oblivious to the machinations till the end, but was he?