scribblinlenore | Yay for good surprises!

So, busy morning, and it wasn't until lunchtime that I finally got on the Internets, and yay! There was a lovely surprise waiting for me.

tardis80 made me a fabulous cover for my story Only Grumpier and With Darker Hair. That Marilyn thing was really just supposed to be funny, but oh my God! There's TOTALLY a resemblance. *loves* You guys should go check out the cover.

Lately, other TV shows have been rich, rich fodder for SGA AU ideas (or perhaps one might just call them fantasies *g*), and last night's CSI was GOLD!!!

Host bars! Host bars and John Sheppard! When have two things ever gone together better? I actually just read an article on the subject, so I was already imaginging John doing the bedroom eyes thing with the ladies, laying on the charm over ridiculously expensive drinks, getting groped by his entitled and overly enthusiastic rich gal clients.

Then after last night's CSI, I started spinning a story, how John ended up in Japan after he got drummed out of the Air Force for his exploits in Afghanistan, and he was seriously short on money and somehow fell into this line of work. His American GI good looks make him a big favorite with the Japanese ladies, and although he speaks perfect Japanese, he affects this sort of John Wayne accent, which never fails to make his clients giggle. (You know, a la the Flan and his "Je suis cowboy" thing.)

The place where he works is ladies only, but one night, Rodney happens in, not because he actually knows what kind of place it is, but because he's in Japan on business, and his inner clock is all screwed up (a la "Lost in Translation"), and he'd gone out for a walk, and suddenly it started pouring down rain, and he just ran for the first sign of shelter. He's miserable and complaining and the concierge is trying to explain that it's women only here, but Rodney's Japanese isn't that good under the best of circumstances and it's practically non-existent when he's huffy and not interested in hearing why he can't have a drink while he dries off and waits for it to stop raining.

John intervenes, and says he'll take care of this guest, and explains to Rodney what the deal is, and Rodney is all like, um, I can just go. And John says, no, it's fine, as long as you don't mind spending a fortune for a bottle of champagne. And Rodney smiles and says he's on an expense account. John takes Rodney to a private room, and they drink and talk, and it's surprisingly easy and comfortable, and maybe Rodney even kisses John and then feels like an idiot and starts babbling apologies, and then John kisses him and smiles and says it's okay, it was nice. Which surprises him, because he's seriously getting burnt out on this kind of work, and nothing really feels nice anymore.

After that, Rodney keeps coming back, and they get more and more intimate, and then one evening Rodney doesn't show, and John tries to tell himself that he's not disappointed. But when he finishes for the evening, he finds Rodney waiting outside for him, and he's just ridiculously happy. Rodney looks all eager and kind of embarrassed and says he was hoping that maybe John would be okay with seeing him outside the bar.

John is, and they go to Rodney's hotel to have sex. There's a moment of awkwardness when Rodney isn't sure what this is, if money is supposed to be involved, and John gets a little insulted. "I'm not a whore. Well, not...exactly." They start to have sex, and Rodney wants to fuck John, and John says okay, but then when Rodney starts touching him there, John tenses. And Rodney figures out that he's never been fucked before, and that kind of freaks him out, and he keeps saying, "We don't have to do this." But John insists that he has had sex with men before, just not like that, and he wants to have sex with Rodney, and they end up rubbing off against each other.

There's a whole thing about John's sexuality running through. Working at the host bar seemed like a good idea at first--John has always been charming, he could use that to earn a living--but it has really affected his sense of his own sexuality, his ability to express desire. So they have to deal with that as their relationship develops.

Then, too, there would be some plot. After Rodney and John are sleeping together, John comes to him one night, very late, and he's all agitated, and he has scratches on his cheek, and Rodney is furious, wants to know what those stupid bitches have done to him. John says he had this horrible scene with one of his clients who got too attached, and he really just needs to be with Rodney, wants to have sex with him, can they have sex? And they do. In the morning, the police show up at Rodney's door, looking for John. The woman he argued with the night before was found dead, and he's their chief suspect.

Of course, the woman turns out to be the wife of a high-ranking government official, and there's all this brouhaha, and evidence just keeps mounting up against John. And John keeps insisting that he didn't do it, and begging Rodney to believe him. And Rodney does. And maybe they go on the run together. Eventually, they prove John innocent, working together.

Oh, oh, and Atlantis exists in this AU, and Rodney has been researching Ancient technology, and he hasn't been making much headway, and John makes something turn on, and there's all that excitement. And maybe the whole homicide plot somehow intersects with the Atlantis plot, and it builds up to some hopefully thrilling finale, and John is reinstated in the Air Force and goes with Rodney to the Pegasus galaxy where they can live happily ever after amid the life-sucking monsters. The END!!!

I really, really want to write that. Well...okay, mostly just the sex parts. Because wounded!psyche!John being healed by Rodney's cock...how could I possibly NOT want to write that????

Oh, thank you, CSI! I've had such happy, happy thoughts since last night. :)

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You should very much write the entire things. *_* *is awful*

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