Something About Blue Eyes (Stargate Atlantis/Gilmore Girls) PG

[mhalachai]

Something About Blue Eyes
Stargate Atlantis/Gilmore Girls
by mhalachaiswords

Summary: There's something familiar to John Sheppard about the girl with the cleft chin and the pretty blue eyes...
Disclaimer: None of these characters or shows belong to me.
Rating: PG
Words: 740
Setting: An off-shoot of The Return; post-series for Gilmore Girls. Pretend it makes sense.
Notes: plsteward suggested this in comments of my last post. Or, rather, suggested a Lorelai/Rodney cross, and this is sort of like that. Too good to pass up, I swear. Just suspend your disbelief.



John Sheppard let Rodney McKay ramble as they stood on the New York street, tuning out the familiar noise and instead watching the people pass them by. So many human beings, none touched by the Wraith or Replicators or all the enemies even closer to home.

It didn't seem real.

Rodney stopped for a moment, took a deep breath, and carried on. It was the only thing familiar to John. Rodney talked too much and that was normal.

They were waiting for Elizabeth to finish her conversation, secret and delicate and not at all like the other conversations she'd had before leaving Earth for the first time. Now, she talked and negotiated like a very dangerous woman. John couldn't bring himself to be sorry for her lost innocence. It had saved his life, the lives of his men, far too many times.

So Rodney talked, John ignored, and they waited for Elizabeth to return. In the meantime, John watched the street and all of the ignorant people.

Someone was walking towards them. One face in the masses, but she was familiar in an impossible way. John knew he had never see this young woman before, but the tilt of her head, the cleft in her chin, John knew her.

Even more, he knew those brilliant blue eyes.

The young woman caught his gaze, wondered at his attention as she passed him by. She never even looked at Rodney.

As she turned her attention back to the road, a cyclist cut her off and she stepped back suddenly, bumping into a hot dog vendor. John stepped forward and steadied the girl before she toppled into the road.

Her cheeks burning, the girl looked up at John. She murmured an apology and stepped away, blending back into the anonymous mass of the New York street.

She hadn't noticed John as he had yanked the luggage tag from her bag.

Rodney had. His blue eyes narrowed as he glared at John. "You have got to be kidding me," he said. "We're not on a furlong! Besides, she's young enough to be your daughter."

John fingered the luggage tag. "She sure is," he muttered, tracing the loopy script that spelled out Rory Gilmore.

~~~

It was two weeks later when John stomped into Rodney's lab, interrupting a boring looking experiment and sending the lab techies scurrying away.

Rodney whirled, wrath on his face at whoever dare intrude into his experiment. He spotted John through the wires, and his irritation fell away into resigned acceptance. "What do you want?" he asked, turning back to his equipment.

John made a motion to the lab techs. "Hey kids, smoke break," he drawled. Within seconds, the lab emptied.

Rodney eyes John with suspicion. "What do you want?" he repeated.

John pasted an insincere smile on his face. "What were you doing in February of 1984?"

"What?" Rodney dropped his wrench. "What does that have to do with anything? I'm in the middle of a very important experiment and you just barge in here and dismiss my help--"

"They weren't doing anything," John pointed out.

"I know that! It's not the point!" Rodney turned his back on John.

"So, February of 1984?" John pressed. Rodney ignored him. "You didn't spend some time in Hartford, Connecticut?"

Rodney's fingers stopped moving on the switchboard.

John had already known the answer, but to judge from Rodney's reaction, he certainly remembered the trip.

"Just checking," John said, pushing off the wall. "Later, McKay." He left the room, leaving a confused Rodney behind.

From his meeting with Jeanie, Rodney's sister, John knew that intelligence certainly ran in the McKay family. He'd checked the girl out, top to bottom, on every database he could get into without raising suspicions. She was smart, although not as brilliant as Rodney, and her talents tended towards the arts rather than science.

And there was the fact that the girl looked so much like Rodney that it was creepy.

Even the name sounded too close. Rory McKay, John sounded out in his head. It had a certain ring to it.

He continued down the hall. He was probably crazy. This was probably nothing but a coincidence.

Although if there was one thing life with the Ancient gene had taught him, there were no such things as coincidences.

No matter how much John tried, he couldn't believe that running into Rory Gilmore on the streets of New York was a coincidence.

Continue to the next chapter

the pictures that started this whole mess:

Comments

[ktoth04.livejournal.com]

o that is a weeeeeeeeeeeird idea

i like it XD

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I am a huge fan of the weird ideas. Especially on days like today :)

[firefox1490.livejournal.com]

You know thats kinda scary. In a funny way. Very cool

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! I had fun cobbling this one together this afternoon :)

[jooniper-pearl.livejournal.com]

Huh. You know, that kinda works. Both Rory and Rodney talk at speeds no human should, also they tend to make big leaps in thinking and they get excited very easily. This works rather well :)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It's one of those fun coincidences. The characters are very much alike... in good and bad ways. It was fun to write :)

[cissasghost.livejournal.com]

Hee!! So amusing. Are you going to continue this?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of continuing it.... I have an idea of a long story that *ends* with Rory and Rodney meeting. It may work :)

[plsteward.livejournal.com]

For the win! I'm loving the idea that Rodney might be the real dad of Rory & not Chistopher (I'm hating Chris right now.) The intelligence fits. I never would have seen it but yeah, the shape of the faces, chins, eyes... they match!
Oh, and if John verifies that Rory really is Rodney's kid... oh the chaos!

[rosy-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. GAWD.

They really DO look like each other! Spooky!

-- Rosy the Cat

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I love this idea. You must continue! Rodney and Lorelei are such fast talkers. Wow, that would be fun. I need to hear them in conversation - please

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

ZOMG they have the same chin!

A crossing of worlds in under 800 words! Do you have plans to continue this 'verse, or is it a one-shot?


"...I'm in the middle of a very important experiment and you just barge in here and dismiss my help--"
"They weren't doing anything," John pointed out.
"I know that! It's not the point!"
Hee!

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Same chin, I know!

I have an idea for a sequel... not sure how it might go. Depends on how much I can get away with, without knowing what happens in SG-1 season 10 and SGA season 3.

This is why the world has spoilers :)

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Interesting:) They do look alike in those two pictures.

I request a sequel. At least for some more banter:)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to come up with an idea for a sequel... and I think I may have one. The only stumbling block I have is this: I have no idea of how Rory did on math and science classes in high school. Do you?

I think I can have fun with this one :) If I get around to it.

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Well, I assume she did well. The only classes I remember seeing her actually in was English and Government.

Can't wait to read it if you do:)

[houses7177.livejournal.com]

Effing awesome. Completely unexpected, perfectly John, and delightfully messy for McKay. I love it.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It is too cool, isn't it? I know I have a habit of putting together strange crossovers, but this one is certainly one of the odder ones :)

Now I'm just trying to find a way to continue it. Maybe I'll AU it and have the crew back on Earth for a bit. Not having seen season 3, I'm not sure if I can get away with it. Oh well.

[penyn-1600.livejournal.com]

Neat idea! Weird, but neat. :)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm the queen of weird. I like it in my little world :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/calen_/]

nice! was that a oneshot? At least she wasn't called Meridith..:-p

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It's a one-shot at this point. I can't think of a way to make it continue and still be consistent with Rory's intelligence -- she never demonstrated any particular affinity with math or physics, but it occurs to me that she was always so dead-set on journalism that she may have just let the math slide.

That may work...

But I ramble. Thanks for your kind words :)

[celtic-tigress.livejournal.com]

Hey there, I've been following your "Inevitable" over at Twisting the Hellmouth, and I think I may have left feedback here for you before, can't remember. (That one is amazing, by the way) And here I find you do SGA too! *friends*

This was a really intriguing idea. I don't watch Gilmore Girls except to flip through on boring afternoons, but this really caught my attention. I'd like to see the idea played out a bit more. It has definite potential

Oh, and I think you meant furlough, not 'furlong'. Furlough is a period of rest in the military, a furlong is an antiquated unit of measurement only really used in horse racing anymore. Lol, it was probably one of those automatic word processor corrections. ;)

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Hi there! Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm always happy tot talk to an Inevitable fan. (I just happened to re-read chapter 58 and I said to myself at least once, "hey, I really did write that!" it's time for a monster re-read :)

I do SGA, indeed. I'm about half and half between SGA straight up, and crossovers. All are to be found in the side tags on my lj. It's been a while since I wrote some solid SGA -- I'm waiting for season 3 to come out on DVD as I no longer have TV. So I'm waiting. Impatiently!

furlough, not 'furlong'
D'oh. It's less about the spell-check and more about me being horrible with the homonyms :D Thanks for catching that :)

Welcome to the blog :D

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Oh, and: I see you're also into SPN. If I may rec myself (probably contrary to internet rules, you may want to check out Hey Little Sister (http://mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com/223475.html) (Supernatural/Stargate Atlantis):

John Winchester has no illusions about his family. That's why he's never told the boys where they came from.

Featuring my fave SGA gal :)

[beatrice_otter]

And what happened next? How do you explain Rory's dad from the show? I want to see Rodney and Lorelai meet up! I want to see him and Rory snarking together again! Enquiring minds want to know!

[jaydeyn-sitari.livejournal.com]

There is nothing about this I dislike! The similarities are truly scary! :D

:)
Jaydeyn

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

It's freaky, isn't it? I love the idea so :D (and not only because I'm not the biggest Christopher fan :)

[jaydeyn-sitari.livejournal.com]

*g* Yeah, Christopher wasn't the best guy ever, that's for darn sure. And Lorelai and Rodney together? OMG SO CUTE and also the banter! And the blinding sarcasm! And! AND! Rodney meeting Luke!!!

I love it!

:)
Jaydeyn

[berlinghoff79.livejournal.com]

So.Much.Love.

[cheshire-catz.livejournal.com]

I stumbled across this story awhile ago and absolutely love it! This is one that I check for updates whenever I can.

I was re-reading it and saw a comment about Rodney and the Gilmores being fast talkers when I thought, it'd be great to see Rodney and Emily meet! So much superiority and put downs it'd be an explosion waiting to happen!

[kyizi.livejournal.com]

What an AWESOME crossover idea! *loves*

[beatrice_otter]

You know who else Rory Gilmore looks like? Gwen Cooper from Torchwood.
http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Galleries/Shows/S_Z/Ti_Tp/Torchwood/season2/torchwood-myles16.jpg

[azardarkstar.livejournal.com]

Very nice. It's been years since I've seen Gilmore Girls, but I really like how you mixed these two together. They're rather odd series to crossover, but I like where you are going/went with it.

I read this originally on TtH, but I hadn't realized that you had a LJ account as well. I'm off to troll through the rest of your fics now.

Zari

[tpena19.livejournal.com]

wow, that picture really does hep support the idea for this plot. They really do look a lot alike, even the little head tilt.