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Title: Heart of a Lion
Author: Keira Marcos
Beta: Chris King
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis/The Sentinel
Relationship: Meredith McKay/John Sheppard
Genre: Romance, Fusion, Rule!63
Warnings: Explicit sex, explicit language, canon level violence, discussion of medical experimentation
Word Count: 134,170
Summary: On Earth, Dr. Meredith McKay wakes up from a dead sleep in the worst pain of her life, and in Pegasus, Colonel John Sheppard has just come online as a Sentinel while being fed to a wraith. While he fights for his life, she wades through emotional trauma and political fallout regarding her departure from the SGC so she can bring her Sentinel home.
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Story
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
Author Note:
I experimented with the dyad concept from the third trilogy of Star Wars movies in this fic. Knowledge of those movies is not required to read, of course, but if you’ve watched the movies you’ll see some familiar stuff. It’s not much, less than I planned, but I think it works for my story.
Cast
Joe Flanagan, Stana Katic, Sullivan Stapleton, Christina Cox, Nicole de Boer, Nanako Matsushima, Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, David Nykl, & Torri Higginson
Viggo Mortensen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jensen Ackles, Dylan Neal, Charlize Theron, Tom Selleck, Avery Brooks, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, & Chris Pine
I love romance—shocking, I know—and this one hit all the right buttons. Somehow, you took a character I thought I had all figured out (McKay is McKay, right?) and flipped the script just enough that it felt familiar but not safe. Female McKay isn’t just Rodney in different clothes—she’s different, and that difference isn’t just surface-level; it’s the kind that leaves a mark. It’s fascinating and, yeah, a little heartbreaking.
Well done! I some how missed parts 2 and 3 and just finished the story. It was great because I have been obsessively rereading everything you write for months, so this was like a gift from you to me. Thank you!
Again, read this before. Settling in for a reread… but I love the casting for Female Meredith