SGA FIC: Out Of Bounds - John/Rodney - NC-17 (you believe me now, right?)

You can get caught up here: Out Of Bounds.

Title: Out Of Bounds
Author: Icarus
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: John/Rodney
Summary: Radek could see why Rodney was a star.
A/N: Thank you to perfica for playing OOB beta badminton with me, amothea for listening to me whine, teaphile for her birds eye view. Our special guest star beta is sarka with her sparkling knowledge of Czechoslovakian cold war politics. Thank you, sarka. And, yes, yes, I know there are no 1986 Olympics. ;)

Previously in Out Of Bounds: Known more for his jumps than his artistry, figure skater John Sheppard hired ex-skating champion and 'artiste' Rodney McKay to be his coach. Unfortunately for Rodney, he was more famous for his spectacular failure at the 1986 Olympics than he was for his consecutive World Championships.

( Radek could see why Rodney was a star. )

More on Out Of Bounds....

My beta is out of town this weekend. *Icarus clings to perfica's leg, "Nooo, don't go!"*

No, no, that's just what I thought. In email I managed a gracious "Have a nice trip!"

To encourage further progress on the figure skating AU, Out Of Bounds, some statistics --

Total word count on Out Of Bounds at this point: 63,000 words.

Word count one month ago: 37,000 words.

Amount of this waiting in the wings, not yet posted for public consumption: 8,128 words.

I'm skipping all over in this next section. Some extra scenes have popped up. One major one. I spent the day studying the physical training figure skaters undergo.

I have a performance of John's to write. Two on-ice training scenes (these are the two that are giving me trouble, mostly a research issue and because of Rodney). One off-ice training. One non-figure skating scene.

I want to call this five scenes, but reality would call this a clutter of scenes. A chaos of scenes. There are other little scenes cutting across these, and then there's John and Rodney's relationship and...

Need to rewrite two falls. In skating there are falls and then there are falls. There are the falls that are the usual, "Gosh, that was a hard move, whoops, didn't make it." And then there are the serious, "Holy fuck, this is a disaster" falls. Somehow, I have to describe the difference.