Rating: NC-17
Pairings: McKay/Keller, McKay/Sheppard
Length: 25 929 words
Summary: It had changed so gradually with Jennifer, was the thing. Rodney couldn’t pick a moment when he’d felt the balance shift from “this is fucking awesome” to “wow, I’m really middle-aged”.


A/N: Huge thanks to mecurtin for being the best of betas, providing both squee and rational analysis in liberal quantities. More than anything, the story found here grew out of a year-long backlog of writing energies, but mecurtin pushed me to edit what was essentially creative writing by free association into an actual story with plot and character development and research.

This one's also for svmadelyn because, believe it or not, this grew out one of my (many) false starts for my failed undermistletoe fic in 2008. See if you can recognize my prompt in this monster at all -- I sure can't.

Website version is here, or you can read in four parts beginning below.

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