AU: The Pirate's Prisoner, by rhymer23
Title: The Pirate's Prisoner
Author: Eildon Rhymer (rhymer23
Prompt: Slavery, captivity or hostages (AU)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 42,000, plus ten illustrations
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: Rodney McKay hadn't realised he was being abducted by pirates at first. (If he had, he would, of course, have resisted with proud defiance, willing to die rather than submit.) Now he finds himself on the ship of the second most notorious pirate in the Caribbees, immured in a dank prison (well, a fairly spacious cabin, but that's not the point), forced to prostitute his intellect in the service of evil. And there's a savage on board, and a woman - an actual woman, in man's clothes, would you believe? Will Rodney ever escape and make it back to London to receive the Royal Society Fellowship that is surely awaiting him?
Note: Thanks to friendshipper for extending the deadline, though I only overran by a day, in the end. Other thanks at the end. The story posted on my own LJ, to avoid spamming this community with multiple parts.
Preliminary sketch for a portrait of Rodney McKay, by William Hetherington, 1720
According to Hetherington's day book, McKay engaged him for a portrait in October 1720, saying that he needed to have his likeness recorded for posterity before he faced the "certain doom" that was his forthcoming passage to Jamaica. Hetherington duly produced this sketch, but McKay was unhappy, declaring it a poor likeness that failed to do justice to his "noble mien and lofty brow." Hetherington admits to responding, somewhat testily, that a true likeness was impossible when presented with a subject who refused to sit still, and who talked incessantly throughout the sitting. The association was thus dissolved, and the portrait never completed.
The formula depicted on the paper is doubtless a play on McKay's name. Any resemblance to certain other famous formulae is clearly coincidental.
The Pirate's Prisoner
Author: Eildon Rhymer (rhymer23
Prompt: Slavery, captivity or hostages (AU)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 42,000, plus ten illustrations
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: Rodney McKay hadn't realised he was being abducted by pirates at first. (If he had, he would, of course, have resisted with proud defiance, willing to die rather than submit.) Now he finds himself on the ship of the second most notorious pirate in the Caribbees, immured in a dank prison (well, a fairly spacious cabin, but that's not the point), forced to prostitute his intellect in the service of evil. And there's a savage on board, and a woman - an actual woman, in man's clothes, would you believe? Will Rodney ever escape and make it back to London to receive the Royal Society Fellowship that is surely awaiting him?
Note: Thanks to friendshipper for extending the deadline, though I only overran by a day, in the end. Other thanks at the end. The story posted on my own LJ, to avoid spamming this community with multiple parts.
Preliminary sketch for a portrait of Rodney McKay, by William Hetherington, 1720
According to Hetherington's day book, McKay engaged him for a portrait in October 1720, saying that he needed to have his likeness recorded for posterity before he faced the "certain doom" that was his forthcoming passage to Jamaica. Hetherington duly produced this sketch, but McKay was unhappy, declaring it a poor likeness that failed to do justice to his "noble mien and lofty brow." Hetherington admits to responding, somewhat testily, that a true likeness was impossible when presented with a subject who refused to sit still, and who talked incessantly throughout the sitting. The association was thus dissolved, and the portrait never completed.
The formula depicted on the paper is doubtless a play on McKay's name. Any resemblance to certain other famous formulae is clearly coincidental.
The Pirate's Prisoner