I love this story. Shows the friendship and protective streak of John Sheppard. How he shows that he knows Rodney McKay and knows that something is wrong. That he came to rescue Rodney in time and save his body and mind.

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This is a great story! I love it massively :) Lovely Rodney whump/angst and it's nice that he still has friends even when he thinks he's alone. It's so great I have to add it to the Rodney whump C2... and favour it...

This is such a great story! Poor poor poor poor poor Rodney! Wonderful whumping!

absolutely wonderful Rodney whump and delightful story. Mean person that I am, I love Rodney whumps dealing with his claustrophobia and you did an excellent job with it.

LOL... as soon as I saw Jacobson's name, and role, I figured it'd be him... course I tried to push it off as paranoia, not even having met the character yet, but yeah, I see I had reason to be LOL. *moves onto the next chapter*

Aw! A good tale to see Rodney begin to see that as much of a pain in the ass he is, his friends do want him around. ;)

Nice story and you did good with it. :)

Well, that was a hell of a ride! Thanks for writing and sharing this amazing story

A gripping story, very well written!

Kreek

Huzzah! Rodney whumping!

I have no idea how I missed this (I'm thinking I might have locked myself in a dark cave-or trunk in this case-without knowing it). Great story, great action, and god, do I love Protective!Shep. Loved it at the end, where Sheppard brings Rodney out of his catatonic shell. I was getting really worried there for a second. Poor McKay, while I feel for him, I really can't wish for the whumping to stop. It's an addiction.

Thanks for the great story! I'll try not to wait a whole month next time you have one come out :)

nice read.

wow! Great story! i loved it! extremely well written!

Yay rescue. I like the realisation and exploration Rodney has about his 'potential' in Atlantis and that he has friends.

This was fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. :)

Hey, *very* nice work on the medical aspect of things! Do you have any experience or did you just do plenty of research? Speaking as a former EMT, you were great with your emergency care.

I loved John's bedside vigil for Rodney and his reassurances that he came and found him. I was a little worried when he started explaining his idea, but that he went on to provide the rest of the story - John squeezing the location out of Jacobson and getting Rodney out of the trunk (in reality and now in his mind) - that really made it work for me.

I liked Rodney's refusal to give the rest of his name; it was a nice defusal of tension that was right in character (John pestering him about it as well). I also enjoyed the fact that Rodney's labeled everyone who works at Area 51 "obviously murderous lunatics hell-bent on kidnapping and hurting potential newcomers." He would absolutely put it that way.

I thought Rodney's final reflections of himself were very sweet and rang true. All in all, great story!