Self-indulgent Rodney torture story, "Progeny" tag

As the (not-)title says: I started this just to play around with some hurt!fic, based on this exchange in "Progeny":

Sheppard: What'd they do to you?
McKay: Ah—torture. In ways too hideous and, um—intimate?—to recount.

I took it literally, because I wanted to. Rodney was going to be taken from the Asuran cell and tortured—first by experiencing both highly localized and full-body pain via a futuristic sensory net-device, then by being invaded with nanites that he swears he can feel crawling through him, and finally with some sort of sexual assault, hence the "intimate" comment. All while they interrogated him about Atlantis and Earth. The nanites would work against his will to get him aroused. It was fun when I first thought of it, but I think it was too much for one story. There should be (should have been—grr, what tense is appropriate for this?) just one torture method instead of three, and Rodney probably wouldn't last long enough for all three methods anyway, between his lack of training for this kind of situation and his torturers being Replicators who can read his mind. That's probably why it faltered. Or the initial impetus just faded. And then I read a story by friendshipper with a far more plausible interpretation of what happened. A friend helpfully pointed out that the loss of momentum may have had to do with the lack of a point of Rodney being tortured. She was right, but apparently that didn't help me pick this up again.

You'll see where it breaks down towards the end into sketchy notes and gaps where other stuff was going to happen.


Rating: R/NC-17
Summary: What happened to Rodney in his hallucination?
Spoilers: "Progeny."

( story behind the lovely cut )