Category: Gen/ angst/ h/c. Written for the cake or death challenge over at

Word Count: ~6,300
Rating: T
Characters: McKay, Sheppard, team
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Set several months after Sunday and Keller is in the story but it doesn't spoil anything after that.
A/N: My beta is without satellite this week so I'm flying solo on this one.
Summary: There was some strange connection, he had decided, between pastries and mourning. By the looks of things, he had obviously entered the buttercream stage, which evidently rested somewhere between denial and chocolate ganache if you combined the five stages of grief with a dessert menu.