Preview: Keri
Story: Keri
An Atlantis AU
Characters/Pairing: John Sheppard/Cam Mitchell
This is a little drabble I did a while back that is a better preview for the story than I could come up with.
John looked at the paper on the table in front of him. The judge advocate, the medical department, his commanding officer and hell, the notary public had all signed off on the damned thing. It just needed his signature on the bottom line to be official. He looked up to see that the Commodore… no, he should get used to calling him by name now… that Cameron.. was watching him intently.
He was signing his life away. Thirty four years of freedom, gone with the stroke of a pen. This pen. He stared at the offending implement, twirling it between his fingers. His knee was lightly hitting the underside of the table, he always bounced his foot when he was nervous, and right now he was about to freak out.
There was no other way. In his mind, he knew it. He had accepted that this had to happen. But that didn’t make his heart stop hurting. It did not make the pain in his gut ease. The knowledge of this being the only solution to the problem did not silence the little voice in his head that kept repeating accusations of failure.
This piece of paper was all that stood between him and a long stint in Leavenworth. This piece of paper was in itself a paradox; in order to remain free; he had to sign this paper that would take away his freedom.
With a heavy sigh, he scratched his name on the bottom line and slid the document across the table to Cameron Mitchell, his new panor'eten.