Oh my god. Oh my god. You guys have to read
this story. I don't care if you've never read Stargate Atlantis in your life, or you've never seen the show. Everything you need to know will get explained beautifully, it stands on its own and it's so. Fucking. Brilliant. I read this and then stayed up half the night just shivering over the characters, the prose, everything. There aren't words.