FIC: O is for Ordinary (SGA) ( Heroes, Alphabet)
There are days when I don’t even know what the hell I’m doing here. I know that the absolute best of the best get sent to Atlantis, sooner or later.
So that makes me wonder why I’m here. I keep wondering if it’s not simply because I was one of the late Colonel Sumner’s team at the start, and that makes me Atlantean by default.
And now, the feeling of being just an average Joe is a whole lot worse. Why?
Because my CO and the CSO are meta-humans. And so is my best friend.
Collins is on Major Lorne’s team, and can do concussion blasts. I learned about this one day before the personal rooms were safely opened. I was sharing a room with him and he blew a hole in the wall over my head in the grip of a nightmare.
I was confined to Atlantis until my hearing returned.
With all this power and all these brains around me - yeah. A lot of times, I do feel like just an ordinary Joe Blow - a nobody.
And it seems like every single time that I do, something happens to prove that - for all its specialness - Atlantis needs average Joes, too.
That is a really good feeling.
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