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[notagod_apollo]

"Except I can do it."

"I don't care. Maybe that's the way things work on planet Starbuck, but the rest of the universe doesn't see it that way. It's too risky."

"For a lousy pilot."

"For any pilot that values his safety and his ass

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[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard recognizes one of the voices in the argument, and glances up from his mostly blank notepad. He looks back down at it briefly, decides that his brainstorming session can wait, and starts heading over. He might as well try to do some catching up-and see if Starbuck has any ideas on how to force the door to show up.

He nods a greeting to Starbuck. "Starbuck. Haven't seen you in awhile," he says amicably as he raises an eyebrow. "I hear something about piloting?" Mentions of pilots doing near-suicidal things get his attention. After all, that's practically one of his hobbies.

[oh_frak_me]

Major Sheppard. Hi.

Yeah, this...*she swallows a nasty nickname*...is my Commander. Captain Lee Adama. Lee, Major John Sheppard.

[notagod_apollo]

Lee salutes with a grin and offers his hand.

"Kara's told me about you Major, it's nice to put a name with a face."

He glances at her out of the corner of his eye, yeah, he knows what she wanted to say.

[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard smiles, shaking the offered hand. "Actually, I'm Lt. Colonel now-got a promotion after we kinda faked nuking Atlantis." He was still slightly amazed that they hadn't ended up doing it for real.

"So what was that about stupid pilot tricks? Did somebody in the squadron here have plans for something?"

[oh_frak_me]

Congratulations, Colonel. And no, Captain Adama believes that it's better not to take risks when you're in evasive.

[notagod_apollo]

"I believe that evasive's risky enough without pulling crazy stunts while you're being fired on. Flashy flying's fine, but you have to know when."

[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard frowns to himself, thinking. "I think it kinda depends on the situation. If things are bad enough, it looks like you can take the risk and have a good chance of not being dead? Might as well try it."

[oh_frak_me]

The Double Athena Roll lets you finish your evasive and get another metal motherfrakker in the crosshairs. That's a victory in my book.

[notagod_apollo]

"But it leaves you blind and belly up for the five seconds it takes to perform the maneuver, and the whole field of battle has changed in that time."

[no_comb_shep]

"Better hope that everybody else has been cleaning it in up in the meantime, then."

[oh_frak_me]

And I haven't died yet.

*Which settles the matter in her mind*

[notagod_apollo]

"you can hope they have."

He nods at Sheppard and rolls his eyes back at Kara.

"I'd kind of prefer you didn't die at all."

[no_comb_shep]

"Not dying is always a plus," he agrees. "So has it been busy in your universe lately, or is this just hypothetical brush-with-death talk?"

[oh_frak_me]

This is an old fight. Lee...Captain Adama's been riding my ass... About this since just out of Academy.

[notagod_apollo]

"And we're both frakking stubborn enough to never let the other one win"

He grins.

"But that's just us, and probably boring as hell to everyone else. Why did you have to fake nuking Atlantis?"

[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard smirks a bit in amusement-he's used to that sort of arguing. And since his team members are currently scattered all over the place...it's refreshing to see that sort of familiar bickering again.

"It was that or actually explode. See, the Wraith-life-sucking aliens, not that friendly to us-decided to keep ramming into the shields until the broke and they could get in. The only way we could get rid of them was to make it look like the city was actually destroyed, so they'd give it up." He pauses. "Worked okay for awhile, but now it's...kinda under threat of being nuked again. For real this time."