Title: Four People Who Got the Job (and One Who Didn’t) OR Below the Stairs, Before the Mast
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, McKay, Jack O’Neill, OC, references to Elizabeth Weir, Ronon
Rating: PG-15
Words: Too Many
Notes: set after Sunday with a slight, barely-there spoiler for that episode. I made up a lot of the military stuff, but not the epigraph: that's by WH Auden, because even intergalactic space-age colonies need worker ants. Can be read whole or in sections.
Summary: further SGC/SGA new-hire interviews, in the vein of
Sixty-Eight Whiskey;
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.