Fic: Untitled (Stargate
Title: Untitled (Working Title: Ankle Cookie)
Rating: PG
Category: Stargate Atlantis, Romance, Humor
Summery: Mia decides that if she must refrain from traveling off world due to an ankle, she's going to keep herself occupied by playing Cupid. John decides to help if only to protect his friends from her well intended actions.
This was oringinally what WMC became so it may never be finished but I think I mentioned this in the other fic so here it is. I may have gotten the whole character miswritten so if you know the show please tell me what you think. I wrote this BEFORE WMC for those of you who wonder.
All but what I am writing here in Italics was written before November 1, 2004. What May Come, which grew out of this, was started then for Nano 2004. This is uncomplete and is only two chapters of what was supposed to be more.
Dr. Elisabeth Weir watched as AT-1 rushed back into the gate-room and commanded the crew to put the shield back up as she saw Mia stumble though. She rushed down to meet them as the four started to mill about in the gate room. Mia, however, was sitting on the ground for a second, her eyes closed. Liz frowned but turned to John as he started to tell her the latest bout of trouble her prime team had run into.
"The Alkonians were unwilling to help us, as you can see. Apparently they felt we should give up Mia and Teyla for their assistance. I decided that wasn't a fair trade."
"No, it isn't is it? Considering we only wanted some information about their mining operation and if they had the mineral we need to create a new ZPM generator. Why were they asking for people?"
"They don't have many females at the colony, Dr. Weir," Aiden spoke up. "Apparently they liked the look of our female team members and decided they should stay to…" Aiden didn't even want to say it. It was just disgusting that they would want to have bought women for that use, especially unwilling women. Rodney noticed his look and decided to finish it.
"Satisfy their basic natures." Liz looked shocked at the direction the miners had gone.
"They actually told you this?" All three males looked slightly embarrassed at the question. It wasn't a simple one to actually answer.
"They didn't tell us exactly. More like they attempted to show us. After that we left."
"No, we left after you punched their leader out for attempting to go near Teyla, Jay." John looked down to where Mia was sitting and glared at her. That was something he was hopping not to get out before the actual report. "Although I am sure we can give a little as far as diplomacy goes. He did after all try to attempt a physical attack on one of delegation."
"Well, get your check-ups and then meet me in the briefing room." Liz shook her head again. "It should be an interesting mission to report, I'm sure."
"You have no idea." Mia mumbled under her breath so no one could hear, though John and Liz did. She stood up slowly and proceeded to move towards the stairway that led to the medical bay. However, her attempt to not limp was noticed by John and Rodney and soon she found herself being picked up by the former.
"What are you doing! Put me down! Rodney, tell him to put me down."
"Your ankle looks broken, Kiki. I say you let him carry you to the medical bay."
"Some friend you are." Rodney's only response was a small smile. She glared at him from around John's shoulder. She sighed. For some reason lately, people had started to baby her around again. It was something she hated. She had gone though the same thing in school when people hoped to get on the good side of General Russell Grayson by being nice to his youngest daughter. She hated special treatment. However, there was a part of her, a part she really preferred to ignore, that enjoyed having John cart her around. She made sure she tensed up, thinking that would make it harder for him to carry her. By the time they reached the medical bay, he was annoyed with her and she was smiling as Carson went to work on her damaged ankle.
* * * * *
"See, you over-reacted," Mia commented when John returned after getting his check-up. "It's only a small fracture. Nothing to worry about. I could have walked here on my own." John just watched her for a second as she smiled up at him from her position on the examination table. He was skeptical, since her "slightly fractured" ankle had a cast around it that would have sunk a yacht. He looked up at Carson, who was writing something down on the medical file sheet on his clipboard.
"If that's a fracture, I assume then that the Grand Canyon is a "Slight indention" in the earth. You broke it. Clean though, which is the best as far as setting goes. It won't be problematic as long."
"Well, I don't care. No one is carting me anywhere. So hand me my crutches so I may be off to my office. I have a report to write." Mia didn't go on too many missions, only those which required a diplomatic approach. She had been trained for such situations since she was 13 and hadn't failed once…at least not until this one. While she may have not liked the diplomatic effects of John's reaction to the attempt at Teyla, she had to admit she had wanted to hit the miner as well. She hadn't expected someone of that mental outlook. She could only hope that they didn't talk to their superiors on their home planet and ruin their chances of making alliances there.
"Oh, no you don't. I just gave you a pain killer which is going to knock you out for a couple hours, once it starts working. It's to your room or staying here." Mia rolled her eyes. Really, Carson was being too cautious. If it was going to knock her out being at her desk wasn't going to hurt her. It would give her a stiff neck when she awoke, but that was nothing. Plus she could get some work done while she waited for the pain medication to take hold.
"Really, you two are over-reacting. I have work to do."
"You can do that in your room. I'll tell Aiden to bring it for you."
"I am going to do my work in my office. What harm could it do?"
"You could pass out and end up cracking your head open on the desk."
"And you can't do that in a bedroom. For goodness sake, Carson, I could fall off the bed and end up stabbing myself accidentally with a pen."
"Don't worry; I'll make sure she goes to her room."
"And how exactly do you plan on doing that?"
"Same way I got you here."
"You are NOT going to carry me. Its bad enough you carried me in here when I could have walked..."
"Not on that ankle you couldn't." Mia turned to face him.
"Shut up Carson." Mia glared half-heartily at her friend before turning back to John. "I could have walked here fine. There was no reason to pick me up. If you wanted to assist me to the medical facilities you could have helped me walk." At this point Carson simply walked away from the arguing pair to go work on another patient who had ended up turning himself purple. Why could people never learn not to pull levers they don't understand?
"I have known you for a year, Mia. It's easier just to do it myself then to convince you to do it. You would have pretended nothing was wrong, possibly damaging your ankle even more just to prove you don't need anyone else to do something for you."
"That is not true. I just do not like special treatment. You wouldn't have carried Aiden if he broke his ankle."
"Aiden's a lot heavier then you. It wouldn't have helped much. And don't even bring up Rodney. If his ankle was broken, he would have let people know and have them come to him."
"You would have done it for Teyla though." Mia paused with a smile. "You like her don't you?"
"You're trying to change the subject."
"Hey Carson, Do you think Jay likes Teyla?" Carson looked over at the two and rolled his eyes, refusing to answer. To be honest, yes, he thought John liked Teyla, but he was pretty certain the Major liked the SGC specialist more. However, he wasn't about to say anything on the subject because it was fun to watch it all fold out.
"Why do you keep bringing that up? I don't keep reminding you of your crush on Carson."
"That was unfair. However, I shall ignore your meanness in the fact that you have basically just admitted you DO have a crush on Teyla." John could see that the medication was starting to work and Mia was getting drowsy.
"So does every other heterosexual male on this base. There isn't anything to it."
"Of course there is. She actually likes you." Mia's eyes were battling with her now. She wasn't about to let them win. She was going to stay awake.
"Not in the way you assume." Granted, Mia never got to hear that, for she was already passed out on the bed. John frowned and then turned to Carson, who had returned. The man's face looked curious which didn't seem to be a good thing.
"It wasn't supposed to be that fast."
*~*
Mia awoke later that night to an almost silent medical bay. The two Athosians were sleeping quietly and a few machines beeped as they took data. A night nurse snored in her chair, an open book lying on her lap. Mia smiled. It would be easy.
Slowly, so she wouldn't make any noise, she sat up and put her legs over the side of the bed. They had to remove her pants before putting on the cast earlier, so the sudden removal of the blanket hit them with cold air. She looked around and found a pair of crutches lying on the bed beside her.
She stood up slowly and tried to be as quiet as she could with a pound of plaster around her foot. She managed to make it the four feet to the next bed, although she was sure she would pay for dragging her foot behind her later. Grabbing the crutches and her pants that were folded beside them, she made her way out of the medical bay.
It was actually too easy, considering how Rodney always was trying to get out of the place whenever something put him there. The last time he had gotten some strange flu bug and tried to escape, only making himself sicker and therefore in medical bay longer. He had not been a happy camper, as her mother would have said. Grace Grayson would have been his worse nightmare had she been sent to Atlantis. The women hovered and fawned on people. She would have driven the poor Canadian up the wall. She had often done the same to Mia and Kala.
She had managed to make it to the transport near the medical bay and up to the floor where her rooms were located. She adored her rooms. They were by far the largest in Altantis. She had it pretty lonely as she was the only person living on this floor but she got some amenities that made up for it. Like Door locks, a large in ground jacuzzi-type tub, and a private transport between her bedroom and her offices. Apparently it had once been the royal Family's quarters. She technically qualified but she didn't like it.
That was another reason for acting like she had earlier. Some people on the Atlantis base were convinced she was getting special treatment due to her parentage. Like she could help the fact she was an actual ancient adopted by an Air Force officer and his wife. Granted, for the most part no one knew that she was exactly that, just that she had some connection to the Ancients.
She had offered the room to Liz, but the older women had declined. She liked it better when she was closer to the control rooms and the rest of the members of the team. Kala hadn't liked the height seen from the personal balcony and neither John nor Rodney had wanted it. John had teased her for awhile, calling the room the Princess Suites.
Which she was. She hated to admit it, even though 3 years had passed since she had learned and been sent to Atlantis. Her biological mother had been Ti-ame, a Queen of Atlantis. Apparently the Ancients had a way of freezing their bodies in a stopped animation, preserving their bodies for millenniums at a time, and Ti-ame had done that. Mia had been born on Atlantis the day they had fled the city. She had been frozen with her mother, with a sit timer in case none of the ancients survived to unfreeze them. The timer had gone off in 1982. Ti-ame had hand chosen the then Air Force Colonel and his wife as the perfect family to raise her daughter. Mia had yet to figure out why the women couldn't have raised her herself but that was discussion that she would prefer never to have.
Russell and Grace Grayson would always be her parents to her, no matter how long of time she had to accept the truth. Ti-ame would never replace them. Kala would always be her sister and Nick her brother. She refused to take any place in the Atlantian family. She knew nothing about them. They weren't her family.
She placed her hand on the door and smiled happily as the door swished open to let her into the large bedroom. Once inside she frowned as she noticed someone had been there. Her computer and folders were sat neatly on the desk near the bed, which had been moved closer so that if she sat on some pillows, she could easily stay in her bed to do her work. Moving closer she noticed that the computer was on and a text program had been opened. Curious she moved to read it.
Figured you be a fugitive. Happy Now?
J.
She rolled her eyes. She forgot about the argument about her working. Although she couldn't figure out how he managed to get into her room. The only people keyed into the room were Kala and Liz. Unless she had somehow forgotten programming him in. And if she had, why? Perhaps Kala had let him in. No doubt laughing at her baby sister's antics. Kala had never understood the need to look tougher then you were. She was more of an up front person then Mia was. If she had broken her ankle, everyone on Atlantis would have known about it before she got though the gate.
Mia settled into her bed, sighing as she reached the soft pillows. She was amazed at how tired she was from the walk up to her room. It hadn't been that much walking as most of it was taking the transporter. The meds must have not worn off yet.
Mia supposed her room was actually a family apartment. Considering how it had a main room that flowed into her bedroom and had two rooms on the opposite side. The one was currently being used as an extra large storage room and the other was empty all together. Perhaps that was why the others had declined to take the suite. It was just too big for a single person. She sort of liked the solitary nature of the rooms. However, she was going to see if someone could take the suite across the hall, because having an entire floor of that size was a bit much.
She pulled her computer onto her lap and opened up the program where she wrote all her missions reports and added the pictures she took (much to the annoyance of John and Aiden, who thought she spent too much time taking them). She was glad she had taken a digital camera along with her. It allowed her to catalog every planet they went on. Whenever the SGC made contact for their yearly supply run, she would send the reports and pictures over to the central computer on Earth. It was her hobby, but they seemed to prefer seeing the planets.
Mia was the type of person who could not sit still. She always had to be doing something. Hence the reason work was so important to her. She would go crazy if she didn't have something to do. Boredom and Mia were two things you did not want to see go together.
_ _ _
Chapter Two
"You knew she was going to try and except the Infirmary and yet you didn't tell me." Aiden could tell Carson wasn't too happy about Mia's escape. Luckily, she had yet to show her face and Carson was only slightly angry. Mia tended to over do things and Carson had been clear that he had wanted her in the medical bay for at least a full 24 hours before allowing her out.
Aiden wondered if it would be the right time to pass the blame to Major Sheppard. It was his idea to move the equipment Mia used most often to her rooms and had said Mia would escape. Well, Aiden couldn't let him take complete credit since he had thought the same and had been the one whose idea it was to leave Mia a note.
"Carson, I am sure Mia is fine." Liz said, calming down the Scottish physician. "It is after all a broken ankle, not some strange virus. She's not in any danger."
"Mia, to be quite honest Dr. Wier, is always in danger. She's a menace to herself at least. Last month when she got an Athosian cold she didn't do anything till she almost had to stay in the infirmary for a period of time. I don't think she understands the word caution."
"She has a direct transport link to the control room so if she comes down here, it won't be that big of a deal. Besides I hear Major Sheppard and Lt. Ford were kind enough to carry her computer up to her room so she could work from there. I got her mission report early this morning via our Intranet network. She just needs to receive the rest for the cataloging process and that's basically all the work we have set for her. She's not going to be walking around much, Carson. I am sure she will be fine." Carson looked slightly relieved but still cautious.
No one really knew what to call Mia. Even after 3 years of working with her no one called her by any title. She was simply Aimee "Mia" Grayson (or Kiki to Rodney). Everyone knew she had a title somewhere but what it was, no one knew save Mia and perhaps John and Liz.
Aiden liked her, he really did. Even when she first came aboard and some people were suspicious of her, he had been the first to befriend her. Most people had grown to like her in Altantis, although a few weren't too friendly with the young women. They felt she was too young for the role she played. Granted, most didn't know the years of training she went though to get the role she had. Aiden knew and he figured she knew what she was doing. Liz was in control 99 percent of the time so Mia's job wasn't ever too powerful. Most of the time she just played assistant to Liz and even on occasion to John.
But even he could admit that the girl had her faults, and one of them was her stubburness. She never wanted to admit she needed someone's help if she could help it. While most people would take the day off if they were sick, she wouldn't so people wouldn't know she was. He knew she felt like she had something to prove to the people on Atlantis and to the SGC back home. She hated being called "The General's Daughter" and being treated special because of it. She had been involved in Stargate since she was 7 years old and her father had been transferred into the committee overseeing the research. Despite that, some people still didn't believe her ability and often neither did she.
That is what got her in trouble the day before.
"It's nice to know I'm the topic of conversations again." Aiden twisted in his seat to see Mia "walking" to a seat near by the doors. "Sorry to keep you waiting. It takes forever to walk with this thing."
"Mia, you didn't need to come."
"Yes I did." Liz didn't say anything else, understanding what she had meant. Instead she waited till Carson had left to start the meeting. John straightened up in his seat and Rodney and Teyla stopped their own conversation and turned to look at Liz.
"First I will like to dispense with the bad news. Mia, due to your injuries from yesterday's mission, You have been taken off the rooster for Gate Teams for 8 weeks. After that it will depend on the recommendations of a medical officer." Mia nodded, though she hated being "benched". "Now that we got that over with, why don't you five tell me what happened with this meeting and why it went so sour. And more then the information you put into the reports since I know you didn't put everything."
_ _ * _ _
"Well, we got off easy."
"Speak for yourself. I ended up grounded for 2 months." Mia was trying to walk faster but the stupid crutches were still new to her and hard to maneuver around. John and Aiden were being nice and walking slow for her.
"That's because of your ankle, not because of the mission. I think Liz found it quite funny actually till we got to the part about the person trade." John paused next to the turbolift that would take them to the offices were kept.
"Sure she did. I made a fool of my self in that first twenty minutes of negotiations, you managed to punch out the ruling Vice-Roy and Somehow Aiden tripped an alarm that sent the Calvary out for us, causing a mad rush to the Stargate." She looked up from the floor. "It's mostly your fault. You didn't need to hit him. I am sure Teyla could have shown that she was uninterested in the offer." The transporter opened and the three entered.
"Before I forget," Aiden said as he put in the location into the computer, "Teyla and I are having a movie thing tonight and wanted to know if you two want to join. We already have Rodney agreeing to it."
"What's the movie," Mia asked.
"The Matrix."
"First one or all three"
"Only the first one. Didn't get a chance to grab the other DVDs before being assigned to Stargate."
"Drat. Never saw the last two. Heard Neo dies. Maybe it's a good thing I didn't."
"You two don't care about ruining it for other people do you?" The two turned to look at John as the doors opened and they walked out.
"You never saw the first matrix, Jay?"
"Saw parts of it. First half anyway. Never got to see the end."
"You're going to like it." Mia stated to go to her office. "I heard it's the best of the three."
"It is," Aiden commented as he walked down into the Gateroom to help them organize things for the next team going out.
"What's today's group?"
"ASG-4"
Here is a little of the pre-story planning that went into this universe. There are a couple of things that I changed later (such as the fact that Mia was starting to sound like me with guts).
Atlantis Fic plotting
I am assuming someone of those who actually read this LJ have seen the show Stargate: Atlantis. If you haven't, this might not make alot of sense. Well, some of it won't anyway...that which is the plot of the show.
I am planning on writing a fanfiction. Its not going to be Liz/John because frankly I don't think they see anything in each other for a romantic relationship. Nor is it going to be Tey'la (Teyla??)/John because I don't think it could happen just yet. There are signs for that one, but I am ignoring them at the moment.
I have invented Dr. Amy Grayson (may change that last name due to finding a SGA fic with a Dr. Stacy Grayson...) who was oringinally going to be direct out of High school but I changed that for several reasons. 1) I doubt they would let a 18 year old go to Atlantis unless it was Military 2) The other main characters are much older then that . John Sheppard is supposed to be 35-40. Liz is 35, Ford is 25 etc. I doubt Dr. Beckett is under 30. So Now she will have to be directly out of College or later. Doctorates take around 8 years to get. That would make her have to be around 26. I was thinking that she would have to work with another scientist for a couple months at least to get to understand the machanics of the base. I chose Rodney because I love him even if he has no sense of humor.
So she is sent to Atlantis because her senior Thesis was about creating powercells and they believe she might be able to help figure a way to power the base enough to allow contact between home Base and Atlantis. She works with Rodney most of the time, and is good friends with Aiden (Lt. Ford) and Teyla. Dr. Weir is warming up to her and they get along very well. She's got a huge crush on Carson (Dr. Beckett) and has no clue how to classify the type of relationship she has with Maj. Sheppard. They aren't quite friends but more then acqaintances.
So teh story is going to be C/OC and JS/OC. Personally I like the pairing of Dr. Rodney McKay and Elisabeth Weir (Liz for those of you who couldn't tell who I was talking about before) so that might be in there too.
So...
Dr. Amy Grayson (STC)
Doctorate in Engineering
Knows 3 languages (English, Spanish and Latin)
Age: 26
Height: 5'2'' (Because thats my height and I'm tired of being short)
Hair: Long (mid back) and dark Red/Auburn. Darker then Teyla's and often mistaken for brown with red highlights.
Eyes: Blue-green
Personality: Tends to be curious, Can find the humor in almost anything, has a love of photography and takes alot of pictures using a digital camera she brings along with her, Hates heights when she can see how far up she is and there is nothing to break her fall, Likes to explore, Can kick bootie if she needs to but prefers not to.
hmm...anything else I should figure out