M3X-128 killed eight members of the Atlantis mission before John Sheppard’s team got there. That was the total of the crews of two Puddlejumpers, the second of which had been on a search and rescue mission for the former. The first had vanished on a reconnaissance mission, before any boots had even hit soil.

The third visit was on foot.

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Ronon easily - and non-violently, thankfully - eluded Sheppard’s hand. He stopped walking and stood still, stiff and dark-faced.

“We are close,” Teyla repeated, single-mindedly. “We must continue.” She looked at Sheppard for support. “Colonel?”

Sheppard was hot, tired, and pissed off at all three of them right now.

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There wasn’t anything Cameron could do about McKay and Dex’s secret rogue mission. They were out of contact and Zelenka claimed no one actually know where the two men were. Partly due to the whole ‘plausible deniability,’ which made Cam so mad he couldn’t even articulate why. Well, he could, but not without sounding like an IOA puppet, so he ( Read more... )

Emmagan should have wished him good luck with the ATA-gene therapy and left him at the infirmary entrance. Instead, she followed him inside. That was weird.

She tried to act like it was still part of the tour, but there really wasn’t much to say about the infirmary.

“You have not met the medical staff?” she asked, eyes a little too wide and ( Read more... )

“You sure you don’t want me to come along?” Sam Carter asked again. She was smiling, but she also looked kind of worried.

Cameron Mitchell frowned. “I don’t need a chaperone, Sam. Military officers transfer roles every day all over the world without any kind of handholding.”

They were sitting on the bed in Cam’s quarters - the place he ( Read more... )

M3X-131 had once upon a time probably been a thriving Ancient outpost. The place had Ancient architecture peaking up from beneath the overgrown forest that had planted itself on top of the buildings sometime in the intervening millennia. It didn’t take much poking around to figure out the ruins had the potential to contain lots of Ancients toys.

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 Title: The Light of Compassion
Author: vain_glorious 
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Word Count: ~32,000 in total. In 6 posts due to length.
Rating: R for disturbing imagery and concepts. Gen. See Warnings.
Spoilers: Explicit for 5x01, more general for 5X08 and 5X09
Summary: A year after the events of 5X01 "Search and Rescue", tragedy strikes Atlantis.
Warnings:  ( Read more... )