4 Who Got The Job, 1 Who Didn't [5 Things Challenge]

[2ndary_author]

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

Comments

[incidental_fire]

This was brilliant! I often enjoy non-cast POVs, and this was a marvelous example of one. All of the OCs were interesting, and I could definitely see all 4 fitting in very nicely on Atlantis. Well done!

[2ndary_author]

I *love* outsider POVs! And at the risk of making these characters too good (or 2-D), I didn't want to be responsible for sending jerks through the stargate. Thanks for commenting.

[2ndary_author]

It is great seeing this show from an outsider POV, and there are so many outsiders to choose from! I'm glad reading one made you want to read more: those are the best kind of 5 things, and I worried that my sections were too long to make that easy. Thanks for the lovely comment:)

[lillian13]

I liked all of these immensely, but especially the last one. (Ronon's going to love her!)

[2ndary_author]

Ronon is going to *propose marriage*--and then John is going to explain that, no, seriously, she cooks that way for everyone. After that, Ronon will simply content himself with hijacking Rodney's computer to map out a spreadsheet of Harris's shifts, so that he can be first in the chow line for each and every one of them.

[siegeofangels]

Oh, I love these! The first one is heartbreaking.

[2ndary_author]

The first one was really hard to write--it revolves around a particular event that happens offstage, and that the main character doesn't know about, plus it sets up the background necessary for reading the story as a whole and not 5 parts. I'm so glad it's still a meaningful read!

[2ndary_author]

My brother is in the Coast Guard, so that was kind of a shout-out to all the folks who keep him fed (which is, as my mother could tell you, basically a fulltime job). All his cutters have been single-sex...but then, they were also pretty small and more than a few were in the Middle East (which wouldn't work for my purposes), so that may have had something to do with it. Call it artistic reordering of the facts!

Glad you liked it:)