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[flyboy_shepp]

So it wasn't like stepping through the Gate on a mission, but for John, after being on one island for over two years this might as well have been like visiting another planet.

It was easy enough getting everyone together, and even the trip over on the Dawn Treader was easy enough to bear (open water was easier to take when he was thousands of

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[gotacigarette]

This is more like it.

The less said about the ship ride over, the better. As far as Eden's concerned, the sea's better from a distance, but with her eye-patch on and Brendan's gun holstered at her side, she feels more like herself than she has in over a month. They've been told not to go off on their own, and, hell, Eden's happy with safety in numbers.

She looks around, and feels something that feels dangerously like excitement.
Yes. This is defintely more like it.

[sidlong_glance]

More dead bodies. That many in the course of a week didn't sit well with Sara, even if it was exciting. She'd been nearly incredulous when she'd heard it, considering she'd been on the main island for a year and a half with no end in sight. And if it got her out of documenting the death of goddamn Voldemort (what the hell?), it was even better, even if something in the pit of her stomach was cold with trepidation.

What also didn't sit well with her was the fact that they all needed a handler, and hers was some hardass woman with one eye. Sara set her jaw and pulled out her camera, squinting through the telephoto lens to try to get a good glimpse of this second island before they arrived.

[gotacigarette]

The dead bodies don't bother Eden. Even so, she's got her hand on her gun. Eden's seen things with scientists get out of hand pretty bloody quickly.

"Does that thing record video?" she says, pulling her hair back into a stubby ponytail, the best to keep it out of her face.

[sidlong_glance]

A British hardass chick with one eye.

"Nope," Sara said, lips quirking in apology. "The citizens of Clark County didn't see fit to fund it." She went in her kit and pulled out her charged cell phone. "This has some. Crap quality, but some."

[_kinginthenorth]

Robb didn't mind the voyage, but Grey Wind spent most of it with his belly to the deck, whimpering with his teeth bared. Robb had done his best to ease his discomfort, but there is not much one can do for a wolf on a boat except let him off as soon as possible. Grey Wind sails over the Dawn Treader's rail nearly as soon as they'd made landfall, and sits there, firmly on dry ground, waiting for Robb to join him.

[out_of_realm]

Tom Hobbes certainly didn't have sea legs, but thank god it was a short journey. The slight nausea evaporated almost as soon as his feet hit the shallows and he was walking onto the beach with the rest of the ITF. It had been a long time since he'd been part of a squad, longer still since he'd felt the guilty thrill of exploring a previously unimagined place. He had his old semi-automatic back across his shoulders, and as he moved onto the beach, he glanced back at Sheppard, giving the C.O. a nod.

He'd been stupid to think he'd ever lost his touch.

[wizard_errant]

"You chaperoning anybody yet?" It's not that Dairine is quite picking at random, but the guy looks like he might not be the annoyingly overprotective kind. She could of course be wrong.

[karmic_darwin]

Of course he had not been able to pass up the chance to explore the new island. To have something of a purpose again, even if only for a day or a short while, it brought a smile to his lips and a sharpness to his mind that had been missing since he arrived here.

He spent most of the trip across the channel alternately looking over the rail and organizing his thoughts. As soon as they made landfall and were allowed off the boat, he joined a group of scientists and waited for instructions.

[jill_langston]

Jill was trying not to show how excited she was, but when Mohinder joined the group, she grinned over at him, not bothering to hide it from him. By this point he was already aware of how much she loved her work and how much she missed having something to do.

"I figure we still need someone with a gun, but are you interested in having a partner for the exploration?" she asked. "We might be able to cover more ground that way." Or they might get lost in comparing notes, but she was willing to risk that.

[karmic_darwin]

If he could've chosen anyone to share the new island with today, anyone besides Daniel who'd been paired off with Jack, Jill's name would've been at the top of the list. Jill or Abby, because they understood.

Jill's smile lit her eyes and animated her entire face, and he returned it, warm and bright. "I'd love it. It'll be fun, too." Another geneticist would understand what he was seeing and why, but their fields had diverged enough that they could add things to each others' observations. "We'll probably drive our ITF partner crazy with the geno-techno-babble."

They might, but maybe their partner would be scientifically inclined, too. And if not, well, that was fine too. It would still be fun - my god, what a word to use...but it would be. Having a sense of purpose, puzzles, questions worth answering...that was fun.

[rdex]

Once the Dawn Treader had docked, Ronon was pretty sure he hated boats. While he had been on much smaller, faster ones in the past, the big ones sucked. They were slow and Ronon was impatient. And cranky. His morning hadn't really gone as planned either, as a certain someone had decided to cuddle with him in the middle of the night, thus causing Ronon to miss out on a very important dream. A dream in which Ronon was standing triumphant on a pile of Wraith bodies that he had killed with his bare hands. It was a good dream. Brendan had ruined it

[just_a_cag]

"Alright people, you know the drill," Lee said, once they'd stepped foot off of the boat. They'd all only been training together for a few weeks now, but whether or not they were ready for it wasn't a question-- Major Shaw had been as hard on them as she had the nuggets back on Pegasus. Probably harder, since they all hadn't done most of this in a while.

But setting foot on a new island reminded him vaguely of setting foot on New Caprica the first time.

Gods, he hoped that wasn't a bad omen.

[frakkup]

"You look spooked," said Kara. Both her eyebrows were raised - it wasn't just a jibe, he really did look unsettled, a sight Kara didn't tend to associate with Lee and danger.

[just_a_cag]

"An island appeared out of nowhere with dead bodies on it, Starbuck," Lee said, at a volume where no one else could hear, "I think most of us are a little spooked."

Mostly, Lee just wanted to know what the hell had happened to the people there, and whether or not they'd all put themselves at risk by coming over in the first place.

[frakkup]

"So the island is dicking us around," said Kara, a bored twist to her mouth that might have been affected, but maybe not. "Showing us that it, too, can procreate."