Fic: Reassignment (SGA: Kate Heightmeyer, K+)
Title: Reassignment
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: K+
Word Count: 280
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kate Heightmeyer
Spoilers: Not really.
Summary: The assignment of a lifetime. Requested by falcon_horus.
A/N: I meant to write 100 words, and I wound up writing a lot more than that!
It would be the assignment of a lifetime, they said, if I chose to accept the new position that was being offered to me. Nobody would agree to tell me exactly what it involved unless I signed Air Force and national security non-disclosure agreements beforehand.
Of course, there are always reasons for that level of secrecy and, hindsight being twenty-twenty, I can’t really fault them for it.
I was debriefed, at my own request, on some of the sacrifices that the position would require. I was told it was going to be dangerous, that I’d be working a long way from home - I was living in Arizona at the time - and I’d be the only psychiatrist on staff in a high-stress situation.
All in all, it sounded like a challenge, and I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge, so I signed.
So, well, here I am: in a city that is in itself the stuff of myth and legend, in a galaxy that isn’t the Milky Way. Up until I signed that non-disclosure agreement, I’d thought we didn’t have the technology to travel this far. Now I know different.
I like my new commander; Elizabeth Weir is a charming, intelligent woman, and, though she has a habit of evading any professional appointments with me as best she can, she’s becoming a good friend out of hours.
In all honesty, this assignment is the most difficult and challenging I’ve ever had, but I’m managing better than I’d ever expected to when I first stepped through the Stargate. Life is never dull on Atlantis.
They said it’d be the assignment of a lifetime… and they were right, after all.
-fin
Author: Trialia
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: K+
Word Count: 280
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Kate Heightmeyer
Spoilers: Not really.
Summary: The assignment of a lifetime. Requested by falcon_horus.
A/N: I meant to write 100 words, and I wound up writing a lot more than that!
It would be the assignment of a lifetime, they said, if I chose to accept the new position that was being offered to me. Nobody would agree to tell me exactly what it involved unless I signed Air Force and national security non-disclosure agreements beforehand.
Of course, there are always reasons for that level of secrecy and, hindsight being twenty-twenty, I can’t really fault them for it.
I was debriefed, at my own request, on some of the sacrifices that the position would require. I was told it was going to be dangerous, that I’d be working a long way from home - I was living in Arizona at the time - and I’d be the only psychiatrist on staff in a high-stress situation.
All in all, it sounded like a challenge, and I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge, so I signed.
So, well, here I am: in a city that is in itself the stuff of myth and legend, in a galaxy that isn’t the Milky Way. Up until I signed that non-disclosure agreement, I’d thought we didn’t have the technology to travel this far. Now I know different.
I like my new commander; Elizabeth Weir is a charming, intelligent woman, and, though she has a habit of evading any professional appointments with me as best she can, she’s becoming a good friend out of hours.
In all honesty, this assignment is the most difficult and challenging I’ve ever had, but I’m managing better than I’d ever expected to when I first stepped through the Stargate. Life is never dull on Atlantis.
They said it’d be the assignment of a lifetime… and they were right, after all.
-fin