The Unforgotten Country

TITLE: Carry Me Home
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 182 words, PG-13
PAIRING/WARNINGS: None, Deathfic-ish (implied)
SPOILERS: The Return, Part One (AU-ish)
SUMMARY: Two hundred people went through the gate, not all of them came home. Written for sga_flashfic The Return challenge.


The SGC tries to bring them home, untwine them from borrowed seas and skies. Pour them back into lives left on the near side of forever, forgetting those few who'd stepped across a galaxy with nothing left to lose.

They'd buried their past in Pegasus, wrapped in the light of unknown stars and laid to rest with songs sung in languages they hadn't time to learn. Starting over in a whirlwind of fire and fury, they embraced the chance to be reborn.

Now they walk the mountain corridors, reduced to faint mimicry of those who'd never left. Nothing reaches them; no comforting words, no awkward peace offerings from those realizing too late that some who'd stumbled back through that gate, came back as ghosts.


Atlantis will sing for them, when they're back under distant stars and the waters of home curl around the ashes. She'll sing for them, her lost children found again, all Sheppard has to do is bring them home.


They'll find a way, they always have. Because home is only eight steps away, and they have promises to keep.

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TITLE: We All Fall Down
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RAITING: 100 words, PG/Silly
PAIRINGS/WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: I blame the comments on the Mod post and my Silly!Muse. What else need to be said? ^_~ Written for the sga_flashfic Sickness challenge.


"...they got sick and everybody died. The End."

"Rodney!" John dragged him out of earshot before the kids started crying. Again.

"What? It's true," Rodney snorted. "Ashes, ashes--"

"Remember five minutes ago? When you promised me you'd stop terrifying innocent children?"

"Which obviously doesn't apply here, because A) they've already been terrified by Ford's abysmal singing and B) they've given half of Atlantis chicken pox. Chicken pox is not innocent."

"Rodney."

"Besides, I'm not the one teaching them plague songs."

"Rod--"

"Fine-fine." Rodney muttered, "but next time Ford is reading them 'Carson and the Magic Cow Pox'."

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TITLE: The Knight of the Sea
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
SERIES: The Hungry Stars
LENGTH/RAITINGS: 325 words, PG-13 (mild cursing)
WARNINGS/SPOILERS: None
NOTES: The Atlanteans didn't just bring old legends with them through the stargates, they started new ones... Written for the sga_flashfic Folklore Challenge.
SUMMARY: They sing a song of the Knight of the Sea; of hidden patterns that bind us all together, of eyes of piercing blue that see the parts of a greater whole, and how to speak unspoken truths. - They Sing to Remember


It's simple math; drawn in the dirt with a stick in a desperate bid to communicate with aliens who were actually aliens, but it isn't working and Rodney is this close to giving into the urge to scream at them until they hand John over. They seem to be waiting for something, watching him, weighing him against some unknown scale and why the hell--

It's a different stick that draws the story beside his equations in the dirt.

A few twisting lines and here's John falling from the sky in the puddlejumper, only it looks like a star, not a ship. It's just lines and squiggles but Rodney still flinches a little when it draws the crash, because they thought they'd lost him for good this time. And there's Ronon, guns blazing as they come through the stargate, looking for John and finding Wraith instead. Only it's flaming swords instead of guns, and the Wraith have stars for eyes. More deft strokes and there's Teyla, standing between them and the Wraith, sword in one hand and knife in the other. And the knife must mean something, but he's a physicist not an anthropologist; which is why SG-1 has Jackson and they really should get a Jackson of their own, because this is just making his head hurt. A few more lines and now she's singing? Talking? And then there's him, or he thinks it's him because the last one doesn't have a sword or a knife it has a... a stick? And there are his numbers, copied over again in the red-brown soil, only this time it doesn't stop at simple math and he finds himself staring at the equations in a numb sort of shock until the stick finally stops and waits for him to reply.

Maybe they'll remember John for his wings, and Ronon for his guns, and Teyla for her song, but Rodney, they'll remember Rodney for his math.

And that's enough.


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TITLE: Graveyard Dogs
LENGTH/RAITING: 154 words/PG
WARNINGS/PAIRINGS: None
TIMELINE/VERSE: Second Season AU (Hushed and White With Snow 'verse)
SUMMARY: Atlantis knows... sga_flashfic Missing Persons Challenge


They're not coming back.

The stargate will not open. John and Ronon will not come walking/sauntering/running through the event horizon just like they always/never/always have before.

Atlantis knows this because Rodney has told her so, and he never/always/sometimes lies to her. He's shown her the jumper's recordings of the explosion; shown her Carson's best/worst/best case scenarios; shown her the math in shaky handwriting on a whiteboard smudged with tears and blood and soot that proved the Wraith attack on Atlantis had forced them to keep the gate closed too long for rescue/survival/life to be possible. It's there in black and white and red; proof of a negative.

So she knows. And they know.

And she watches them as the months roll by, still waiting/watching/hoping for the thing that will never happen. And she waits with them.

Because sometimes Rodney lies.


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