Prompt 66.02

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Five people from the SGC who John would sometimes like to steal for Atlantis.


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[holdur.livejournal.com]

1. On the days when Rodney is being particularly difficult, John daydreams that he’s Bill Lee. Doctor Lee is easily distracted by WOW, doesn’t ask the natives what’s in the food and would follow John’s orders without any additional snark. Then Rodney babbles his way to a last minute genius plan and John remembers that he’s seen Lee with a gun and it’s a travesty to the beauty of hand directed firearms. Plus, following orders is overrated, not to mention more than a little hypocritical coming from him. Best to keep Rodney where he can see him anyway.

2. On his second year in Atlantis, John wonders what it’d be like to have someone from the IOA in charge. Not that he’d ever let them take away Elizabeth, but he thinks that if someone like Woolsey were at the helm—someone to see what it was like out on the frontier and send word back to his cronies—John’s life would become a whole lot simpler. See the job; do the job.

His fifth year becomes the very definition of ironic, something John doesn’t find amusing at all. It isn’t simple, either.

3. Rodney spends so much time talking about Samantha Carter that John starts wishing she would visit, just so he can be there when she tells him to shut up. Then she is and she does and it’s every bit as awesome as he knew it would be. When it’s time for her to leave, he tells her to come back again soon and she knows exactly what he means by it.

4. John asks Walter to come to Atlantis twice a year. Walter always says no, but John thinks that’s probably Landry speaking, so he keeps asking. He even tells him he’d get his paperwork in on time. Walter smiles in a way that says he knows John’s well intentioned, but a complete liar and John leaves him alone for another six months.

5. John writes a letter to General O’Neill every week for the first year, asking him to take over the military leadership of Atlantis. His job is supposed to be resident gene carrier, not explorer extraordinaire, and he’d like to get back to it. Not that he doesn’t like the exploring, or his teammates. Not that he doesn’t have some mistakes to rectify.

When O’Neill finally does get to Atlantis and John is sent back to Earth, he deletes those files and starts writing daily letters to Landry. Atlantis is his city after all. He belongs there.

[lilyleia78]

Great list. Love number 2 and 4! Everyone wants Walter. :)

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Great list! I find #1 particularly amusing. And #2...ironic, indeed.

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Love how you show that getting what you wish for can be dangerous. Nicely done.

[sid]

Love #3! "Come back soon!"

And #5 is a great capper. That whole John-on-Earth interlude was just so very, very wrong.