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TITLE: Never Thought
SUMMARY: She never thought she would say farewell so soon.
CATEGORY: vignette
RATING: G
SPOILERS: 3.10 - Return I
NOTES: This ficbit was originally written as part of a longer story, but I've forgotten where I was going with the original, so it's just a ficbit. Set during Return I, and featuring Teyla.
Never Thought
She never thought she would say farewell so soon.
Atlantis is already half empty. Many of the personnel have moved out in the last few days, taking their equipment, their belongings, their presence from the city.
And Teyla has watched the Lanteans leave, group by group. She has seen her people through the Stargate and settled in their new homeworld. She has dealt with her people's puzzlement and their hurt at the distance of the Ancestors, and even the resentment against the Lanteans for allegedly turning the Ancestors against those who would welcome them back.
But when she saw her people settled in what was to be their new planet, she returned to Atlantis.
As she sits down on her bed - the last night that this is to be her bed, she thinks back to the first night she slept here, lulled by the sound of the sea, thrilled by the knowledge that she now lived in the city where the Ancestors had once walked.
And now the Ancestors walk these corridors again, nodding at her with the polite distance of people to whom she is an unwanted guest.
It is not the homecoming of the Ancestors her people expected.
It is not the homecoming of the Ancestors that Teyla expected.
It is not the leavetaking that she wishes to have with the Lanteans - with those who have become her friends.
She never wanted to say farewell so soon.
SUMMARY: She never thought she would say farewell so soon.
CATEGORY: vignette
RATING: G
SPOILERS: 3.10 - Return I
NOTES: This ficbit was originally written as part of a longer story, but I've forgotten where I was going with the original, so it's just a ficbit. Set during Return I, and featuring Teyla.
Never Thought
She never thought she would say farewell so soon.
Atlantis is already half empty. Many of the personnel have moved out in the last few days, taking their equipment, their belongings, their presence from the city.
And Teyla has watched the Lanteans leave, group by group. She has seen her people through the Stargate and settled in their new homeworld. She has dealt with her people's puzzlement and their hurt at the distance of the Ancestors, and even the resentment against the Lanteans for allegedly turning the Ancestors against those who would welcome them back.
But when she saw her people settled in what was to be their new planet, she returned to Atlantis.
As she sits down on her bed - the last night that this is to be her bed, she thinks back to the first night she slept here, lulled by the sound of the sea, thrilled by the knowledge that she now lived in the city where the Ancestors had once walked.
And now the Ancestors walk these corridors again, nodding at her with the polite distance of people to whom she is an unwanted guest.
It is not the homecoming of the Ancestors her people expected.
It is not the homecoming of the Ancestors that Teyla expected.
It is not the leavetaking that she wishes to have with the Lanteans - with those who have become her friends.
She never wanted to say farewell so soon.
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Still need to write that Teyla&Ronon action-adventure story that happens while the Lanteans are out of the galaxy.
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I miss not having the time to write as much as I did!
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It makes me think of some time travel-y fic where Teyla is given the opportunity to undo the past and see if she would rather never meet the Earth people or not ...
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I've read a story like that, actually - um. I don't remember what it's called, but it was by Domenika Marzione (miss_porcupine, I think).
I'm trying to map out a time loop story: a kind of 'perfect loop' where the past can't be changed. It's much more difficult to lay out than a loop where the past is changeable, actually.
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