Sleepwalker by Layton Colt (PG13)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Horror
Characters: John, Rodney, Ronon, Teyla
Pairing: none
Het/Slash/Gen: gen
Warning: none
Author on LJ: laytoncolt 
Author's Website: nixa_jane  journal
Link: The Sleepwalker

Why this must be read:

Playing around with such canon elements as AI and the ATA gene, Layton takes us on a journey of terror and shock through the refuge of the expedition, Atlantis itself. Through foreshadowing that is out of this world, we get to see how having the ATA gene affects John and Rodney in a way that was never expected. Afterwards, it's a race to the finish to save everyone from a danger that no one ever saw coming on Atlantis. I swear I had a pillow handy to hide behind for portions of this fic; Layton's use of images and foreshadowing had me freaked out by the end. It will you too!

Story Summary: Sometimes he thinks he can even hear people talking in the walls, and it sounds like they're saying come home.

"Creepy," Ronon says, succinct as usual and sounding a little bored.

Teyla is the only one unarmed, but John knows that doesn't mean she's any less dangerous than them. She just doesn't need a gun; she can do more damage with the pair of sticks strapped to her back.

He interrupted her right when she was finishing training. He found her in the gym standing over two of his largest marines.

It was a little unnerving when she mentioned how they took them down together. He usually just watches. He rarely fights with anyone but her.

"In here," John says, and points with the light on his P90 to the door down the farthest hall. "This is it."

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"Hey, Rodney," John says.

Rodney distractedly taps his comm. "What did you find?" he asks.

"Find?" John repeats. He's using that tone again, the one that makes him sound slow and clueless. If it were anyone else, Rodney would be impatient already.

"Yes yes," he snaps. "Where I sent you?"

"Rodney," John says. "You didn't send me anywhere."

"Yes I did," he says. "You took Ronon and Teyla."

"Ronon and Teyla are off world, visiting some of our trading partners," John says. "How long have you been awake?"

Rodney frowns and pulls up the city schematics. The readings are all normal. "Never mind," he says.

He's obviously more tired than he thought.