"Table Set for Four" by Domenika Marzione (no rating given)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Team
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Halling, in absentia: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex
Pairings: none
Categories: gen
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: miss_porcupine
On DW she's "domarzione"
Author's Website: The DMZ
Link: Table Set for Four by Domenika Marzione

Summary by the author:
After The Lost Boys, Sheppard's team is gone, but not forgotten. [Completed 10 October 2005 for the Food &
Buildings challenge]

The missing team members and the holes their disappearance left seen through the eyes of other people.
Creative, insightful and in places oddly touching.

It was surprising but not shocking that John had never been stationed in Hawaii, that the closest post to Hickam that John had ever been assigned to was a brief tour at McClelland Air Base in Sacramento. John had undoubtedly known what the prevailing beliefs of his service history were, Hawaii and Bosnia and the Special Operations rumors and why he had been in Antarctica and all the rest. But he had been disinclined to correct the misperception and apparently nobody had ever sought confirmation because he wouldn't have lied if asked. The real question was why nobody ever did ask.

John was inscrutable even in absentia.