Pegasus Galaxy's Lost and Found Section by Stella Wind (PG-13)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Aiden Ford, John Sheppard, Sora
Pairings: Ford/McKay, Teyla/Sora
Categories: Slash, Cannon AU
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: Pegasus Galaxy's Lost and Found Section

Why This Must Be Read: This story's an interesting look at what might've happened had Rodney found a way to stay behind in the Pegasus Galaxy after the Ancient's kicked the expedition out (no, I'll let you read and figure out how that happened, because it's quite clever in its simplicity). The pairings aren't ones I usually read, but Stella Wind does a lovely job of sneaking them into the story in a way that doesn't feel forced and yet makes it entirely secondary to the main plot of the story. She's got some interesting ideas here too, speculations about the Ancients, Atlantis, and also does a nice job of tying in a few places that got featured or mentioned in various episodes and shows their potential past what the show did.

It's possibly not the most exciting story ever, but the theories explored here are original and more than made up for that to me. It definitely deserves more love than it seems to have gotten on AO3, so go check it out!


"Where?" he asked, finally able to force out.

"I found it in a cave," she said evenly, her face too blank to be honest.

Rodney shook his head, boggled.

"Dr McKay?" Teyla called, brushing the tent flap aside, without waiting for his acknowledgment.

The market planet had an odd electro-magnetic field, generated by a sun with heavy solar flare activity. Rodney thought it probably kept the Wraith away, but it also played merry hell with their radios. Theoretically, they were using the buddy system, but with Teyla talking to nearly every other trader, Rodney had split off on his own, and the woman with ZedPM found him.

The woman who had given him the ZedPM froze.

Teyla pulled the tent flap fully closed behind her. She first looked at Rodney, and then to the ZedPM, before her eyes darted back to the woman.

Rodney saw Teyla tense, a myriad of emotions rippling across her face. Shock, pain, joy, confusion, and others evened out, Teyla's stillness masking the rest of her reaction.

"Sora, it has been a long time since I saw you last."

Rodney drew back. A lack of bathing combined with a fair complexion now sunburnt and peeling, and a rough haircut had transformed her. The proud farm girl and the Genii solider was gone.

"Teyla," Sora said. Her stance grew less stooped as she tensed. She raised her head and looked him dead in the eye, her gaze no longer sliding away from him.

"Is that–?" Teyla began.

"It's a gift," Sora said. "All I ask is that you don't tell anyone about it. The Genii, your people, or his."

"Sora-"

"Promise me?"

"Fine," Teyla said, the word sharp and short. "I will not tell Atlantis, but-"

"Thank you," Sora said and cut off any further words Teyla could have said to her by bolting past her, fleeing at a dead run.

Teyla gaped. Rodney thought that she was going to yell after Sora, but determination spread across her face, and she took a deep breath. Teyla sprinted after, angling away from the market, heading for the treeline Rodney looked after her, and then back to the ZedPM in his hands. It was a ZedPM, Teyla couldn't possibly think that he'd follow...

Of course she did.