Bad Dates by Taste_Is_Sweet (Rated T by author)

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Show: SGA/SG-1 (since Lorne started on SG-1 and migrated to SGA)

Rec Category: Evan Lorne
Characters: Evan Lorne, Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Aiden Ford, Ronon Dex
Pairings: none, background McShep, possibly background Jack/Daniel
Categories: Gen mostly, background slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: taste_is_sweet
Author's Website: On AO3
Link: Bad Dates

Why This Must Be Read: A great look at Evan Lorne in a fantastic AU where people on Earth have special gifts they bring with them to the Pegasus Galaxy. It shows Evan's transition to his new posting, from being a geological surveyor/engineer on Earth to being a leader of his own gate team in Atlantis. It's also just super hilarious, and shows how the people in Atlantis grew together in that first year.


He put his own tray down and sat, doing the required bit of smiling and nodding himself, though he was feeling out of place all of a sudden.

Maybe it was because he didn't have his own team yet, the one guy at the table who didn't. Ford had only just gotten his, granted, but he'd been part of Sheppard's team first, for over a year. Even Ronon, who'd been on Atlantis for barely long enough to take a bath, was suddenly part of the expedition's premier first-contact team. And Sheppard was constantly giving Ronon sly, self-satisfied smiles, like he'd invented the Setadan himself. Of course, Ronon was still glaring at everyone except Sheppard and Teyla, as if he was expecting an attack any second.

Well, he wasn't glaring at McKay either, but that might've just been because he thought McKay was kind of funny. It was hard to tell.

Lorne, on the other hand, seemed to have been brought to Atlantis to do paperwork and shepherd (ha!) the most annoying scientists around on the least interesting missions. Not that Lorne had a problem with Parrish, or anything, but following him around all night on P3M-736 had been like trying to control a highly caffeinated puppy with a thing for radioactive fungus.

To be fair, Lorne knew he was supposed to be using these missions as an opportunity to try out potential members for his own team, but when Weir had told him she'd wanted him to consider taking Parrish on permanently, Lorne had balked.

He'd told her he'd think about it, but he'd been lying. He'd spent enough time with flaky scientists back at the SGC, thank you very much, and the last thing he wanted in a galaxy overrun by life-sucking space vampires was to have to run herd on civilians who were so busy ooh-ing and ahh-ing that they were liable to trip right over a Wraith--which Parrish had practically done--or fall down a really deep hole, which Corrigan had actually managed.

Or get sucked up by a Wraith dart, which McKay hadn't been, but only because his shield had prevented the culling beam from touching him. Lieutenant Cadman had been right next to him, and only her phenomenally bizarre luck had kept her from being atomized when Corporal Kaufman's Gift had blown the Dart up.

McKay had been able to get her re-materialized, eventually, but Lorne was still certain it wouldn't have happened in the first place, if Cadman had been with two other Marines.

So, Lorne was waffling and didn't have a team yet, and wasn't really sure when he would. And it was just a little bit…intimidating, being the new guy surrounded by all these Sheppard groupies. Or maybe it was just Ronon who was intimidating.