Word
Count: 197
Rating:
PG.
Category:
AU. General.
Story Status:
Complete
Summary: Trevor
ignores McKay's rant whilst studying an Ancient artefact...
Notes:
Goes AU during Season 3. Written for Round 1 of the 2nd Last
Fanfic Writer Standing challenge on LiveJournal. The prompt (that I
freely admit I struggled with badly) was:
Theme: OCs Fest
Word count: Up to 200
Characters: OCs only
Description:
Write any story, but only using original characters. You
may mention
others very briefly, but only the OCs can participate of the main plot.
Beta:
Thank you to Jayne Perry for the beta-reading.
The Artefact
By Leesa Perrie
Trevor was used to McKay's rants and so tuned out the loud noise behind
him. Branton, the recipient, deserved it anyway. He
should know better by now than to mess with Ancient devices that hadn't
been cleared. Especially as he was one of the so-called lucky
ones with the ATA gene.
Yeah, not so lucky if you accidentally switched on something
dangerous. Branton had been fortunate; this time.
Atlantis held many wonders, but you could never forget that it was
alien and that the next device you came across could kill you, or
worse, kill others. Like the one he was studying now;
seemingly innocuous, it looked like a generator, but according to the
texts it was a weapon, and no ordinary one at that. He was
glad that he hadn't activated it, or have the gene that might have.
As soon as the rant was over he would ask McKay to authorise its
dismantling, because really, did they want a device that could cause
exploding tumours? Which Ancient had thought that such a good
idea?
Sure, Atlantis was beautiful and wondrous. It was also as
dangerous as hell.
He didn't want to work anywhere else, though.
The End