One Brick at a Time by Khriskin [Dark Side Challenge]

[khriskin]

TITLE: One Brick at a Time
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG-13, Gen
SUMMARY: Sometimes the darkness lies in refusing to see. Dr. Carson Beckett stars, with a nod to Poe.

The Wraith were just bugs in human suits, complex mimicries of people, nothing more. Because they couldn't be more, couldn't be something beyond a bug in skin suit. Because you didn't do this to people. And still his hands shook as he readied the needle, trembled with a numbing shade of horror as the newest retro-virus went to work, tearing away the bug from the human shell. This would prove it, prove they weren't human and he hadn't cemented his oath behind walls of bricks. It was just a bug, Montresor, just a bug.

In his dreams they were people.


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Comments

[khriskin]

I'm glad you liked it! ^_^ Considering how much time he must have spent having medical ethics hammered into his head, I figured he'd have had to rationalize the experimentation somehow... Poor fella.