Carry Me Home by Khriskin [The Return challenge]

[khriskin]

TITLE: Carry Me Home
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RAITING: 182 words, PG-13
PAIRING/WARNINGS: None, Deathfic-ish (implied, unnamed OCs)
SPOILERS: The Return, Part One (AU-ish)
SUMMARY: Two hundred people went through the gate, not all of them came home. Written for sga_flashfic The Return challenge.


The SGC tries to bring them home, untwine them from borrowed seas and skies. Pour them back into lives left on the near side of forever, forgetting those few who'd stepped across a galaxy with nothing left to lose.

They'd buried their past in Pegasus, wrapped in the light of unknown stars and laid to rest with songs sung in languages they hadn't time to learn. Starting over in a whirlwind of fire and fury, they embraced the chance to be reborn.

Now they walk the mountain corridors, reduced to faint mimicry of those who'd never left. Nothing reaches them; no comforting words, no awkward peace offerings from those realizing too late that some who'd stumbled back through that gate, came back as ghosts.


Atlantis will sing for them, when they're back under distant stars and the waters of home curl around the ashes. She'll sing for them, her lost children found again, all Sheppard has to do is bring them home.


They'll find a way, they always have. Because home is only eight steps away, and they have promises to keep.


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Technorati tags: writing | fan fiction | fantasy | stargate atlantis | the unforgotten country | fanfic

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[khriskin]

I'm glad you liked it! ^_^

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful, just beautiful. Love the lyrical use of language.

[khriskin]

Thank you! ^_^ My poetry Muse tends to creep into the drabbles whenever I'm not looking... ^_^;;

[leesa_perrie]

That was just wonderful! Really well written, and so sad. And true.

[khriskin]

I'm so glad you liked it! ^_^

[ex-nonniemou154.livejournal.com]

ooooh, lovely and evocative and so very true. Those who came home were more lost when they arrived, and found when they left.

[khriskin]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! ^_^