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mhalachaiFull-Body Possession
A Stargate Atlantis ficlette
A Stargate Atlantis ficlette
Summary: The team talks about the rankings in the All Atlantis Alien Possession derby.
Rating: PG for swearing
Disclaimer: Sony and MGM own all things Stargate Atlantis. I'm only borrowing and will return them at the end of the fic.
Setting: After "Long Goodbye" in season 2 (spoilers for the episodes to that point)
Characters: Team Shepp + Zelenka = twu wuv
Word count:: 550 ++
Note: I'm in a peculiar mood. Also, I'm trying to figure out when the AB series jumped the shark (or if it will with the publication of Danse Macabre -- only time will tell) so I'm wanting to stab all my AB fics. In the head. Repeatedly.
"Stop it."
"Stop what?"
Sheppard glared at McKay. "Stop looking at me like I'm going to go all Emily Rose on you!"
"That was horrible bootleg DVD," Zelenka said from ahead of them in the cafeteria line. "Bad sound and too long."
"It wasn't as scary as the Exorcist, either," McKay added.
"How old were you when you saw the Exorcist?" Sheppard asked. "Ten? Of course it's going to be scarier."
"Thirteen, actually." McKay peered suspiciously at the oatmeal-like substance in his bowl. "Does this smell like--"
"No, it smells like oatmeal," Sheppard interrupted, resisting the urge to kick something. Preferably McKay. "Just get your damned breakfast already."
"My, aren't we touchy after a full-body possession," Rodney said, stepping out Sheppard's reach. "You weren't this bad after the bug thing."
"I told you never to mention that!"
Zelenka snorted and walked away to join a table. "See, you're scaring the civilians," McKay said, walking ahead of Sheppard to Teyla's table. "Not that it matters, but you're ahead on the rankings again. One more and I win the pool."
"What ranking?" Sheppard demanded, setting his tray down with a clatter. "One more what?"
"Full-body possession," McKay said, not noticing the death glare Sheppard was shooting in his direction. "You're at two."
Sheppard cranked up the glare another notch.
"Who else is on this list?" Teyla asked blithely. "Besides Dr. Weir."
"Besides Colonel Sheppard with two possessions, being Thalen and that bug thingy, Dr. Weir has one, as do myself, Cadman and, um, you."
Teyla's spoon stopped forgotten in mid-air. "Me?"
"Yeah, the Wraith that possessed you last year for a little while?" McKay's enthusiasm began to falter when he realized he was in the process of pissing off two of the three deadliest people in Atlantis.
"He's right, Teyla, you did get a little psycho for a few minutes," Sheppard smirked. "I seem to recall you beating up on me with an IV pole?"
"Although Teyla's not on the other list."
"Other list?" Teyla and Sheppard said in unison.
McKay eased his chair back. "Uh, yeah. The kissing people while possessed list. Sheppard and Weir kissed--"
"Hey!" Sheppard interrupted. "That was Phoebus and Thalen!"
"Semantics," McKay snapped. "And Cadman made me kiss Beckett, so don't go getting all bent out of shape." He stood. "If you plan to get possessed a third time, let me know so I can put odds on you kissing someone else while under an alien influence." He vanished.
Teyla raised an eyebrow at Sheppard. "You kissed Dr. Weir?"
Sheppard slumped down in his chair. "Thalen did! Remember how we had this conversation?"
"It was not Thalen I was speaking to after you were infected with the Eratus bug retrovirus."
Sheppard slumped lower. "I thought we weren't going to talk about that either."
"At least I haven't developed a habit of kissing women while possessed," Teyla said, her voice blandly arch.
"Who's kissing women while possessed?" Ronon said, appearing out of nowhere and sitting in McKay's vacated seat.
Sheppard groaned.
end
Having said that, go read the awesomest Harry Potter/Stargate Atlantis crossover eva: Different Kinds of Magic by Rokeon. (One-shot, hilarious)
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Date: 2006-06-13 04:00 am (UTC)X-files is a classic example of a series that should have done this and didn't, or at least took it wildly in the wrong direction, IMO. I mean, it was no longer a secret conspiracy - everybody and their deaf, reclusive brother should have known what was going on by the end. Either we have an alien invasion now or we have no more plausible plotline. Either we prevent catastrophe and we have a series about Mulder and Scully raising a baby and adapting to civilian life, or we have a series about Mulder and Scully as undercover operatives in an alien-occupied America. Either of those would have made sense, following from the end of season .. 6, I think it was. What we actually got in the last three seasons? Made NO sense. Which isn't to say that there weren't good one-off episodes, because there were, but as a coherent series .. yeah, no. Because it tried to "go back to its beginnings", and that pretty much never works. That series basically ended up treading water until it drowned.
So, re: Anita Blake series . . again, being as spoiler-free as possible, but you make certain choices and those choices have potential consequences (see, now, I could be referring to any number of choices which the Anita of GP would NOT have made the way that the Anita of NiC on forward did, so, not a spoiler). Not just obvious practical consequences, though there are those in abundance, but internal consequences for the character. She's grown, she's changed, and it's about time for something to go snap in a big way. If that doesn't happen, sooner or later, the character stops being believable, the world loses its edge of paranormal pseudo-realism and becomes just fantasy. And personally, what made this series nifty-neato for me was the question of things like . . can a cop who gets turned into a vampire keep his job. All the jagged edges that would catch if you took the real world and cut into a new shape, y'know, all that little shit that really would happen if this were real.
So, like I said, um, I'm excited for this book now.
.. I suck at being spoiler-free.
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Date: 2006-06-13 06:39 pm (UTC)I am looking forward to Danse Macabre, because (if you read the first 3 chapters online) it is an interesting and eventual plot twist. I was pretty pissed that someone who had received an ARC (advanced reader copy) blurted out the major plot point without putting a spoiler warning on it. *sigh* I really would have liked to have found out for myself, seeing as how the book will be released shortly. It's like the person who shouted out the ending of Half-Blood Prince to a crowd of people picking up their copies.
I'm still interested in reading it, though.
Do I miss the police work? Somewhat, but truth be told, there can only be so much blood and gore in the books before you start to desensitize. We're 13 books into the series now, so I get the feeling that even Anita is a bit jaded from her experiences. The only thing that still seems to shock her is crime involving children. I'm not opposed to taking things in a different direction. I think it is inevitable that something has to break before Anita truly accepts that she cannot live the same life she used to. The boundaries between who is a monster and who is not have blurred too much know for her not to change with the times.