don't be dull, be fannish

"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by auburn, read by fayjay | John/Rodney and others | AU of both SGA and SG-1 | Vala Mal Doran and her partners, renegades Jehan abd-Ba'al and Meredith McKay, hijack the Tau'ri ship Prometheus and leave the Milky Way behind in search of the Lost City of the Ancients, Atlantis.| ~181.000 words/19 hr. 16 min.

The wraith laughed and opened its hand. Jehan stumbled back, coughed, and fingered the tiny wound at his throat. He was barely bleeding. Something in the feel of the cell changed; sound grew sharper, colors clearer, and the others were suddenly surrounding him, aware of something happening and pulling him further away from the wraith. Jehan thought it must have released whatever telepathic voodoo it had been exerting against everyone else.

Mer lurched over and grabbed John's elbow. He pulled until John's hand, smeared with his own blood, came away from his neck and stared. "What the hell just happened?" Mer demanded.

"Allies," the wraith said. "Allies. Open the gates, let loose the dogs of war."

What an amazing fic! Wow, I'm smitten, peeps, smitten. The last SGA/SG-1 fic I enjoyed this much was "Retrograde" by Martha Wells. Wow, reading fics like that, you realize just what a potential the writers of SGA wasted...