STARGATE ATLANTIS: Homecoming (Book one in the Legacy series) by Graham Jo & Scott Melissa

Author:Graham, Jo & Scott, Melissa [Graham, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2011-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Huge snowflakes were falling. Teyla paused along the seaward balcony of the control tower, her jacket zipped tight against the wind. It sang through the railings and deserted metal chairs and tables. How not? Often these seats had been favorites, but who would choose to eat their meal out here, in gathering darkness and falling snow? This new world was not like the ones they were used to, balmy breezes and warm sun, for all that they were within twenty degrees of the equator. Already, a fine dusting of snow coated the floor and the surfaces of the tables. She wondered how much there would be before it stopped. Rodney would know. Or he would guess.

The doors slid open ahead of her, a few flakes whirling on the air, and she stepped into the control room. Rodney was at the first bank of computers, talking into his headset. “No, I cannot put up the shield,” he snapped at someone. “It’s snow, not an alien invasion! Do you think we have the power to run the shield because you don’t want to get your feet wet?” He paused, cupping the earpiece, as the gateroom was also noisy. “Yes, I am a Canadian!” He shook his head and took the headset off, laying it on the board beside him and scratching his ear.

Teyla caught his eye and smiled. “We should run the shield to keep off the snow?”

“Yeah. Like that will happen. It’s a few centimeters! Everyone can cope!”

“I agree,” Teyla said tranquilly.

Rodney stopped in midstream. “Good.”

Teyla very carefully did not look around. What she was asking was personal, not secret. Woolsey was by chance not in his office. No doubt he had gone to eat dinner. And if John were not around either, surely he had other things to do than hang around the gateroom. “I was wondering if now that you had recalibrated the gate and called Earth…”

Rodney scratched his head again, and it came to her that his hair was thinning on top. None of them were as young as they used to be. His eyes met hers frankly. “You were wondering if we could dial New Athos.”

“Yes,” she said quietly. “I know it will use power, but…”

“Pennies,” Rodney dismissed it. “Dialing a Pegasus gate is peanuts. Not like running the shield to keep the snow off the balcony. I can dial New Athos for you. In fact,” he put his head to the side. “I figured you’d ask.”

“Just long enough for a radio message,” Teyla said. “That is all. So that my people may know that we live and are well. I will not give them the gate address or anything that might require Mr. Woolsey’s permission.”

“I know,” Rodney said. He leaned back, stretching along the board, and hit the first key, Tail of the Dragon. Amelia Banks and the new one, Taggart, lifted their heads at the sound of the chevron locking. “Dialing New Athos,” Rodney said clearly.

Amelia gave Teyla a smile, and Taggart wasn’t about to question anything Rodney did.

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