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RISING II - BEGINNINGS

In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse...

~T. S. Eliot, 'Prufrock'

Survivors.

Not a grouping he'd included himself in before. Not even after dry endless deserts in Afghanistan, where blue sky spat bullets and shifting sands hid death. That had been a job, completed, nothing else.

This was more. Already, it was more.

Laughter filled the air, uniforms and Athosian clothing mixing and blending together.

Friends.

And soon, teammates…

Brown eyes glided to Teyla, strong, courageous. To Ford, young, eager. Some decisions didn't need sleeping on.

Oddly, he found himself glancing to McKay, arguing vehemently with a caterer, sounds lost to distance. A sudden thought drew an involuntary grin.

Not him.