Somewhere in the last year, while Steve was busy killing bad guys, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has been erased from the books and guys like Jeff can marry whoever they damn well please.

John sleeps over.

On the bad days, Steve turns away from him, and on the good days, Danny still feels like his heart is being trampled on.

Somewhere in the last year, while Steve was busy killing bad guys, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell has been erased from the books and guys like Jeff can marry whoever they damn well please.

John anticipated a lot of possibilities for disaster when Rodney invited John to his sister’s place for his first Christmas after the breakup with Jennifer. Getting drafted into playing a plastic guitar wasn’t one of them.

In case of emergency, go bug Danny, apparently.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell had been instituted when John Sheppard was just barely out of the Academy, and at the time it had seemed like progress.

Wherein aliens don’t make them do it, John loves ASCII, Carson hates everyone, Weir is highly amused, and Lorne’s just trying to be a pal.

Sheppard has a thing about personal space. At first Ronon thinks it’s that he has a thing about being touched, which he gets; sometimes people are twitchy that way. But it’s weird watching Sheppard with … well, maybe not with McKay, because McKay signals go away, I hate you most of the time to everybody whether it’s true or not, and it makes people think twice about getting close. He acts like he might bite.

John’s nose bumps Rodney’s cheek and Rodney spills what’s left of his Roos wine all over his shirt.

“Wait, wait,” Rodney says, snorting with laughter as John pulls back. “You’re terrible at this, aren’t you?”

Rodney is swaying as he clutches his empty cup to his chest, wet spot spreading across his shirt and John can’t help laughing too. “No, you’re terrible at this,” John insists. He tries to wave his hand at Rodney but discovers there’s a beer bottle in it.

“I didn’t know you knew him,” John said.

When the Stargate Program goes public, old loyalties are set against new ambitions for the Atlantis team, but a deal with the devil to save McKay’s life will bring everything full circle and leave Sheppard in need of saving too, when Earth finds itself in contention with the people of the Pegasus Galaxy.

People are not like mathematics. They don’t make nearly as much sense.

In which Rodney keeps getting everyone arrested, Zelenka has cake-related schemes, Teyla has a saying and John has choices to make…

Sometimes don’t you just wish one or the other of them would . . .

The day after - literally, the day after - Sheppard resigns as military head of Atlantis, Rodney walks out of the communal showers to find him leaned up against the lockers.

“All I’m saying,” Rodney complained, and John heard him take the flashlight out of his mouth so he could pronounce consonants, “is that you could have tried a little harder to resist Princess Sparkleberry over there.”

Most days, Evan Lorne liked his job, as much as you could like a job involving the constant threat of death. Still, if he didn’t like it, or at least think it was important, he wouldn’t still be with the SGC after five years, and he sure as hell wouldn’t

Raleigh was just like every other place they’d stayed since they left San Francisco: one king-sized room on Ronon’s credit card (which had no charges at all except for a string of Comfort Inns along various interstates), one single on John’s credit card (

“There was one last thing in the databurst,” Elizabeth says.