My Name is Torren
by quiet-december

My name is Torren John Emmagan, and I have the best mama in the whole galaxy.

Gen, rated K+. Spoilers through 5x01 "Search and Rescue". 395 words. Torren POV with mentions of the team. Um. You might hate me for this?


My name is Torren John Emmagan and I have the best mama in the whole galaxy. Merry says her mama is best because her mama saves my mama's life when she gets hurt, but I know better. My mama is the strongest and the prettiest and the bravest woman who ever lived, and I want to be just like her when I grow up, except that I will be a man instead of a woman.

Mama says that I am named after two very brave men and that I should always be proud of my name. Merry says her name is better because she's named after her papa, but Merry just says stupid things to make me angry. She does not really mean it.

My grandpapa Torren died a long, long time before I was born, even before Mama left Athos and moved to 'Lantis. Mama says he was a gentle man and a good father and that she wishes I could have met him. John, the other brave man I am named for, did not die a long time ago. He rescued Mama and me from a bad man on the day that I was born, even though he was hurt. Mama says that John's job was to look after everyone on 'Lantis and that he never let anyone get left behind.

Once I asked Mama if John will come back so he can take care of 'Lantis if anything bad happens. Mama's face went all scrunchy and she got tears in her eyes and I felt bad for asking.

I wish that I could send a letter to John. Mama and Tahran Ronon and Tahran Rodney and Mihma Jennifer say that he was a very good man, and I think he would come back if I told him he was making my mama cry.

Someday when I grow up to be a great warrior like Mama and Tahran Ronon, I will go through the gate and find John and bring him back, and Mama will be proud of me. I will bring him back and everyone will be together again, John and Mama and Tahran Ronon and Tahran Rodney and me and everybody else who lives in the city on the sea.

And then 'Lantis will glow bright again, the way it did when I was a baby, before John never came back.

the end?