ONE

Chaos in the gate room would have been the perfect name of a picture of someone decided to take a snapshot or paint a picture of the activity in the gate room one afternoon in Atlantis.
John stood watching as people were frantically trying to remove the goo and sticky pink and yellow color which now graced the walls, after a failed mission on some weird planet, he had no idea which one it was, but because it somehow moved and liked to attached itself (the colors) to people, it had to be removed before the room could be used again. Time was slowly running short as there were a few gate teams ready for their scheduled travels.

It had been decided not too long ago, because of the flu going around which Teyla had caught along with half of the Atlantis staff, that gate teams would be put together, as almost no team for the time being was whole, and so John, major Lorne, Cadman, Markham and two other marines who were not sick would explore the planet 5XS-887 which had been found in the Ancients' database. There was not much information about it, only that it was uninhibited, and so a small team led by John was put together to check it out.

It was nice to get off Atlantis a bit, John was slowly going stir crazy being locked inside with all the sick people running around, forced to do paperwork because the gate travelling had been lessened because of the flu going around.

Staring at the moving spots of pink and yellow, John had to admit those scientists were tuff, they never gave up even when they had been trying to catch those moving spots for a few days already. Of course, some of it they had managed to catch but not all of it. John just hoped all of it would be gone before they would be leaving for the planet 5XS-887, he was really curious on what they would find on it. Usually of there was an description it often read, 'humid weather' or 'dangerous beasts', never anything about the people that could possibly live on the planet or not.

"I hope they catch those spots soon."

John did not need to turn around to know who it was that had spoken, he could feel the warmth of another body stepping up beside him.

"So do I, major Lorne, so do I," said John leaning against the rail, looking down at the gate room. He was standing on the commando bridge, packed and ready for them to depart.

"Everyone is ready to leave," said Evan, brushing up against John's arm, but discreetly enough so that no one would notice.

No one knew I, except for Carson, but for a few months almost a year now, Evan and him had been a pair, but because of the DADT could not show it. Even though in other countries it may be allowed, because they were both from the US army, the rule still applied to them. It pissed John off to no end, but legally or not, he would not let go of Evan that easily. Until the day don't ask don't tell would be removed, they would continue hiding their relationship from prying eyes, for their own sake and for the sake of getting to stay in Atlantis.

John took a deep breath; they were standing so close that he could smell the aftershave that Evan was using. Just as he was about to lean a bit closer to Evan, they were interrupted by Chuck.

"Colonel Sheppard? Major Lorne?"

"Yes," asked John, turning around to look at the man who had interrupted his thoughts, "what is it?"

"All the pink and yellow has been caught, Colonel Carter has given you a green light," said Chuck.

John gave Chuck a curt nod and a lazy grin before he pulled Evan with him down the stair to the gate room which now was empty except for the rest of their one time team. Cadman was sitting on the floor looking excited, Markham was speaking with Keegan, a lieutenant and a member of the SGA-4, whilst Gilson a quiet marine who was a member of SGA-6 was standing beside Cadman looking like he wanted to get going as fast as possible.

"Everyone ready?" asked John.

"Yes sir," said Cadman happily, "can we get moving? I want to get out of here, being stuck with all the sick guys is boring."

"Cadman…" Evan's voice was low but held a soft warning in it.

"Ok," said John signaling to Chuck on the commando bridge to dial the gate, "if you're all ready then let's get going."

A surge of excitement rushed through him, when he watched the blue thingy in the middle of the ring, he always felt when he went through it or just watched it. Having his gun ready, his reflexes tingling John stepped through the gate, Evan and Cadman not far after, Markham, Keegan and Gilson came last.

He was not worried about the mission, even if they would run into trouble, they were all experienced gate travelers and all of them had seen some pretty weird stuff, especially since they had came to the Pegasus Galaxy. Dangerous things happened on missions, at least he would not have to worry about anyone panicking or puking. John was secretly happy his team did not include anyone like that, if he of course did not count McKay's never ending whining. This was because his team was the 'number one team', the original SGA team (equaling the SG-1 team, John was so proud) and so they did not train people on it as they were one of the first contact teams on Atlantis. They only had four of these teams, SGA team, SGA-2 lead by Evan, SGA-3 , and SGA-4 with the most experienced gate travelers and 'best staff' as people joked on Atlantis, on these teams were lead by higher ranking officers and if there were any scientists they usually were a head of department or someone a bit more qualified or trained to use a gun.

Stepping through the gate on the other side, John looked around. It looked like most planets in the Pegasus Galaxy, it was not warm, warm but the sun was shining even though there was a small breeze.

"Looks nice enough, sir," said Cadman she too was looking around, "wonder why there isn't anyone living here."

"Well, keep your eyes open," said John, addressing all of the people on the team when he continued, "that goes for all of you. We'll look around a bit and then when day ends we get back to the gate and go home."

Getting a few 'yes sir' in return, John stalked over to where Evan was standing.

"It seems odd that no one lives here," said Evan, his voice was thoughtful, "I mean, the climate don't seem to be too different from the other planets only different is that the vegetation is very small, and seems to be growing close to the earth."

That was true, the gate was standing on a big field but not too far away there was a forest, a big one by the looks of it. The threes where big, sturdy and the forest was thick but they did not reach very high up, other than that there was nothing weird about the planet so far.

"Ok guys, let's move," called John.

It was quiet in the forest, no sounds of animals or much anything, except for the wind that had picked up a bit, howling over the tree tops, it was not yet chilly but you could definitely feel the change in the weather. John was walking first in the line with Evan beside him, they were talking a bit of this and that, after them came Markham, then Cadman who was bugging Gilson and Keegan by singing yellow submarine, walking between the two marines.

"I must say, they are handling the situation very well," said John in a mock whisper to Evan, looking back at Cadman and her antics.

"She's just excited to be back in the Pegasus Galaxy and out on a mission," said Evan smiling at John.

"Well as long as she doesn't annoy me," said John with a wry grin, "she can annoy whoever she wants to."

That got a laugh out of Evan, who smiled lovingly at him; John was overwhelmed by the urge to kiss those luscious lips. They were just perfect, soft and pink, tasting like Evan.

"John…" sighed Evan shaking his head a bit so that a few strands of his black hair fell into his eyes.

"What? I'm being practical, maybe we should start a course for the new recruits, 'how to handle Laura Cadman'," joked John almost laughing at the thought.

"I don't think that would go down very well with the SGC," said Evan but he too was trying to contain his laughter.

For some time they just walked around, looking at the trees and the few flowers on the ground, the wind picked up, and the sun was hidden behind thick grey clouds. John was almost sure that the temperature had dropped dramatically fast since they had arrived; he who had no problem with colder weather felt a few chills run through him. He felt a bit bad for Evan who did not like the cold and probably already had felt a bit chilly when they arrived.

"This is odd," said Cadman, looking between John and Evan, "is the weather supposed to act this way? I mean, I've never seen the temperature drop this fast, anywhere."

"Neither have I, sir," said Gilson in his usually calm voice. He was a big guy about Ronon's size, he had been on a gate team for many years and had seen quite a few odd things in the line of duty.

"Yeah," said John listening to the howling wind, the big drop in the temperature was slightly worrying him, "let's head back, don't think we want to get caught in whatever it is, that is happening."

Beside him he could feel Evan shiver in the cold wind.

"Sir?"

"What?" asked John, all his alarms going off in his head at the tone of Keegan's voice, he did not like the slight worry in it.

"It's about two degrees below zero right now, when we got here four hours ago it was 15 degrees above zero," said Keegan, his sea green eyes looking worriedly at John.

If Gilson was about the same height as Ronon, then Keegan was just a bit taller than Evan, standing at about 174-175. A gun expert, if the rumors were true then he did not miss his target often, but it was the eyes that people remembered when they saw him. If John would have met Keegan on the street then he would not have guessed than he was a marine, but John knew better than to underestimate the man.

Turning around they started hiking back towards the gate, but they did not get far before the weather got even worse, the wind picked up and then it happened.

"Wait!" screamed Cadman; the wind was so loud that screaming was the only way to be heard. "It's snowing!"

John felt like cursing but he held it in, Cadman was right. It had started to snow. Huge snowflakes fell from the grey sky.

At the rate which the temperature dropped and the snow was falling, John was at loss of words he had never seen the weather change so fast in his life. When they had gotten to the planet, it had been summer, now it was as if it was in the middle of the winter.

"We need to get back to the gate NOW!"

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