Title: Numbers Game
Summary: John Sheppard had always been good at math. Drabble.
Spoilers: None, really.
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis isn't mine, and if Sheppard is missing…well, you know how those pesky solar flares are…he'll probably turn up eventually. *shifty eyes*
A/N: I've been writing fan fiction for a while, but this is the first thing I've written for Stargate Atlantis. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know what you think! :)
Numbers Game
John Sheppard had always been good at math. He liked numbers. They were simple, straightforward. Absolute.
People weren't like that. People were infinitely complicated, with hundreds of variables you had no way of calculating.
In a battle, that was what made them dangerous.
But even if numbers weren't enough to predict the outcome, that didn't mean they had no place in war. In a way, war was all about numbers. Statistics.
Weapons. Manpower. Strategy.
They were all part of the equation.
Weapons plus manpower minus strategy didn't equal victory, just like a good strategy minus weapons and manpower didn't automatically mean defeat.
The trick was finding the right formula. If you didn't find it in time, you wound up with a different problem altogether.
Was the value of a friend's life greater than or equal to your own?
For Sheppard, that one was easy. If you took his friends out of the equation, he had nothing left to lose.
And that was what made him dangerous.
Because, after all, he'd always been good at math.
Fin
Thank you for reading! Please let me know what you think!
Take care and God bless!
Ani-maniac494 :)