So after a short break in writing for the SGA fandom I'm back :D This is my longest and best written fanfic I've ever written and I'm really proud of it. Of course becasue it's me, there's SLASH in it, and so if you don't like slash, then don't read, bevare you've now been warned ;) Main Pairings are Evan/Rodney and John/Cameron. There won't be too much sex and such but there's some so if you don't like stuff like that you can skip it, and of course there's fluff!

In this story I've made Evan younger than what he actually is, he's supposedly the same age as John and Cam but I've always thought of him as younger and so he's 36 in this story... I Think that was all for now :)

READ and ENJOY!

/PsychoBlonde

PROLOGUE

Atlantis Command,

We at the IOA have decided that it is time for an evaluation of Atlantis. We feel that things are slowly moving in a direction on Atlantis that raises some concerns here on earth. Because of this, we will send over a person who will evaluate and make sure that every single person serving on Atlantis is fit to be there.
We expect full cooperation and willingness from your part in making sure this evaluation will go smoothly. Any moves on your part in trying to stop this, will be counted as insubordination.
This assessment will take place on May 4th and onwards for as long as necessary.

Signed,

Members of the IOA

STARGATE: ATLANTIS

"Colonel Sheppard, Major Lorne, Doctor McKay, Doctor Keller please make your way to Commander Mitchell's office."
John frowned. It was not often that Cam, no Commander Mitchell wanted to meet them in his office usually they used the meeting room when they had something to discuss. Then again, he had no idea what Cam would want to discuss.

There had been a few very hectic weeks going on, and feelings were stretched to insane lengths, but right now it was mostly calm except for the usual small happenings. Halfway to Cam's office, John met up with Doctor Keller, she too had no idea what was going on.

"You don't think something has happened to the Daedalus? I mean they'll be here in about two days won't they?"

"Nah, I don't think it's about the Daedalus, Doctor, but let's hope it is because I really don't have any spare time for anything more stressing than that," said John.
"You and me both Colonel, the last attack on Atlantis has left us with half of our army in the infirmary," said Doctor Keller with a small sigh.

They stood for a short while outside of Cam's office neither of them moving to take the first step in, both worried about what this sudden meeting was about.

"Well then Doctor Keller, let's not keep them waiting."
John noted that he and Doctor Keller were the last ones to arrive; Rodney was sitting down in one of the chairs in front of Cam's desk, impatiently crossing and re-crossing his arms in front of his chest. Major Lorne was standing ramrod straight eyes fixated on a spot on the wall but John could see tired restlessness and the contained energy that was radiating from the Major.

Then again, this past year had been a tuff one for Lorne, not only had he heaps of paperwork to do, but he had been taken hostage at the start of the year barely two weeks after he had gotten back had been forced to step into not only John's job but also Cam's as they had gotten thrown into some odd wormhole and been gone for a whole month, Lorne had not only done their jobs but his own. No, John did not envy Lorne; the poor man really could do with a break or two.

"Good you're all here," started Cam, shuffling through some papers on his desk before he found what he was looking for, "this arrived this morning, it's from the IOA."

John skimmed through the paper, with a trained eye and what he found was not something that made him happy. It could not have come at a less good time; he could not help but wish it had been the Daedalus that had had some problem or two. That at least would have been manageable; this paper was doing nothing more but promising more sleepless nights and hectic days filled with work.

He was pulled from his musings by Rodney who snatched the paper from John, he on the other had was not as quiet about what he thought about the matter.

"This is stupid! These evaluations are rubbish, this does nothing else but gives them a reason to snoop and point fingers!" raged Rodney in his usual loud way.

"Well getting angry won't help us," said Lorne his temper such a drastic change from Rodney's that it still surprised John that they had not killed each other, or more likely Lorne killed Rodney.

Then again, in some odd way, Rodney seemed to have a soft spot for the Major. It was not often that Rodney felt obliged to play nice, but more often than not John found himself surprisingly watching Rodney play nicely with Evan.

Lorne's more than calm temper was something that threw most people off the loop, explosions, kidnappings you could throw anything at the man and he would not even blink but be the model example of professionalism. Not that John minded, it had more than once saved them all, Evan's calm nature.

"So what should we do? I mean, one look at how we run things right now and we can all kiss goodbye our futures, and instead welcome a dark damp sell at Area 51," sighed Doctor Keller.

"That's why I called you, everyone needs to be informed of what will be going on," said Cam rubbing his hands over his eyes, "it's not just our careers on the line, it's every single persons career that is living here on Atlantis."

"God I can't stand the IOA," muttered Rodney.

"At least we've got a few weeks to prepare us for this," said John.

"Yeah, two weeks and three days," read Doctor Keller form the paper.

"May 4th," repeated Evan as if he was thinking it over, "there is no actual time frame for this, let's hope this inspector won't feel inclined to stay for longer than a week or two."

"This is just great, as if we don't have enough problems already!"

"Couldn't agree with you more Doctor McKay," drawled Cam.

"What I want to know is why now? I mean Woolsey had been here for almost a year or so when his first personal evaluation took place, but this one, this one is different," wondered Doctor Keller.

"There's an almost completely new IOA committee, at least that was what Woolsey told me in his latest letter, it seems as if they're a bit worried that we can't follow the proper rules and regulations."

"What do you mean by that?" asked Doctor Keller.

"What I mean is that the new committee doesn't like us because they can't control us and so they will try to get us out of the way so that they can place people that they can control in our positions," explained John before Cam had the time to open his mouth, who the question was meant for.

"So what should we do?"

"There's not much we can do about it, except for accepting it and trying to avoid the storm," said Cam.

"Great!" muttered Rodney, "do we know who this inspector will be?"

"No, there was nothing about who it was in the letter, but I got an email from Jack –General O'Neill– telling me we could be in for a nasty surprise."

"This is just getting better and better," said John morosely, turning to face his Second in Command, "Major Lorne, maybe you could take care of announcing this to the general public and make sure everyone knows what at stake here. We can't take any chances."

"Of course sir, I'll schedule it for the end of this week or sometimes next week." John gave a small nod in answer.

He really had no idea what he would do if he did not have Evan as his SIC. Or, okay he did know what he would be doing, he would be drowning in paperwork and not getting anything done because he did not have Evan there to remind him of all those extra meetings and well everything.

John quite dreaded the day that he would not have the younger man there, if that day even would come. Sometimes John was sure that the major enjoyed living on Atlantis more than John himself did. And that in itself was amazing, as he most of the time would never go back to Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy if he had anything to say about it.

"Well then if that was all then I need to get back to screaming at my minions that just don't seem to understand the simple order of don't touch," sniped Rodney halfway through the door by the time he had finished the sentence.

It was not long after that, before John and Cam were alone in Cam's office. Doctor Keller excused herself after Rodney and Evan did not stay much long after that, as he had a lot of paperwork to do. John did not even wait for the door to shut, before he sank down in one of the chairs in front of Cam's desk.

"I can't believe they're doing something like this…"

"You're not the only one John," soothed Cam.

"Haven't we gone through enough this year? Woolsey ok, he's a nice guy but the rest of those bloodsucking creeps in the IOA, no thank you. And with our luck it'll be someone whose hell bent on getting us kicked out. I mean we've probably broken every single rule there is in the US army here on Atlantis."

"Don't worry; we'll get through this somehow…"

"It's not me I'm worried about!"

"I know, John," stated Cam calmly.

John pouted; he hated it how Cam could channel Evan at the most annoying times.

"I've got work to do…" mumbled John.

"I'll see you later then," said Cam with a small wave of his hand.

STARGATE: ATLANTIS

It was not often that public announcements were made on Atlantis, especially not announcements when one was faced with a stony faced or more accurately in this situation, the passive face of Major Evan Lorne. The man was infamous for his calmness and almost always permanent smile on his lips.

Evan was not too happy about how things were moving forward but there was not much he could do about it. Letting his gaze move over the soldiers and scientists attending this small announcement, Evan took a step forward. He was not enjoying this and he knew that both the Colonel and the Commander liked the situation even less, everyone were in the line of fire this time.

"I won't waste any ones time with pleasantries and I'm sure most of you would like to know what's going on. The IOA have sent a message where they're informing us that they'll send a representative who will have full control and power over his own actions, this representative will investigate in how Atlantis is run, whether the people here are fit to serve here and is it worth keeping up this project."

Total silence followed Evan's small speech. There was not a single person's face that did not betray what they were feeling, shock disbelief and many other feelings were staring back at Evan.

"As of yet we have no idea who this representative is and so we hope that people will be careful and understand what being discreet is of outmost importance. Best would it be if everyone stayed in and used their own sleeping quarters for the time we are being evaluated, I cannot stress enough the importance of being discreet, this time no one is safe, we cannot be sure that there won't be any bumps in the road. Thank you."

Evan did not wait for any kind of response; instead he made a complete turn and headed for his office. He needed to think, he had loads of work to do this assessment could not come at a worse time. Then again, he probably was one of the luckier ones, he was not at the moment in a homosexual relationship and at least did not need to sneak around with that but Evan knew that his close friendship with John was something that did not sit well with many people in the IOA.

It annoyed how simple minded people could be when it came to stuff that they did not know about or liked. Not many knew, because of the IOAs interference but most people with the ancient gene were gay. Because of some differences in their genes, it was nothing unusual for the ancients to be in homosexual relationships as two males or two females could have children. This showed in the ATA gene carriers in the way that most of them were either bi or gay, which meant that the majority of the people serving or working on Atlantis was not as straight as the army would want them to and so it had to be kept hidden.

Since Carson had done some experiments and noticed this small thing, they had slowly started to recruit people that were leaning more towards bisexuality or homosexuality. This was something most knew about that worked on Atlantis but it was nothing that was spoken about aloud. It was the same way with the sleeping arrangements, at first it had only been one or two people moving around in the middle of the night trying to get from one room to another, but now almost everyone in a steady relationship with someone else on the base were sharing a room. Not only was it nice for the couples but it also meant there were more empty rooms for when some panic evacuation was done.

Evan hoped with all his heart that this evaluation would pass fast and that no problems would arise but then again, that always seemed to be too much to ask for in the Pegasus Galaxy. Right now, he could not do anything else but prepare for every possible outcome.

With an angry huff Evan sank down in his office chair, he felt drained and tired but he was damned if he would let it stop him from doing his duty. And right now that duty was to make sure nothing happened to the people that lived and served on Atlantis, including Sheppard and Mitchell, even if they would never admit to it.

It was not easy being Sheppard's second in command, with all the kidnappings, shootings, enemies out to kill them, wraiths, if nothing else then Evan could happily admit, that he certainly did not have a boring life. If nothing else, he had done and seen some amazing stuff in his short life. Of course, he had also already fitted in some more gruesome stuff he would rather forget and never be reminded of.

"Jesus Ev, don't think about that, it has never done and never will do you any good," muttered Evan to himself.

He had learned a long, long time ago that thinking of the past did nothing good; in fact it did rather a lot bad. And as Evan was one of those people that never sought out pain or discomfort, he was rather content in pushing away all bad memories from his younger days.

Shifting his attention, Evan felt like crying, the paper stack had gotten bigger since he had laid his eyes on it earlier that morning and he knew his eyes were not fooling him. Usually he did not have a problem with paperwork but right at that moment Evan wanted nothing more than to climb under a rock and sleep for a hundred years at least that was how he felt.

With a loud sigh, which was probably unnecessarily dramatic, Evan started his fight against the paperwork. As his mother used to say, 'there is no time like the present'.

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