Chapter One

It wasn't like Evan hadn't been expecting the Daedalus. It wasn't that he wasn't expecting the thirty new Marines that came with it. No, what Evan hadn't been expecting was to be transported back in time by the most startlingly blue eyes he'd ever seen. They were the colour of the ocean at Baja. Bluer than Evan's own remarkably sapphire orbs.

Instantly, Evan was back on the California coast, lying at the side of a newly dying bonfire, holding the one person he'd never been able to completely let go of. At least not in his heart.

That was the last night he'd spent in the small college town of Sunnydale on his road trip from San Francisco to LA. He'd never intended to pick up this college student, he was a 32year old Air Force Lieutenant! But those blue eyes had sought him out beyond the crowd to his place sitting alone by the dunes and before he knew what he was doing, he was making love and talking through the night with a 24year old psychology grad student.

Evan often thought back to that night and wondered what had become of his lover. Well now he knew, because Graham Miller; Sgt; USMC had just stepped onto Atlantis.

A gentle elbow nudged into his side as Laura Cadman whispered into his ear.
"Major? Major? Evan, dammit! Are you ok? You look a little pale. Another migraine?"

Evan nodded, his eyes not once moving from the man now less than twenty feet away. To give him his due, if Graham remembered him at all, he didn't let it show. He had been a frat boy after all. Evan was probably only one in a long line of one night stands.

Not looking at his teammate, he whispered back,
"Do you think you could take over the introduction speech, Laura? I need to go see Dr Keller. Get some meds."

Cadman patted his arm softly.
"Of course. You go on, get that taken care of and get your head down for a few hours. I'll call if anything urgent comes up."

At that moment, Evan was glad Laura thought he had a migraine. It at least explained the strangled quality of his voice.
"Thanks, Laura. I'll keep my comm open."

With that he turned and fled the room as quickly as possible.

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