A/N - I have no idea where this even came from. This story is about Atlantis's fourth off world team. (PR stands for Pegasus Reconnaissance)

Major Dorsey and Lieutenant Kegan are actually two characters who have been in Atlantis, I've just given them a more permanent place and also given them first names. The other two, Kassandra Blaine and Captain Jones, are two that I made up for the purposes of my PG2 timeline/reality.

It is really random and pointless, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

Hope you enjoy it!

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'Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.'

- Confucius

While waiting for McKay to finish fiddling with the gate, Atlantis's 4th off world team was sitting on the gate room stairs, not saying a word until Major Dorsey sighed, fed up, and stomped back up to the control room to find out exactly what the hold up was.

Kassandra Blaine, PR-4's anthropologist, sat about half way up the steps, next to the wall. Becoming increasingly bored she pulled a permanent marker out from one of her pockets. She fiddled with it for a moment before undoing the lid and writing one of Confucius's many quotes on the wall, right where anyone walking down the stairs could see, and read, it. Kassie recapped the pen as Lieutenant Kegan looked over.

"Blaine!" he hissed.

"Chill, Kegan," Kassie muttered back. Suddenly Dorsey came barrelling back down the stairs.

"Kegan, Jones, Blaine, we're up," he said sharply. Scrambling to get up, the trio all but tumbled down the stairs, Kassie's graffiti long forgotten.

No one really knows exactly who wrote it, except Kegan, but he's never said a word about it. Most, if not all, Atlantis expedition members have seen the quote that's written beside the main stairs in the gate room, but no one really minds it's being there.

Elizabeth knows it's there, having had it pointed out to her only days later, but just smiles and ignores it, appreciating the sentiment.

From then on, as each team passes on their way to the gate for yet another mission, each member will glance over, some even reaching out to touch the words scrawled on the wall, keeping the sentiment in their minds.

-fin-