Title: Art

Author: darkdranzer

Summary: Short glimpses of the artistic side of Major Evan Lorne.

Basically short excerpts of plot bunnies that won't leave me alone but I probably ever write. If anyone wants to expand on these bunnies, you're welcome to but leave me a review or something cause I wana read. (not that I know if anyone will)

So, on with the drabble-ish thing
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1. Illusions

Plot: Lorne's team is captured on a planet where the people revere art and anyone without skill is considered worthless and trained to become Protectors, who protect the people. Because they see the team as soldiers and captures them, suspicious that they are invaders or something. Lorne convinces them to let him paint something and if they think it is worthy enough, to release them. He's given three days, and Lorne paints a room to look like the sky outside (he asked for a room because he knows he needs to really, really impress them). At first it seems like a normal room, painted to look like the sky, very nice, but hardly impressive (to them) but then it reaches that exact time (Lorne matched the time he painted to when he finished), and the light shining through the windows is cast in such a way that it seems as if the room had disappeared, leaving them outside under the sky. The people are amazed, and then the moment passes and it's a normal room again. Lorne explains that he painted a specific time, and in such a way, that when it reaches that time it will create an illusion like that. Obviously that takes a lot of skill and they are in awe and let his team go. Just then, Sheppard and a recue group burst in but they are allowed to leave. Back on Atlantis, Lorne explains what happened, and Sheppard doesn't really get it but it doesn't matter as long as they're home and safe and after they check they're not clones or something. After that Lorne flashbacks on his past and how he was a genius artist but he left that to fly. He did many paintings commissions for rooms like that in high school, and his paintings he did when he was younger are worth a lot because no one is able to paint that kind of illusion to the degree he does.

*So. Lol. I have very detailed plot bunnies.*

Excerpt:

They walked into the room, suspicious but curious. The room was painted brilliantly, awash with colors of shades blue and white- a gorgeous clear sky.

"Very nice" Chan'd remarked, "but hardly impressive. In our culture anyone of worth can do something like this."

Lorne gave a small smile. "Wait a moment…and watch."

Suddenly, as if by magic, the light and shadows shifted and then, it was as if the room had ceased to exist and the group had been teleported outside. The clear blue summer sky of their world stretched out all above them. The villagers whirled around at the door, gaping to see if still there, the only evidence that yes, they were still in the room.

"Close- close the door." Chan'd croaked, and they watched mesmerized and it too blended seamlessly into the walls to become part of the sky,

And then it was over, the light shifting away, and the room became a room again, the illusion fading.

"How…?" they stared at Lorne in amazement, knowing body and soul that it was no magic and truly art.

Lorne replied mildly, "I painted a time, and in such a way that when it reaches that time, the light will make the room seem to have merged with the sky outside the windows.

so. um. yea. i'm actually very hesitant about posting this bunny, especially since i feel that there's something off with it...but eh. i wont ever do anythign else to it so might as well.

so yea...Reviews are nice. Even nicer is someone writing these. heh ^_~