A/N: Response to challange by ElaineDex
Lieutenant Laughton, Lieutenant Michael Mason and other OC's are mine, Captain Ellie Harrison belongs to ElaineDex, all other characters that are not OC's belong to MGM. I make no money off this
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Captain Ellie Harrison was furious, she fumed at the official letter reassigning her to Atlantis
Captain Ellie Harrison was furious; she fumed at the official letter reassigning her to Atlantis.
"Is everything ok here Captain?" asked Colonel Carter as she stepped into the room.
"I can't believe they are reassigning me to Atlantis!," fumed Ellie "Ma'am,"
"You'll love it there, once you get there," said Carter calmly, trying to placate the irate Captain.
"Three weeks trapped in a metal box to go to what amounts to a jail," fumed Ellie.
"It's not that bad Ellie, I've been there before. Atlantis is beautiful, and besides now that there's ZPM power you can come back here if you wish on leave, you find it's not that bad Captain. So when are you leaving?" asked Carter
"Next week, it doesn't give me much time," pouted Ellie.
"I'll talk to General Landry, but I'm sure I can get you the week off," said Carter.
"Thanks ma'am," said Ellie
"No problem Captain, have a safe journey," said Carter and exited the room.
"Great.. I'm being reassigned to an all male team," mumbled Ellie as she finished reading the letter.
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One Month Later
"Sir! They can't be serious!" complained Lieutenant Paul Laughton as Lieutenant Michael Mason looked on unhappily.
"That's what the orders say," Major Lorne sighed unhappily. "She will be arriving on the
Daedaulus in a few hours," 'They shouldn't have assigned a female Captain to this team, especially one with such a chequered record' thought Lorne irritably.
"We can't do anything about this now Paul, I assume this is why they only sent the orders now," said Michael. He gave Lorne a look that implied 'I'll try to fix this' and then said "Lets go get something to eat Paul,"
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"Sir, I don't understand why they had to assign this woman to my team. They should have known that she won't be accepted by my men," said Lorne.
"I know how you feel Major, General Landry sent me a message to look out for her because she can be trouble," said Colonel Sheppard.
"Have you looked at her service record sir?" asked Lorne.
"Very colourful, Is what I can say about it," said Sheppard.
"It says she put a fellow officer in the infirmary with a broken nose and a black eye and that was only four months ago, she's been threatened with court marshal more then once sir," said Lorne.
"All I can do Major is talk to her when she arrives, I can't guarantee that she won't cause any fireworks. I know Lieutenant Laughton won't be pleased with his new team-mate," said Sheppard.
"He's more then just unpleased sir," said Lorne dryly.
"You will have to try and get along with her, I will see if I can change these orders but I don't think that will be possible as General Landry wasn't the one who ordered them," said Sheppard.
"Thank you sir," said Lorne.
"Dismissed," said Sheppard, Lorne saluted him and left the control room.
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"Captain Harrison reporting in sir," said Ellie rather unencouraged as she checked in with Colonel Sheppard.
"Report to the briefing room Captain, you'll get your first assignment there," said Sheppard.
After the new personnel had checked in Sheppard turned to Lorne and said "You might not have as much difficulty as you thought, she doesn't seem to have any spark in her,"
"As long as she follows orders, there shouldn't be any problems, sir," said Lorne.
Ellie looked around her at the city and thought to herself 'Not as impressive as I'd thought it would be I've seen some things just as impressive on the worlds I've visited.'
"Captain Harrison? I'm Dr. Weir, welcome to Atlantis" said Dr. Weir after the briefing room doors slid open. "Have a seat, I will be back shortly" said Weir as she regarded the un-impressed woman standing before her.
'We'll have our hands full with that one it looks like' thought Weir.
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"This is your new CO, Major Lorne" said Dr. Weir.
'My new CO just had to be a man and lower in rank, this just keeps getting better' thought Ellie despondently.
"This is Lieutenant Laughton and Lieutenant Mason" said Lorne as he introduced his team-mates.
"Pleasure to be here" lied Ellie, wishing she was back on the base.
"Your next mission will be with Captain Trier's team, this is a survey mission, the initial report stated the planet is uninhabited, so don't expect any natives," said Colonel Sheppard. "It is scheduled for next week, so you have some time to prepare for it."
'Those two Lieutenants look they are going to be causing me some trouble' thought Ellie as she looked at them barely concealing the contempt they were feeling for her.
"Dismissed" said Sheppard.
Getting up from her chair she waited until they had left the room before leaving, cornering them she said, "Do either of you have a problem with me?" asked Ellie.
"No ma'am" said Lieutenant Mason.
Ellie looked to Paul expectantly waiting for his reply, when he didn't answer promptly enough she cut in and said, "Report to the training room Lieutenant" when he didn't start moving she asked "Do I have to order you there?"
"No ma'am" said Lieutenant Laughton, he then walked off towards the training room.
"Dismissed Lieutenant" said Ellie. Michael saluted her and caught up with Paul.
"Its not a good idea to provoke her, she only just put another officer in the infirmary with a black eye and broken nose" said Michael.
"Thanks for warning more Michael" said Paul.
"I don't like it either Paul, but she's higher ranked then you. I'm going to find Major Lorne so he can see this for himself" said Michael.
"Ok, I wont let this woman get one over me" said Paul.
"Ok Lieutenant, lets see if we can't resolve this peacefully now" said Ellie as she stepped on to the mat, holding the sparring sticks.
"I warned him earlier what she could do Major" said Michael as he stood next to the ring.
"It wouldn't be good to provoke her, but I can order her though" said Lorne.
"I think he just needs to get this out of his system, hopefully it won't take more then this week." said Michael.
"I think it would be best if we kept them apart from each other, somebody is going to get hurt" said Lorne as the sticks slapped together.
Michael groaned with sympathy as Ellie whipped Paul's leg and knocked him on his back. Paul groaned and tried to get the air back in his lungs.
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"How is he doing Doc?" asked Lorne.
"He has a mild concussion and is slightly winded, but he should be fine in a day or two. We'll be keeping him in overnight" said Dr. Granger.
"Thanks Doc" said Lorne as he smiled at her, she blushed then turned away.
"I'll be in my office sorting through some paperwork if you need me Lieutenant" said Lorne.
"Sure sir" said Michael.
"She totally kicked your ass Paul" said Michael, Paul scowled at him and didn't answer.
"Now you'll know not to mess with her, she's scary" said Michael.
"Thanks for your support" Paul half-growled, as his lungs still struggled to draw breath properly.
"Well I'll catch you later" said Michael.
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Ellie smiled to herself after leaving the training room, after having talked to a rather tall and imposing man called Ronon, things have started looking up for her already.