Title: The Mystery Clause
Author: Azura Nyx
Characters: Jennifer Keller/Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Carson Beckett
Type: Romance/Holiday/Drama
Length: 2,000 words, 4 Chapters
Warnings/Author's Notes: Spoilers from "The Kindred Part II." I hope everyone who reads this will enjoy it, and comments are great! Merry Christmas!
Rating: PG (K+) for a small amount of swearing.
Summary: It's Christmas time in Atlantis, and everyone on the base has their holiday stockings set out for the 'Secret Santa' gift exchange. However, when Dr. Keller receives a particularly elaborate present she begins to relentlessly speculate who this 'gift' is from.
The Mystery Clause
Chapter 1
Atlantis was absolutely beautiful around Christmas time. Granted, snow was nowhere to be found and the waters surrounding the city were not frozen, but the holiday decorations made it feel like Christmas to Dr. Jennifer Keller all the same.
Everybody on Atlantis celebrated Christmas in their own way. Some had very different customs, but the one thing everybody did was set out a stocking for the 'Secret Santa' gift exchange.
One day, Jennifer curiously looked into her Christmas stocking which was hanging up on the wall just outside her quarters. She smiled and eagerly slid her hand into the stocking, revealing a small, black jewelry case. With a pensive expression upon her face, Dr. Keller opened the box. It was a gorgeous diamond bracelet. Real diamonds too! Not the fake, cheap kind.
"Oh my God," Keller softly exclaimed. Who in Atlantis would be crazy enough to give away real diamonds- a stone only found in the Milky Way galaxy?
Jennifer closed the box and entered her dorm. It was already quite late in the evening and she hoped there wouldn't be any medical emergencies barring her from necessary rest.
Before turning off the lamp and snuggling under the covers, Dr. Keller picked up the jewelry box from her night stand and peeked at the bracelet once more. She couldn't believe how luminous it was; small and delicate. So beautiful. Jennifer suspected that whoever bought the gift for her paid a lot of money for it. The problem being: who in the world has that sort of money on Atlantis? She honestly felt that whoever gave her this present went too far out of their way.
As Keller sat the case back on the night stand and comfortably situated herself under the blankets, she pondered over the mysterious gift until she fell asleep at last.