Title: Declassified
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: "Aftermath"
Word Count: around 200
Excerpt: I will always remember his eyes.
Characters: Everett Young
Author's Notes: Written for the challenge "Read all about it" at the LJ Comm stargateland. Personally I don't think any of them ever made it home, so this is a "what if" scenario.
Disclaimer: I don't own SGU. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Young... Young I'd know what to do with. ;)
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Declassified
Its out of the bag, the Stargate Program has been declassified.
The President thought she had a hard job breaking the news to the public. It doesn't compare to what I – and many others in my position – have to do now. I've given notice to many next of kin whose loved ones died in the service of their country. As someone in a leadership position I have learned long ago how to handle those visits: one must be sympathetic yet remote, kind but matter-of-fact.
Some of us made it home, remembering those we lost along the way. And even though they were all heartbreaking deaths, one in particular will haunt me forever.
I will always remember his eyes, so full of gentleness even as the life slowly left them. I could have looked away, but I owed him this much: the last person he ever saw was someone he trusted with his life – and with his death.
Part of me died with him that day. And that's why I'm here now: to tell the truth, to ask for forgiveness, to bring home that last message.
"Hello, Mrs Riley, Mr. Riley –"
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