McKeller Flash Fiction
Disclaimer: Unfortunately, MGM owns Stargate Atlantis; I have no affiliation with them and therefore am simply borrowing their characters. I promise I'll put them all back when I'm good and ready!
Summary: This is in response to the Flash Fiction challenge proposed by KoineKid and DaniWilder. It will be a series of small (less than 300 word) flashes into their lives.
Flash: Fear
"Base Alert! Code Red! Base Alert! Code Red! Colonel Sheppard to the control room, immediately!"
The base alarm was what woke Jennifer Keller up. She rolled over, wondering if she was going to get called down and soon enough she heard her summons.
"Dr. Keller to the infirmary! Dr. Keller to the Infirmary, stat!" The call came through the PA around 0130, just an hour after she had left after her shift and had fallen asleep.
With a groan, she grabbed her headset and hooking it around her ear, tapped it, already running to the nearest transporter. It was a good thing that she had slept fully clothed; she didn't have the time to get dressed now.
"This is Keller, go ahead..."
"It's Dr. McKay. Security found him bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. His heart rate is erratic and his blood pressure is dropping."
"Prep the Operating Room." As she hit the location of the infirmary on the transporter, she blinked back the tears that threatened to overwhelm her. She couldn't explain her feelings for Rodney. Ever since she had met him, she couldn't explain the attraction that she had felt for him. But she knew that they could never be. He was the self-proclaimed smartest man in two galaxies and she was just a young medical doctor from Wisconsin. Still, she felt scared that she would lose him. Who was she kidding? She never even had him to begin with. Yet, she was allowed to worry for him.
She stepped out of the transporter, wiping the last of her tears from her eyes and sidestepped to avoid the marine detail that had been sent to guard her infirmary. There would be time to cry later. Right now she had to make sure that he survived his injuries.
Thanks to everyone for reading and reviewing! My goal is to have 3 flashes a week!