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Challenge for overall story has been met. Thanks to scr1tno for helping me write this and thanks to all of you for reading. Dwparsnip, thanks for your beta, too.

Remember the warning before reading! And I will tell you scr1 made me do it. I was ending at chapter 8.


"How was it?" Anne asked her husband as he dropped wearily onto the sofa.

"Same as always," Evan said as his wife sat down next to him.

"Did he realize how long it's been?" She asked.

"He said, I can't believe Richards and Dusty have been married twenty years, so he knows the time passed. Also said nice they named their son Rodney and daughter Jennifer." Evan got choked up a bit.

"He still thinks we're Richards and Dusty?" Anne said wrapping her arm around him.

"I don't know what he thinks. He recognizes me as Lorne, but thinks our kids belong to them. He always asks how the team is and still says he's waiting for Jennifer," Lorne said wearily.

"I'm sure he appreciates your visits. Madison is going to grad school at the University of Denver, so she'll be able to see him more often, too," Anne said.

"I think he's getting weaker," Evan said leaning into his wife's embrace. "I don't know how much longer he can keep living this fantasy."

"So Rodney still believes Todd happened to cull Jennifer and save her?" Anne asked. "It's still amazing the depth of his imaginary world even after twenty years."

"Well, he's still a genius. His fantasy world would have to be pretty complicated," Evan said with a little smile.

"Now that John is in charge of the SGC, he'll be able to visit him too." Anne shifted to rub her husband's stiff shoulders.

"General Sheppard has never gotten over Rodney losing his mind. It kills him a little more every time he sees him. It's why he doesn't come often, I don't expect that to change."

"General Sheppard? That still sounds weird after all these years. I can't believe he's not retired. Running operations in another galaxy for almost fifteen years and now taking over the whole thing. The man is invincible," Anne said.

"He vowed to exterminate the Wraith to avenge Jennifer and Rodney and all the others," Evan said.

"At least they finally declassified the program after he succeeded, so Jeannie could find out everything that really happened," Anne said. "Were you there when they told her?"

"Yeah, it was pretty hard on her when she found out Woolsey, Ronon, Radek and Carson were all killed. She and John were always close, so having him tell her helped," Lorne said. "And seeing Teyla."

"Too bad Teyla wouldn't move to Earth. John could use her friendship," Anne said. "I'm sure if Teyla and you weren't there, John would have lost it like Rodney."

"I don't know. He's lost so many people, I think he just shut it off," General Lorne confided in his wife, as he got up at a sound outside the front door.

"Dad, you're home!" Jennifer yelled running to hug him. She had light brown hair worn long in a ponytail and bright blue eyes like her Dad. The teenager was as tough as him, too. Her application to the Air Force Academy had just been accepted. She was following in his footsteps.

His son, Rodney came in next, three years younger than his eighteen-year-old sister and just as handsome as his Dad. He was a genius like his namesake and said he was going to be a great scientist.

Evan told them stories about Uncle Rodney and Jennifer, the two geniuses they were named after since they were little. His children grew up knowing their names were special and wanted to make their namesakes proud.


In a room in Saint Francis Hospital, the great Doctor Rodney McKay clutched a ratty, grey military blanket in his hands. He stared out the window at the stars waiting for his beloved Jennifer to come home from another mission. He was afraid if he fell asleep, he would miss her. And six months later, on a snowy night surrounded by General John Sheppard, Jeannie and Madison Miller, Evan and Anne Lorne, with Jennifer Lorne, in cadet uniform, and Rodney Lorne, Doctor McKay's beloved Jennifer did come to welcome her love home. When they wrapped their arms around each other and their lips met, Rodney left his body and joined with his true love where they could watch over their friends and family always.

The first sight before them was one of Jeannie Miller holding John Sheppard in her arms while he cried as Atlantis's greatest lost treasure finally went home.


A/N: The answer to the question at end of Chapter 3 is Yes, I would kill Jennifer. This is my Last Man Standing, so to speak or men (Lorne & Sheppard).

I cried for a long time, so this is my only death fic. I promise to go back to McKeller-y fluff!