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This Chapter: Jeanie Miller
Jeanie Miller liked to think that she understood her brother better than most.
She remembered growing up with Rodney. She remembered reading his old physics books and him teaching her the basics of String Theory.
She remembered the exact moment that they started to fight with one another. It was the day that she proof read on of his proofs and decided to tell him that he was wrong. Rodney McKay was never wrong about anything, or at least that's what he thought.
From that moment on, they were constantly competing with one another.
When Jeanie had married Kaleb, an American English major, Rodney had grown even more distant, but when she'd dropped out of the world of academia to raise her child… well Rodney had exploded in a famous display of McKay temper.
They hadn't spoke in years, Jeanie assumed that he simply refused to see her, but she didn't understand the full extent of their physical and emotional separation until the day he showed up at her house out of the blue.
Except the Rodney McKay, who showed up with flowers at her door and offered to eat tofu Chicken with them was vastly different from how she remembered.
Sure, he was still insanely pushy, and didn't understand why she wanted a family… but there was a vulnerability in his eyes that hadn't been there before.
Maybe that was why she'd gone with him… she wasn't sure. Maybe she wanted to find out what had changed him…
She knew the moment that she met John Sheppard what had changed her brother.
Sheppard brought out a side of her brother that she had never seen before.
He had a strength about him that stopped Jeanie in her tracks, she loved her husband, but John Sheppard had something about that drew her attention.
It was hard to imagine that this smiling, laughing, disheveled man could be the dangerous military commander of Atlantis.
He didn't seem to notice the effect that he had on those around him. That Marine's stood straighter whenever he was mentioned in conversations, proud that he was their commander. That scientists laughed at his antics, but even some of the most notoriously prickly members of the expedition wouldn't say an ill word about their commander… and those who did weren't treated very kindly.
John Sheppard, Jeanie was fairly sure, was the glue that held Atlantis together. Jeanie thought one night while she lay awake in the guest room on base that if John were to leave… the whole thing would fall apart.
Jeanie was sure that whatever it was about John Sheppard that made him who he was, there wasn't another person in the world like him… and that she was lucky to have met him.
