Timeline: BtVS: Post-Chosen & SGA: post-03x12: Echoes.
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Author's Note: Written for Day 13 of the 2021 August Fic-A-Day.
A/N 2: Filler piece since I had to work late unexpectedly.
Time passed and Christmas came and went by in between training, missions, disasters of various levels of deadliness, and life went on. When Sheppard became more cordial and semi-friendly so did the military personnel. Weir was cool and overly professional towards Buffy, but if that was all the other woman was going to dish out then she could easily deal with it.
Dr. Rodney McKay had been cleared for Gate travel and had proceeded to give a pretty impressive rant when she had insisted on going along for his first mission back on the team. Sheppard had smirked, Ronon had rolled his eyes, and Teyla had been patient. Buffy was pretty certain the Athosian deserved an award for remaining so calm when dealing with those three men on a regular basis. It had to be worse than kindergarteners at times.
Then again, she knew for a fact that Teyla did hit her team leader a little harder at times than she strictly had to when they were sparring, and so did Ronon. Not professional, but then she must know that he wouldn't hit her back and that he more than likely deserved it for whatever he'd done to get on her bad side.
Buffy and Teyla, along with Ronon occasionally, met up in the gym to do Tai Chi most mornings. Lorne would usually be there a couple of times a week, and if he could he would drag along Coughlin, one of the lieutenants on his team. He also got one of the other Marine Lieutenants, Laura Cadman, to attended. It was peaceful and helped clear her mind for whatever the Pegasus Galaxy was going to throw at her that day.
After she would leave for one of the new gyms that had been opened on her request. One small gym was not enough in a city of several hundred people. As her evaluation had progressed she had picked a number of people to help with the training of everyone else. Those were people with extensive training before they even set foot in Atlantis, while Buffy herself taught smaller classes on different levels. She mainly did the advanced ones, as that was her specialty, but she regularly took over each of the classes to make sure everything went well.
In an attempt to keep people active without making it too obvious and violent, she had talked to people and set up a basketball court, an area for European football, dodgeball, and other ball games that didn't need much to set up. It had quickly been expanded to a second area as well. People needed both the activity and a break from working.
A group of women had found an unused room and practiced yoga and similar things in there, but Buffy chose not to get involved with it. All she did was stick her head in sometimes to see how they were doing. It was exercise so she approved and just let them keep on keeping on.
A request sent to General O'Neill had gotten her the equipment she needed to get started. Along with several other special ones, which he kindly approved. He still refused to send one of her swords to her by way of the Daedalus though. Which meant she would have to speak to the Pegasus natives about how to acquire one in her current galaxy. Maybe some knives as well...
Colonel Sheppard's new schedule kept her busy, and helping to save whichever team ran afoul of angry natives had its appeal as well. And she might've gotten in on the running bet on which teams needed rescue the most, who got married/bonded/the native equivalent most often, and a few of the other more entertaining ones.
In short, she was getting comfortable in Atlantis and it was beginning to feel like home. She wasn't quite there yet, but it was looking good.