Upon John Asmodeus Addams Sheppard's return to Atlantis after his Yuletide holiday he undergoes a standard medical check. Doctors, of course, can tell quite a lot from the results of their scans; and Carson Beckett is about to learn that the devil is in the details.

John Asmodeus Addams Sheppard is delighted to be going home for the holidays. There's the Winter Solstice, Modranicht, and Yule. And of course the Dark Revel, the honoring of the Nightmare Queen and the Yule Ball. He can't wait. Upon finding out that Mitchell and Vala have no where to go for the holidays, of course he invites them along. Sequel to "What's in a Name?"

John Sheppard doesn't speak to others about his family. Not because he was ashamed, or disowned, or orphaned horribly, or any of the nonsense the rumor mill seemed to churn out. But rather because he had learned the hard way that his family, the Addams, were… easily misunderstood.