Into The Fire – Part 3 – Chapter 1


Three more missions with the SGC and then she'd be off to Atlantis.

Orr anxiously straitened her tunic and fiddled with her radio antenna as she waited for the gate to activate. There, gathered at the bottom of the ramp, was the team she had worked with for the past year. They had gotten to know each other, but they weren't as close as some of the other teams that had been together since the creation of the SGC.

"Lieutenant Orr?"

The quiet voice startled her, and she turned to see shy Lieutenant Williams.

"Lieutenant Williams, what's up," she asked calmly, letting herself switch into officer mode. "The 'gate working fine?"

Williams nodded, "yeah. I just wanted to congratulate you on getting on the Atlantis op."

Despite herself, Rhoannan smiled and then, disregarding all military protocols, she gave him a quick hug.

Williams, and everyone else who saw it, looked shocked at the sudden display, then he quickly gave way to blushing bright red. "What was that for," he asked quietly, eyes shifting around the room desperately to see whom else saw the hug.

No one met his eyes; they were all trying too hard not to laugh.

"That," Rhoannan grinned at the befuddled and adorably good looking Lieutenant, "was my congratulations to you; I heard that you got on the expedition too. Good job!"

Williams smiled back and nodded in thanks, blushing like a beat the whole while, then scurried away back to the control room where he'd be away from the prying eyes of the SG team assembled in the gate room. Rhoannan smiled as she watched him leave, but a cough from her CO made her do a double check of emotions and she instantly fell into parade rest; her face blank and prepared for anything that might jump out at them on the other side of the wormhole.

The gate opened with a whoosh and the team moved out into the unknown.