Stargate: Atlantis fanfic
Feb. 22nd, 2007 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windemereI said I'd do Radek.
...
Well, not that kinda of do. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I would!
Disclaimer: ::checks again:: Nope.
AN: Radek is fun and it was good for the research, if nothing else.
Last Winter in Prague
Radek had been six years old when the Soviet's invaded his homeland. He doesn't remember much of it except that things were bad and his mother was frightened all the time.
He remembers the Revolution much better, but he was not there when it happened and so he knows about it mostly from his family and a little from the news that did filter through the rest of the world.
He caught a flight home as soon as he could. It was cold and snowing and he wasn't surprised at either when he got off the plane, but no one in the entire country could have cared less what the weather was doing.
After that he never really planned to leave again. He figured he'd stay and work and marry and not have children and he'd be content, if not happy. Work was not hard to come by, not when he was both an engineer and a physicist when the mood (or the work) suited. He was smart and well educated and his country was rebuilding.
It last for a decade. And then he realized that being at the top was not necessarily always a good thing, because it meant other people started to notice. He spent his last winter in Prague before he left the Czech Republic for good. At the dawn of the new millennium he was on a plane to the US for this first time in his life, with the promise of amazing work and colleagues smarter than he was.
The work was amazing. The colleagues were not. They closeted him away in Area 51 for 2 years before he was even allowed to see the sunshine. When they extended the offer of a one-year contract placement on an expedition that was going somewhere he didn't have security clearance to be told, they didn't even have to finish the sales pitch before he was signing up. Because no matter how interesting the work was, he would be the first to admit he was uninterested in everything that came with it.
He had never expected Atlantis. Never dreamed that such a thing was possible. But it was both amazing work and colleagues that he understood, even if he didn't always like them.
His verdict was still out on Dr. McKay, though.
...
Well, not that kinda of do. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course I would!
Disclaimer: ::checks again:: Nope.
AN: Radek is fun and it was good for the research, if nothing else.
Last Winter in Prague
Radek had been six years old when the Soviet's invaded his homeland. He doesn't remember much of it except that things were bad and his mother was frightened all the time.
He remembers the Revolution much better, but he was not there when it happened and so he knows about it mostly from his family and a little from the news that did filter through the rest of the world.
He caught a flight home as soon as he could. It was cold and snowing and he wasn't surprised at either when he got off the plane, but no one in the entire country could have cared less what the weather was doing.
After that he never really planned to leave again. He figured he'd stay and work and marry and not have children and he'd be content, if not happy. Work was not hard to come by, not when he was both an engineer and a physicist when the mood (or the work) suited. He was smart and well educated and his country was rebuilding.
It last for a decade. And then he realized that being at the top was not necessarily always a good thing, because it meant other people started to notice. He spent his last winter in Prague before he left the Czech Republic for good. At the dawn of the new millennium he was on a plane to the US for this first time in his life, with the promise of amazing work and colleagues smarter than he was.
The work was amazing. The colleagues were not. They closeted him away in Area 51 for 2 years before he was even allowed to see the sunshine. When they extended the offer of a one-year contract placement on an expedition that was going somewhere he didn't have security clearance to be told, they didn't even have to finish the sales pitch before he was signing up. Because no matter how interesting the work was, he would be the first to admit he was uninterested in everything that came with it.
He had never expected Atlantis. Never dreamed that such a thing was possible. But it was both amazing work and colleagues that he understood, even if he didn't always like them.
His verdict was still out on Dr. McKay, though.
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Date: 2007-02-22 09:02 pm (UTC)What are they? I'll correct.
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Date: 2007-02-22 11:14 pm (UTC)