''Interstellar Destiny''

Run Of The Mill?

That "simple and easy" mission that Evan had gone on, was the beginning of three months that had everyone's head spinning with questions. SGA teams kept running into Genii squads every time they would go off-world, especially on worlds where the locals weren't particularly tech advanced.

These encounters keep bugging Sheppard and Elizabeth, and everyone else as well, both still trying to figure out why those specific planets and those specific people. Because, make no mistake, the Genii are only going after people that are technologically inferior to them.

Evan lays in his bed, Lara laying on his chest, her heavy breathing telling him she is in a deep sleep. He looks down at her and smiles, seeing his wife blissfully unaware that his mind is still racing from the mission he went on earlier that day, keeping him wide awake.

It had been a run of the mill type of mission, taking a few supplies to an ally and making sure they knew of the Genii threat, as well as checking to see if they needed help with anything else. Normal, right?

Well, it had been normal, until Evan was talking to the village leader and his second in command made an off-hand comment that was quickly shut down by the leader. But that comment is still bothering Evan, all these hours later.

Evan had asked if there was anything else they needed before the next scheduled delivery of medical supplies, when the village leader's second in command mumbles something about their people to stop being taken. The village leader quickly shut him up and told Evan they were all set, giving him the fakest smile Evan has ever seen.

He decided not to push, after all they are allies, but once he got the second in command alone, Evan asked him what he had said, wanting to make sure he had heard right. The man simply answered that it was nothing, before leaving a little too fast for Evan's liking.

On the way back to the gate, Evan considered telling Sheppard and Elizabeth what he had heard, but ended up deciding against it, since he wasn't all that sure he had heard the man right. There was no point in raising suspicions against an ally when he wasn't even sure of what he had heard.

But now, the more Evan thinks about it, and he has spent the rest of the day thinking about it, the more he is sure that he heard the man right. He needs to tell Sheppard and Elizabeth what he heard, even if it's just for his own peace of mind.

He pulls Lara closer to him and closes his eyes, ready to let sleep take over, even if the pit at the bottom of his stomach tells him that things will get a whole lot worse before they get any better.