FIC: N is for National (SGA Heroes, Alphabet series)
I’m not quite sure when it happened or how it happened. All I know for certain is that it happened.
The one unique thing about our circumstances is how we were so different from the norms of our homeworld. There, we were many nations. The bulk of the Expedition was made up of American and Canadian nationals. But there were others - for example, Martya was Russian. Carson was Scottish. I was Czech.
And together, we entered this beautiful city. Together, we began to work and make a life amidst dangers we never could ever have dreamed existed.
And by the time we were contacted by Earth once more, the change had happened. When we went back temporarily, it struck like a slap in the face.
Some of us still felt like we belonged there. And there, they remained.
But for most of us?
No more American. No more Canadian. No more Czech, Russian, Scottish, whatever. No more were any of us Earth nationals.
In our hearts, we had all become one thing and one thing only.
We are Atlanteans.
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