And foolish I would climb once more a tree too weak to stand

Saera finished her lunch in solitude, eyes on the door, waiting for David to appear. He'd said he'd be here...he'd promised...and she didn't think much of it, he'd probably just gotten lost in some project, or possibly distracted by his lovers, but he hadn't answered his comm ( Read more... )

Saera closed the curtains on the bright sun outside, curling up in her bed - and it was a good thing for her sleep schedule the city had such heavy curtains; she could completely shut out the rest of the world ( Read more... )

It was a slow night - even the paperwork seemed to have disappeared - and she'd gotten tired of pacing her boring, practically undecorated room. Nowhere close to tired thanks to the crazy schedule she was on, she headed out, seeking Laura and Katie's room. Might as well see if they were there and wanted company ( Read more... )

as soft as Eider down;
Waiting for her master to kiss away her tears,
Waiting through the years.The mess hall was almost empty - a few scientists talked excitedly at one table, two teams that had recently gotten back from offworld ate quietly at a long table, an engineer and a gate technician were leaving hand-in-hand as Saera filled her tray ( Read more... )

The middle of the night was a strange time to be working in the chem lab when there weren't any urgent projects going on, but she missed lab work, and it was the only time it fit into her rather crazy schedule. She'd been asleep all day after a quick midnight trip to a world where it was almost noon at the time...Gate-lag did tend to put her on a ( Read more... )

Saera wandered into the mess hall, still not used to having the luxury of taking her time with meals; being on an offworld team really was a whole different world from being head of a department.

She spotted Rae at a table by herself, and headed over. "Mind if I sit here?"

It had been a while since Saera'd seen her brother, and she had the day off - her schedule had gotten much easier, with Kavanagh back at work, although she did have offworld missions to fit into it now; those didn't happen every day, though, so her free time came in bigger chunks than it used to. She spent close to an hour wandering from one end ( Read more... )

Let's drink to the men who got caught by the chill of the patriotic fever and the cold steel that kills.She'd gone to the infirmary after she'd sent the results of the tests on the arrow to Dr. Beckett, for her own post-mission physical - although honestly, she couldn't really remember it any more clearly than she remembered getting herself back to ( Read more... )

To the blue Canadian sky, I'll say a prayer for the world out there.Vacation...it seemed like she'd only just arrived in Atlantis, some days; others, it felt like Earth was another life ago. So the vacation seemed both too soon, too sudden, and long overdue. A beach on the mainland, though...it was her first time out of the city since she'd ( Read more... )

FROM: Dr. Saera Parrish ( Read more... )