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1. Thank you to whoever nominated Wild Dark Times, Squidge In, and Paid In Forward Motion for the stargate awards!

2.

Five people Cam wants to recruit to SG-1

1. John Sheppard: He could write a five page list of reasons why (though he only does it if he’s very drunk and Sam’s not fast enough to stop him. She always burns the evidence, which is why she’s his best friend. Partly why). It’d include things like his improbably good luck with other cultures (when they don't want to kill him), his ATA gene, his command experience, how he blows off the rules without seeming to think about it. And things like how Cam still feels like a newcomer after four years with SG1, and John’s the one person who might still remember how that feels. Like how he still misses being around pilots who aren’t doubling up as scientists.

Like how he wishes he could keep John safe, and how John’s really hot when he goes into angry-defensive mode.

It would also include, right at the end, the one reason he wants to do it but never will, which is that he can want John safe and close as much as he likes, but he’ll never want John miserable.

2. Carolyn Lam: Partly because he now has far more experience of performing field medicine than he ever wanted. Partly because there are way too many planets where even he can tell that things would be much better if they had access to some decent medical care. Partly because nothing seems to faze her.

Partly because the one time he saw her cool-calm-and-collected crack was after the prior cured them on P8X-412. The two of them were sitting on the steps of the pyramid, looking out at the village and he looked over at her. She was smiling slightly, and when he said, “What?” she looked at him, smiled more, and said, “I’m on another planet,” with exactly the same amount of amazement that he always felt when he thought about it.

It’s the only time he’s ever heard someone he’s off-world with sound like that.

3. Dr Cox: Jackson had an assistant for a grand total of five weeks before she got fed up with ”being treated like a freshman undergrad student who’s about the flunk out of Archaeology 101,” and went back to academia. Cam tried to explain that Jackson was having a bad month (it was right in the middle of when things with the Ori started going really badly) but she left anyway.

Cam still wishes he could entice her back and onto SG1, even with the screaming arguments in three different languages, and the one time she threw a book at Jackson and hit Landry by mistake. Even with knowing that her aim is so bad it’d take months to train her up to carry a weapon. He doesn’t care about any of that, because she was, whatever Jackson said, good at her job, at least according to everyone else Cam spoke to, and having her around meant everything that needed doing for actual missions got done twice as fast.

Because as useful as Jackson’s more esoteric stuff can turn out to be, sometimes Cam would kill for someone to sweat the small stuff while Jackson's eying the distant horizon of knowledge.

4. Major Lorne: He’ll never do it, because John's kind of attached to the guy, and Lorne's way too protective of John for Cam to survive asking. He sometimes thinks about it anyway, especially when Sam’s in Atlantis and he’s lost the one person who understands the concept of chain of command. Not that he wants to order his team about (though he does sometimes fantasise about just *once* not having to debate for ten minutes before something happens), but he’ll die happily if he never has to have another conversation about how they do actually have to answer to Landry at some point. He’s never realised before how much Sam must have kept the other three in line.

Plus, Lorne’s a good officer and a good person, and possibly even a friend, and he used to belong to the SGC. It’s not fair that John gets to steal almost all the good people.

5. Teyla Emmagan: Even more so after he actually meets her, because she’s so cool she makes Carolyn look hysterical and prone to panic. He’s not entirely sure she likes him – well, no more than the fact of John liking him makes him acceptable to her – and he’d rather try to recruit Lorne than try to recruit Teyla, but if he could clone her and take one back to Earth, he’d seriously consider it.

Not least because, unlike certain archaeologists, Cam's pretty sure her diplomatic interventions don’t end in bloodshed and gunfire ninety per cent of the time.



3.

Five people from the SGC who John would sometimes like to steal for Atlantis

1. Cam Mitchell:

And not because it’d be so much easier to be involved with the guy if they were in the same galaxy. Well, not just because of that. It’s more that, even with Lorne and Teldy to up the number of officers a bit, John misses having someone else on his level who understands the concept of sacrifice for the greater good and that sometimes the best solution really is to shoot it. It’s why he liked having Carter around, even if it was weird to have a CO who was in the same galaxy again.

Also, Cam gets this flushed, over-excited look every time he gets to fly something dangerous, and then he’ll do anything in bed, trying to come down from it. John doesn’t appreciate only getting to hear about his adventures – in flying, not in bed – from too far away to take advantage of it.

2. Carolyn Lam:

He likes Keller, he really does, and she’s very good at her job, as well as being a lot less likely to start wringing her hands in anxiety than Carson was. He doesn’t even resent her for taking so much of Rodney’s time, so that John feels even further away from Cam than he usually does.

It’s just that being treated by Keller always reminds him of the joke about policemen starting to look like children, and he’s not ready to start feeling that old. Also, that he feels badly every time he has to over-ride her opinion, because he knows she won’t, but she *looks like* she’ll start crying as soon as he’s gone.

Lam, the few times he needed treating on Earth, used to look at him like she’d have no problem putting him in restraints if he tried to cross her. It made John feel better.

3. Sergeant Cox:

Sergeant Cox doesn’t even work for the SGC any more, but when she did, she was in charge of the recall of Atlantis personnel when they got let back into the city after rescuing O’Neill and Woolsey. She had an office roughly the sixe of a small broom closet, a desk with more files than it seemed possible for that space to hold, and one phone, and she’d gotten back eighty per cent of their people in a week, then sent John the neatest, most succinct summary of all the details that he’d ever seen.

He’s never going to say this to Lorne, who does an amazing job of keeping the place organised, even if he does refuse every one of John’s joking orders that he take over John’s half of the paperwork as well, but he’d give a lot to have Cox in the city as well. He’s pretty sure she could organise the Wraith right out of existence.

4. Dr Kavanagh:

Sure, he’s never going to be John’s favourite person – actually, he’s never going to be anyone’s favourite person – and he’s made it perfectly clear that the last place in the universe he wants to be is Atlantis, but. He was the only person who managed to put his personal feelings aside and think about the safety of the *city* when John’s team were trapped in the wormhole, that first year. Sure, John’s grateful Elizabeth went ahead with saving them anyway, but he’d been kind of terrified to read the reports and discover that the safety of the city came down to Elizabeth preferring to listen to Simpson than Kavanagh.

Plus, he was one of John’s people, for a while, and John’s never been very good at letting go.

5. Vala:

He’s not really sure why. The last thing Atlantis needs is someone else with no morals about stealing something they need – Rodney trying to steal a ZPM from a planet of children isn’t even close to the worst that’s happened – and he thinks Cam would probably kill him if he tried. He knows Ronon would, after Vala tried to jump him three different times (that John knows of) while SG1 were in Atlantis.

It’s just that John’s always had a serious level of admiration for tough women who’ve survived, and if he wants the best people in Atlantis, which he does, he wants people like Vala.

(Yes, I know Cam's doctor archaeologist and John's efficient sergeant have the same last name. Score one for power of suggestion and not re-reading carefully enough. Maybe they're sisters.)



4. Rainy afternoon porn (John/Cam) written for comment_fic's prompt of John/Cam, rainy afternoon. In my head, it's a tiny scene from the flying school au that I'm totally writing as soon as I finish all my challenge fics (seriously - you can poke me if I start something else).

5. I want a number five. I don't know why, this post just seems unbalanced without it. Sadly, I don't have one, hence the rambling :o)