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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
by Soledad

Disclaimer:
The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.

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PART 05

The Atlantis crowd took in the news about Sergeants Markham and Stackhouse’s changing family status with mixed reactions. Some of the Marines – those who had been on good terms with the Athosians and seen Anais train with Teyla – called them lucky bastards. Others found the ideal of sharing a wife… uncomfortable, if not downright disgusting.

Those were later taken to the side by an exceptionally pissed Master Sergeant Bates, who explained them in short yet not uncertain terms how it was not their business, and how they should keep out of it, unless they really wanted to scrub every single railing on Atlantis with their toothbrushes. That stopped the snide remarks with amazing speed. Everyone knew that Sergeant Bates did not make any idle threats.
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~The End~
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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
by Soledad

Disclaimer:
The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.

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PART 04

Five days later, taking an authorized break from patrol duty, they were sitting on the mainland, in Anais’ tent. It was a large and comfortable one, divided into separate sections by beautiful, woven carpets spanned over wooden frames. It had a warm, homely atmosphere that touched them at once.

That which counted as the equivalent of a foyer or anteroom had the usual thick, water-resistant floor of dark felt mats, over which colourful carpets were spread, with a long, low wooden trestle table in the middle, and flat pillows strewn around the table to sit on. Aside from the two if them and Anais herself, Halling was present, too, as the newly chosen leader of the tribe – the Emmagan – and an elderly women named Charin, representing the tribe Elders… the only one still alive from the original Elders.

This was the first time that Stackhouse took a closer look at Anais, and he decided that Jamie and he could have done a lot worse. She was not very tall, but sleek and deceivingly strong, like Teyla herself, yet with fair skin and a hairdo that reminded him of the traditional portraits of Joan of Ark (which seemed matching, somehow, as she, too, was a warrior), her eyes dark and serious.
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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
by Soledad

Disclaimer:
The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.

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Interlude

At the moment, this is just a placeholder. The Interlude will be added, hopefully soon.
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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
by Soledad

Disclaimer:
The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.

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PART 03

“He wants us to do what?” Sergeant Jamie Markham demanded in open-mouthed astonishment.

Stackhouse grinned. He had to admit that Jamie was damn cute like this. Well, he was cute, period. Lieutenant Ford was often called pretty, and with reason, although he would probably have rammed his biggest explosives up the ass of anyone who would dare to call him that in the face – well any fellow Marine, at least.

But Jamie… Jamie was different. With that sensitive, oval face, those beautiful hazel eyes that sat just a little too close to each other under the long, gently arched eyebrows, that cute, slightly upturned nose and those shy, lopsided grins that brought out his killed dimples to full effect, he could be simply irresistible at times.

When he was wearing his civvies, one would take him for an actor or a poet – never a soldier. There was some elusive softness in him, some odd vulnerability, inherited perhaps from his British father, that made one wish to protect him. Which was ridiculous, considering that he had gotten a Silver Star for their tour of duty in Iraq, just like Stackhouse himself, but it was the truth nonetheless.
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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE
by Soledad

Disclaimer:
The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.

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PART 02

When everything the Athosians still possessed – not as if that had been much – and their tents stood on living soil again, they threw a party to celebrate their new home. Stackhouse and his entire team – including Dr. Corrigan and Drs B and Z – had been invited, of course, and they truly enjoyed their first taste of genuine Athosian cuisine… including the home-made ale that the first arrivals had begun brewing days before.

Stackhouse had been part of Colonel Sumner's team that had visited the original Athosian homeworld, right after their arrival. He could still remember the serene view the small village of colourful tents had offered, and was now surprised to see that the new village was looking almost exactly the same.

It was somewhat smaller, granted, as quite a number of tents had been destroyed by the Wraith attack, their inhabitants taken or killed, but the general impression was the same. Including the small herd of shaggy, goat-like beasts grazing peacefully on a fenced patch of fresh grass a little further away. Those not-quite-goats, called krumak, provided the Athosians with milk, meat and wool, and their horns served as raw material for small utility items. They were the most useful species Stackhouse had ever seen… and the most resilient one. They could live on very little food, they hid on their own during Wraith attacks, and they protected their youth from predators quite successfully with their vicious-looking horns. On the other hand, a small Athosian kid could herd them, as they were surprisingly meek towards their owners.
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Title: Marriage of Convenience
Author:
Soledad

Category: Threesomes and moresomes – all varieties
Characters: Bates, Beckett, Corrigan, Halling, Charin, Markham, Stackhouse, Teyla, Zelenka, Others (mostly nameless Athosian extras whom I have turned into original characters)
Rating: Adult
Genre: Romance
Warnings: Adult themes in later chapters
Timeframe: Shortly after “Suspicions” (Ep. 1.05)
Summary: The Athosians' answer to “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”.
Disclaimer: The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the story idea and a few original characters.


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A SHORT INTRODUCTION

In my other stories, I established the theory that “Emmagan” was not Teyla’s surname – none of the other Athosians seemed to have one – but her title as the leader of the tribe. So, since in “Suspicions” the Athosians practically voted her off as their leader and chose Halling in her stead, I have simply transferred the title to him.

The Athosians’ custom to live in clan marriages has also been established in my former stories, as well as the idea that the camp Sheppard & Co. met in the pilot episode was not the entire Athosian population. That would have been too little for an entire planet, not to mention that inbreeding would have led to hopeless degeneration centuries ago. So I decided that they were simply the tribe that watched the Stargate and the ruins of the Ancient city nearby.

This particular story, while containing many elements I use elsewhere, is not part either the “Moments of Joy” or the “Darkroom” alternate universes in which I usually play.

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PART 01

Stackhouse was sorry to see the Athosians leave Atlantis – even if only to the mainland. He had come to like Halling, the new Emmagan, during the off-world visits where the tall, quietly spiritual man had served as their guide. He had come to see Halling’s son, Jinto, as the little brother he never had. He had come to enjoy spending time with the Athosian children in the evenings, telling them stories about Earth and listening to their tales in exchange.
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