skidmo_fic: (weary carson)
skidmo_fic ([personal profile] skidmo_fic) wrote2007-02-22 07:31 pm

Acceptable Losses (G)

Title: Acceptable Losses
Rating: G
Pairing: None
Spoilers: Misbegotten
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me...sadly
Feedback: yes, please.
Summary: Carson faces the reality of their actions.
Author’s Notes: Drabble, written for the gatecreation episodes challenge.




For the first time since signing on to be Chief Physician on a super secret international mission to another galaxy, wherein they’d encountered life-sucking aliens, hostile Amish Nazis, microscopic machines bent on human destruction and myriad other equally frightening things, Carson Beckett doubted the wisdom of his choice.

He’d just been told by a man he considered a friend that the murder of 200 humans, whom they had created, was a tactical decision.

Even after all the time he’d spent with the military since arriving on Atlantis, Carson didn’t think he’d ever come to grips with the term “acceptable losses.”

fin


[identity profile] oparu.livejournal.com 2007-02-23 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Carson...that was such a tough episode for him and he did it so well. *loves the fic for making me think about it*

[identity profile] skidmo-fic.livejournal.com 2007-02-24 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it made you think. I have a bad habit of getting caught up in the ethical ramifications of events in certain episodes, and it makes me spend too much time thinking, "Yes, but what about...?"