Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, McKay
Rating: PG
Note: For lavvyan's Egypt picture prompts. I used all three prompts. Lots of other pictures on this page, so may not be dial-up friendly.

Egypt
by Night Spring

Hot, dry, dusty. Military police everywhere, crisp uniforms and rifles. Even the trees had to be ablaze in red, echoing distant screams in fire and blood. Why had he ever agreed to come here?

"Hey, Major, look. Sparrows. Wow, are they really nesting in the...? That's a temple built in the, Fifth Dynasty, I believe. Well, to a sparrow, I suppose it's a nice, convenient nesting ground. Safe from snakes and..."

A year of abject horror running from the Wraith, but ignorant of the evil humans could inflict on each other.

McKay really did know almost everything about almost everything.