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[bluflamingo]

Dear Atlantis fic writers,

If you're going to mention in your story in which John's team is taken captive on another planet that (a) the gate is unguarded and (b) they've been held for the best part of a month, you need to at least acknowledge that they'd expect Lorne to have come blazing through to save them at some point during this month. And fine, he can not succeed for whatever reason, but John and co would expect Atlantis to at least try to rescue them, and probably be worried over why it hasn't happened. I mean, they're busy, but they're not *that* busy.

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[rubygirl29]

Thank you, thank you! I agree 100%. I like to have some balance, too. I like to know that Lorne, McKay and Co., are really doing their best to rescue their friends and teammates. It just makes me feel so much better when I'm reading a very angsty story.

[bluflamingo]

Well, in this story McKay was too busy raping John to be able to effect a rescue, but yeah - I don't mind if they don't succeed in a reascue, I don't even mind if we don't find out until the end why they didn't succeed, but a passing mention of 'oh, if only Lorne would burst through the door right now/oh, it sucks that my second in command hasn't got his act together yet to rescue us/oh, what on Earth can have happened to Atlantis, I hope everyone is okay' wouldn't have killed anyone.