3-26-08

A/N: no spoilers. I guess this takes place in season 1, but that's only because I call Sheppard Major. Change that to Colonel and it could take place in season 2 or 3, maybe even 4, though I haven't seen that one yet.

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Sergeant Stackhouse shone his flashlight on the door as the native unlocked it.

The second it clicked open, Sheppard and his team tumbled out as if pursued by wraith.

They bent over, gasping in great lungfuls of air.

Sheppard was the first to recover

"Torture. Pure torture."

Stackhouse raised an eyebrow.

"The natives tortured you?"

Sheppard shook his head.

"No, that."

The sergeant glanced at the building Sheppard was pointing toward.

It was small, but not enough to torture Sheppard's team in the half day they'd been confined.

Stackhouse turned back to the major.

"Sir?"

Sheppard grimaced.

"Beans for lunch."