#i wish i could just drop a zip file on here like a log on pixiv so it wouldnt clog anyones dash. whatever.

[kozionogin]

even more trash. are u mad at me. sorry.

[bibliocratic]

clear the area jonmartin, post-MAG200 content warnings in the tags

They earn their ending. A happy-ever-after beyond the gaze of any eyes.

Jon endures his abdication. This world has no Archivists, has need of none, the thankless crown of Knowing finally unburdened from his shoulders. The blood washes off Martin’s hands with soap and scrubbing and scalding water. They live.

The end. In conclusion. Fin.

-

Jon’s new scar, the packaging of his skin split ragged from collarbone to sternum, fades like sun-caught paint. A maw of red pursing to a gummy primrose pink, settling into a rough cartography of white.

The first few months are hard. Brimstone flare-up silences and ice-pick shouting, open-handed forgiveness and closed-fist weeping. They drain themselves to husks with anger and worry and grief until there is enough space for better things to grow there in their stead. Jon’s nightmares were a nightly stormfront to bear, sweated sheets and dawn fanfares of panic and dread, but he is learning now, with the space for his ribs to expand, that it is ok for them to breathe here.

Jon digs up the garden with a rusty trowel until it is a bumpy canvas of mulch and soil, dirt tucked under his fingernails and decorated with smudges up to his elbows. He hums while he irons their shirts in front of the television, thoughtless and senseless with tune.

Martin has tried to, but the sound goes down the wrong way.

-

Martin is happy.

-

It isn’t the sight as such, that might sit as a film over his vision to tinge his waking sepia. The reddest thing they own is a terracotta plant plot brimming with raggedy thyme that lives a precarious cliff-top existence on the kitchen windowsill. He observes Jon’s face in all its variations, even pained – when he snags splinters in his fingers, when he stubs his toe on the stone front step and swears damnation – and his response is sympathy tempered by admonishment.

It’s not the sensation, not really, that might tremble on his skin. Martin’s palms tend to dryness inside their homely bubble of creaky central heating, hemmed in by boisterous coastal winds. He handles bread knives and butter knives and steak knives and carving knives without the muscle memory of other blades, and he thinks he might be getting pretty handy with his oven experimentation.

It’s the sound. It wakes him, the noise lingering like the echo of a slap.

The slick punch of metal into muscle. A tooth-bared, tense-jawed gasp.

Resurfacing to shocked consciousness, he would be seized by a frenzy, to know, to check. His scattering hand scrabbling for the lamp with such force he hit it off the nightstand to roll in a giddy clatter, throwing off the covers to rapidly pollute both of them with the outside air. Jon would be rocked from sleep, groggy, panicked, and Martin’s words would not come, a train of thought trying to race full steam where no one had laid tracks, so it would be just the two of them, exhausted and upset and amping the other up in misery.

Now, upon his rousing, Martin knows not to turn on the light. He does not check. The aftermath of punch-gasp curls in his ear, and he inhale-exhale-inhales with the ferocity of mantra, and clamps the threatened tears in the clench of his teeth.

He does not wake Jon.

-

“How did you sleep?”

“Oh, you know me. Like a log.”

-

He is happy. He is. Why wouldn’t he be?

--

Jon rumbles like a rusty mechanism with snoring whenever he drops off on his back, and he mumbles accusatory when Martin coaxes him to his side. Martin finds black hairs on his pillowcase, in the shower plug. Jon is a vista of experience since the Eye left him, who gets hungry and tired and grumpy and drunk and silly and fed-up and giggly. Jon searches him out with the surety of magnets, and loves him, loves him, loves him. He seals kisses to Martin’s new landscape of extensive scars. Their disagreements, when they surface, are as meaningful and lasting as stones skipped on water.

Martin wanted this. He wants this. The rhythms of domesticity fading to foam on an untroubled shore.

He is out of practise with happiness, that’s all. It doesn’t come to him like breathing. He needs to till the earth of it, shelter its seeds from a thousand circling crows until it bears harvest.

He just has to try harder.

-

Night-time.

An episode or two of something simple, Jon nodding off like a capsizing ship before the credits. Encouraging him up in grousing, unwilling increments, rubbing out the nettle sting of pins and needles up his own arm. Check the locks, the light switches. Brush teeth. Pyjamas. Put his phone to charge, read until Jon succumbs to sleep. Click the light off, pushing Jon onto his side so his mouth doesn’t dry. Jon squirming around like a fastidious octopus until he has at least half his limbs hooked over Martin.

The dark creating shadow play. In the absence, Martin colouring in the gaps with lurid shades of disaster.

A creak – the rattle of a door downstairs, an intruder unfastening the back door, transferring their weight upon the staircase. A unfamiliar scent – the recollection of smoke-stench in his nostrils, the acrid promise of gas, the ferrous pungency of blood. The rain will flood their house to drown them. The wind will blow their roof in. Jon hooks his leg around Martin, the skin void of hair where Daisy’s mouth had almost torn it off, and all he can envision is the ways this could be destroyed as he watches.

Bundle Jon close. Ignore the rain, the itch at the bottom of his stomach, the queasy roil of his fear. Drift into unkind sleep populated with its garden of earthly terrors.

-

Martin is… not happy. Not exactly. And that’s fine. It’s fine.

-

Jon is happy.

-

Jon, rubbing at the compression lines around his hips, the accusatory splay of the top button refusing to budge closed:

“I can’t fit into my jeans.”

Martin enfolds him from behind, planting his palms over the slight paunch of Jon’s stomach, filled out through sensible eating and small indulgences and a hunger that will never be ravenous but has restored its human qualities.

“Hmm. It’s a good look on you. Healthier.”

“Or it’s middle age.”

“Or it’s eating things that aren’t tea and meal-deal sandwiches.”

“Or other people’s terror.”

“Oh yes, you’re right, I completely forgot about your subsistence diet of eldritch and unbidden horrors in a luscious wholegrain wrap, forgive me.”

Jon laughs at that. The sound has not yet lost its novelty for either of them.

He shifts, turns, his arms a buoy around Martin’s stomach.

“You’ve lost weight.”

“Must be all the clean air,” Martin quips. “All that healthy living.”

-

Punch. Gasp. Exhale.

Martin wakes up.

When his heart has wound down from the pace of its gallop, he extricates himself from Jon’s grip. It is a laborious task to find the places where they’ve joined in the night and pull them apart, like separating fabric snagged on rosebushes.

He gets some water from the cold tap in the kitchen. Sits heavily on the sofa, the room cossetted by the gloom.

Punch. Gasp. Exhale.

His hands shake.

He doesn’t go back to bed.

-

He isn’t happy, but he could grow to be. He could. He could. He just isn’t trying hard enough.

-

Some days, he feels like he’s waiting for the ice to give under them.

Check the passers-by as they walk. Anyone familiar, any teeth filed too sharp, anything animal or blood-shot, any eyes that glance too deep.

Check the oven. The gas knobs are angled to off but a leak is not impossible in a house this old, their alarm might malfunction, they might fall asleep and some spark from a plug socket could catch and incite a conflagration.  

Check the window latches. The opening wide enough for a body to squirm through, the claws of a Hunter marring the sill. Wriggling infestations that invade through the letter box, the keyhole, the gap under the door where the wind can whistle through.

Check. Check. Check.

-

Jon is happy. Jon has a job, work friends, a hundred small luxuries that he has struggled to earn. Jon is happy, so why can’t he be? He went through so much less, the blood washed off easily with soap, what the fuck does he have to cry over –

-

Martin has always crafted his masks from scrap, tongue out in concentration, piecing things together in low light, a make-do-and-mend of his own devising. His early efforts, the paper mâché and glue easily cracked before he learned to shore up his constructions. He has a small collection garnered over years.

The quiet-voiced, muffled-stepped, muted-smiled creation of a Good Son.

The zipped-mouth, no-refusals-no-complaints-yes-of-course-how-high earnestness of the Good Employee, the desperation sanded off the edges so no one could see.

The I’ll-get-the-first-round friendliness, the open-handed, open-hearted, too-naïve Good Colleague.

This new mask forms in increments, in the same way a rising mound of dirt marks the extent of a grave being dug.

He doesn’t mean to. It’s just he’s better at not talking about things. He always has been. And it is an ugly, easy comfort, to slip back into bad habits.

And Jon is happy.

All the things Martin does not wish to permit the light to touch he compresses inside like shaken soda. The rot in him deepens structural, the places where he papers over moulds and fungal speckles with the distraction of their new life. His smile parades simple, contented, cheeky, teasing, and there is a meticulous artistry in each. He sketches interest, paints joy, manufactures irritation out of the clay of nothingness that he allows himself to feel instead of the overwhelming rush of everything else.

I love you, his mouth murmurs, laughs, sighs, groans, and that at least is always true.

The mask of a Good Partner slips on tailor-made.

-

They find their nine-to-fives. Jon’s job is uneventful, boring, and nowhere near an Archive. He works in a registry office for the council, filing and organising and he’s cheerfully lied on his CV in order to get it. He gets the bus and texts Martin grumpy faces and GIFs summarising his mood when he gets suck in the commute or some idiot parks in a bus lane, he has a couple of colleagues he likes and a greater number that he tolerates, he gets a hot chocolate from this universe’s overpriced multinational chain on his lunch hour. When he gets home, he complains with delight at the mundanity of his dissatisfactions, regales Martin with tales of meagre drama.

Martin gets a cleaning job at a school. It is monotonous, dull and safe. Martin loses track of the time easily, quagmired in his musings. The children are wary of him and his visible scarring but it doesn’t bother him as much as he thought it would. The teachers are friendly enough, as well as the other cleaning staff, but he does not make friends. They’ll have to move anyway, if anything finds them here, if the Fears emerge again.

Martin tries not to feel like he’s waiting.

-

He wants to have a good night’s sleep.

-

“I’ll have breakfast at the school, don’t worry.”

“There were some leftovers from the canteen, so I’m kind of full.”

“It was one of the teacher’s birthdays, you know, Denise? Heh, might have had a bit too much cake. I’ll pop this in the fridge for later though, it’ll keep till tomorrow.”

“I’m just not that hungry tonight, Jon.”

-

He feels sharper when he doesn’t eat. It is uncomfortable, a scratched-out, hollowing sensation, but things focus more. He can control nothing else but this, and it feels good, to have this mastery over himself when so much is beyond him.

He drops down notches on his belt and tells Jon it’s all the walking he’s doing.

-

The world continues to happen to them. He goes to the cinema with Jon and picks at popcorn and encourages Jon’s outraged opinion. He meets Jon’s mildly interesting work friends and plays nice and excels at small talk, and he drinks half a cider that he nurses over the evening because it’s making his head fuggy. His body communicates its sharpness to him and he gains grim satisfaction from ignoring it. He goes to work and goes home and doesn’t sleep and goes to work and goes home and doesn’t sleep.

Martin does his best at living, and his mask doesn’t slip.

-

“You seem tired,” Jon pries his words out carefully, picking them out of his teeth as one would scraps. “Is… is everything ok?”

“Yeah, sure it is. Why?”

“…  you seem a bit down today. Recently. Is anything… is there anything you want to talk about?”

“I’ve just been working too hard. Been a while since I had to do double-shifts, heh, I’m not as young as I used to be.”

“If you’re sure?”

Jon shifts to a different position where he’s sat on the sofa, his legs tucking up under him. Martin endures his questioning gaze with practise.

“Yeah, I’m all good.”

Martin delivers a hand-crafted smile that’s gilded heavily with guilelessness and reassurance. He watches as Jon believes him and hates himself.

-

“You know… You don’t have to if you don’t want to, but you can – you know you can talk to me, Martin?”

Martin’s eyes focus on Jon’s chest at the point where a knife once sunk in, and doesn’t reply.

-

Punch. Gasp. Exhale.

Martin wakes up.

Jon has twisted over onto his back again, rattling like a chain-smoker’s cough with his snoring. They were quiet that evening, tangled up in their own thoughts, but there is none of that distance in sleep. During the night, Jon’s wormed himself out of the covers with a single-minded determination, his restless legs squashing the duvet to the bottom of the bed on his side, encouraging Martin’s to follow suit.

He’s shirtless, his top chucked off to pile unceremoniously on the floor. The temperature is ripe with a burgeoning summer heat, and Jon tosses and complains if he’s overwarm, and Martin didn’t think he’d get to feel the drudgery of another lived summer. He’s shirtless, and the room is palled in sweltering dark that softens the vague shapes of the wardrobe, the chest of drawers, the knickknacks of the life they’re building together. He’s shirtless, and Martin cannot see where the scar is, the only scar of Jon’s he has ever thought ugly, but he knows it is there. That he put it there. That he could just as easily be waking up alone.

His body pains him to live in it. His stomach tight and bottomed out empty.

He is so so tired.

Martin’s heartbeat does not slow down. His chest constricting, and he swallows, a sharp sound hiccupping in his throat. He stifles it with a forceful sniff but more come as a painful spasming wave, and he has to sit up if any air is to dribble into his lungs.

He should get up. He has to get up, do this in the bathroom, doubled-over the sink, stifling his weakness where it cannot be witnessed. He cannot do this here.

Punch. Gasp.

His burning face is soaked as he bunches up his sleeves against his reddening eyes. A calming exhale drains out shaky, moulds itself into another loud sob. He plants his hands over his mouth, screwing his eyes closed, and this will pass, he’s fine, this will pass…

“Martin?”

I’m sorry to wake you, he thinks to say. It’s nothing, go back to sleep, stop looking at me Jon, I’m fine, I’m fine, it’s nothing, it’s nothing…

His shoulders start to shake.

“Martin?” Jon repeats slowly. And the ice creaks and cracks and Martin gasps and then it breaks, and the force of his damned-up grief is tidal, catastrophic and he sobs into his hands.

“It’s… it’s alright – it’s… it was a nightmare, that’s all, ‘s alright…”

“It’s not!” Martin bubbles out, the words mashed to a wail in his hands. “It’s not, it’s not, it’ll ruin this…”

“Hey.” Jon brings his arm around Martin and he buries his head in the bony crook of his shoulder because he does not want to meet Jon’s eyes. “What do you mean? Martin?”

Jon rubs at his back. Martin’s body betrays him in a hundred ways as it collapses around him. His weeping wrings him out, dry-mouthed and headachy and trembling when he subsides into shivery breaths.

“Talk to me,” Jon says. “Please.”

“You’re so happy,” Martin sniffs out. “I-I want you to be happy, god, o-of course I do. Things are, they’re good, they’re good and we won, s-s-so why does it feel like I’m still holding my breath? I-I go to bed and I’m frightened of every noise, and I wake up and I’m terrified that someone somehow could take this all away, and I can’t sleep, and I-I’m tired, Jon, I’m tired of holding my breath, and it’s all – it’s all so much a-a-a-and I can’t – ”

“Oh, Martin – ”

His words fail him then. Jon holds him up and his arms do not loosen.

“We-we’re going to fix this,” Jon says after a long while. “I promise you, together, we’ll – we’ll talk to someone. You aren’t alone in this. Together, alright, we’ll do this together. We’ve survived – everything else, we can get through this too.”

“I don’t know if I can believe you,” Martin says, too drained to avoid honesty.

“…Maybe not yet,” Jon says after a pause. “That’s OK. I can wait.”

I’m sorry, Martin attempts to say but Jon presses a kiss to his forehead.

“You have nothing to be sorry for,” Jon says. He strokes Martin’s sweat-soaked hair.

“… Can we talk? Tomorrow? You don’t have to tell me everything, but… I’d like to be there for you, if you want me. If you’ll let me.”

Martin nods because he doesn’t trust his gummed-up throat. Jon takes that as an answer.

Dawn comes in slowly enough but they see it in together.

[emiliaclarkesdragons]

SECRETS: PETER PARKER X ADOPTED DAUGHTER!TONY (2)

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Tony and Peter talked about the benefits of the internship, well it was more Tony talking and Peter listening. He looked a little gobsmacked as if this had come out of the blue and that's when I realised it probably had. I wondered what had caught Tony's eye, was he good with computers? Was he like Wanda?

"I've got some homework to do," I announced, leaving them at the table. I didn't really, I was going to go snooping. Tony didn't know this but I was able to access all the files he thought he had locked. I was somewhat good with that stuff, I think it was from spending a bit of time with Natasha before we found out who she was.

I woke up my computer and logged in, usually, I would use voice control but I couldn't risk Tony hearing me. He had a habit of sneaking up on me. A few taps on a keyboard and three access codes later, I had access to Tony's history. Every button he had pressed, every command he had spoken and everything he had done manually or through F.R.I.D.A.Y. I scrolled through and that's when I found the video. A boy dressed in a red suit swinging from the buildings and catching a car.

"What the fuck," I said quietly as I watched it over and over again. I knew this was why Peter was here. Tony was bringing together an army, a new avengers just to bring Steve down. I clicked off it and searched more. "What are you planning?" I asked aloud, there was a reason for Germany and I was going to find it.

It didn't take me long, and I knew what I would have to do next. I needed to reboot the queen jet it the garage but I needed to do it in a way Tony wouldn't know. And, that was going to be tricky. I was good at being invisible online but in reality...not so much.

I galloped down the stairs quickly and found Tony sitting on the sofa. "Where's Peter?" I asked.

"Calling his Aunt," he said and checked his watch. He stood up, "I have some business to attend, take out on me," he said practically running for the door.

"Hang on, what about Peter?" I asked, "I'm not babysitting!"

"Technically he would be babysitting you because he's older," Tony said. I stood with my hands on my hips and glared at him. He kissed the top of my head and said, "get whatever take out you want and I'll be back later on."

The door opened as his car pulled up outside. I watched him get in the car, grin and wave at me and speed off. I closed the door as I stepped back into the house. When I turned I saw Peter standing there with an old phone in his hand. "He'll be back in time for Germany," I said waving it off, "he does that a lot but good news is take out!"

Peter nodded. I wanted to ask him about his gift, but something stopped me and instead, I asked, "have you seen Tony's workshop? Has he given you a tour?"

Peter shook his head, "no, he only talked about Germany," Peter said though didn't expand further.

"He's a rubbish host," I tutted and encouraged him to follow me as I took him around the house showing off all of Tony's work. It was one of the reasons I never had friends round, there was too much to break, steal and take advantage of here, but Peter was different. Something about him was humble and I knew he wouldn't judge me. "And, now his work room," I said, opening to door, "I don't know what state he's left it in."

"Hello y/n and Peter," F.R.I.D.A.Y said.

I looked at peter with a delighted smile, "F.R.I.D.A.Y knows you already! Tony must have registered you on the system," I said. Then nudged him, "one step closer to avenger status," I joked and he laughed. His laugh was like listening to your favourite song and I made sure to make him laugh again.

"Do you want to try one on?" I asked.

Peter's face lit up, "really?" he asked, I nodded.

"Choose one, F.R.I.D.A.Y won't tell on us, will you?" I asked.

"Of course not, Miss Stark. Your secrets safe with me," F.R.I.D.A.Y said, lighting up the suits.

"I'll put one on if it makes you feel less awkward," I said, watching Peter as he walked in front of each suit. I could see he was trying to decide whether or not to put one on and then I could see him trying to decide which one.

"I can't," he said eventually, turning around. "It's not right."

I smiled, anyone else would have taken up that offer in a heartbeat, but I should have known Peter was different. "That's okay, F.R.I.D.A.Y wouldn't have allowed it anyway. She's a little tease," I said, holding out my hand for him to take. "Shall we watch a movie?" I asked as he took my hand.

We must have fallen asleep during the fifth film we were watching because when I woke, Peter was nowhere in the house. Instead, there was a note on the coffee table.

Thanks for everything, can we keep in touch?

And below there was a phone number followed by pp x. I folded it up and put it in my pocket, running down the stairs to my own workshop before setting out in the queen jet. Tony wasn't bringing Peter into his stupid fight without my say so. "F.R.I.D.A.Y? Play me something good," I said. F.R.I.D.A.Y said nothing, instead, Sabotage by Beastie Boys blasted through the speakers.

I know, it was a mad idea to fly to Germany, I didn't really know what I was getting into. Who knew what waited for me when I land, but as I flew closer I could see the fight was already happening. I landed in the field near the airport, locked up the queen jet and flicked my wrists which had bangles on them.

The bangles transformed to create my own green Iron suit. "Nice to see you again, y/n," F.R.I.D.A.Y said in my ear, activating flight mode for me. Wings pushed put from the back of the suit, lifting me in the air. I wasn't wasting any time and F.R.I.D.A.Y knew that.

I was a fair flyer, this was the fifth model Tony had made for me. I had always wanted to fly but I used to stress how much I wanted a suit with wings and not one like his. So, on my eighth birthday, I was given my first flying lesson with my own iron winged suit.

I performed a few turns and tricks as I reached closer to the fighting and their coms began filtering through. "What was that?" Sam said, "I saw something flying."

I spotted Tony immediately, he was fighting with Steve and so I dived down, knocking Steve down. "Hi, Steve. You doing alright?" I asked, standing over him, letting my helmet lift up so he could see my smile.

"Oi!" Tony yelled and I turned to him, "What are you doing here!"

"Helping!" I said, letting the helmet drop as I took off into the air as Falcon passed overhead.

"No, you get down here right now, young lady!" Tony shouted through the coms.

I flinched, "ouch! If you're going to continue to shout in my ear I'm muting you," I warned, letting a grin sneak on my face. I couldn't help but enjoy the chaos of the fight. I swooped down, tripping up Hawkeye as he made his way to Natasha. "Hi, Nat!" I said, waving as I passed.

Nat stopped mid-run and watched me flip and turn in the air. I watched from above until I spotted him. He had a new suit on but as F.R.I.D.A.Y picked up on his voice, I knew it was Peter.

I couldn't act on it as I saw Rhodes get hit by the abnormally large person. He was flying uncontrollably through the air, "guys, Rhodes! I need help, guys!" I panicked down the coms as I swung my zip tie around him and pulled back. It wasn't enough and I was being pulled along with him.

"I got it!" Peter responded and my heart fluttered, though I wasn't sure if that was through relief or something more.

I pulled back harder as I spotted Peter, he shot webs that wrapped around Rhodes. I dropped down so we were at the same height. Peter was pulled into the air and we both landed on the truck with a crash. But, we had stopped Rhodes from crashing and he flew back to the fight. I followed, knowing there was no time for small talk. "We need to take out the big one," I said.

"I got it, has anyone seen that really old film called Empire Strikes Back?" Peter said as he ran over the plane.

"Told you watching it would be useful," I said over the coms, after all, we had just watched it that night. I saw him slide to a stop and look over at me.

"y/n?" He questioned.

"Yeah, who else would it be," I laughed landing next to him, lifting my helmet and smiling at him, "let's get him," I said, holding out my hand. He held onto my arm and I gripped his. We were on the same page, and although he could swing around in the air, I would be able to give him more speed.

"Woooooooooo," He said and I could hear the grin on his face as I flew around the legs of the giant man.

Just as we thought out plan was unbreakable, the man began to fall and hit us with his hand sending up flying across the airport. I crashed to the floor, hearing the paint on my suit scrape off and Peter landed next to me. Before he hit the ground I used one of my wings to slow him down just a little bit.

"You two are done!" Tony scolded us both as he landed on his feet in front of us.

I let my helmet lift up as Peter took off his mask. After a moment I looked at him, "thanks for the note."

He made a whimper of noise and I took that as a 'no problem', but he sat up and inched towards me. "I really wish we had more time together," He said, I sat up.

"We do, we have all the time in the world," I said. I wasn't sure where this was coming from.

"But, what about your dad?" He asked.

"He doesn't have to know," I said. After all, Tony kept enough secrets from me these days, "it'll be our secret... if you want," I shrugged and looked after suddenly feeling exposed. I wasn't used to this. Feelings weren't my strongest suit.

He smiled and blushed, "I'd like that."

I nodded, looking away again and giggled. "Nice moves by the way," I said, referring back to the fight.

"Your not too bad yourself," He laughed, attempting to stretch his arms but he doubled over in pain.

an: thanks for reading :)

[eliseu56179980-blog]

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[angelinefunderbu]

Merge Music

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[pickingupellen]

Decay

By the ever awesome Danceswithgary (I was so excited to get this art, from an artist I have admired for so long!)

“Lock it up and add it to the list. Let’s move the quarantine zone out to 20 meters from this location” Rodney sighed into the built-in mic of his suit. He dropped the contaminated med kit onto the top of the bar and, as the rest of the CDC team filed out, he reached in and tapped a quick code into the transponder built into the device tucked at the bottom of the bag.

“Doctor McKay, the police are here with the sheeting for the doors. We’ve secured all the samples, are you ready to leave?” His current favourite minion, Dr Kunasagi, said delicately as she came to stand at his elbow.

Rodney looked around the room and with one last tap to the device he let out a final deep breath, fogging up the faceplate of his suit for a second.

“Such a waste of resources, we should just start bringing the kit into the sites in a trash bag.” He abandoned the kit, knowing that the decontamination unit outside would just log the content and before burning it, the supposedly anti-everything coating was well documented at this point for failing to live up to its claims against this sickness.  Rodney grabbed the plastic strap of the casing on his laptop and pulled it from the barstool beside him as he strode from the room, his minion falling into step beside him as he went.

They stepped out into the midday light, the Las Vagas sunshine blinding even through the thick plastic tent that shielded the entranceway and housed the decontamination unit, that seemed to move deeper into the city every day. As they reached the first of three shower units they needed to pass through to exit the tent they were forced to step to one side and let the Police carry their heavy metal sheeting to the bar door.

“Doctor McKay.” Rodney started at the sound of his name and looked a little closer at the man inside the nearest suit.

“We need to stop meeting like this, Detective Sheppard.”   

“Yeah? Then find a cure.” Sheppard shot back.

“I’m trying… We’re really trying” Rodney sighed even as the officer walked away from him, he watched the man start giving orders and stepped backwards into the shower unit. Rodney reached up and tugged the zip down to meet the other zip, that his minion was pulling up. They stood next to each other watching the police work for a moment before she half whispered,

“It doesn’t matter how many times we do this, or all the things I have seen in the P… the past… it feels so wrong to just leave them there.”

Rodney reached down and squeezed her shoulder before nodding for the chemical shower to start as he replied,

“They’re dead, Miko, and until we have a cure it’s not worth the risk.” He opened his laptop to let the liquid sluice over all of the protective casing before passing it through a flap in the plastic to a waiting tech. The shower cut off and Rodney started stripping off the heavy suit, dumping the sections onto the floor before he unzipped the opaque plastic to the next set of showers. He pulled the zip mostly shut before tugging off his boxers and reaching back into the first section to throw them into the small waste basket built into the corner.

He scrubbed down with the harsh soap, weeks of near daily repetition the only thing that kept him from bitching about the dry, raw patches it was making on his skin and the freezing water that was about to follow it.

He stepped into the next section and quickly pumped the thick gel that deactivated the remaining chemicals from the last shower into his hand and spread it over his entire body before hitting the button for the last sluice of water.

When the water cut off Rodney quickly grabbed the towel hanging outside the exit door to the changing room and cleared the shower so the police could use it and so he could get out of the artificial cold into the heat that he would normally hate. He rubbed himself dry before tugging the kit bag with his name on it out of the stack by the door and dressed in his sweat stained shirt and a pair of suit pants with a splotch of toothpaste that had hit them as he spat out of his SUV door onto the roadside. He scrubbed a hand over his eyes and up over his closely shaved scalp as he stepped out into the light.

“Has someone got my data yet?” He snapped, holding out his hand expectantly for the memory device the technician should have prepped. When his fingers closed on empty air he took one deep breath, gritted his teeth and walked over to push the tech away from his laptop. “Why the hell am I the only one who can actually do any work around here? I pass you a laptop, you strip the data from it. If you can’t do that efficiently then you may need to get a less time dependent job. The Starbucks down the road is advertising.” He snarled as he dropped to his knees in front of the unit and waited for the data to finish transferring.  Someone’s shadow fell over him as he tugged the memory device from the computer and used the desk to heave himself to his feet, the world swirling a little as his blood pressure tanked before settling out. As the numbing dizziness faded he felt a hand wrap around his elbow,

“Doctor, maybe I should give you a ride back to the lab? I’m guessing you didn’t get much sleep.”

“How the hell did you get out here so quickly, Sheppard? And who has time to sleep! Half the city has been infected with something that causes you to die and then almost instantly decay.” McKay tugged backwards out of the officer’s grip on his shoulders even as he fished his keys out of his back pocket and offered them up. He glared at the back of Kunasagi’s head, almost unrecognisable with her long black hair gone until she turned to look up at him. Without needing any other hints she abandoned her conversation to head to the SUV as the rest of the CDC team settled into the routine of repositioning the no-go zone.

“I figured you might need me more than those boys needed my supervision for the 8th door we’ve sealed up today,”  Sheppard replied as they moved to join her. “You’re using the lab in the precinct, so it’s not like it’s going to take me out of my way if I give you a lift. Just trying to be friendly, doc.” Rodney rolled his eyes as he opened the passenger side door and climbed in.

When the doors had been slammed shut and the car had started moving Rodney dropped the act and reached out in an automatic, well worn habitual move to rest his hand on John’s thigh letting his eyes fall shut as he leant his head back onto the headrest.

“I am so sick and tired of this, John. There’s no solution, there’s no cure, it doesn’t matter what we do. We can’t fix this. I just want to go to bed for a month, on the city, in Pegasus.” He bit back the urge to add ‘With you’, choosing to clear his throat before adding  “Hell, I’d take the Wraith over this any day, at least we know how to get rid of them.” He smiled when the only response he got was a faint grunt and a brush of fingers over the top of his hand as John moved to change gears.

“I almost miss trying to figure out how the Ancients messed up this time.” Miko said from the back before letting out a yawn, “I miss fixing machines instead of failing to fix people.” She added quietly.

“I wish Carson was here.” Rodney’s almost whispered admission hung in the air between the three of them until John wrapped his hand around Rodney’s and moved it off his thigh. Rodney clenched his hand into a fist, fingernails scraping over the cheap fabric of his pants as he reminded himself that he had forfeited the right to expect John to comfort him, at least until he figured out how to apologise. 

The SUV slowed and Rodney felt the sunlight get blocked from falling on his face as they descended into the parking lot under the precinct.  When the SUV jolted to a halt and they reversed into a parking space John finally replied with a murmur of,

“Don’t we all.”

– – –

Rodney slammed himself into his desk chair roughly, forcing it to roll sideways so he could access the computer at the desk next to his. He tapped his fingers against the desktop impatiently as he waited for the computer to respond when he plugged the memory device in. Just as he was losing patience with it, the programme flashed on the screen to let him know it had detected new data and was running.

He tilted his head slightly when an error popped up and swore quietly at the programme as he tapped the run button again. He watched as it repeated the test and pinged the same result back to him, he quickly added a string of code to the parameters and kicked back from the desk to shout at Kunasugi. As he span around he heard a faint squeak and a clatter of heeled shoes as whoever was too close to him hopped away. He raised his eyebrows at Kunasagi as she offered him a take-out cup of coffee.

“I was coming to tell you that the biological samples showed a slower decay rate than the last set of samples we took, but it looks like your programme predicted that.” She said, motioning towards the latest response, he took the cup from her and as he span back to his computer she leant forwards, reaching up automatically to brush her hair back over her shoulder to keep it from getting in the way of the screen. When she touched thin air instead of hair she dropped her hand sharply to the desk with a mutter of, “I’m not going to get used to that.”

“It’ll grow back.” Rodney replied “apparently we should find survivors at the next infection site.  I’m predicting a decay rate slow enough after the 8th round of spread that we should be able to attempt a treatment.”

“When has this done anything predictable so far and I hadn’t cut my hair in 10 years. It will not just ‘grow back’” Miko replied a little sharply, her exhaustion burning off her usual veneer of politeness.

“The decay rate is dropping each time and this time they were still… pretty normal looking when the first team got there. Next time it should be too low to kill. Right? Your tests showed that human tissue didn’t decay as rapidly once the samples were diluted below the level we just found.” Rodney glanced up at Miko, only to find her staring back at him a little blankly. “Right, that wasn’t you.” He rolled back and yelled, “TISSUE WOMAN!”

“Doctor McKay?” Came the hesitant response from behind a bank of computers.

“What was the lowest viable dilution you managed?”

“8 parts to 10,000. The man we suspect was patient zero had a near instant decay rate on death, the woman found with him had a slightly slower decay rate. I predicted…”

“A spread of 8 rounds. I already knew that. Anything new to tell me or have you just been sat over there doing nothing since you discovered that two days ago.” Rodney asked distractedly as he turned back to his computer.

“The… The Decay, for the want of a better name or description, doesn’t reproduce and doesn’t appear to die after the host spreads it to a surface? My report is in your email. It also doesn’t appear to be mutating, we’re getting exactly the same symptoms just slower, but I’m waiting on a second load of results before I confirm that”

“Right, keep me updated on that,” Rodney muttered with a frown, he took a sip of his coffee before rolling back and grabbing Miko to pull himself to standing. “Wait, did you say it’s not self-replicating and it’s not mutating, as in it’s the same thing just spread thinner and thinner?”

“Well, I’m waiting for results and I’d like to check with the most recent samples but…”

“Yes or no.” Rodney snapped, cutting across the other man’s words sharply.

“Yes… Doctor McKay?”  Rodney’s name followed him out of the room and he pushed through the double doors and started running.

– – –

John looked up when the door to the bullpen slammed open and Rodney stormed in, waving for John to follow him as he went. John stood up, collecting the file he had been reading, and headed to the backroom that Rodney had made for. The door swung shut behind him and as soon as it clicked shut Rodney pulled the blinds and started talking,

“I need to access the bodies.”

“It’s too dangerous, you said that yourself. You told me that we couldn’t risk losing another person to something that could be avoided.” John dropped into a chair and swung so he could look at Rodney.

“John, it’s a nano virus. I need to be able to…”

“Last week you said it was a bacteria that got brought back from Pegasus. The week before that Carter was saying it was some phase shifting bug. And three weeks ago Carson was saying it was a Wraith who had evolved out of needing to use the feeding hand. Carson’s theory nearly got him killed!” John ended up shouting, half-risen to his feet before he caught himself and dropped back down.

“Carson was wrong!” Rodney kicked a chair, “Carson always saw what he wanted to and took risks he didn’t need to. I know I’m right. I just need to take some samples from the older bodies.”

“Carson was sure he was right. Carson felt the risk was worth it. Carson infected most Area 51 because he wanted to take a short cut and jump to doing something risky instead of waiting for some actual research to come through.”  John looked up at Rodney quietly until the man dropped into the chair he had kicked.

He waited as Rodney rested a hand over his eyes and took a deep breath. “We’ve eliminated all the other possibilities, I just need to do some tests…”

“Carson started out testing for a nano virus, that’s why he didn’t restrict movement after his initial treatment. Rodney, we’ve been round this before.” John murmured, well aware that raised voices would travel out of the room.

“So an EMP didn’t work, maybe it needed to last longer or be stronger… Maybe the nanobots will disintegrate over time or become easier to find as the bodies keep decaying. Regardless I need to look at the older bodies.”

“Maybe we just need to wait this out, containment is working and your report said that this thing has a set lifecycle… Rodney, we can’t risk losing you too.”

“By the time we wait it out the entire population of Nevada could be dead, you’re right, there don’t appear to be any new infections but the original one is still spreading.” John rolled his chair back as Rodney leant forwards and rested his elbows on his knees, “I’m not compromising on this one John, I need to see the bodies. Get hold of whichever ship is in orbit and get me to the City.” John bit his tongue as Rodney rose to his feet and slammed out of the room with almost as much anger as he had stormed in.

“That’s the problem, Rodney,  you never compromise.” John breathed before counting to ten and pulling his phone out. “Lorne, five minutes.”

– – –

John pushed through the crowded streets, even a deadly virus and a giant quarantine zone not enough to keep the casinos from pulling in the trapped tourists and locals alike. He looped through side streets and back on his own path until he ended up outside a hole-in-the-wall cafe on the same block as the precinct. He ducked in and nodded to the owner before joining Major Lorne at the table he had claimed in the corner.

“I got your coffee with extra coffee,  a turkey club and the biggest slice of pecan pie they had.” Lorne grinned at him as he pushed one of the cups of coffee towards him. John grabbed it and drank half the cup in one smooth move.

“You’re going to take McKay to the City and give him full access to the bodies. You make him wear every piece of protective gear we have.” John grabbed the wrapped sandwich and tugged the paper off so he could take a giant bite.

“I’m assuming that I shouldn’t tell him that we managed to figure out how to activate the quarantine procedures manually?” Lorne said quietly, leaning back against the wall behind him with a grin.

“Are they actually working fully or just the basic lock-in protocols we’ve managed to get working before.” John managed around his mouthful of sandwich, when Lorne nodded he added, “Full procedures? Scans on entry and exit and full cleansing protocol? Impressive, Rodney thought the mechanisms were beyond repair after that explosion.”

“Zelenka and Biro assure me that they managed to fix it and check it’s working. But… well, I haven’t exactly wanted to test it. I’ve been having enough trouble over the way we’ve been quarantining the bodies in the city, half the scientists are complaining about the fact that ‘decaying bodies create enough pathogens when they aren’t massively infectious before they die.’ And the other half can’t decide if they want to dissect or scan first.” Lorne sighed, John bit back a grimace of worry as he watched Lorne slump slightly onto the table, the exhaustion of the past months finally showing.

“I have discovered that it wasn’t being where we were that made them crazy, not quite evil, scientists. It’s why they were sent to us.” John muttered with a fond grin, he paused for a moment and rocked his chair back onto two legs before almost nonchalantly asking, “This made you change your mind on being recommended as my replacement?”

John let his chair tilt a little too far back so he would have an excuse to not be looking at Lorne when he answered, but the time he spent righting the chair and giving the cafe owner an apologetic look was filled with silence. When he eventually gave in waiting and looked over at Lorne he found the man watching him with a frown.

“I need another coffee.” John said quickly as he pushed to his feet and escaped to the counter, fiddling with the milk jug and sugar for as long as he could before slinking back to the table.

“You’re really leaving, sir?” Lorne asked when John finally dropped back into his seat.

“I can’t leave Teyla and Ronon to fight the Wraith alone, it’s my fault they woke up and Michael… I’m the only person left to take responsibility. It’s not like there’s anything keeping me here.”

“ The IOA made a decision then?”

“The City is too much of a deterrent to send back to Pegasus and apparently they felt I wasn’t the right choice for a posting on Earth. They offered me a ship.” John laughed sadly, finally glancing up to meet Lorne’s eyes for a second, “They let me know this morning, the official announcement will be made on Monday and my resignation will become official when this mission is over. Anything else to report from the City?” John asked sharply, hoping to move the conversation on.

    “We only managed to get the quarantine protocols working properly yesterday, Biro’s setting up some tests to make sure they actually work for this and if they do… She’s going to…. Do something with it?” Lorne frowned and shrugged “The scans we’ve done haven’t matched up to anything from the database and we still can’t find any reference to the material the lab was working on.”

The conversation lapsed into silence as John finished his sandwich and Evan let his head rest on the wall behind him, eyes shut for long enough that when John started to speak again he twitched awake.

“You need to keep the IOA from putting their final actions into place if we don’t get this under control, there are no riots yet and the quarantine is holding but as soon as the situation starts heading south they aren’t going to wait to see if it continues to spread. They aren’t going to care how many times the CDC or our guys say that it’s going to burn out, we’ve been wrong too many times and they can’t risk it becoming an epidemic.”

—

Rodney lifted his hand to try and massage his nagging headache away, flinching back over dramatically as his glove struck plastic an inch from his face.

“Fuck.” He muttered,

“Rodney? Are you okay?” Rodney let his eyes shut and carefully rolled his head from side to side to try and release the tension in his neck before lifting his hand to wave in the general direction of the camera, high up the wall behind him.

“I’m fine, Radek… Actually, could you pull up the contagion identification matrix and change the filter to include unidentified causes of death for anyone rather than groups. The numbers aren’t working out, if this isn’t a nano virus then there shouldn’t be any limitations to how many people it spreads too in one round of infection. And why did this guy not die until Monday, when he went back to Area 51 if he was supposedly infected by materials delivered from Atlantis on the Friday? Two days after Dr Coleson died after transporting the materials to Area 51. They should have been exposed within hours of each other, had very similar symptoms and this ‘virus’ seems to have a very short incubation period. The people who were infected by Dr Coleson all died in the bar they met him in, within a matter of hours. Then the infection in the casio, we don’t know who caused it but we have to assume it was the bartender, so why did they not die until they arrived at the casino at least 16 hours after they were in the bar? And why did so many people die at the casino in decreasing waves, like each person could only infect so many other people? Biological infections don’t work like that! Which is what led Carson to assuming that it was a nano virus…” Rodney broke off as frustration got the better of him.

“And yet, we have tried an EMP, which has always worked in the past with the Ancient nano viruses we have run into, with no success.” Radek replied over the intercom, but even as he argued Rodney could hear the other man typing in the adjustments.

“Just tell me when you get some results.” He sighed, turning back to the corpse in front of him quickly reactivating the stasis chamber before kicking the rolling counter with his laptop on it over to the next chamber over.

“If we get any results,”  Radek said after a while, almost like an acknowledgement of the fact he had finished adjusting the perimeters of the matrix.

 – – –

Rodney worked in silence checking the details of when each body was found and slowly creating a new timeline for the various groups of infections and trying to create estimates for how many people each carrier infected before dying. More than an hour later He reached the last body in the room and as he gathered up his laptop to move to the next one the intercom reactivated.

“That identified a fair few smaller groups, I’ve sent the information over to the CDC team.” Rodney tapped the control crystal next to the door and stepped through as it hissed open.

“Try applying the same parameters to a nationwide search, it’ll take a while to run but it someone travelled out of the city…” Rodney trailed off. “But we would have noticed it a plane landed with half a dozen dead bodies on it.”

“Likely, but if they infected a cab driver or someone who caught a different flight then they could have been halfway to the other side of the country before they died. Assuming your theory that they only infect a certain number of people is correct.” Radek replied,

“It makes sense, each of the largest groups had someone from Area 51 in it. And most of the next largest groups had contact with them, the bus driver and the casino bartender who moonlighted at the bar downtown.” Rodney shrugged, putting his laptop down to open the stasis chamber, quickly making notes in his file as he waited to the chamber to fully switch off.

“Let us hope that they didn’t meet anyone about to get on an international flight.” They chatted for a few minutes until a soft ping ran over the intercom, “one moment.” Radek muttered, as someone demanded to know what the ping meant. “Rodney, you were right. But we have a bigger problem.” an argument near Radek suddenly got loud enough to be heard over the intercom. Just as Rodney started to ask what was happening a city-wide alarm sounded and the intercom clicked off. He twisted to frown at the camera before leaning down to take a blood sample from the body in front of him.

“Don’t worry, I don’t need to know what’s going on…” he sighed.

Just as he finished the intercom clicked back on and the alarm switched to silent mode,

“Doctor McKay, the IOA have instructed us to lock down the city and that means we need to seal the area you are in.”

Rodney glanced up at the sound of Lorne’s voice,  “I need a minute to finish up putting this one back and then I’ll get back to the quarantine filters.”

“I’m sorry, Doc, …” Rodney frowned as hushed voices began to argue in the room the comm was being broadcast from before Lorne eventually added, “You’re going to have to stay where you are for now.”

“The filters are working, Biro was certain they were working and I’m wearing a suit, I can go through a full scrub down.” Rodney shouted as he rushed through the string of connected rooms back towards the main corridor. As he reached the main door for the section, it slid shut. The operation crystals already glowing a faint red to let him know they had been deactivated. “Major? Major, we have options… I can’t do my work from in here, there’s no network.”

“I know. Rodney, we’re negotiating operations on the city. I’ll get back to you.” As Lorne’s voice was cut off, the argument in the background growing louder, Rodney looked up at the camera in the corner above the door and attempted to pry the cover off the operation crystals.

“You can’t leave me in here. Fuck it.” Rodney cursed as he fumbled, the thick gloves of the suit keeping him from prying the cover off.  He cursed the decision to put the bodies in one of the outer areas of the city as the communication system stayed silent and Rodney twisted to lean against the wall before slowly sliding to the floor, feet tucked under him as he looked at the bodies in stasis around him. One for each new infection they had found.

He sighed and thumped his head back against the door, “we’re wasting time.” He rested his head back on the door for a few minutes, letting the silence of the makeshift morgue seep into his body until he felt his seemingly permanent exhaustion start to lull him to sleep.

He forced himself to take a deep breath and rolled to his knees before slowly getting to his feet, he trapped back through the stasis rooms to grab his laptop off the rolling tool stand he had been using. He walked back to the main corridor and dropped back down to sit back against the door before accessing the research he had downloaded from the city’s server. He read back through their research slowly, frowning at it until he realised what was missing. He quickly clicked over to his personal logs and scrolled back to the explosion a team from Area 51 had caused. He read through the names quickly and threw himself to his feet in a scramble of clumsy limbs and began to bang on the door shouting,

“I know what we missed! Come on, you have to let me out”

– – –

The doors to the bullpen swung open almost silently and only the familiar thud of military boots had John looking up and half moving to his feet by the time the soldier had reached his side.

“Sir, IOA  is recalling all of you to the city. There’s a new infection.”

“Where?” John snapped, twisting to shout over his shoulder as he waited for a response. “Teldy, grab the others. We need to go to…” he looked at the soldier expectantly,

“San Fransisco, sir.”

“Go help Dr Kunasagi pack her equipment and get the CID team moving to the new infection site. Where’s the transport?” John asked.

“You’ll be collected from the beta meeting location. Excuse me, sir.” the Marine said as Major Teldy stood to leave,

“Dismissed.” John returned the marine’s salute, ignoring the confused looks from the detectives around him as he collected the few possessions he had brought to his desk before running from the building.

He wound through the streets, carefully ensuring that he had lost the detectives that had followed him out of the precinct. He slowed to a walk as he reached the entrance to Palms, he quickly made his way across the nearly deserted main floor, the quarantine barrier pressed against the rear wall of the building enough to have most people leave for the more central casinos. He slid between the banks of slot machines to reach a service entrance. He raced up the back stairs to the 5th floor, he banged on the door to room 27 and when it started to open he slipped inside and nodded to the serviceman who was already hailing the ship in orbit.

John blinked as he arrived in his office on the city, only to find himself in the middle of a loud, multilingual argument. Across the room from him, Lorne raised a single eyebrow and shrugged without shifting from his seat on John’s desk.

John stepped around the arguing scientists and IOA staff so he could lean next to Lorne, he looked over the grey cast to the man’s skin before muttering,

“Have you slept since we last spoke? You know, when you’re in command you have to take the time to keep yourself on top form.” The dull snort of amusement was all the answer he really needed,

“You know, sir, I don’t believe you are qualified to lecture me about that.” Lorne whispered in an amused tone, John heard him sigh deeply before adding, “From what I can gather, Biro and Zalenka think that there is no point in quarantining the city and the IOA think that we should quarantine and ‘eradicate’ the infection sites. They’ve been arguing for a while…”

“Because he will not listen to sense!” One of the scientists yelled, turning from the argument to direct his words at John, “No one from the city has been infected. We are not the cause of this, it was their uninformed and poorly monitored experiments!” John held up a hand to slow the stream of angry Czech that followed.

“Doc, settle down. Where’s Rodney and what do you mean experiments I thought they were just meant to be analysing the samples?”

“And they were, despite Doctor Zelenka’s wild conspiracy theories, our scientists did not do anything wrong…”

“Their own files clearly show they were manipulating the samples they took despite the fact that we expressly…”

“Doc, where…” John started, only to be cut off by the IOA official.

“It doesn’t matter what they were doing, they spent a week on this city before they returned to Area 51. The infection in San Fransisco was caused by the major deciding to let some marines take a trip to a local bar…”

“The men have a right to shore leave and the doctors cleared them as not being infection risks.” Lorne snapped finally shifting off the desk to stand,

“And yet now there is an infection, caused by your men visiting. Clearly, it’s to do with the city, not the sanctioned, controlled, research the scientists were doing..”

“You are wrong and if you would listen you would understand why!” John shot his hand out to restrain Zelenka as the scientist stepped towards the IOA official angrily, “Our men have been on and off the city since we arrive with no infections being caused, the infections only started after your researchers decided to ignore the warnings we gave them about playing with Ancient technology without thoroughly looking into what it does.” John let his hand drop as the pressure dropped and Zelenka stepped away from the argument.

John turned to Lorne and finally asked,

“Where is Rodney?”

“Locked in the research lab we have the stasis pods in, Mr Coolidge felt it was best to call for a full quarantine around the bodies, sir.”

“ I thought you had managed to fix the quarantine protocols?” John half snapped, half asked.

“They hadn’t fully tested the system before Doctor McKay insisted on starting his research. I will not allow the city to be put at further risk. “ The IOA official folded his arms and set John with a firm look. John turned to look at Radek, who ducked his head a little.

“On that he is right, Rodney rushed in without giving us enough time to finish our tests. Biro and I think that they are working as they were intended to, we’ve been able to bypass a number of systems and steal components from systems we aren’t currently using. However, he is wearing a suit, we can go through a full decontamination procedure.”

John took a deep breath, crossing his arms as he leant back against the desk, cocking one hip so he could perch on the edge. He looked at the IOA official for a few seconds before huffing his breath out through his nose and looking over at Radek.

“Get him out of there, we need him in the city organising the CID response team.” As the official began to talk, John just continued over the top of him. “They know him and if nothing else a familiar face will keep them calm…” John paused, frowning at himself before shaking his head, “whatever… Let me know when he’s out. I need to talk to him before he goes to meet his team.” He turned his back on the rest of the room so he was face to face with Lorne, “I need to talk to the men who took shore leave.”

“Yes, sir.” John let his eyes shut and kept them shut until he felt the lurch in his gut from jerking back awake, he squeezed his eyes tight and when he opened them he grabbed the cold cup of coffee on the desk. He took a large gulp with a desperate hope that it hadn’t been sat there since he had left. As the taste of stale coffee coated his tongue John finally turned back to the official.

“ I have had nearly a decade of dealing with the shit this city throws at us and cleaning up the Ancient’s messes. You might not want me involved with your goings on but right now, and until you let Woolsey back or put someone else in charge, I’m the senior member of staff on the city.”

“Not for long, colonel, and I’m sure that timeline could be moved up.” The official replied snidely.

“Last time you ignored me your people caused an explosion that took out an impressive amount of our habitat systems. If anything on this city was the root of this Decay then the only reason it got off the city was because you took out our quarantine systems!” John finally snapped, his voice rising to a shout as frustration and exhaustion won out. The silence that followed his shout settled between them until his earpiece activated. At the sound of Lorne’s voice, John broke eye contact and headed for the door to interview his men.

“ You know, Sheppard, you shouldn’t fight this so hard, our plans for the city aren’t so different to yours.” The official spoke quietly and as John carried on a walking away he considered what the hell that could possibly mean.

– – –

“Doctor Mckay, I need to speak to you before you join your team.” Rodney froze halfway through scrubbing his legs with soap to look at the man who had walked into the shower room. He raised his eyebrows before finishing washing his legs.

“And it couldn’t have waited five minutes for me to start getting dressed?” Rodney muttered, knocking the water off and grabbing the towel. “Did you know what they were doing? Because I can’t imagine this is actually what you had planned. I always figured the Trust wanted to destroy the city because they couldn’t control her, killing most of the world doesn’t really fit your modus operandi. Were we the only ones who were meant to be infected? What take out the gene carriers and make the city unusable?” Rodney paused in drying himself to glare at the IOA official for a few seconds. He looked away when the official smiled at him,

“A strong accusation, doctor. However you may be partially correct, their experiment had unexpected results, unfortunately, someone else will need to correct their mistakes. They aren’t exactly in a position to fix this themselves.”

“I’m not helping you, I’m trying to save lives.” Rodney snapped, dropping the towel to start getting dressed. When he was mostly dressed the official began to speak again,

“Those two things are not exactly independent of each other. Besides, Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard agrees with us that the city is just far too dangerous on Earth, in fact, he has chosen to leave the planet in protest. I should think that your… help in resolving our little problem would help persuade him to stay. Either this ends with no city to send and so nothing to protest, or it ends with the ‘virus’ having no cure and the risk of leaving too high.”” Rodney froze tee shirt half pulled down his chest at the man’s words. He slowly turned to look at the official,

“John wouldn’t leave the city and you can’t manipulate me into helping you with lies, I’ve never played at politics and my relationships have never had a bearing on the choices I make. Now get out of my way, Radek tells me that there’s a new infection for me to investigate.” Rodney brushed past the man but as he reached the door he turned back, “You know, if you are a wise man you’ll get off the City before I get around to telling O’Neill I found another rat chewing through the wires, just waiting to be electrocuted. You do not come onto my City and try to destroy her!” Rodney managed to keep from shouting but by the time he turned to leave the room his hands were shaking with anger and he was breathing sharply.

He stormed down the corridor, swinging into his lab sharply his glare enough to have Radek stepping out of his way with a mutter of,

“I will phone Miko, it is not that important to know now.”

“Good plan.” Rodney tugged a drawer open in his desk and pulled a PowerBar out before opening his spare laptop and starting to download the data he had been working with. He settled into watch it as he ate his makeshift meal and rattled off a sharp email, content to leave O’Neill and Homeworld security to deal with the rogue official as long as the man was off the City.

As Rodeny finished the PowerBar and sent his email he felt someone come to stand next to him, he glanced sideways as John said,

“Rodney, a word?” Rodney wordlessly slid to his feet when John motioned for him to come with him into the supply closet. “So the…”

“Were you even planning on mentioning that you were going to leave the planet? Or were you going to leave without saying a word, just slope off one day like you did with your wife, because historically that seems to be how you deal with leaving people who might just care that you are going away.” Rodney had intended to shout but ended up just sounding resigned and hurt. John looked away, fixing his eyes at a point just over Rodney’s shoulder before shrugging.

“You made it clear that you would rather I didn’t involve you in my decisions, that you would ‘rather not know about the minutia of military manoeuvrings’, that we ‘aren’t tied down to each other like that’.” Rodney felt his mouth fall open a little, “I wasn’t the one who… You know what, I don’t feel like rehashing arguments that I had with my ex-wife with you. You cut me out and the rest of my… team are  in Pegasus, there aren’t exactly a whole lot of reasons to stay on Earth anymore.” Rodney looked at John for a moment, the other man’s constrained anger seeming almost like it could burst out of John to rip Rodney to pieces.

“I didn’t… I’m not good with… You weren’t meant to…” Rodney stuttered into the air between them before finally dropping his head and saying, “So, what did you want to tell me?” He watched as John’s shoulders relaxed and even as Rodney wondered how a stupid argument about shift schedules had managed to get twisted into enough of a reason to throw away everything John had.

“The men who went into San Fran all came out in the first or second wave, they have the gene or had the therapy even if it didn’t take whereas the men who we rotated out to Area 51 were all newer and didn’t have the therapy.”  John said, leaning back against one of the shelves.

“So? Carson has the gene and he still got… Clone, that could make a difference, we have no idea how he’s going to react to anything. It’s not exactly something we can test though, we’ve had no luck with infecting blood samples, we’ve had to work with dilution and hoping that it plays out the same way as a new infection.  It could make a difference but that would imply that this infection can detect the gene.”

“And we already know it isn’t nano virus, so that doesn’t make sense.” John shrugged, “there was nothing else that I could find that would explain why they were only carrying the virus and I don’t know how they could have got infected. They haven’t been to area 51 or near the bodies, in fact, they haven’t even had contact with the people handling the bodies. They never even met the scientists who were on the city and they didn’t even go near the area of town the Decay has shown up in.”

“Okay, maybe the markers for the gene give resistance and… the therapy makes some changes even if it doesn’t fully work. I mean we can test for who was given the therapy so it does make genetic changes in everyone, regardless of if they don’t gain the gene.” Rodney said hesitantly before huffing, “I hate biology. All guess work and… I’ll get Biro to look into it, she’s not exactly a medical researcher but at least she has a background in medicine.”

“We should go,” John said without moving to leave.

“Yeah,” Rodney agreed before looking John over. “Don’t do anything stupid, no hero runs with a nuclear warhead to save the day. You know,  I didn’t intend for this to happen because of what I said…” Rodney cut himself off again by quickly leaving the room. Cursing himself as a coward as he grabbed his laptop and waved Radek away when the man made to follow him.

Rodney wound his way through the city slowly, occasionally tapping on his ear piece and passing along instructions for the research team on the City. When he reached the temporary dock they had set up on the east pier Rodney nodded to the marine manning the boat and settled himself onto the furthest seat he could find from her. As the boat pulled away from the dock Rodney huffed and tugged his phone from his pocket.

“I keep doing this like eventually I’ll have the right words when I’m stood with you… I wasn’t trying to drive you away, I just didn’t want to have to admit that I forgot that you would want to know I was giving a talk on the other side of the country. So I started an argument instead…” Rodney looked out at the open ocean, the City’s cloak hiding it from view as they neared the port. “Sometimes I forget that you genuinely care about what I’m doing and it’s easier to argue that to admit that I messed up. We agreed that we could be bad at this together, but I guess I win the ‘who sucks most at relationships’ award.” Rodney dropped his phone as the boat bumped against the dock roughly and by time he had fumbled it out from under the bench the screen had gone dark and he whispered a final admission at it before dropping it into his pocket and scrambling onto the dock. He looked over at the wall of vans blocking his view of the bayside park and started to untuck his shirt as he made for the changing tent.

– – –

Rodney slumped onto the park bench that had ended up in the middle of the quarantine zone and looked at the rip in the thick fabric of his suit numbly. He slowly reached up, ignoring the sudden flurry of noise coming over his comm unit, and tugged his helmet off tipping his head back to take a series of long slow breaths, giving up the pretence that he was worried about getting infected. He shut his eyes and tried to tune out the noise of the CDC team fussing around him as he waited for his brain to focus in on the bird song, or barking of abandoned dogs calling for a master who would never return. All he heard from above the noise of his team was silence. Like nature was mourning or expectantly waiting with bated breath for the coming destruction of humanity.

“Rodney? Why are you smiling?” Miko’s soft voice cut into the silence and Rodney carefully flexed his jaw to knock the smile off his lips before almost whispering,

“I had always hoped to hear bird song again before I died, it’s not the same sound when you go to other… other places. It’s an odd thing to miss when you’ve spent your whole life in a lab but there you go.”

“You’re not dying today, this isn’t what’s going to kill you. No one with the Gene has died” She replied quietly, sliding onto the bench next to him. “I could do with some nature sounds” she muttered, Rodney opened his eyes and twisted to look at her just in time to watch her drop her helmet down onto the ground at her feet.

“I wasn’t planning on dying today, I was just contemplating what it would be like if this was it, but that’s the thing. There isn’t any bird song and I would die unfulfilled.” He said sadly as Miko smiled at him, they looked at each other for a moment realisation dawning on both of them until they lurched off the bench as one. “There’s no wildlife. We are so stupid, it’s not the Decay that kills them.”

“I’ll check the bushes for birds.” Miko said,

“Dogs would be easier, there must be a whole damn dog park full of them over there.”  Rodney started running towards the mobile scrub down centre, waving for one of the CDC minions to join him. “The dogs in the park, are they dead? Is there any obvious reason for them being dead?” the yes and no he got as a reply had him running a little faster.

He banged on the glass between the quarantined and clean sides as he shouted for someone to bring his phone, the tech on the other side flinched back so hard he nearly fell from his chair before scrambling to his feet and racing off. Rodney paced impatiently as he waited for the tech to finish collecting his phone and push it into the airlock between the two sides. As soon as the lock disengaged Rodney pulled the phone to him, scrolling down to the number he needed as soon as his fingers touched it.

“Radek, the explosion. Was it in one of the areas the Replicators repaired?”

“Err… Yes, why?” Radek replied quickly,

“Because they used a self-healing metal…”

“That pulls the materials it needs from whatever is around it.” Radek finished “But if it was that then we would all be dead a dozen times over.”

“Except we left the panels in place because we tested it and it didn’t pull material from living organic material, but what if when it’s ingested it is poisonous?” Rodney said, almost breathless as the implications hit him, “The panels underwater are constantly degrading and being repaired, that’s why this park was affected. While it’s in the water it’s diluted but it would build up on land, the Gene must give us a resistance to the poison and everyone coming onto the city got the gene therapy as part of the standard Pegasus immunisation, and the Pegasus natives all have markers for the gene.”

“Until we came to Earth it wasn’t a problem.” Radek added, “we sent the bodies from the explosion back to the morgue in Area 51 and they were coated in metal fragments, it poisons the person and then starts to break them down…” Radek was cut off as Rodney started talking over the top of him

“But we don’t have enough raw material in us to make a panel so it replicates enough to infect some more people and slowly it runs out of steam, the number of particles dropping with each transmission. We collected the bodies up before they could break down fully and create a panel.” Rodney sighed, “We need to get the City and the contaminated materials off Earth, but the best we can do for the people is to quarantine the area and hope we collect it all, then wait for the people infected to…” they both fell into an uncomfortable silence at the thought of the waves of death that had happened in Las Vegas being repeated in San Fransisco.

“I will get people working on confirming it and let the Colonel know,” Radek said, the words almost a question,

“Good, I’ll contact the Mountain and O’Neill. Let’s hope this infection didn’t spread further than the park.” Rodney replied as he hung up and started the process of scrubbing down.

– – –

When Dr Zalenka rushed back to the lab, after letting them know the current theory, John nodded to Lorne and slipped away to grab a shower, shave and sandwich while there was nothing to do but wait for confirmation and permission to move. As he walked to his quarters he tapped his ear piece and connected to the Daedalus channel,

“Sheppard to Caldwell, the virus appears to be caused by some kind of contaminant leaching of the City. If Dr Zalenka sends you an analysis of the material could you beam it off the planet?”

“We’ve done it with Naquada deposits so it should be possible.We will have a limit on how much we can take on board though” Came the careful response.

“We’ll want you to beam it directly to the City.” John said before signing off and switching back to the command channel as he stepped into the transporter.

When he reached his room, the air stale from weeks of standing empty, he sank down to sit on the edge of his bed before giving in and dropping back to lie down and watch the last washes of cloud from the sunset drift over the ceiling, as he watched he crossed the sandwich off his list of things he could do. The room faded to dark and the mobile on his bedside table flashed with a missed call alert until he finally forced himself to reach out and grab it. He thumbed through to the answerphone and tapped the button to play the message.

He smiled despite himself as Rodney rambled his way through yet another terrible attempt at apologising, he rolled to sitting as the message was interrupted by a loud clatter and cursing. John pulled the phone from his ear to find the button to delete the message, expecting it to cut off after the phone was dropped but after a few seconds of silence he heard Rodney start to speak again and quickly jammed the phone against his ear as the other man confessed,

“I’d give it all up to come with you if you asked, but I guess it’s too late to offer. You don’t even listen to phone messages and I have no idea how many times I’ve done this since we… God, I’m pathetic.” John lifted the phone from his ear, slid his thumb over to the next number over and saved the message. He rubbed a hand over his face, the feel of scruff on his cheeks forcing him to find his feet and shave even if the time he had given himself for a shower was long gone.

As he wiped the last remnants of shaving foam from his face, his earpiece beeped and he tapped it with a muffled,

“Go for Sheppard.”

“John, I need you in the Chair.”

“Rodney?”

“I’ll meet you there,” Rodney said, John thought wistfully about the sandwich he wasn’t going to get as he pulled on a fresh T-shirt and slipped out of his room.

The halls were empty, most of the military confined to the tower they had assigned as barracks and all the scientists working on the virus in various labs. John made his way through the city with ease and as he sat down in the Chair a flash of light let him know that someone had beamed in, without turning to check who it was John sighed and said the first thing that came into his mind,

“I listen to all my messages.” The silence that met his words almost had him twisting to check who had beamed in but instead he shut his eyes and asked the city to give him a readiness report. As the chair dropped back John heard Rodney walk around the edge of the room.

“We need to get into orbit, can we do that?” Rodney asked coming to stand close enough to the chair that John’s boots were pressing against Rodney’s knees.  “You listened to them? But you never…”

John cut him off as he said, “The ZPM we have in the system is almost fully charged, we’re good to go.” He frowned as he overrode the warning about only having one ZPM and set the orbital launchers to start cycling. “You know it doesn’t actually count as an apology if you spend the whole time telling me that you weren’t wrong, even if you keep telling me that you miss me.” John felt his lips quirk up into a half smile before he could stop them.

“We aren’t waiting for permission, lift off when you are ready I already cleared it with the Mountain.” Rodney’s words were followed by an alert sounding through the city as John gently urged her out of the water and into the sky. As the automatic launch systems kicked in John opened his eyes and looked at Rodney,

“I was posturing, I figured that they would look at how many time saving the City came down to my gene or your brains and they would let me stay. Even once the order came down and they accepted by resignation, I figured I would get maybe as far as the gate.” He said simply, letting his hands curl into the gel pads on the arm of the chair a little as Rodney frowned at him.

“You should have told me, I could have helped.”

John felt his jaw clench at Rodney’s soft statement and he took a deep breath before faux-calmly saying, “I tried to, you told me that you weren’t interested knowing what meetings I had been called to or where I was going and then you left. When exactly was I meant to tell you, should I have followed you down the corridor and shouted it at you in front of everyone or was I meant to tell you between stepping over dead bodies and trying to keep a lid on the fact people were dying of an alien virus?” he shut his eyes and frowned as though the city needed him to make an adjustment to avoid looking at the man in front of him.

He kept his eyes shut as the City rose through the troposphere and entered the stratosphere, eventually Rodney walked away from him and when John let his eyes open a fraction he saw Rodney leaning against the wall, he shut his eyes again as Rodney lifted a hand to his earpiece, his words echoing oddly through John’s ear piece.

“Mckay to the Daedalus,  Zelenka should have sent you a mineral sample we need you to beam up. Wait until we are in orbit and then beam it directly into the storage room on the 3rd pier, you don’t want it on your ship but we should be able to use it.”

“Acknowledged, command has asked if you can park behind the moon” Came the swift response, John just tilted his hand enough to give Rodney a thumbs up as he relayed the instructions to the City.

“Apparently we can” Rodney replied, the click of the comm system disconnecting echoing the sound of Rodney’s ear piece dropping to the floor, John opened his eye worriedly at the sound. Rodney just smiled at him and as John was about to speak Rodney held a hand up,

“So, if we work together I figure we can use this to convince the IOA that Atlantis is too risky to leave in the Milky Way and blowing her up would just spread metal everywhere.” John raised an eyebrow when Rodney stopped talking but kept his hand out, he watched as Rodney looked at the floor and took a deep breath. “ And, I’m sorry. We both made mistakes but… But I started this one so I am sorry and I would miss you.”

John closed his eyes for a second to check the autopilot was functioning before sliding out of the Chair to stand in front of Rodney,

“Hey Rodney, wanna run away with me to Pegasus? If we play it right we might even be able to take our home with us.”

Decay was originally published on Pickingupellen

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I will be looking soon for auto insurance for my first car. I have bad credit, no driving record(I am just about to get my license within the next couple months), and am 26. Where can I find an insurance company with an affordable premium?""

Where Can I find good dental insurance?

I need dental insurance that will cover oral surgery, as I have 2 ingrown wisdom teeth.""

Choosing a Family Health Insurance?

Hello, What is the suggested Health Insurance for entire family (Ex: 2 adult and 1 kid or 2 kids) among the nationalized providers (National Insurance; Oriental Insurance; New India Assurance; United India Insurance)? Thank You.""

Can I change my health insurance?

I want to change my health insurance? I have Minnesotacare and I want to change it to Medical Assistance? My daughter needs braces for her teeth and Minnesotacare won't cover for it! And apparently we owe Delta Dental and our dental provider 5000 bucks?! Is that possible? We are certainly not paying 5000 for an X-rays for braces and my daughter didn't even get braces on?!

How can I cancel my geico car insurance?

I pay for my geico car insurance every six months because I save some money instead of paying monthly. Here is a thing I am going to out of US for 3 months and I do not need insure my car however I already paid for the 6 months.

Where is the best place for cheap insurance for a 100cc scooter in northern ireland?

age 26, honda scv100 lead 2007""

Car insurance question?

My car got hit... the bumper is almost falling off. It is not my fault and the other person's insurance is covering it and they are sending me a check to cover the cost of it being fixed. Here's the thing... my car is a POS. I doubt it's even worth $1000. Do I have to get my car fixed with the money? Or can I use it how I want (such to help get a new car with)? I know the ethical thing to do would be to get it fixed, but it may actually be totaled (still drivable but the cost of getting it fixed may be more than it's worth). I was thinking about telling the insurance company, but I don't want to risk losing the $ to get it fixed... I've heard of other people getting in accidents, then getting the check and just not getting the car fixed. Anyone know?""

Would insurance on a 79 Buick Skyhawk be expensive?

My husband and I found one extremely cheap, and I desperately need a car. Our worry is the monthly insurance rate. Would the age make it cheaper, or is it so old that it would begin to go back up?""

Is insurance expensive for a Motorcycle?

I want to get a 1982 Yamaha Virago and was wondering how much is the insurance? Im 23 years old

Why is my car on Motor Insurance Database (MID) while I haven't bought insurance yet?

I've just bought a used car for my son, received the new log book; however, I haven't bought insurance yet, as I intend to keep the car off road at the moment. But when I checked my car on the Motor Insurance Database (MID), it recognized my car. Apparently it is ok to drive this car, although I haven't bought insurance for it. Do you think this is ok, or will I be stopped by the police driving this car?""

Any Cheap insurance companies for Aprilia RS125?

My son has a RS125 Aprilia and i am just looking for some cheap insurers, hes 18 on thursday. want Third party fire theft, and i also dont want to pay more than 600 please help""

Will car insurance price drop in 2013?

I went to a local insurance company, called NFU Mutual - I was advised to wait till next year because its likely prices will drop a bit, young drivers pay a lot and was also told that women's insurance will be as much as men, there wont be a difference anymore whether you female or not. Is this true? I'm 21 and the cheapest I have been able to find was at 1.400 per year, or 1.500 per year paying monthly - on a Peugeot 106 Zest 2, 1.1 with quotemehappy.com Thank you!!""

If someone hits me do I file a claim with his insurance company or mine?

on new years eve a man backed into my car, I'm kind of behind and starting to finally get on it, when we called state farm (my company) they said it would make our rates go up because we were filing with them, do I have to call his insurance company or mine? and is there a certain amount of time i have to file a claim?""

Insurance problems?

hi were looking at buying a new car we have full comp insurance on our car and are covered to drive any car the car were looking at has mot and tax vut no insurance as we checked with the mib web site, can we still drive it using our own car insurance for the car we have now or do we need to insure it on it's own we haven't got a new car yet but still looking wanted advice before we got a new car many thanks for any advice and best wishes diane xx""

How do i get health insurance?

How do I get health insurance for myself? My work doesn't offer health insurance. My husband and all his younger siblings (over 18) are now covered under my mother-in-law's insurance from her work.

How much does insurance cost for a 2004 white dodge stratus ?

Please help me ?

How much will health insurance cost for a 21 year old with no preexisting conditions?

I never had to pay for health insurance (part of family benefit package) so now I'm thinking of getting one. How much will it cost? I am healthy, work in an office (not dangerous), attend university (are there student discounts?), I am athletic,(healthy weight), I live in Los Angeles the only health issue my family has is that my dad is diabetic (but he got it when he was around 50 so i don't think it's heritable)] I need an insurance to only cover me in case something happens and I need emergency care (surgeries, hospital stay etc.) approximate numbers will be appreciated.. thank you""

Cheap health insurance?

anyone know of any cheaper health insurance (maybe like $ 50/mo) i am a single student. i know my school provides insurance in case of emergency. but i am looking for something to help cover my prescriptions & doc visits.

What insurance has the cheapest rate for teenagers in California?Is there a company that insures only a driver

What insurance has the cheapest rate for teenagers in California?Is there a company that insures only a driver

Anyone know any good cheap car insurance providers?

preferably direct rather than compare websites. cheers.

Help i need cheap auto insurance.?

i have a 2001 pontiac grand prix gt and i am 19 years old and i live at zip code 48726 i need cheap car insurance can you help please

Cheap or free help with medical insurance?

I need health insurance for myself my children are covered under medicade and I need health insurance that is free or cheap

Who offers the best and most affordable medical insurance?

i am a 19 year old female from southern california. I work full time and not currently going to school. my job does not offer medical benefits i would like coverage asap. please help me out!

Which life insurance is the best one to get and the most affordable and reasonable? Is it the whole life

insurance? or premium life insurance? or term life insurance?

Where can I get started with Motorcycle Insurance Thanks.?

I just got my brand new 150cc Moped where can get started with Motorcycle Insurance and what information do I need. Another questionI want be riding my moped almost everyday and I know you have to pay to keep up your insurance will this effect your licenses if your not paying for insurance Thanks.

Is it legal to have two different auto insurances on two different cars but are both in my name?

I have 2 cars, I just bought one cash. So I already have full coverage on one car and its paid for 6 months, and I want to add insurance on the other but with a different insurance company because it is cheaper and I will be getting only liability. Is it legal to be carrying different insurances or are they required to be both with the same company? I live in Texas!""

How does american income life compare to other insurance companies?

anyone ever use american income life insurance and other?

Car insurance I'm paying alone?

I have to buy my own car unlike very other lucky kid that's 18. So after I buy a used car off of craigslist, what do I do? Where do I get car insurance and what's affordable for new drivers ?""

Does anyone know where you can purchase GAP insurance for your car if your auto insurance doesn't offer it?

I bought a 2006 auto a couple weeks ago and when I called my insurance co. to add it, they said they could add GAP insurance, too. (which I need) Now they are saying they can only add it to a NEW car, not used. Anyone know if I can purchase strictly a GAP policy to cover my car? I don't want to switch insurance because of discounts having my other car, homeowners, etc. through them.""

Luxury cars with low insurance rates?

I was wondering what types of luxury cars would have the lowest insurance rates? I would prefer either a sedan or coupe. So in the category of luxury sedan/coupe, what would be the lowest insurance rate? I don't care about the price of the car itself, I just want one that doesn't have me paying a bunch every month, non-stop. My definition of low is around the neighborhood of $60, preferably lower obviously. If there is no such thing, then please tell me the closest to it. Thank you in advance.""

What is the minimum pricing for teenage car insurance?

ok, my car is a 1978 Ford Fairmont. I am 17, the car's previous coverage was basic liability. the limits i want for the car is just pretty much basic liability. i just want to be legal on the road. no fancy extras added to the policy, just basic coverage. the car so far hasn't gotten into any car wrecks. it's practically in perfect condition. this is my first car and i just got my license. I'm not aware of my credit score for i've just started working part-time. Also, i'm a very good student. My current GPA is 3.57and i'm still in high school, 12th grade. and yes, i've finished drivers education coarse. Please, if anyone can help me in finding a good car insurance company for my beautiful Miss Daisy, and the possibly price of how much it will cost for basic liability i would greatly appreciate it.""

Can Auto Insurance Companies suspend drivers licenses?

Does anyone know for sure if an Auto Insurance Company has the right to suspend drivers licenses at any time or can the BMV only do that? We paid the required 20% down in car accident to get our licenses back, but can Auto Ins. Company suspend us now if we miss a payment after that down payment? Thanks for any help!""

Under the Roberts ruling why cant the gov. require everyone buy car insurance.?

Whats the difference. The only differences I see argue better for the personal mandate for car insurance more than health insurance. 1. Everyone using a vehicle on a regular bases. Even if you dont drive, you take a bus or cab or cross a street. 2. Driving is at least 10 times more dangerous than anything else most people will do on a daily basis. 3. If you have car insurance you less likely to need healthinsurance.""

Looking for Catastrophic Health Insurance provider in Florida?

Hi, I DO NOT want to compare rates, I would like a link or phone number of a specific provider if someone knows of one that they can recommend. And please tell me your experience with them, or how you go their number... All the sites I have been to are regular plans not catastrophic, plus, I want a personal recommendation, (well, this is better than just going on the internet blindly). If is for a friend of mine. She is 50, lives in FL. She wants Catastrophic Health Insurance only, (no doctor visits, labs, rx...) Thank you -Dixie""

""If you had an extra car that was paid off and cheap on insurance, would you sell it or keep it for a back up?""

If you had an extra car that was paid off and cheap on insurance, would you sell it or keep it for a back up?""

How much would health insurance cost for me?

I am 22 years old, I am completely healthy, I am a girl, and I live in Kansas City, KS. How much would health insurance, on average, cost for me?""

Car Insurance on a cheap car question?

Okay so i am currently a secondary driver on two of our car at my house. I am 17 years old. I want to buy a super cheap car on kijiji for like $500 just to mess around in as I wouldn't care if anything were to happen to it. I have a few questions. When i go to pick up the car, can i drive it without plates? Do i need insurance to drive it home? or is there a grace period? If i were to buy the car, fix it up, and then sell it, are there any regulations on this? what documents do i need? I have never bought a used car from a private seller or bought a car in general so any help is greatly appreciated!""

Can a vehicle get insurance by someone other than vehicle owner?

Can a vehicle get insurance by someone other than vehicle owner?

I think I've made a mistake on my car insurance?

Long story short my Dad has a car that is insured and has been for a while. He has never made a claim in his 40+ years of driving. He's just bought another car that we can both drive (I can't drive his automatic until I pass my test) He was going to insure it with the same company as his other car however they won't let me be a named driver as I'm under 18 so we've found another company to go with. We got a quote and paid the money. No problem. Awaiting conformation in the post. Earlier today, however, I was talking to a friend who is insured with the same company and he says my dads no claims doesn't count because he's still insured with another company. Therefore by putting 9+ years on the form we've lied ?! Is this correct? Does this make our insurance invalid? How much trouble could we get in for this mistake? How can we resolve this?""

Car insurance for 17 year old in Texas?

hi im 17 years old and i'm getting my car. i was wondering the cost of the insurance (i've heard it's really expensive[just wanted to verify] ) can anyone give me a good estimate?

Insurance would cost for 21 male?

how much would it cost me if i get liability not full coverage ... i havnt bought a car as yet but im thinking of buying 95 accord 4 dr or 96 maxima ... just curious to know what my insurance would be...

Will full coverage car insurance cover a blown head gasket?

It still has enough oil in it (between E and F on the dip stick), I can just tell this is what it is because Oil is leaking down the driver side gasket and I'm noticing my coolant level beginning to drop. I just want to do something about it now before I keep driving it and completely blow the engine.""

Which would be cheaper to insure generally speaking a Honda Civic coupe or Mazda 3 Hatchback?

Which would be cheaper to insure generally speaking a Honda Civic coupe or Mazda 3 Hatchback?

How much would insurance be for me?

I am 19 years old and gonna buy a used car soon. My parents have never drove or owned a vehicle in their life. I live in San Francisco. I know the insurance gonna be expensive for me.. Is there a way to get cheaper insurance?

Where can I get the Cheapest Car Insurance Quotes at Online?

How can I find the cheapest car insurance for me? I just got my first car and I know I will prolly pay a lot for insurance but how can I check for deals? I am on a really tight budget but at the same time, I only have a second-hand car so I gotta make sure I get insurance that will pay out if I need to make a claim. Where can I get the cheapest car insurance for my car at, and how reliable is it if I need to claim?""

How would car insurance companies benefit if the driving age was raised to 18?

And would insurance cost less? please show sources if you can

Do I have to use my insurance check to fix my car?

someone hit my car and I received a payment from their insurance. Do I have to get my car fixed or not. It's not major damage it's just a broken light and some scratches and they wanted to charge me like a thousand.

Whats the cheepest car on insurance for a 17 year old and how much?

whats the cheepest car on insurance for a 17 year old and how much

Who offers the best and most affordable medical insurance?

i am a 19 year old female from southern california. I work full time and not currently going to school. my job does not offer medical benefits i would like coverage asap. please help me out!

Should I tell my insurance company that my car was broken into?

My car was broken into last night, between the hours of 9:30pm, and 7am, just parked in front of the condo we live in. Some things of value were taken, ( estimated around $130, or $150 in value...no damage was done to the car, they must've just picked the locks) so I filed a police report this morning...is this something I should report to my car insurance provider? If so, how would filing a report with insurance help me? I'm 19, and have been driving for a little over two years now, my insurance is through AAA. I have had no previous driving offenses on my record, or anything. (This has never happened to me before, so pardon some irrelevent info, here!) before. Do you recommend I file a claim with AAA, or just let the police handle it entirely? When would I need to file a claim by? (like, a deadline, time-wise.)""

What is a cheap auto insurance for a 20yr old male student?

What is a cheap auto insurance company for a college student 20yr old male, good grades""

An average how much is car insurence for teenagers?

i have been talking to my parents and they told me its time for me to pay for my own insurance,so i was like ok,but what is the average amount for car insurance?""

Will Homeowners Insurance cover fallen tree?

I cut down a tree in my back yard and yes it fell the wrong way taking out my porch. Will homeowners insurance cover this???

Are there low-cost health insurance options for non-legal adults in California?

My neighbors are immigrants who have lived in California for over 22 years. They have worked and paid taxes since then. Unfortunately, they are still waiting to become legal residents. They have two children who are both U.S. citizens and whose health insurance is already cared for. They themselves pay for private health insurance that is nearly $1000/month. My neighbor recently lost his job and is no longer bringing in any income. Are there any low-cost health insurance options for them?""

What term life insurance policy should I get for a 60 yr old man?

My father is 60, smoker and taking Zocor. Normal weight. The quotes I have seen for a 10 yr term for $150,000 are $180 a month. Does that seem right? Anyone know a cheaper one? Basically I inherit the house while my relative gets the cash, so it's all fair. I would make the payments and leave my relative as the beneficiary. Thanks""

Average health insurance COVERAGE?

I need to do a little research on this, I'm not interested on how much you PAY, but how much your insurance will COVER for hospital stays, surgeries, lab tests, etc. Example: if you stayed in the hospital for 2 weeks, up to how much will your company cover (after your deductible)?""

""Are most companies going to switch to Obamacare, for their insurance coverage plans.?""

Are most companies going to switch to Obamacare, for their insurance coverage plans.?""

Can i get plastic surgery without having insurance?

I'm 18 years old and my parents insurance covers me. If im paying in cash do i have to know their insurance info?

Car accident with no insurance?

I was stopped at a red light behind two cars. Both cars started to go and so did I the next thing I knew I had hit the car in front of me. The car in front of me hit the car in front of him. We all pulled over my car isnt to bad but I drive a suburban, the car in front of me was a smaller car so his looked a little worse. Nobody was hurt, and all cars were drivable, so we decided to not call the police we just all exchanged information. After we had finished and they left I immediately called my insurance lady to let her know what happened. I am not super clear on this next part, we have been going back and forth with our insurance since that call and will continue to fight it. When I called the insurance lady she said I wasnt covered. She said that they had received the last payment much later than it was due (not sure how because it was mailed the same time as always) but because of that our insurance had been cancelled. A couple of weeks ago they had chased our check, she said we were reinstated as of yesterday (the day of the accident) but because it was the same day they werent liable to pay the damages. We are going to keep fighting them because I dont think its fair. Even if they decide that they wont pay we can afford to just pay for the damages to the rear end of the car in front of us, because know matter what happened I am at fault for following to close. We cant afford to pay out of our pocket also for his front end and the rear end of the first car. Shouldnt those damages be covered by the car I hit because he was obviously following to close to the car in front of him? Im a little freaked out with all this, this is the first accident I have ever been in and we have always had insurance, so we thought. The insurance company did say they mailed us a cancellation notice but if they did we have never received one.""

Cheap auto insurance in gresham/portland oregon?

I just moved to Gresham, OR from the Dallas, TX area. I am a 19 year old female who has been driving for over 2 years and has never gotten in a wreck. In Texas I had auto insurance for $88 a month from a local independently owned company. All the quotes I am getting from popular companies here are unbelievably high. Does anyone know of any cheap independently owned companies in the Gresham/Portland Oregon area. I'm trying to shoot for my insurance to be under $100 a month. Please let me know, thanks.""

Adding 18 year old non-owner to car insurance.?

I am now 18 years old but have not yet gotten my driver's license because of the rate increase before I turned 18. I have had my learner's permit for 3 years and have a perfect driving record (no tickets or accidents). I do not own a car right now. So, I need to know if A) I need to be added to my parent's policy in order to drive their car once I get my license, and B) if so, how much more will the insurance be? I live in Florida.""

Must all drivers in New York have insurance?

if so then what would be the penalty for not having insurance? & is there a minimum amount of insurance that must be carried?

Can someone over 65 purchase private health insurance in California?

Can someone over 65 purchase private health insurance in California?

Insurance- dui-?

if i get convicted of a dui- my insurance will go up correct, the question i have is how long will i be paying the higher premium? 10 years? 5 years? 1 year? and also what is the avergae price it goes up considering i am 23 years old no tickets or accidents till the dui accident(hit a tree) live in southern california and drive a mustang gt i pay 160 with the accident right now(i think i paid 100-125ish before the accident. thanks""

I need tips for reducing cost of car insurance plz?

Ive got a few tips but can anyone think of any more? thanks a million

Average cost of dune buggy insurance- just answer... I don't want websites to go to?

Average cost of dune buggy insurance- just answer... I don't want websites to go to?

How much is cheap auto insurance for a 16 yr old female?

she would have a nissan maxima. how much would it be to have her under her own..with a co signer in VA

Can someone help me? I got a citation for no insurance?

My brother has a cheap cash car and I just moved in with him. Well apparently since its so cheap, he decided not to get insurance on it, but I have to drive it to work. A cop hiding out saw me do a illegal u-turn, and i quote that because I didn't see any sign saying no u-turn. Anyways, he pulled me over and asked for proof of insurance and I had none, so he gave me this citation and i have some mandatory meeting to go to court? I never been pulled over or issues a citation, and i'm so pissed at my brother for not having insurance! Now i'm going to go personally buy me some when I get home, but I never done this before, is there a way I can get out of this? I would be considered a first time offender, and he told me I had a good driving record, and said something about making a deal with me, by going to the court but I don't remember because i'm so stressed out right now. Then I read something online about a conviction if and something about a surcharge annual for 3 years? WTF is that all about?""

How to insure my car if I go to live in France?

I'm moving to France soon and I would like to keep my english car. Insurance companies are asking for the bonus-malus and I don't know the equivalent in english...so they can't tell me how much it would be...Does anybody had to insure their car in France? What do I need to do? thanks xxxx

Taking new car home with no insurance?

So the car is in my Moms name and she has insurance, but she has to drive her car home, meaning I have to drive the other one. I don't have insurance, but we are getting GAP insurance. Is this safe? If I damage the car are we covered?""

Liability vs Full Coverage??

I don't know much about insurance can someone tell me how liability and full coverage insurance works?

Penalty Points on car insurance?

Ive been with my current insurer for a couple of years. I got a speeding fine (3 points) in the summer of 2007. I stupidly didnt declare it with my insurer and missed it off on my renewal. I am now leaving them and going elsewhere and want to come clean and list this conviction in my quote. My question is........ WIll the new company check with the old company about my insurance with them and any convictions? If so will they notice the discrepency and tell my old insurer?

How much will the insurance company give me for my car?

i was crashed into by another driver who has accepted full responsibility, my car was a vw polo 1.2 e it had done 55,000 miles and was a 53 plate. does anyone know how much they will offer me? im really worried im going to get completely ripped off and i only brought it a few months ago and the crash wasn't my fault at all. thanx for any help :)""

How can I get insurance without a job?

I want to be a full time nanny but I won't be getting insurance. How can I get my own insurance?

Who offers the best and most affordable medical insurance?

i am a 19 year old female from southern california. I work full time and not currently going to school. my job does not offer medical benefits i would like coverage asap. please help me out!

If I show proof of insurance?

I was driving my car on the clock. I use my vehicle as a work vehicle. Anyways I was sent to the store to purchase sodas. when I tapped a vehicle on the rear bumper. We pulled over and exchanged information. And later found out that my own insurance was expired. Am I covered. By work or can I purchase insurance after the fact. And still be okay?

""Car insurance in the USA, for foreigners / tourists?""

im 18years old, and hopefully after my exams in may, i hope to go to america to visit a couple of friends. My mates have put forward the idea of a possible roadtrip in his car. Its his car, and im assuming its insured. However since its a roadtrip, i will also probably need to drive, in which case how do i sort this out?? can i drive on his insurance, as long as i tell his insurance company or is it more complicated than that. I've been told than unlike car insurance in the UK, Americans insure the DRIVER, rather than the car. i have a full UK license, and dont mind if i have to get a international driving permit, but how do i figure out this insurance problem.""

Average insurance rate for BMW 5 series and Lexus RX?

What are the average insurance rates for a BMW 530 or 5 series in general? I can understand that it may vary based on location and the driving history of the driver and maybe other factors too but still there has got to be an average? Also, how does the insurance rate compare to a Lexus RX series? Is it more or less than the 5 series?""

Someone hit me and they cancelled their car insurance?

I was hit by a moving truck (chevy), while I was in a parking lot. My car was not moving at the time the truck hit me. He gave me his car insurance info and phone number. I tried calling his number and I reached a dead end. I started a claim through Farmers insurance and I got a call today saying the claim was cancelled, because the gentleman in question cancelled his insurance the day the accident took place. What do I do now?""

When my boyfriend turned 18 he lost his health insurance. where can he get health insurance at?

He doesn't see the importance of it, but I know he needs it. dental and health insurance. He doesn't make a lot of money either.""

Car insurance expired?

my insurance expired today, do i have to declare my car is off road while im trying to sell it. is there a time limit""

Would it be a good idea for insurers to give a % of income they give out in claims?

We all look for the cheapest premium, but we have no idea how they would perform if you had to claim. I heard somewhere that car insurers give out much more that household insurance (or vice versa) and can't understand why.""

Insurance policy?...?

My mum n dad are insured on a car and are going away next week for 2 weeks and said I can get insured on their car. But their insurance will not insure anyone under 25. I don't think you can have 2 insurance policies on one vehicle but not sure, so can you? How can I get round this? If I got a temp insurance the police would only give me a warning, yeah? Personal Information: 19 year old male with a 2 year driving license and 1 year NCB Pass Plus obtained""

How can they justify the cost of car insurance?

Hi I want to know how are car insurance company's able to justify the extra costs for men over women, I've just had to pay 2620.18 for my insurance (the cheapest i could get) and have just checked to see how much i would be paying if i was female and the same company was charging only 1693.19 and the new cheapest is now 1549.89. I can honestly not see how they are allowed to charge me an extra 926.99 purely because I'm a guy. I'm sure there would be an uproar and complaints if company's started charging more for people of different ethnic origins so can they get away with this?""

""If you were non-insured for health coverage, what would you prefer?""

Would you rather be under a government-run option that decide who you could see, what procedures are allowed and when you were allowed to have those procedures done? Or would you prefer a tax credit that would allow you to choose a private plan that you want, that allows you to see who you prefer, have the coverage that you need and treat you in a timely fashion? Today the Republicans have proposed an option that would give you such a choice, but Democrats have shut them out and don't want Americans to know that they have such a choice in healthcare.""

How Much Is the insurance going to increase?

Today I hit a car :( and although it was minimal damage, he decided to report it. I wanted to know how much is the insurance going to increase. Take in that i'm not in the policy its under my mom's name.""

How much would motorcycle insurance cost for a 17 year old boy?

How much would motorcycle insurance cost for a 17 year old boy?

Insurance: Get car fixed?

On Friday, I was rear-ended by a 2000 Mitsubishi Montero Sport. I got some minor damage done to my 2004 Mazda 3s. My bumper has scratches and a dimple-- which really isn't noticeable. The car has 100,000 and I'm debating whether or not to get it fixed. I am thinking of taking the insurance money to pay off debt. Should I or should I get the car fixed? Will I get into trouble if I use the money to pay off debt?""

How does the insurance company find out about moving violations?

My understanding is that when you get a moving violation (e.g, a speeding ticket), the police or the courts or whoever will notify your insurance company. When your insurance company finds out and finds out about the points that are now on your license, they raise your insurance premium. However, a friend tells me that he's received several speeding tickets, that his insurance company has never found out (meaning no one is notifying his insurance company), and that his premium has therefore never gone up. How is that possible?""

How much is it for a girls car insurance?

I'm in grade eight and we have to do this project and for one of the questions I need to know how much my car insurance would be, I'm a girl as I said and I live in Ontario, Canada. Anyone know?""

How much would the insurance be for a 16 year old with a v6 2010 camaro?

My mom is either giving me her car which is a 2006 Lexus gx 470 which she bought for $50,000 or she will buy me a 2010 v6 camaro. Would insurance be lower if I recieved the lexus or camaro?""

Can i get my car insurance reinstated?

Hi, my insurance was paid in full for 10 months. i had a crash end september went down i was at fault. I still had till end march on policy and obvs its been cancelled as car was right off. I am sure the woman said i can reinstate policy as i paid in full?? Any help would be good thanks""

I Scratched another car how much will my insurance go up?

While backing up at a gas station I bumped into a guys car and left a dime size bump on his car how much do you think it will cost? and how much will my insurance go up?

Affordable and good quality health insurance?

I'm looking into purchasing some health insurance. I'm 20 years old with no major health concerns. I'm thinking about Allstate but I hear it's around $100 a month.

""What is a good & inexpensive life insurance, medical insurance & dental insurance?""

I work for a company that doesnt supply any of this. So I need to come up with this on my own, hence the inexpensive part. I am a husband & father of 3 so I would like to make sure they are well taken care of just incase. I would also like a good insurance for us.""

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I am not added to his insurance but the car is insured.. how does it work?.. website link would help as well..

Where do I but non car owner insurance?

I need to get my licence and here in NC they require you to have insurance to get your licence wher do I go to buy non car owners insurance at the best price?

Insurance and child support?

If my husband provides insurance through his work to his daughter and is also paying child support on her is he going to be responsible for the co-pay everytime she goes to the doctor? His daughter also has a secondary insurance through the state that her mom collects we were just wondering if the secondary insurance would pay or who would be responsible. The mother or him???

Where to find cheap car insurances and allows for monthly payment?

Where to find cheap car insurances and allows for monthly payment? I'm seeking for a real cheap car insurances that allows me to go for monthly payment. any one out there who has any answer, pls reoky to me asap, its really Urgent. thanks, guys...""

Infiniti g35 insurance rate for a 19 year old?

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Who offers the best and most affordable medical insurance?

i am a 19 year old female from southern california. I work full time and not currently going to school. my job does not offer medical benefits i would like coverage asap. please help me out!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-cheapest-car-insurance-sharie-noena-2"

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V. Trail Villa de Cuntis: 28km

V. Trail Villa de Cuntis: 28km (+4690) July 2, 2017 3:27:46

Prologue

Back in January I secured an entry to the Vermont 100 ultra and the insurance plan in case anything happened. My thinking was that if Boston went well I could squeeze in an endurance block of training and go into Vermont with about 6 months of consistent training, if Boston went poorly then I would reconsider if now was the right time for my first attempt at 100 miles. As fate would have it Boston went poorly and my ensuring bout with the Shingles virus redirected my focus away from training for a 100 miler. Fortunately I was able to file my claim for the insurance and Jackie and I (read: Jackie) booked flights to Spain for another summer abroad. I packed trail and road shoes with no real plans, but I had a feeling I'd find a race. Racing in a foreign country is probably my favorite way to travel- I think I might be an odd tourist.

 Training:

I'm still dealing with sporadic flare ups of shingles, similarly I am dealing with sporadic flare ups of motivation to run.  I'm enjoying my running lately, sometimes going without my watch and NOT EVEN PUTTING IT ON STRAVA...crazy I know.  

V. Trail Villa de Cuntis: 28km

Long story short Jackie and I found ourselves in the northwest corner of Spain in the region of Galicia. An area with ancestral ties to the Celts and home to a distinct language and culture that blends Portuguese and Spanish. They have bagpipes too.  On a Friday, I started to look around for a race for that weekend (I've never been much for planning). With the help of Jackie and Clara I was able to send a message to two race directors requesting the chance to enter their event after registration had closed. Yago responded “yes” and we reserved a car and an airBnB. The small town of Cuntis gave itself over to the event. The race start and finish were in the shadow of the town church right on the center square and flowing fountain. Slowly, a few hundred runners assembled for the races- 28k, 17k, and 17k hike. Right away the distance of the race made an impression on me. 28km- not 30km. A race in the US would have included a lap or two around town to round the course out to 30. Not here. 28km was just fine. It's not about the distance covered- it's about the trail itself- the region, the mountains, the forests. This course strung together three peaks that surround a small town in south-central Galicia. No frills- just hard running. This is an important and a too often neglected aspect of trail running. So many races in the US, particularly Texas, are seemingly endless loops that total a round or standard racing distance- like road racing. Anyway, I registered for the race, filled a handheld water bottle in the fountain (definitely not in Texas anymore), and took my place at the back of the front pack behind the starting line.

Start to first peak:

The pace at the start felt reasonable, which has not been my experience racing in Spain in the past. We zip through the town and down an alley that gives way to a beaten down track leading towards the hills. There is a "we're all in this together" spirit to the pack as we settle into position and wind through the tall, wet, summer grass. The trail climbs moderately through the forest. The ground is soft and spongy with layers of moss, dirt, and bark. Many of us bring our hands to our knees and start pumping our legs to drive our bodies up the hill- the stronger of the bunch just keep running.  As we push on, the surface of the trail begins to change. The trees fade and are replaced with scrubby, prickly brush. Gone, too, is the soft soil of the denser woods. Now we are navigating through half buried baby-head rocks. Every few meters the rocks get larger and larger as we approach the summit. The summit itself is a pile of large VW- sized boulders. Hand-over-hand, we pull ourselves between, up and over the mound. The runners pause to help each other here, snap photos, and remark on the vista. At least I imagine that's what they are saying- I can't even fake speaking Gallego. The summit is of no real significance, it just marks the point at which you can't go any higher and you can see that the folds of great hills with ridges of mounded rock stretch to the horizons. Wind turbines churn in the not too far off distance. I quickly make my way from the ridge and find the established trail again.

  1st major descent to second peak.

 Everyone here descends the trail like Kilian Jornet, blisteringly fast with no self regard. I think this can only be achieved by a life in the mountains.  I'm really at a loss as to why I am so slow on the downhill.  This is a note to modify my training to account for this glaring weakness. Most of this descent is through a freshly cleared swath of forest and is treacherously full of small stumps and chipped up under growth. This isn't a trail, per say, it's a transition to the next trail. In short order we pop out onto double track roads that I can only assume were cut for logging. Finally my road running "pedigree" can come in handy. I pick up more speed. But in no time at all the course dips and cuts the switch back and drops us into a steep road cut and we have to jump a few feet to the road below. What the hell?  This is great! 

 The next and most significant peak is ahead and staring at you. We run past a few houses and the inhabitants are outside curiously watching the spectacle of the day. The trail follows the same pattern as before but this summit is a bit taller and opens into a vast highland region. Expansive views, green grass, scattered rocks and boulders. The scene is very tranquil and we run up here for quite some time. The true peak is another mound of rocks this time resembling more of a fin that winds along the ridge. I am running more or less alone. The occasional person passes me and up ahead I can see the fluorescent colors of other runners. I settle myself and commit that this is a run for pure joy. Here I am in this place. I am so lucky to be here and to have my fitness to carry me through such a place.

 Second major descent to final peak

This is the steepest and most technical descent of my life. I'm pretty sure it's a wildfire control cut. It was so steep- I saw old winch cables tied around rocks and trees. Loose soil. All of it. This was not a trail, but it was the way down. I wish I could see the faster runners move through this. I proceed with caution for what feels like too long. The course bends and then drops again. We are losing elevation fast. I tumble into the houses at the foot of the mountain and am greeted by a family with a few children.  At this point I am too worn to attempt speaking Spanish with them. I smile, fill my bottle and say "thank you!" As I throw myself back into momentum I hear them say in puzzled tone, "¿inglés?".  Soon enough the trail bottoms out a river with a rope stretched across. The runner ahead steps in and right away is up to his waist- I'm glad that I didn't bring my phone with me. The rope wasn't exactly necessary, but I'm glad it was there. I slip-stumbled through the water with a huge smile. What an experience!  Climbing out of the riverbed and out onto a road, I know that I am coming to the end, the last climb must be ahead.  The heat of the day was mounting and I began to encounter those hiking the shorter course. The last climb was exposed, rocky, and steep. Again, I'm pretty sure it was a wildfire cut. As I power-hiked up the slope a guy participating in the hiking event came up behind me. We exchanged a look and communicated as best we could. I wish I could have said more to him besides good, tough, strong, tired, I'm sorry. He didn't seem to mind too much and started to tell me about Marcos. Now before the race started I was piecing together information about event from Gallego Facebook pages. I could tell that the event was a benefit for the Cidras.  This excited me because in northern Spain local cider is really popular and delicious. This isn't completely true in Galicia, which would make sense why a race would benefit the local cider industry...I thought. Turns out Marcos Cidras is a local trail runner and mountaineer who suffered a terrible accident. The race was a benefit for him and his family- this makes more sense than the local cider houses. The hiker took off his backpack to show me a picture of a man trail running, he told me it was Marcos and that he was the strongest of them all (I think). I knew what he was doing. He was giving me "ánimo". The Spanish racers are very supportive of each other and will go out of their way to help a fellow racer with an extra boost. I've seen this time and time again. He was telling me to push on for Marcos. The pitch relaxed and I started to run again. A shout of "Ánimo!" pushed me over the crest. Time to run. The trail dropped and wound around to the woods- three miles left.  But not before another brutal downhill- full of rocks. Earlier in our trip the wonderful Ms. Jackie took a brutal spill running on some rocks (a story for another day). I knew I was fatigued and I could hardly support my core. This possibly last decent scared me. I picked my way through it with real caution. I quelled my competitive drive and took it easy. ¿What's this? Another climb. A real spirit breaker. My new mantra is "it's never over". But I let that slip and allowed myself the joy of knowing the end is near. Damn hill-  it was steep and rutted, another transitional path not a real trail. I got over it. Legs shot. A guy passed me. Hmmm. I stretch out the legs on the flat and passed him. I wanted to run fast to the end. Gnarly forest downhill- I start to push.  Flat section. I put some distance in him. Gnarly downhill. I'm done. Sharp turn to downhill I step aside and shout "Animo" and let him pass he disappears. I'm so glad I did this. The final 2 miles were very painful for me. My core was rocked. Eagerly step was accompanied by an audible painful breath. I find my mantra again. "It's never over". The woods were beautiful- in Spanish the word is bosque. I like that word better than woods. We come to a double track and I see a familiar silhouette under a tree. Jackie!  I get to her and just give a wave. I wish I had more but I left it in the bosque. The course routes us to some ancient stairs. What the hell? 

I laugh and take the stairs in good spirits. The spit me out into the town and I stretch it out to finish hard. I cross the line and hear my name announced with a Spanish accent. "Jamie Estone, the American". I clasp my hands together to say thanks and make my way to the shade and ice cold well in the town center. In I go. It was deeper than I imagined and filled with fish and non offensive leeches. No one seemed worried. I was done. 28km 3:26:xx 26/100.

Epilogue

The “runcation” is the only way to travel and racing in a foreign country is such a fun experience.  The experience is especially significant for me because I can’t speak Spanish well at all, the race becomes a chance for me to connect with other people without having to talk.  Smiles, hard efforts, near disasters, and amazing views are universal.  I have learned though, that (at least in Spain) people don’t “woop!” I think that’s an American thing.  Generally speaking this race was enough to remind me that I’m not where I want to be with running.  I plan to take a break from racing and focus on training- I want to get strong! Animo!

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Have you ever worked hard on a presentation, only to feel that it falls short of your expectations? It may not be your fault. 

Your less-than-memorable presentation could actually be the result of using the wrong presentation theme. Use the right professional theme that has great design layouts and your presentation is likely to be a hit. But with the wrong theme you could find that you left your audience with a bad impression.

If you use Google Slides to create presentations, there are plenty of professional Google Slides themes your can import. Making a great impression has never been easier.

In this tutorial, I'll explain in detail why choosing a high-quality presentation theme is so important. I'll also show you how to find and download professional Google Slides themes using Envato's GraphicRiver marketplace. Finally, I'll explain how to quickly apply customization to the Google Slides theme you chose after importing it into your presentation.

We'll use the popular Swift Google Slides Theme in today's tutorial. 

1. Why Presentation Theme Designs Are So Important

You may have a great message for your presentation. You may have done tons of research. You may spend hours practicing. But unless you are careful about choosing your presentation theme design, all that hard work may not come across to your audience or best represent your brand.

No matter what presentation software you use, the presentation theme you select and use is important. A good presentation theme helps you to:

Draw the Viewer In. Like it or not, we're all affected by what we see. Colors, images, fonts, and shapes—they all make a difference. The right theme makes good use of all these design elements to engage the audience through a presentation. The best themes come with great layout options and plenty of striking graphic features.

Shape the Reader's Opinion. The way your theme looks impacts the reader's impression of you. A well-designed, professional theme leaves your audience with a positive opinion of you and your message. A sloppy, unprofessional presentation design does the opposite.

Allow for Branding. A good theme lets you add your unique branding elements to your presentation, such as your color scheme and logo. It also helps tie the presentation to your brand in your audience's mind. This is important for in person presentations, as well as when distributing your presentations online.

Save Time. The right theme saves you time. No longer do you have to spend hours trying to develop the right look on your own. A good theme will be attractive and come with plenty of unique slide designs. It will also be easy to customize for your needs with quick to edit professional slide setup.

Avoid Common Mistakes. There are many common design traps for those new to presentation design. Using too many fonts or the wrong colors for your presentation are just a few of the things that can go wrong. A professional theme helps you get it right.

Browse through this post for a curated selection of the most-popular Google Slides themes, with fresh, on-trend designs: 

2. How to Find & Download the Right Google Slides Theme

If you use Google Slides for your presentation, the good news is that you don't have to look far to find a good presentation template. There are many resources available, including some from Envato's own GraphicRiver site.

In this section, we provide detailed steps on how to find and download a Google Slides theme for your needs.

Step 1. Start at GraphicRiver

While there are many Google Slides templates available for download, our own GraphicRiver site is a good place to start when looking for a professional theme.

GraphicRiver has a premium selection of presentation templates available. Here are our best-selling Google Slides themes that are available for download:

Find the best Google Slide templates on GraphicRiver, available for download and import.

Each thumbnail shown on the screen represents a different Google Slides presentation theme. To examine a theme more closely, click on a thumbnail.  A screen appears showing more information about the Google Slides theme you clicked on:

Use the scrollbar to see more information about a selected Google Slides theme.

Use the scrollbar to the right of the screen to scroll through the information about the Google Slide theme. You'll get plenty of slide design examples of the theme, information about the theme author, and details of what's included inside the download.

Step 2. Use Search to Look through Google Slides Themes

If you are having trouble finding the right presentation theme for you, use the search tool in the upper right corner to find a Google Slides theme more to your liking.

Use the search tool to find a Google Slides theme.

When you've typed in your search phrase, click the Search icon (it looks like a magnifying glass) in the upper right. In this example, we are searching on the phrase "google slides design". You'll see a list of thumbnails that meet your search criteria.

If you need to, use tools on the right to further narrow your search. Or, use the sort tools at the top to change the order of your search results:

You can narrow your search results with sort tools, categories, and tags.

You can also start in the Google Slides category page to find the newest Google Slides themes or sort those that are the best-sellers.

Step 3. Select and Download a Google Slides Theme

Once you've found a Google Slides theme you'd like to download, click on the theme's thumbnail to open it:

Click on a theme's thumbnail to open it.

Note: In this example we are using the Swift Minimal Google Slides Template.

Details about the selected theme display:

Details for the Swift Minimal Google Slides template appear.

In the upper right corner you'll see a button with the price of the theme. Click the price button to purchase the theme. The Customize Your Selection dialog box appears:

Add your Google Slides theme to your cart.

From the center of the dialog box, use the drop-down menu to choose between a Regular or an Extended license. 

About These Licenses

A regular license allows for a single use of the theme for yourself or an end client. With a regular license, you are not allowed to charge the end user for the use of the theme. 

An extended license also allows for a single use of the theme, but with an extended license you may also charge the end user for the theme and the end result may be sold. 

Learn more about these licenses. 

Now Add to Cart and Checkout

Click the Add to Cart button in the lower right corner. The Google Slides theme is added to your cart. Click the Go to Checkout button.

If you're not already logged into your GraphicRiver account, you'll be prompted to log in or to create an account:

Create an account or log in.

Once you are logged into an account, enter your purchase information and complete the purchase. A confirmation screen displays:

You have paid for the Google Slides theme.

Click the Download button on the lower right to complete the transaction. A popup displays asking whether you wish to open or save your download. Select the toggle button next to the Save File option and click the OK button. Your Google Slides template ZIP file is downloaded onto your computer (most likely it will be in your Downloads folder).

You can't upload a ZIP file to your Google Slides presentation. So, you need to double-click on the downloaded ZIP file to open the contents. Use the Extract All option, or other a similar tool, to unzip the ZIP file.

3. How to Modify the Google Slides Template to Create a New Presentation

If you don't have an existing presentation, get a head start on creating a new Google Slides presentation by opening the downloaded template file and editing it. Here's how:

Note: This example was created on a PC using the Windows operating system. For this example, I downloaded the Main - Swift Google Slides theme. If you use a different operating system or download a different Google Slides theme, your results may be slightly different.

Step 1. Drag Google Slides Theme File to Google Drive

After your template file is unzipped in your Downloads folder on your PC, drag the Main - Swift Google Slides folder to the your Google Drive:

Upload Google Slides theme template files to Google Drive.

A notification of the file upload appears in the lower right corner of the screen. Click the X in the upper right corner of the notification to close it.

Step 2. Open the Template File

Double-click the Main - SWIFT Google Slides folder to open it. Double-click the Presentations subfolder. You'll see three presentations themes in PowerPoint PPTX format (these will convert to Google Slides format when opened). The screen should look something like this:

Google Slides presentation themes.

Double-click the theme variation you wish to open. The file displays, but does not open. Choose the Open with Google Slides option from the center of the screen. The selected theme opens with the default text:

Your selected Google Slides theme is open with default text.

Step 3. Rename and Edit the Google Slides Theme

Before you begin changing the default theme, rename it. Type the name of the new presentation in the upper left corner. This creates a copy of the presentation without overwriting the original theme. This could be important if you decide to start over and return to the original theme.

To replace the existing text in the presentation, highlight it and type over it. Your presentation should look something like this:

Rename the presentation and type over the default text.

Click the plus symbol (+) at the left of the icon menu to add new slides as needed. Continue editing and modifying the presentation. You can change the fonts, colors, and make other formatting changes just as you would for any other presentation.

For more guidance on formatting a presentation, refer to the following Envato Tuts+ tutorial:

4. How to Change a Google Slides Theme for an Existing Presentation

Now that you've found a presentation theme that you wish to use, you are ready to apply it to an existing Google Slides presentation. Let's get started: 

Step 1. Open a Presentation

Go to your Google Drive and open an existing presentation in Google Slides. Here is an existing presentation:

An existing Google Slides presentation

You can change the theme for several of the slides in the presentation or for all of the slides in the presentation.

Select the slides you wish to apply the new Google Slides theme to by clicking on them in the panel on the left. To select more than one slide, use the CTRL key.

Note: To keep your presentation uniform, I suggest that you apply the same theme to all the slides in your presentation.

Step 2. Change the Theme

With your presentation open and the slides you wish to change selected, click Slide > Change theme. A side panel appears to the right of your presentation showing all the currently available themes:

You can change the theme of one slide or of several slides.

At the bottom of the side panel, click the Import theme option. The Import Theme dialog box displays:

Click Select a file from your computer.

To upload the theme from your computer, click the Upload option at the top of the dialog box, then click Select a file from your computer. If you are on a PC, File Explorer opens.

Go to the folder where downloaded template files are stored. Most likely, this will be your Downloads folder.

Open the Main - SWIFT Google Slides folder, which contains a Presentations subfolder. Double-click the Presentations folder to open it. The contents of the subfolder are visible:

Select one of the available themes and click Open.

Click on the template file of your choice and click the Open button. The new theme is uploaded:

The new theme is uploaded.

Another Import Theme dialog box displays:

Click the thumbnail and click the Import theme button.

Click on the Default Theme thumbnail and click the Import theme button in the lower right corner of the dialog box. The new theme is automatically applied to your presentation:

The selected theme is applied to your existing presentation.

Note: Swift is a minimal style theme design, so the change here is subtle. Once you apply it to multiple slides in your presentation though, you'll notice a more dramatic style transformation with your entire presentation. 

Step 3. Make Adjustments

Notice that some formatting remains from your original presentation. For example, the border around the title and the white color on the font on the first slide remain the same. To get the full effect of your new theme, you may wish to change some of your original formatting.

For example, to make sure white text is visible against a white background, you may need to adjust the text color. Likewise, you need to make sure that black text is visible against a black background. Adjust the text color by highlighting the text and using the Format > Text color option. 

Text color is just one of many adjustments and edits you can make to your presentation after the new theme is applied. You can make other adjustments to the presentation as well.

Conclusion

The theme you use for your presentation is important. A professional presentation theme can help you to make the right impression. You can find lots of professional themes at GraphicRiver. 

Downloading a Google Slides theme and applying it to your presentation is not difficult. And the right Google Slides theme can make all the difference when it comes to the impression you make on your audience.

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How To Install WordPress blog In Under 30 Minutes

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Critiques expressed with the aid of Forbes Individuals are their own. Haris BacicHaris Basic, Contributor WordPress is the maximum famous blogging and CMS platform in the global. Everyone who desires to have control over their internet site without spending lots of money on protection has to appearance to WordPress.

I’ve for my part mounted masses of WordPress installations for clients in my beyond jobs. In reality, all the net homes we control at Basic Media Group currently run on the WordPress platform, and we haven’t any intentions on converting to anything else proper now.

In this article, we’ll go over the way to install a fresh copy of WordPress on any host with cPanel in beneath half-hour.

Remember that if your web host has a 1-click on an option to deploy WordPress, then you definitely need to use that as it does all the give you the results you want. However, for those that do not have that alternative, comply with these simple instructions to get the activity performed.

The first issue you will need to do is Download the WordPress documents on WordPress.Org. My desire is tar.Gz version due to the fact it’s miles smaller in filesize, but the zip version works simply as properly.

2. Create a Database (7 Mins)

The next aspect we want to do is create a MySQL database. To try this, we want to log in to our cPanel account. As soon as we’re inside the cPanel dashboard screen, we will click on “MySQL Database Wizard” and follow the stairs with the intention to create the database and database consumer.

Step 1

inside the first step, we virtually create a database by using specifying what call we need it to be. just make sure you write this down as we can need it later when we run the WordPress installation.

Putting in WordPress To your internet site

Owning or designing a website is undoubtedly a massive step in the direction of online marketing. Having a website is the first-rate platform to create recognition and to attain out to billions of people throughout the sector and permitting them to recognize about your services or products. Having a website enables you to attract extra attention from your capability clients or clients. The main impediment faced via Net Marketers, in terms of Proudly owning an internet site, is growing the website after which managing it themselves. A few new Entrepreneurs have even given up their goals altogether due to the fact they could not find the money for to pay an internet site designer for their offerings. Two decades ago, it becomes almost a demand to hire an internet site fashion designer. But no longer anymore!

Here is the coolest news. You may create a website all by yourself and additionally manipulate it, all by means of yourself! However, a question approximately which platform to use usually arises on the subject of growing your own internet site. human beings often inquire from me, “should I just get a WordPress website online or Joomla, Drupal – or what?”

WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are excellent content control systems (CMS – geek speak for “internet site”). those structures will assist you to make changes to your internet site without writing out one line of code! All of these agencies provide incredible functions with clearly extremely good customizations and drag and drop templates and sturdy website security.

However, I could be recommending you go together with WordPress to apply as your CMS because it’s miles sincerely the maximum famous is regularly the fine desire for people new to Net advertising and marketing. more so, it really works particularly remarkable for blogs, small to medium length websites and Some smaller e-commerce websites as nicely. Consequently, I’m able to discuss the steps involved with Installing a WordPress website.

1. Vehicle installation of the WordPress Package deal:

I love it simple. A few web hosting servers could have an Auto installation characteristic set up for WordPress. truly click on on the “deploy WordPress” button; fill in the few information that pops up (assigning an Administrator and placing the password) and BINGO! it’s miles finished in only some seconds.

Now, simply move and begin to installation your internet site!

I like easy! How about you? However, there are A few available that like doing it the “a82ee8a4ee179e54beacaecce0423cb2 manner” – so that is for you!

2. Download The WordPress set up Package

To start the setup procedure, first you have to Download WordPress thru its official Download page (WordPress.Org) I recommend you Download and set up the maximum current version of WordPress.

While you click the Download button for the most current version of WordPress, the installation Package deal might be stored on your PC. Discover the setup report you just downloaded and extract the files inner to any other folder (preferably a new folder).

3. Transfer the WordPress files to your Server

You now must upload the extracted files and folders to your internet server. The only way of uploading the setup bundle is to go through an FTP enterprise. (record Transfer Protocol – You may Google this on-line to apprehend the steps and tactics worried in doing so. There are numerous FTP options available and each has its own unique traits. It’d be past the scope of this text to enter all that are available).

while downloading is finished, extract the record and upload it to your internet site’s website hosting account. You could do this via FTP additionally via the usage of the identical organization you pick for the Download. As an example, if you choose “Filezilla” you would move >>> c-Panel >>> report Manager >>> upload report(s). in case you want to make this WordPress information to be your number one web page, area the files in the “public_html” folder of your website hosting account. In the meantime, You can additionally make a sub-folder (that is: public_html/weblog) if you wish to run just a part of your internet site on WordPress.

4. Make a MySQL Database In your WordPress to apply.

you’ll now create y MySQL Database and assign a consumer to it with complete get entry to (Administrator rights). while you finish growing the MySQL Database and assigning a person, ensure you “write out” the database call, username and the password you simply created. All of those gadgets might be wanted during the setup technique.

5. Start the installation process

You could now navigate to your internet site and proceed with the installation system. in case you already uploaded WordPress inside the public_html listing, you’ll release your internet site via typing your area call within the browser of your choice. The primary element you’ll find out is a message letting you understand which you do now not have a wp-config.Hypertext Preprocessor file. If that is the case, you ought to create it now. virtually click on “Create a Configuration record” to maintain.

you’ll then see a message, asking for you to set up the vital installation. Forget about it and just click on pass (in view that you’ve got already completed this formerly with those commands).

Now enter the total information of the MySQL Database you have got created then click the Submit Button.

On The following web page, enter your Administrative name in addition to the Name of your internet site. After filling for your Administrator information, click on “deploy WordPress” and – this is it!

Now you have got correctly (with a bit of luck) installed your WordPress internet site and You could now login to have whole get right of entry to on your administrative backend. Now pass and begin to create that exceptional website and begin to put up articles, and so on. To help your clients out.

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