Title: One Forgotten Day
Author's LJ/DWJ: vain_glorious
Categories: Daniel, Lost Episode, Stargate Atlantis Crossover
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: LJ Fic Index
Link to story: livejournal
Why this should be read:
What would happen if Daniel and Ronon met before the discovery of Atlantis? In One Forgotten Day, vain glorious gives us a possible scenario that is interesting, believable, and, surprisingly, not AU. Daniel is investigating an unusual Ancient device on an off-world dig and gets saddled with a suspicious Ronon who hasn't quite grasped the fact that he's in the wrong galaxy. What follows is First Contact Daniel-style, as he slowly gets this strange man to open up to him, and a twist ending that proves sometimes the Ancients do clean up after themselves (albeit not in the way we mortals would like them to). It's fun, it's in character, and it's quality outsider-POV if you read it as an Atlantis fan.


The guy was huge. Maybe his perspective was warped because he was on the ground, but Daniel’s captor looked enormous. Maybe even taller than Teal’c. Much thinner, though, with none of Teal’c’s hulk. His arms might have been narrower, but Daniel could see they were solid muscle.

“Uh-oh,” he said, involuntarily.

The man had a mass of dreadlocks, his dark skin was dusted with dirt, and he was looking at Daniel like a lion might look at an antelope.

Daniel swallowed. “Hi,” he said again, since the man hadn’t shot him yet. “I think we got off on the wrong foot.”

“Your army is in my way,” his captor said, in a voice far smoother that the leather outfit might have implied.

“What?” Daniel asked. “What army?”

A long brown finger poked the SG team patch on Daniel’s arm.