[Fic] Decisions and Revisions

Title: Decisions and Revisions
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Jenny Keller, Radek Zelenka
Word Count: 1,101
Rating: PG
Summary: Dr. Keller loses one friend and finds another.

Choices. Consequences. They ran circles around her head.

Intellectually, Dr. Keller knew that she didn't have anything to do with what happened to Weir. The doctor had made her own choices, including the choice to go on the mission the first place, including the choice to stay behind so that the rest of the team and the city could have a chance. Viscerally, she felt responsible for the woman's not-even-certain death.

It had been her idea to use the nanites, after all. Rodney had only programmed them the way she had told him to.

All right, maybe not exactly the way she had told him to. It wasn't as though she knew anything about programming, but she had given him the idea, told him that it might save Weir's life. And he had pulled it off, brilliantly.

And then had come after, and the replicator city, and now Weir was trapped and maybe dead in enemy territory. And Dr. Keller couldn't help thinking that if she hadn't suggested it...

"Then what?"

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