[nano] Stained Glass Masquerade

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Sheppard didn't look happy about Heightmeyer's decision to turn Michael loose from the infirmary. Under the circumstances, Teyla could understand. Although their brief meeting had gone rather well by what she had envisioned, that didn't mean he wouldn't suddenly regain his memories and run loose through Atlantis. And she didn't know what he'd do then.

Still. "Do you want me to introduce him to his quarters?" It was, she realized afterwards, a strange way of putting it. Everything about this was strange; she was introducing an amnesiac former Wraith to his new identity as Lt. Michael Kenmore.

Sheppard thought about that for a moment. "Might as well, you seemed to get along with him pretty well." Not, it seemed, that Sheppard was happy about that.

Teyla nodded. "He is a stranger in what should be his home, it is not hard to imagine what he must be feeling right now." That was the wrong thing to say. Sheppard stiffened.

"He's an amnesiac Wraith. There's not much there to feel sorry for."

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