Evolution

Title: Evolution
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Fanfic100 Prompt: 024 - Family
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate Atlantis or any of the characters. I only write fanfic.


It was amazing how her definition of family had changed in the last couple years. Before Atlantis, it was a desperate situation with a malignant father and a hopeless mother.

Family had changed. Family was the people on Atlantis. The people she defended and joked with and occasionally pranked.

Family was good and warm and healthy, not painful and cold and stifling.

As Laura watched her friends eat their breakfast she knew they would never understand the part of her that was so grateful to Atlantis for bringing them together. The part of her they would never expect to find.