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Title: Broken Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis Pairing: John/Elizabeth Rating: PG Word Count: 310 Author's Notes: For fanfic100 prompt #71: Broken. Angst. She still comes to him, in his dreams. She's the only one who does. He's let the rest go, one by one, giving them up so they can't hurt him anymore. It's the only thing he could have done. The only way to stay sane, here. He's given up Atlantis, too, and Earth. The planet he's on is all he knows now. They've never told him its name. He stopped asking long ago. It took a lot longer to stop wondering, but he doesn't have the will to, anymore. He's given up the sky, too. They grounded him, and that hurt more than the rest of it. They haven't harmed him physically, beyond beating him when he tried to escape. He is given food, water, exercise. No contact with anyone but his guards. No conversation with anyone at all. Except her. He doesn't know why he's here. He thinks it might be an experiment. Or maybe they had a purpose in taking him that got lost along the way. Or maybe there was never a reason at all. If he thinks about it too much, he'll go crazy. Assuming he hasn't already. He's not sure about that. She tells him he hasn't. She's never lied to him. He hopes she's not starting now. He tried to give her up, once. She wouldn't leave. He doesn't have the heart to try again. He's held on to the stars, too, for her sake. She doesn't belong in a place like this, so when she comes, they meet among them. In the dreams, that feels normal. In the dreams, she holds him. Talks to him. Sometimes makes love to him, and though they were never lovers in reality, that feels normal, too. She is his lifeline. She is all he has left, and he thinks that if she stays, he might survive this.