No. 30

Prompt: Highland/Stargate. Methos, SG-1, any. Methos is decidedly unimpressed.
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When Methos heard about the SGC, about how humanity had looked under its collective nose and seen what was there all along – Ancients, Antarctica – he was amused, but decidedly unimpressed. He remembered the so-called "Ancients". Merlin. Morgan Le Fay. Others, with their superior notions of technology and what it meant to be civilized. All of them too afraid to get their hands dirty.

So he enlisted, and he signed on as a lowly marine, and he waited for his chance to go through the gate. He kept himself in check, kept himself impressive enough to be chosen for a gate team, but not so impressive that he'd get stuck in the lab with Lam running tests on him to make sure he was human (he was, just immortal).

Daniel Jackson was a bright young man, knew many languages, and more than once Methos was tempted to test him, see what he knew, but instead he listened to the man ramble to himself as he pored over half a dozen translations at once, and it was like taking a pleasant stroll down memory lane.

Methos had forgotten more physics than Samantha Carter ever learned, but she reminded him how capable humans could be in so short a time. She was brilliant, made leaps in logic that should have defied reason, and she made new and old technology come alive together. Methos liked her, and refused to be charmed by her golden hair and blue eyes.

Methos contemplated Vala Mal Doran, intrigued by the hints of ancient shadows in her eyes, and wondered if he could find a good way to talk to her, find out how old she really was. With her pigtails and incessant flirting, she was hiding something. He hoped it was more interesting than plain old human pain.

As for Cameron Mitchell – he looked too much like a man Methos had once known and loved, but he was all wrong, too cheerful, too sunny, with that mid-western drawl.

When Methos was assigned to Atlantis, he didn't know whether to be excited or relieved. He'd heard so much about it. It was high time he got to see it. Ten thousand years was a long time to wait, even for the immortal and endlessly patient.