A/N1: Beta read by the wonderful KeianaLunae.
And since a guest asked, but I can't reply to you directly, my account name on AO3 is the same as here. Just search my name, and you'll find it.

PROLOGUE

When I was kid, I'd always have these dreams. The kind that, when you woke up, you were only left with a vague impression of what you'd experienced. Sometimes it was the usual kid dreams: I was flying (a pretty common one actually) or a superhero, the odd nightmare here and there. Those are the ones I remembered.

There were other dreams that didn't linger long. Sometimes I was someone else, though exactly who always escaped me. I would live events in their lives; watching through their eyes. I get the feeling it was always something important.

Sometimes I'd be flying, but these weren't like the other flying dreams. I wasn't flying over land or houses or streets. In these dreams, I was flying over ocean. Glittering clear ocean water; waves crashing against a blurry, gray structure. Sometimes I was flying amid sparkling towers, the kind you saw in science fiction; what buildings of the distant future might look like.

But these dreams would be forgotten as soon as I opened my eyes, and sometimes (on the rare occasion I remembered) I'd tell my mom about them. She would smile and say: It was just a dream, John. Dad had only heard of the dreams once or twice before I figured out he wasn't interested in hearing them.

Eventually though, the dreams stopped, and I stopped mentioning them altogether. I grew up. Dreams of science fiction towers on an ocean was kids stuff. Ten, fifteen, by the time I was eighteen, I'd forgotten the dreams. College, the Air Force, Iraq, Afghanistan, Antarctica, Pegasus - there were more important things than the forgotten dreams of a child.

It wasn't until I'd been living in another galaxy for two years that I figured it out.
I'd started to remember the dreams: the ocean, the towers, the flying.

And I found out… they weren't just dreams.

-312 words

A/N2: I was going to wait till the 3rd to start uploading, but I figured: 'why not?' I know this one's short, but there will be another full size chapter tomorrow.

Instead of overwriting the chapters, since I'm not uploading them all at once, and some chapters are completely new, I'm deleting the rest of the chapters. Act 1 is complete, and in the process of betaing, so there will be a set upload schedule for Act 1.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

If you wish to read the original versions of these chapters, for comparison or whatever, I can provide the link to the story in PDF. The only thing I ask, is if this is your first reading of this, don't ask for the old chapters. I would like this story to be read as intended.

If you already know all the spoilers, by all means, feel free to ask for the PDF if you would like.

I'm going to be focusing more heavily on John&team while on Atlantis, and that's something that I felt I just kinda skipped past in more recent chapters. That's the problem with stories like this: so many details to address, with no real plan to do so, and a lot of stuff ends up lost in the translation from brain to paper. I have a plan now.

Ultimately, most of the chapters up to chapter 15 will be heavily changed. The current 15 and beyond will remain the same. However, current chapter 15 will end up being the new chapter 21, or so says the outline I have written up.

All this said, I hope you enjoy this new rendition of Secrets.

-Jess