I do not own anything. This is just a fanfiction based on TV series SG Atlantis. For some parts of this story where were used lines from the original scripts. And I'm sorry about level of my English, it's not my mother tongue.

She just couldn't believe what she saw. At the exact moment Daedalus dropped her here, it all became so real… Of course, she knew Atlantis was real. But something inside her was keeping it all so far away. But now she was there. She was in the lost city of Atlantis, the long gone city of Anciens… And it was so beautiful…

„And who the hell are you, woman?" asked somebody heading her direction.

„You must be John Sheppard. I was told you won't be happy about having me here…" she paused. What the hell was she doing here? How could she deal with these people? „My name is Cathrine Pierce. I'm new leader of Atlantis."

„And where the hell is Sam?" he asked. She could see the gleam of shock behind his eyes. She was here and for him it was great deal of bad news.

„She's not coming back, Colonel Carter was called back by the IOA. I'm here to make sure everything's working until Mr. Woolsey sorts out things for his depart from Earth." There it was. The Woolsey thing. She was not to stay forever. But he was.

„You telling me we'll get Woolsey as a leader?" Said the other man coming from behind.

„That's exactly what I'm sayig. And you are?"

„That's McKay. And why exactly you got to be here for a month before Woolsey comes in? Because I think there's no need for anyone to make sure things are working," Sheppard continued. „And how old are you, sixteen? You're just a child, you can't rule Atlantis."

„For your information, I'm twenty-five. And I'm here just because O'Neill thinks I need to get more off world than just off Earth around Milky Way…" she walked around two men standing before her. „And you might not be happy about that decision but there's nothing you could do about it, is it?" She asked looking in Sheppard's face. „Now, I probably need some place to stay, so I would be really grateful you could show me off to my room and I wouldn't mind if you could quickly fill me in with things around here." She picked up handrail of her suitcase and looked back at John with raised eyebrow. He had nothing to say to that, he couldn't argue with someone he barely knew about thing that didn't belong to his competence. So he just nodded and show her the way.

„I should probably let you unpack and change, so I'll wait in the hall," he offered after showing her her room.

„There's no need for that. I can unpack later and I'm not gonna change anyway. Plus, there are so many thing I need to learn about this place in such a short time…" she smiled. „If you of course don't get tired being my guide."

„Not at all," he returned the smile. She knew exactly what he was thinking. Some crazy girl in her little black dress and killer-high heels is gonna run around his base just because the IOA said so. He wasn't exactly thrilled but who would be? She wasn't thrilled about being here either. She offered herself just so she could piss off Woolsey. She never thought they would really send her in. But O'Neill knew better. Now she just had to make her best of it. There was no way she would fail this assignment. She would rather be dead than fail it and let Woolsey win.

„Who is she?" That question was pointed directly to Sheppard. And the one who was asking was unbelievably tall man with dreadlocks. In the moment she saw him she knew he will be trouble. She just couldn't tell why.

„This is our new leader… for this month," sighted John. „This is Ronon Dex, he's a member of my team. Fromely from Sateda." She raised her hand to a handshake but that guy just stood there looking over her from heels up.

„Why is she wearing hells?" he asked.

„Do I have a reason not to?"

„He ment that… women around here don't wear high hells very often. We're more of these uniform types, you know…" Sheppard tried to make it up for his friend but he knew he couldn't.

„I don't believe this is what he ment. He pretty much ment that woman in high hells is dependant just because she admits she's woman at all. And I can't protect myself when I'm wearing hells…" She looked him in the eyes and she saw it all. He thought she was weak. But she wasn't. And even if she was, she couldn't let him think that. She wouldn't let anyone think that. He just nodded. That was exactly his point. She was a woman and he was not going to respect her until she earns that respect. „Try to take me down," she offered. She has nothing to lose. She either earns his respect or she won't…

„That's not such a great idea," Sheppard interfered. But her eyes were locked on Ronon. She could tell he was thinking about letting her go. But he didn't. Thankfully, she could easily predict his every move. He fought like every other man who doesn't really want to fight. So it took her just few seconds to take him down. So he ended up lying on the ground, her heel pointed to his groin.

„Should I really show you how weak I am?" she asked. There was no sight of joking in her face. But there was slight hint of fear in his. „Don't play with me, Satedan, or I show you how sharp my heels are." She slowly removed her leg and looked back at John. „Shall we continue our tour?"

Later that day, she met Teyla, Jennifer Keller, Major Lorne and one of the most important people from tech support, Chuck. She was also introduced to Radek Zelenka and they immediately started talking in Czech which got John confused. She was not Czech by the name but her mother was and she learned her her own mother tongue because she thought it might get her to come back to the Czech republic one day…

No drama, she was repeating to herself while she was falling asleap in her new bad. She could have done this, she can rule this place. She got all the support from Jack, Daniel and Sam back on Earth. There was no way this could go wrong…