Date: 7th May 2007

Title: Repercussions
Author: Kazavid
Chapter: 1 / 9

Series: None
Rating: M
Pairing: John Sheppard / Other
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters do not belong to me.
Summary: While Beckett tries to assess Sheppard's injuries, Sheppard remembers some painful memories from his past.

Repercussions

Chapter 1

Offworld

Sheppard, McKay, Ronon and Teyla were all running towards the Stargate, firing their weapons behind them as they went. There are a number of hostiles pursuing them, all brandishing weapons, and firing back. When they reached the Stargate, they took up defensive positions as best they could, finding whatever cover they could.

"What the hell did you do McKay!" Sheppard shouted over at McKay, who was hiding behind a very small boulder.

"I didn't do anything, I just spat that disgusting stuff, they called food, out."

"I think you offended them." Teyla told him.

"Offended them! They offended me, by expecting me to eat such, utter, vile, disgusting, stuff they referred to as food." McKay shouted.

"McKay, just dial the gate!" Sheppard told him.

"Oh, sure, the DHD is right out in the open, how am I supposed to dial it without getting shot!" McKay shouted, looking over to where the DHD is situated, very close to the gate and very exposed to the gunfire. McKay ducked his head down as a bullet whizzed past his ear.

Sheppard, who was shooting at the hostiles from behind a large boulder, turned to look at where the DHD is. "McKay, get over here, I'll dial the damn gate!"

McKay, stooped low, and ran across to where Sheppard was. Swapping a small boulder for a large one seemed a much better choice, he concluded.

"Get ready to send the IDC signal when I dial the gate." Sheppard told McKay.

Ronon and Teyla increased their firing, trying to provide some cover for Sheppard, who was moving towards the DHD. He reached the DHD and dialed Atlantis' address. Within seconds a wormhole was established.

"McKay send the IDC!" Sheppard shouted back at McKay.

"I can't find it!" McKay shouted, searching frantically in his pack, for the IDC.

"McKay!" Sheppard shouted with disbelief, several bullets whizzed past just missing him. Keeping low, Sheppard ran towards McKay.

"Found it!" McKay shouted, holding his hand up with the IDC in it.

Sheppard was half way over to McKay, when one of the hostiles threw a grenade, it exploded, sending hot shards of metal straight at Sheppard. The shock wave from the blast, hit Sheppard knocking him backwards in to the open wormhole.

McKay, still holding the IDC in his hand, suddenly paled, and stared in horror as he saw Sheppard being knocked back in to the wormhole.

"McKay, what the hell happened?" Ronon shouted, harshly.

"Sheppard, he... I didn't have a chance to send the signal... the shield..." McKay couldn't finish what he was saying, he was utterly in shock.

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Stargate Atlantis Gateroom

"Do you have an IDC yet?" Weir asked the technician.

"No, ma'am, not yet." he replied.

They heard the sound of something hitting the shield, then more sounds as more things hit the shield.

"Still no IDC?" Weir asked the technician again.

"No ma'am."

Everyone's eyes focused on the shield covering the Stargate. All wondering what it was that was hitting the shield. Suddenly, everyone gasped as a human form, came tumbling out of the Stargate, emerging through the shield at a tremendous speed. The form was sent tumbling over and over and only stopped when it hit the bottom of the stairs.

"Doctor Weir, it's Colonel Sheppard." One of the marines, told her, as he rolled the body over.

"Sheppard. But how...?" she rushed over and stood there looking down at him, he was unconscious and covered in blood.

"Is he alive?" she asked the marine in a shaky voice.

The marine checked for a pulse, "Yes, he's still alive."

"Get Doctor Beckett up here, now."

They eventually got Sheppard on to a gurney, and wheeled him to the infirmary. Beckett walked beside the gurney and Weir followed behind.

The technician called Doctor Weir back.

"Doctor Weir, we have an IDC, it's Sheppard's team." he told her.

"Lower the shield."

McKay, Ronon and Teyla emerge from the wormhole, all looking pretty shaken up.

"Rodney, what happened?" Weir immediately asked.

McKay, was very subdued looking, he looked at Weir with a pained expression.

"I didn't have a chance to send the IDC... I... Sheppard... he got knocked back in to the wormhole..." Rodney still couldn't finish saying what had happened. He lowered his head down.

"Rodney, Sheppard is in the infirmary." she said, realising that he was assuming Sheppard was dead.

"Sheppard came through the wormhole?" McKay lifted his head up and looked at Weir, with disbelief.

"Yes..." she didn't get a chance to say anything else, as McKay butt in.

"Oh, so you must have realised that it was us and lowered the shield."

"No, we didn't receive any IDC, so we never lowered the shield." she told him.

"You didn't lower the shield!" McKay said with confusion "Then how did Sheppard come through the wormhole?" he looked very pensive as he tried to reason what had happened.

"That's impossible, you must have lowered the shield!" McKay stated looking right at Weir.

"I assure you Rodney, that we did not lower the shield." she was a little put out by Rodney's conjecture. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to see Doctor Beckett, about Colonel Sheppard's injuries." she told Rodney, who was still trying to fathom how on earth Sheppard had emerge through the wormhole with the shield up.

"Is Colonel Sheppard hurt." Teyla asked her.

"Yes, but I don't know how badly, I haven't had a chance to talk to doctor Beckett. When I've spoken to him, I'll let you know."

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In the infirmary, Sheppard was on a bed, still unconscious, and still covered in blood. Doctor Beckett was standing over him, assessing his injuries.

Weir walked over and stoppe beside Sheppard to look down at him. "Is he going to be alright?" She asked.

"At this moment, I don't know. He has quite a few pieces of metal embedded in his body, and we need to get those out. And were just about to find out if he has any internal injuries."

Rodney and the rest of Sheppard's team enter the infirmary.

"I'll leave you to get on with your work then." she told Beckett, moving towards McKay, Ronon and Teyla, were are all waiting in the background. "As soon as you know the extent of his injuries, I want to know." Weir said, turning back to look at Beckett.

"Aye, I'll do that." he tells her.

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Sheppard

FLASHBACK.

SHEPPARD, SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN.

Sheppard, flew over the very rocky terrain, below, he saw several buildings on fire. The marines who are down there need cover so he provides it by firing upon the enemies position. In his headphones he can hear a lot of chatter. One particular bit of chatter catches his attention. Gets his adrenaline pumping. A squad of marines have been ambushed, most of them have been killed, but there is still three marines alive, and they are pinned down, and asking for assistance.

Seeing that the marines below him, on the ground, have things under control, he sets off to the location of the three pinned down marines.

"This is Major Sheppard, I'm a mile or so from Lima Squad, I can be at their location in a few minutes." He said in to his radio.

"That's a negative, Major, you are not to attempt to give any assistance to Lima Squad." Control told him.

"Control, you have marines, pinned down, asking for assistance. We can't just leave them there." Sheppard argued.

"Major Sheppard, I repeat, you are not to enter in to that sector. You are to return to base immediately."

"Look, I'm right over their position now, I can have them picked up in seconds." Sheppard said, still flying the helicopter towards Lima Squads location.

He then hears a different voice over the radio, a very angry, very authoritative voice.

"Major Sheppard, this is General Winfield, I am giving you a direct order to abandon your rescue attempt, and return to base, immediately!" The General bellowed over the radio.

"Could you repeat that control, my radio has been damaged, and your signal is breaking up, I didn't hear your last transmission." Sheppard said, gritting his teeth.

"You get your ass back here now, Sheppard, you hear me. You attempt to land that helicopter and I'll have you court martialed, for insubordination." The General shouted and cursed over the radio.

Inside Sheppard's mind, he was fighting his own war. He wanted to obey the order, knew he should obey the order, but there was no way on Earth he was going to obey that order. He ignored the screaming General in his ear, and concentrated on rescuing the trapped marines.

"Lima Squad, this is Major Sheppard, I'm in a helicopter, flying over your position now." Sheppard looked down at the ground, there were a number of brick buildings, all of them seemed to have gunfire coming from them. "Can you guys be a bit more specific as to your location." he asked.

The marines, indicated which building they were in, and Sheppard targeted the other buildings with his rockets and fired. Two of the buildings were destroyed, the other one was on fire. Sheppard hovered the helicopter low to the ground, and waited till the three marines ran out of the building and got in the helicopter. They thanked Sheppard, telling him that they couldn't have held out for much longer.

Sheppard was still hovering when an enemy soldier came out of the burning building and threw a grenade at them. Sheppard pulled back on the stick to lift the helicopter out of the way of the blast, but he's too late, the grenade exploded. The windshield of the helicopter, broke, causing some of the glass and hot shards of metal from the grenade to enter the cockpit. Sheppard took the force of the blast, he became covered in bits of glass and metal, some of which embed themselves in his body. He was in a lot of pain, but he managed to fly the marines back to base.

When Sheppard landed the helicopter on the ground, he was helped from the cockpit by a medic and taken to the medical tent.

ooooo

Lying down on a bed, while a doctor extracted pieces of glass and metal from his skin. Sheppard and everyone else heard the sound of a bellowing voice coming from outside the tent.

"I want that, disobeying, 'son of a bitch' found and brought to my office. You, find him, and you make sure he gets there." The General shouted.

"I would not like to be the guy, who the General is mad at." The doctor remarked to Sheppard.

"That would be me." Sheppard told him, grimacing as another piece of metal was pulled from his skin.

"You?" The doctor asked, his eyes eyes widening.

Sheppard gave him a slight grin.

ooooo

Sheppard, still in pain from his injuries, was standing by the General's desk. Sitting on the other side of the desk was the General himself, giving Sheppard glaring looks. He was deliberately keeping Sheppard standing there, while he looked through some files, probably Sheppard's.

The General shouted to the marine outside the office.

"Yes sir."

"I want you to go outside, to Major Sheppard's helicopter. And I want you to see what condition the radio is in.

"Yes, sir." the marine rushed off.

"We both know, Major, you heard the order to abort your rescue attempt. And you flagrantly disobeyed that order, now I want to know, why?" The General asked, then waited for Sheppard's answer.

"I thought the military motto was 'we leave no man behind', so..."

"Cut the crap Major." The General shouted.

Just then the marine came back and reported that Major Sheppard's radio was indeed damaged. The General looked at Sheppard, he knew the truth, but he decided to let it go, this once.

"Do you like flying, Major Sheppard?" The General asked him.

"Yes sir." Sheppard answered.

"Then I suggest that you start listening to orders and obeying them, because if I find out you've disobeyed another order, your ass is mine. You got that, Major?" The General said, quietly, but very threateningly.

"Yes sir."

END OF FLASHBACK.

ooooo

"Carson, how bad are Colonel Sheppard's injuries." Weir asked him, over the radio.

"At the moment we have him stable, but he's still in a critical condition, we're going to have to keep a close eye on him for the next few days." Doctor Beckett told her.

"Alright, keep me posted."

TBC...

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