Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate Atlantis or any of its original characters.

I decided to write another story. I actually wrote this a while ago and I had the idea for a lot longer. It takes place 13 years into the future and Elizabeth is in this one. I started it before I saw any of season 4 so as far as I knew at the time, she was leaving. Then I watched a few episodes of season 4 and realized what happened. I will explain everything about how she ends up back on Atlantis but……all in good time. Not sure if there will be any relationships in this besides friendship. Also….just a forewarning. The characters may seem a bit or a lot OOC. That is because it takes place 13 years in the future and there are certain events that took place during those 13 that makes the characters seem different. So here you have it. Please read and review. Id really love to know what you think.

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The gate room was nearly empty when Elizabeth stepped out of the event horizon. It had been so long since she had been there and she hardly recognized anyone. There was one person that she recognized though….Chuck. When she left Atlantis thirteen years ago, he was the gate room technician. He looked so young when she left. Now, in his late thirties, the years of stress had taken its toll on him. Nevertheless, she was quite happy to see him.

"Welcome back Dr. Weir." Chuck said as he peered down at her from the controls.

"Thank you." Elizabeth said with a look of pure joy on her face. She looked around the room, wide-eyed, at what she used to call home so many years ago.

"Please proceed to the infirmary." Chuck said. He didn't have to explain why she had to go to the infirmary. She knew that it was just standard procedure that after gate travel, everyone get an exam to make sure they are fit for duty.

It was also no surprise to her when she saw two marines come into the gate room. Being new to Atlantis once again, she was going to have to be escorted by marines to the infirmary. "Right this way ma'am."

Elizabeth didn't have to wait long when she was in the infirmary. She expected to get greeted by a strange face when in fact, Dr. Keller was the one who walked in. "Dr. Weir." Keller said in a joyous tone. "I must say…I was surprised to find out that you were back."

"And I was surprised to see you walk in." Elizabeth said. And she really was surprised. "A long time ago, I remember you telling me about how you wanted to go back to being a regular doctor."

A smile shot across Keller's face. "I remember that conversation." There was a happy silence that hung in the air between them as Keller began checking Elizabeth's vitals to make sure that she was fit for duty.

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"What did you say was down here again?" Rodney asked with a skeptical tone as they walked down a long corridor. They weren't supposed to be down here. Rodney had strict orders not to go exploring due to the recent attack by the wraith. They had damaged several sections of the city and there was no way of knowing just how bad the damaged areas were.

"I told you." A young girl said. "It looks like some sort of control panel."

"Emma, I highly doubt that there is a control panel down here that we haven't found already." Rodney said. He stopped dead in his tracks and gently grabbed her shoulder, making her stop and look at him.

"You know….if your father finds out about this, especially if anything happens to you…he's gonna have my ass." Rodney said with panic evident in his voice. It was true….he truly would. He specifically asked Rodney to look after Emma while he was off world.

Emma shrugged out of his grip. "Would you relax." She said in a voice that told Rodney that she was very sure of herself. "Its not much further. Besides, if he gets mad…I'll deal with him." They both began walking down the corridor once again.

"Good…because I don't…" Rodney stopped dead in his tracks when he saw what Emma was talking about. "That's it." The look on his face was almost the look on a kid in a candy store.

"See…I told you there was a control panel here." Emma said as she walked up to it with Rodney following close behind.

"Woah." Rodney said as he looked at the control panel in curiosity.

"hmmm…I wonder what's down here. I havent been down this far yet." Emma said as she started, once again, walking down the corridor a little. She hadn't been any further then the control panel before and her curiosity got the best of her.

"Emma, don't go wandering off." Rodney said without taking his eyes off the control panel. If she wandered off and got hurt, life as he knew it would be over.

"Oh relax Rodney." Emma mumbled as she continued to slowly walk don't the corridor. She was about to turn back when she heard a loud crack. She stopped dead in her tracks. "Ahh…Rodney." She called out trying to get his attention. Something was definitely wrong.

"Yeah, yeah." Rodney said waving her off. Suddenly the whole floor beneath her shifted.

"McKay." Emma said a little louder. She had a feeling that he was more concerned with the stupid control panel then he was about her.

"Emma…can't you see I'm busy." He said waving her off yet again. The floor underneath Emma shifted again making a wave of panic pulse through her entire body.

"Meredith!" She finally yelled out. She knew that that would get his attention for sure. Rodney quickly turned around. He hated being called by his real first name. he hated the name Meredith and thanks to his good friend, Colonel John Sheppard, everyone in the whole damn city knew about it.

"What did you just call me?" Rodney asked sending the message to her that he was royally pissed off about it.

"Rodney….the floor." She said as she made it her undivided effort to remain absolutely still. She didn't want it to give way and send her flying down to the level below her.

"What?….what are you talking about?" Rodney asked ignoring the obvious.

"Rodney…the…" Before she could finish her sentence, the floor beneath her gave way and she was sent crashing down to the level below them.

A cloud of thick gray dust filled the air around Rodney making him cough uncomfortably. What the hell just happened? He told Emma not to wander off. Why the hell couldn't she just listen to someone for a change. "Emma!" Rodney yelled hoping that he would get some sort of a response. "Oh god….If your father finds out about this…he's gonna kill me." He mumbled to himself as panic flooded his body.

"Emma." Rodney called out a little bit softer as he slowly crept to the edge, straining his eyes to see through the thick dust that filled the air.

A faint cough caught Rodney's attention. "Emma." He called out again, only this time….fear was evident in his voice. He couldn't let anything happen to her…he just couldn't. Not only was he afraid of what her father would do to him because of this…but she had become like a neice to him and he didn't want anything to happen to her.

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"Just so you know…things have changed quite a bit around here since you left." Keller said as she checked Elizabeth's reflexes.

"So I've noticed." Elizabeth said. "There are a lot of new faces around here. I was quite surprised when I arrived."

"Well, there still are a few familiar faces here." Keller said receiving a questioning look. "For instance…Colonel Sheppard, Rodney, Radek, Ronon…they're all still here."

"That's good to hear." Elizabeth said feeling relief wash over her body. Well, at least the city wouldn't be completely filled with strangers as she feared. "I'll definitely enjoy seeing them again."

"I imagine so." Keller said as she finished up. "Well, everything checks out….I don't see anything wrong that can prevent you from retur…." Keller was cut off by someone contacting her on her radio.

"Keller….do you read me?" Rodney's voice came in over her radio.

"Yes Rodney….I hear you." Keller said.

"I need a medical team down here fast." He said, panic filling his voice.

"Wait Rodney…what's going on? What happened?" Keller asked in a calm yet elevated voice.

"It's Emma. She fell….I mean….the floor….the floor….it ah…it."

"Rodney….slow down." Keller said a little bit louder then normal.

"Rodney took a deep breath. "It's Emma. She took me down to see a control panel that she spotted in one of the lower levels of the city. She wandered off and the floor collapsed."

"Okay Rodney…stay calm. I'm sending a medical team now." Keller said just before cutting the radio out.

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"Emma!" Rodney called out. He heard some more faint coughing.

"Yeah." He heard a faint voice through the dust. She could hear s sigh of relief. Thank god she was okay. She was actually breathing and talking. That was a good sign.

"Thank god!" Rodney said as he leaned over desperately trying to see through the thick cloud of dust that still hung in the air. "What happened?….are you okay?"

There was some more coughing. "Are you kidding me?" Emma said in a much louder, much stronger voice. "The floor collapsed."

Rodney sighed. "Okay…whatever…..Are you okay?" He had to find out. If her father knew about this, which he would find out soon enough, he was a dead man.

"I'll live." Emma said.

"Well, whatever you do…don't move." Rodney said with a hint of panic still in his voice even though he knew that Emma was okay. "Just stay still until the medical team gets here."

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"So…I wonder if Emma got into any trouble while we were here." Ronon said in a knowing voice.

"Of course she did." John said with a tired look on his face as they walked towards the gate.

"Colonel…are you even sure that she got in trouble?" Sergeant Anderson said. Sergeant Anderson was a young marine who had arrived on Atlantis a few weeks earlier and had frequently joined them on their off world missions. He had seen some of the stuff that happened to Emma but he didn't know the extent of it.

"You're kidding…right?" John said giving Anderson a look telling him that he was being ridiculous just for thinking it. "Every time I go off world, something happens."

"Something that usually lands her in the infirmary." Ronon happily added knowing that he had witnessed her in the infirmary more times then he could count.

"Lets just hope that it isn't something too serious." John said as Anderson walked over to the DHD and dialed Atlantis.

John had a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach as he watched the gate activate. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. He knew something happened. The question is….how bad was it?

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So there is chapter 1. I hope its okay. Emma's father will be revealed in chapter 2 if you haven't figured it out already. And there is one member of the team that isn't here. That will also be revealed.

TBC…