Title: Home
Date: 25th
November 2007
Author: somm120602
Chapter: 1
?
Rating: T
Pairing:
None
Archiving: None - yet
Warnings: None
- yet
Spoilers: None
Feedback:
Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters do
not belong to me.
Summary: What
happens when your future is here and now? This is my first
story so feedback and help would be extremely appreciated.
General John Sheppard smiled as he watched his daughter and her team walk through the gate, in the whole time he'd been here he never expected anything like this. Atlantis had changed so much in the time they'd been here. Life had settled down so much for them, even McKay had managed to get the girl.
"Welcome back kids, good time?" he said.
"Yes Sir!" came the reply with a huge smile.
"Negotiations went well and I think we'll have a good supply and food and minerals for a while now."
Sheppard smiled, "OK debriefing in ten." he replied.
After the short meeting about a new trade agreement, which brought supplies of strange fruits very similar to melons and apples and a good supplies of herbs that could be useful in medicines, Sheppard stood and approached his daughter as the team left. At twenty-three she was almost as tall as him with his dark hair but her mothers' deep blue eyes. She was beautiful, yup, beautiful and he felt his heart swell, his daughter led Atlantis's flagship team well. She was smart, had been taught by the best but so had most of the other children born and raised here. After her mother had died he'd raised her alone, other women just didn't come into it, this girl was the only one in his life.
"Hey Dad, wanna eat?" she asked.
"Sure. I'll meet you in the mess. I've just gotta sign a few papers and I'll be there." he replied.
Katrina Sheppard walked into the mess and ordered her dinner. She sat down and was joined by her best friend Alex McKay.
"You see that new fruit we brought back. It's full of citrus. The best looking fruit we find in this galaxy and it's citrus. Of all the things to inherit from my dad I get the deadly fruit gene!!" she laughed.
"Oh well could've been worse you could've got his sense of humour." Kat replied. "How's he doing anyway? Is he back from Earth yet?"
"Should be back soon. Him and mum have just finished with that conference in Washington. I think he's driving her crazy with talk of going back to Canada for a few days while they're there." Alex smiled. Her mother Katie Brown and father we so opposite but so well suited.
John entered the mess and walked up to the table his daughter and her friend were sitting.
"Hey sweetie and Alex, How are you and how are those reports?"
Alex smiled "Just leaving Uncle Sir! Going to finish those reports sir!"
John smiled. Those two girls were as thick as thieves but he wouldn't have it any other way. Both on the same team along with O'Neill's son Jack and Lt. Jacobs, a lad from Texas, they made up the best team they had. They looked after each other the same way that his team had. He sat down and regarded Kat.
"So what's going on between you and young Jack then? He sure seems interested?"
"Oh come on Dad, one I'm his CO and two he's just not my type. Anyway he's more interested in Alex."
"And you're disappointed?" smiled John, he knew exactly how to press her buttons. A roll flew in his direction but he ducked in time.
"Now now kid I might just have to send you to help Rodney when he comes back. I'm sure he'll have plenty to talk about." Kat stuck out her tongue and John laughed.
As they ate John sighed and knew this might not last long. They'd been lucky. They'd defeated the Asurans, and at the moment the wraith numbers were low but they'd taken a lot of damage too over the years. Many men and women had died, his own wife among them but just now they had peace. After the Asuran war Samantha Carter had resigned and finally decided to take a chance on General O'Neill which had worked, Rodney and Katie married had Alex, Ronan met his wife and now lived on the mainland with his brood of kids.
Kat finished eating. She looked at her father. He was strong, smart and she knew many of the women here still found him attractive even though he'd greyed slightly round the edges of his hair. He'd given up so much for her but she wished he'd move on. There had been no-one she knew of since her mother. She yawned.
"Better get some sleep Kat. I'm sending you to M42-110 tomorrow. Re con only." John said.
"Kay. See you at 0600."
John kissed her head before she left. He didn't really want to send her to a planet which the wraith had worshippers on but he knew they had to keep tabs on them and her team was the best.
"Right lets get this done quickly. Keep low and keep an eye on each other. Get as much intel as you can and get out."
"Yes Sir!" came the reply from SGA1. The gate whooshed to life and they left. When it closed John suddenly had a bad feeling. Something told him this wasn't going to be as straight forward as he thought.
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"McKay get to the DHD and dial home. Tell them we're coming in hot." shouted Kat.
The mission had gone wrong. There was wraith everywhere and they had obviously walk straight into an ambush. Alex ran as Kat and the others covered her. The gate connected and Alex sent the IDC, just as they ran through something hit the event horizon. When they entered Atlantis something was definitely wrong. They were surrounded by soldiers all pointing they're guns.
"Stand down and identify yourselves!" the soldier, a major shouted.
"Who are you and where's the General?" Kat replied. Her gun trained at him.
"Stand down!" The major shouted again.
"Where is the General?" Kat shouted back.
"I think we should lower our weapons Kat." Jack said quietly "Then we'll figure this out."
Kat nodded and they lowered their guns. They were disarmed and led away.
"My father will have you for this." Kat whispered to the major.
"He'll have to be some man then." came the reply.
Ten Minutes Earlier.
"Colonel Carter, It's Colonel Sheppard's IDC, they're early."
"Security and medical teams to the gate room. Lower the shield" Sam answered.
Four people came through but this wasn't Sheppard's team. They were dressed similar with the Atlantis logo on the uniform but they seemed so young. As Major Lorne led them away Sam knew this was going to be a long day.
"Who are you and how did you get Colonel Sheppard's IDC?" Lorne asked.
He was getting nowhere. This girl was starting to annoy him. She was just shorter that him quite pretty with dark hair and piercing blue eyes.
"Do we have to do this the hard way?"
"Oh kiss my ass Major and get GENERAL Sheppard here now!" Kat answered.
The Major was getting on her nerves. First of all he was treating her like some prisoner and then he had the nerve to call he father a Colonel. She was going to make him pay.
"COLONEL Sheppard isn't due back for 24 hours and when he does he'll be the one to deal with you." Lorne stood and left the room leaving Kat seething.
"So what've we got then Rodney?" Sam asked.
"Well from what I can gather there was an energy blast that caused a jump in the gate. This team isn't from here." Rodney said. Sam rubbed her head.
"So are we about a parallel universe?" She asked.
"No and yes."
"Which one McKay!"
"Well as we all know the future isn't determined and is always changing..."
"McKay!" Sam shouted. For all he was good McKay could still go on.
"A possible future." McKay replied "Which would explain the reason our head girl is asking for General rather the Colonel Sheppard."
"Kellar to Colonel Carter. Well they're all human." Dr. Kellar added "And they're DNA is interesting. I hope you're all sitting down."
"Go on" Sheppard answered.
He'd been back only an hour and had been given a brief description from Lorne what had happened.
"Well our head girl and the younger man have the ancient gene. Stronger than anyone here. They're DNA shows the Lt. has your DNA Sam and the Captain has yours John"
John and Sam looked at each other.
"Like kids?" McKay questioned suddenly looking a bit pale.
"What about the others?" John sighed.
"The doctor has McKay and Katie Brown's DNA and the last man is unidentified. Kellar out"
Sam, Rodney and John looked at each other.
"You're kidding right. This is so not happening!" Rodney said finally breaking the silence between them.
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John headed down to interrogation room where his 'daughter' was. He looked at her. The girl was in her early twenties. She looked like him but with gentler features and had his dark hair but surely this must be wrong. Strange things always happened here but this was just ridiculous.
"She hasn't stopped asking for you." Lorne said as John approached.
"Have you heard Kellar's report?" John asked him.
"No, thought I'd keep an eye on this one, she's got some spirit. Tried to escape a few times when Kellar took tests but we managed to keep her under control." Lorne laughed.
Under different circumstances he'd like a girl like this but to him she was an imposter and Atlantis had had plenty of them during his time here.
"She's my daughter." Lorne stared at him.
"Sir?" he questioned.
"According to Kellar I'm the daddy. Better go and find out what I can." John replied.