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WHEN THINGS ARE GONE
"I hate walking." Rodney complained, "Why couldn't we have just taken a jumper."
"Well Dr., it is far to dense to land around here." John said.
"Who said anything about landing?" He asked
"I did." John answered getting annoyed of Rodney's constantly whining voice.
"But I…" Rodney began.
"Don't make me gag you" Ronon threatened.
Rodney looked up at Ronon in horror "you wouldn't do that, but Ronon just simply glared. Rodney turned to John as if for protection, but he just smirked and raised an eyebrow, walking away.
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The team was unaware of the predatorial eyes stalking him. The creatures lithe body leaping from tree to tree, noiselessly zoning in on it's prey.
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"Getting anything on the LSD" Sheppard asked picking a leaf off of his tack vest.
"No, I'm telling you there is nothing here. Can we please go home now?" Rodney asked
whining yet again.
"No, there is someone here… or something" He stepped though the dense underbrush, out of the others site.
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Finally the moment it had been waiting for: It pounced on its un-expecting prey claws outstretched groping for it's prey and knocking it to the ground with a soft thud.
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Sheppard had only taken a few steps before something heavy landed on his back knocking him to the ground with a small grunt of surprise.
He rolled onto his back, so use of his arms and legs was possible to defend himself with. He also found it surprising when he had no trouble rolling over. He was also surprised when he looked over to see what had attacked him…an animal which looked like a cross breed of a wolf and a leopard.
He lay there perfectly still as it slowly climbed along him. Strong muscles flexing beneath its fur, it's breath rattling in a menacing whisper, each step unleashing sword-like claws. The creatures black eyes piercing him like knives; he knew and could tell how incredibly intelligent they were. More so John realized than any creature he had come across before. While the creature seemed distracted with a sudden disturbance in the bush near them, John was slowly sliding his right hand along the ground. He was slowly reaching… for his gun. But the creature's sharp eyes caught sight of this and lunged fangs bared, faster than John could react and the mysterious hybrid clamped its mouth shut on John's right bicep. He stifled a cry of pain and surprise not wanting to give the creature any reason to do more damage. He wanted to call for his team, well for Ronon, but he was worried that anything, or any noise may trigger another attack from this monster. He was hoping their spidey senses were on.
SGA – SGA
"Shh!" Ronon waved his for them to stop talking.
"What is it?" Teyla whispered.
"Did you hear that?" He asked.
"Hear what?" Rodney whispered, following suite.
"That noise." Ronon said jerking his head in the direction that John just disappeared.
"What kind of noise?" Rodney asked in an anxious tone " There are a lot of noises, your going to at least have to narrow it down."
Ronon ignored Rodney and crept forward, motioning for the others to stay back. If John was in trouble he didn't want to serve the others on a silver platter as well. And if Rodney came that was very likely to happen.
He walked thought the dense bush soundlessly, which he had years of being a runner to thank for that.
He hadn't taken more than ten steps when he spotted John.
John and the creature.
Then he watched as the creature climbed up John, it sat there looking at John, who was reaching for his gun.
The creature turned and but John on the arm, tightly. Making John wince, and grunt in agony.
Ronon instinctively drew up his blaster; he aimed it toward the beast and fired. A red light flew toward it and slammed into its flank. The creature collapsed on impact, with a large burn mark on it's side.
SGA – SGA
The creature suddenly collapsed on top of him. He was about to push the creature off, and then he remembered his arm.
He brought his left hand over to the creature mouth he was trying to pry its mouth open, with out much luck.
"Need some help?" He heard a gruff voice ask.
"Actually yes, its a lot harder that it looks"
He looked over at Ronon who must have been standing there the whole time enjoying the ordeal.
Ronon got down on his hands and knees; he grasped the creature's lower and upper jaw and pulled them apart.
John felt the creatures large rugged teeth slowly come out. Making him flinch.
"There you go." Ronon said as he closed the creature's mouth.
Sheppard shoved the large creature off oh him, ignoring the pain in his arm. He stood up as Mckay and Teyla came though the bush.
"What the heck is that?" Mckay asked.
"I have no idea. But if you ask me it looks between a wolf and a leopard." John said brushing the dirt off himself.
"Oh like a…a…wolpard." Rodney suggested looking very proud of his creativity.
John stared at him in disbelief.
"How can you name something so bad," he asked "I didn't even know it was humanly
possible."
"Ok, well I'm sorry I'm not the animally type guy, and by the way I hate wolves" He stated with conviction. "Wolves and rabbits." He muttered quietly.
John almost burst out laughing "rabbits?" He asked in astonishment.
"Yes rabbits" He replied defensively.
"What were you trampled by a stampede of rabbits" John asked mockingly.
"No, but once my sister had a rabbit really hard. I mean really, really hard, there was even blood."
"John stared at him trying to draw a connection between wolves and rabbits.
"And its name was wolf." Mckay muttered barely audible.
"You are really pathetic some days" John laughed teasingly. He looked over to see both
Teyla and Ronon looked quite lost. "I'll explain later" He told them.
"No you will not." Mckay protested.
"Time to go home." John announced starting back towards the gate.
SGA – SGA
"You should go to the infirmary and get that checked out." Ronon suggested. But John realized it was a bit more than a suggestion.
He shook his head " No I'm fine."
Ronon looked at him, then grabbed John wrist.
"Hey!" John cried in protest.
"If you're not going to go, I'm going to make you go." He told John, he turned and started towards the infirmary, dragging John along behind him.
"I can walk by myself, daddy. You don't need to drag me."
"Fine" Ronon mumbled releasing John wrist.
"Good evening Colonel," Keller greeted kindly as they entered the infirmary. "And Ronon, I don't suppose you two were going for a walk and just happened to end up in here?" She asked eyeing them suspiciously.
"No, I had to make sure he got here" Ronon said shoving Sheppard forward a bit.
"What happened this time?" She asked not sounding at all surprised.
"He was attacked" Ronon stated plainly.
"Attacked…attacked by what exactly?" she asked curiously.
"I have no idea, it was some extremely odd looking creature." John said with a smile, like he thought it was so cool.
"Well take a seat," she said pointing to a bed. "And I'll take a look."
He stripped off his tac-vest and jacket; he knew she was going to ask him to.
This was also the first chance he had to see the actual bite mark. At the moment there wasn't actually a lot to see, it was mostly covered in blood making it hard to distinguish any bite marks.
"I'm just going to clean up this blood." Keller said, bringing over a cloth.
She carefully wiped his arm, missing the barely visible marks; she examined the bite marks then cleaned them. When she was done she rinsed the cloth and grabbed a needle and a couple of cloth bandages.
"I'm just going to take a sample of your blood, and run some tests. Want to make sure it didn't leave any kind of deadly virus." She said half jokingly.
John let out a forced laugh. That possibility hadn't crossed his mind.
She wrapped the bandage around his arm, and gave it a pat.
"Good to go Colonel" She said in her usual happy tone.
"Thanks," he said, walked out thinking of how much he hated the infirmary.
SGA – SGA
"So anything that might prevent him from doing his duties?" Weir asked.
"No, he's perfectly fine they were only small abrasions. The only thing I was worried about was a weird chemical that I found in his blood, but it appears to be dissipating so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about," Keller said looking at her charts.
"What kind of chemical?" Weir asked.
"I ran a blood test a second time, but by then it was already disappearing, and we were unable to identify it." Keller explained.
"Well as long as it doesn't do any harm, they go off-world tomorrow, maybe you should have him check in after that, just to be on the safe side."
"That's a good idea," Keller agreed.
SGA – SGA
"So where are we off to today?" John asked Rodney.
"P91-4X3, a planet full of plants and trees, but no beeches or blondes. May I say a planet better suited for a botanist. Why don't they go." Rodney complained
"Because we are going." John said. "We're taking a jumper, be ready to go at 1200
hours." John said leaving.
"Oh, so of course we leave at lunch, I swear he's trying to starve me." Rodney complained to no one in particular.
……..
John eased the jumper through the gate. As they rematerialized on the other side he was happy to see the forest. No wraith or other bad guy in site, just him and his team and the soft comforting hum of the jumper.
"I'm going to find a place to set us down." John told the others.
"Why? So we can walk around a find nothing" Rodney retorted.
"No Rodney. So we can walk around and do our job. Making sure the planet is safe and habitable. And someone happens to leave here, make new friends." John replied enjoying Rodney's annoyance.
Without warning the Jumper dropped down roughly ten feet, startling the team.
"What the heck was that?" Rodney yelled.
"I don know, but I'm setting it down before it happens again." John said, he had no idea what was wrong but he wasn't in the mood to crash.
They were about twenty feet from the ground when it decided to drop again, then it started flying again, then it fell completely to the ground with a hard thump.
"Is everyone ok" John asked looking around at his team.
"I am un injured" Teyla answered.
"Good to go." Ronon answered.
John looked over at Rodney expectantly.
"No! I am not okay. If you haven't noticed we just crashed, and I have no idea why, and I'm the smart one, I should at least have an idea but no, I don't." He cried on the verge of hyperventilating.
"Do you know what happened?" Teyla asked John.
"I have no idea!" Rodney said
Teyla looked at Rodney "Thank you John"
"Oops" he mumbled
She turned back to John.
"I don't know either?" he answered. "It's like we just lost power."
"But that doesn't make sense." Rodney said to himself.
"No Rodney it doesn't, but that doesn't make it any less true. So why don't you just figure it out." John said getting fed up with Rodney.
"Fine" he grumbled.
"Could we just not walk to the gate? Teyla asked.
"It would be dark before we got there, but if Mckay doesn't figure it out by then we'll walk tomorrow." John said watching Mckay fiddle around with his computer pad.
……...
"Nothing is wrong." Mckay announced.
"What? What do you mean nothing is wrong." John asked surprised.
"I mean there is nothing wrong, it's fine. Nothing is out of order.
It is in perfect working condition." Mckay ranted.
John looked troubled as he walked over to the pilot's chair. He sat down and took a deep breath. He tentatively grabbed the wheel.
Nothing happened.
He sat there closed his eyes and concentrated. He waited.
Once again nothing happened.
He stood up and turned toward Mckay, looking more troubled that before. "You try" He ordered.
"What! If it doesn't work for you it's not going to work for me!" Mckay squeaked.
John looked at him sternly "Just try."
Rodney walked over to the chair begrudgingly and sat down. He placed his hands on the wheel, the consoles lit up. And on his command the jumper started to fly.
TBC...
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