Chapter One - The Crash
The Puddle Jumper descended quickly and crash-landed on a sheet of ice, which cracked on impact sending lumps of it into the air. Slowly, the Jumper sank into the freezing water; the ice scrapping the underside of the ship on the way down
Inside John had been knocked out due to the forward impact and was sprawled over the control system. Elizabeth sat next to him and was in the same position.
Ronon was unconscious on the floor behind them and Teyla crawled out from underneath him. She looked up when she heard a moan and spotted Rodney getting up lazily from the floor in front of his chair. At this stage the lights began to flicker. She looked out the window and to her horror she saw they were underwater and sinking fast. Her attention was drawn to John and Elizabeth hunched over the control system.
She stood up and checked on Ronon first to make sure he was still alive before moving on to check on them.
As she reached them John was starting to come round. She put a hand on his shoulder hoping to get a response in that he was ok. He pulled back from the control panel and leaned back in his chair.
He slowly turned his head to the right so not to get vertigo and spotted Elizabeth. Teyla was already making her way across to check her condition. By this time Rodney had walked up to the front and Ronon started to stir.
Teyla couldn't see anything physically wrong with Elizabeth. But then she was facing the wall and it wasn't until Teyla looked over her shoulders to see her face, she could see blood running down the panel. She carefully turned her head to look underneath and winced at a large gash on her forehead. A bruise was already forming around it.
John had joined her and together they eased her back into the chair so they could get a good look at the injury.
Without being asked, Rodney made his way to the back of the Jumper and pulled out the medal kit from an overhanging storage section.
Ronon was now on his feet walked up to the front. "What happened, is she ok?"
Rodney had returned and Teyla took the kit from him. "It doesn't look good."
John returned to his seat, Teyla seemed to know what she was doing. She had decided to take simple medical lessons from Carson, so he or anyone else wouldn't have to rush out to the mainland every time one of her people required urgent attention. Even though, Carson often said he didn't mind, it did occasionally leave Atlantis short handed.
"The whole situation doesn't look good." He summarised as he watched Teyla place some alcohol on a piece of cotton wool to help sterilize the wound.
Teyla couldn't argue with that one. Before placing the cotton wool onto the gash, she looked at him as he moved his hands over the control sticks in attempt to coax some life into the machine. After all it was a submersible as well or at least that's what he called it. "No luck?"
He turned to face her. "None, this machine is dead in the water." He pushed the sticks forward out of frustration, "McKay anything you can do to bring her back to life?"
"Probably not. I wasn't lucky last time this happened to me remember. But I will try."
John didn't miss the fact that Rodney pulled his jacket on tighter. It was then he noticed how cold it had suddenly become. This whole planet was just one giant fridge freezer. His thoughts went back to why they had originally come to this godforsaken place.
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