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It was a normal day on Atlantis and as usual…..those who were awake were busy doing the normal stuff. Elizabeth was busy briefing the security officers team before they went through the stargate to an unknown planet. Dr. Beckett was in the infirmary taking care of a young athosian child who got hurt. And as usual, Colonel John Sheppard was down in one of the lower levels of the city exploring with his team. His team included Dr. Rodney McKay, Lieutenant Aiden Ford, Teyla Emmagen, and him of course.
Major Sheppard was walking along with his P-90 aimed ahead of him when all of the sudden he felt a sharp pain in his head. He stopped for a second and squinted his eyes shut.
"John……are you okay?" Teyla asked
"Yeah……I'm fine…….just keep going." John said with a brave face. Something wasn't right down there. He knew it was possible that the ancients could have been experimenting on something dangerous in a lab nearby. When it happened last time, people started hallucinating, having aneurisms and dropping dead.
They all continued walking along when all of the sudden, the pain returned. John stopped again as the pain slammed into his head like a hammer making him drop his P-90.
"John?" Teyla said. She walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Are you sure you are okay?" She asked with concern. Ever since she met him, he had been a strong leader and cared little for his own personal safety. He had always put on a brave face when there was danger.
He bent down to pick up his P-90 and then started moving.
"I said I'm fine." he said after he started moving again. "Just keep moving."
The rest of the team followed along as they were told. Then they entered a what looked like a large laboratory. It had ancient equipment scattered on tables throughout the room.
"McKay, I want you to check out that side." John said motioning to a long table littered with odd looking artifacts and trinkets. McKay happily obliged with a smile on his face.
"Ford……I want you to go and see what's over there." he motioned for him to go to the opposite side of the room.
"Teyla…you're with me." John said as they all split ways. Teyla and John both kept on walking……their P-90s at the ready when Teyla stopped dead in her tracks.
"There is something wrong." she said with pure instinct. John turned to look at her. "This isn't a place where we should be."
John just shrugged off what she said and kept on moving but regretted so when he did. A wave of white hot pain engulfed his entire body making him drop to his knees.
"Oh my god." Teyla whispered before she went to his side. "John……what happened?"
He was grabbing his head in pain. He was a soldier but this was the worse pain he had ever felt. When Teyla didn't get a response, she went around and knelt down in front of him. When she looked at him, there was a thin red strip of blood running down from his nose.
"John?" she said. "What's wrong?" She looked at him with concerned eyes.
"I'm fine." he lied as he got up against his body's wishes and started to back up. Teyla picked up his P-90 and handed it to him.
"McKay…Ford….Teyla…fall back to the conference room." He said. They all followed him out the door and to the control room.
John was sitting alone in his living quarters when he looked up to find Teyla was outsided his door. "Come on in." he said. The door opened and Teyla walked in.
"John….may I speak with you?" She asked in a concerned voice. He nodded and she went and sat down at the edge of his bed.
"So…..what's up?" John said with the same adorable smirk that he had the day they had first met. She knew that something happened to him earlier that day and she also knew that he was the type of person that would sit and think about it instead of telling someone that something had gone horribly wrong. He was the commanding officer and couldn't afford to be hurt or scared.
"Today….when we were down in that lab……what happened to you?" Teyla asked.
"Nothing….I'm fine." John said.
"Your nose was bleeding." she said.
"Teyla, don't worry about it……I had a bit of a headache but other than that, nothing happened." John said.
"That is why you fell to your knees?" She said. "It looked like more than just a bit of a headache to me."
"I'm fine." John said. Teyla nodded and gave him an innocent smile. She then walked out leaving John alone to think about what Teyla had just said knowing that she was right.
Later on that day, Teyla went into the mess hall to sit down next to Leuitenant Ford. "You don't mind if I sit down here, do you?"
"No go ahead." he said and motioned for Teyla to sit down next to him.
"Can I ask you something?" she asked him after taking a sip of her cup of water.
"Yeah…..go ahead." Ford said and then waited to hear the question.
"Did you notice anything strange going on with Colonel Sheppard today?" Teyla asked with a worried look on her face.
"No……not really. I was too busy checking out the corner of the lab that I was told to check out." Ford said. "Why? Did something happen while we were in there?"
"Well, he was acting a bit odd." Teyla said. "First he stopped for no reason and then he dropped his P-90 and then he actually fell to the floor." She could see that Ford had no idea what she was talking about.
"He fell to the floor?" Ford repeated. "Do you know why?"
"He was holding his head like he had a really bad headache." Teyla said. "I went to talk to him earlier but he said that there was nothing wrong and not to worry about it."
"But you do worry about it." Ford said.
"Yes I do." Teyla said. "He doesn't seem to care about his own safety."
"Yeah….I know what you mean." Ford said knowing how John was and how he was a leader in every sense of the word. He sat there thinking for a few minutes. "Maybe there was something was down there in that lab. I mean…..we've had problems with that in the past."
"That may be." She said. "I think that we should keep a eye on him."
To be continued….
