Finally
Elizabeth Weir got the chance to go off world with her favourite team
of all, even though she did not want to admit it, they were going to
P3X-919, one of the Athosians told them that there was only a small
unadvanced community there who were willing to trade, John Sheppard
thought that it would be best for Elizabeth to handle this
negotiation as the last one he handled on Halcyon (book number 4) did
not go to well.
'Where is everyone' John wanted to know where
their village was moved to because the Athosians told them that the
village was outside the Stargate.
'So much for a short trip, we
should have taken the jumper,' McKay's sense of humour made the
team wonder if he was serious or not.
The thought must have
crossed all of their minds at one point, 'they must have either
been destroyed, but there was no sign of recent activity, or they
were more advanced than they had thought.'
Elizabeth walked
around trying to find out if there was any recent activity in the
area. She walked through a small patch of trees. It felt like summers
day if they were on Earth.
The rest of the team remained around
the gate contemplating what had happened, there was a sudden scream
in the distance. Sheppard reacted and ran towards the forest, there
on the ground was Elizabeth; unconscious two gunshot wounds one in
her lower leg and one in shoulder.
'Rodney, dial home, get a
medical team ready for when we return,' ordered Sheppard while he
grabbed Elizabeth gently and ran to the gate.
Beckett was waiting
by the gate with a medical team and a stretcher.
'Who is
injured,' asked Beckett just before John stepped through carrying
Elizabeth.
'Elizabeth!' shouted Carson, 'get her on the
stretcher; she has lost a good deal of blood. How long has she been
unconscious?'
John replied, 'about 10 minutes, she was on her
own and we had lost her and then she screamed, we don't know who
did this to her.'
'Whoever they were they left in a hurry,'
replied Ronon.
'Get her under the scanner, John come with us she
will want some company when she wakes up.'
John sitting on
the chair exhausted looked up, Elizabeth was still unconscious, he
could not help her he was not a doctor.
'John,' Elizabeth
said weakly, Sheppard had fallen asleep, he would not wake up.
Carson
Beckett came into the room, 'Ah I see our patient has finally
awaken.'
Elizabeth was feeling a bit confused, looking at John,
Carson told her, 'he has been awake for two days waiting for you to
wake up, I see he could not hold on any longer. What happened out
there, no one can tell me?'
Elizabeth was sitting up getting her
arm strapped up, 'I don't know I saw a man come out by a tree
then all I felt was a sharp pain… a stunner he had a stunner but it
obviously wasn't a stunner because I was out of it for a lot longer
than the stunners we have ever encountered.' A bang of trays made
John Sheppard jump up from his short nap. 'Whoa,' he was caught
off guard however he realised that Elizabeth was awake; he turned to
her and asked how she was.
She looked worse than he did and he had
been up for over 48 hours. The thought of who had been running things
had been rushing around in Elizabeth's mind, John seemed to sense
it and he reassured her by telling her how they suspended all gate
activity until she was notified. 'I know how you worry.'
The
thought also ran through her mind for where they going to go back to
that planet again and if so then they would be dealing with a new
range of technology.
Weir told them to open the gate and send a
MALP through, however whoever injured her must have been trying to
warn them off because they could not get a wormhole established.
'Why
injure someone, why not simply tell us that we should leave,'
Elizabeth asked John. 'I don't know, maybe they sensed that we
might not have left and been too stubborn so if they injured one of
us then they would not have to risk all of us being
injured.'
Whatever it was they were not going to find out again.
Elizabeth and John continued to talk about what was going to happen
with the chain of command if their leader was Out Of Action. However,
Elizabeth ensured John that this would not stop her doing the job she
came here to do.
