Elizabeth
Weir was normally the last person wandering the room at night, they
had just received the month supplies from the Daedalus and no one had
packed them away yet. Elizabeth started to head towards the control
room after looking through the same research for the last couple of
weeks; she had just translated some research. She always took
the long way to get to her office, just to walk around and see more
of the city. Little did she know what was going to happen. There was
a bright light as pain exploded throughout her body, then darkness
fell over her. --- John Sheppard's job was to make
sure Elizabeth was not working into the late hours of the morning.
This job of course was taken on by himself and some words from Dr
Beckett. First though he had to find her. Her office was one
of the first places he usually checked and tonight was no different.
He walked up the stairs and found she was not there. Chuck usually
knew where she would be. 'Have you seen Elizabeth?' 'No,
sorry, I think she went out to get air about 50 minutes ago and
hasn't come back since.' He replied realising if Sheppard did not
know where Dr Weir was then she was probably in trouble. 'Try
internal sensors' Most people would be asleep in their quarters by
now so it would be fairly easy to find anyone who was out in the
corridors. 'Colonel, I am picking up an overload in one of
the systems near the tower.' Suddenly there was an explosion and
the consoles began to shake. Without saying anything John ran
out of the room as fast as he could and headed towards the corridor. When he turned the corner he saw her, she was lying there
motionless. One of her legs was under a crate, which had fallen from
a height, John had no doubt that it was either broken or fractured at
the very least. Elizabeth looked as though her head had been hit as a
bruise was already beginning to form. She had some shrapnel in her
shoulder which was deep enough to form a pool of blood. John
had to get a medical team here and quickly, he knew a basic knowledge
of medical procedures and he knew that if she had been unconscious
for longer than 10 minutes then she was in trouble. 'Doctor
Beckett!' There was no reply. 'Doctor Beckett' 'Aye,
what can I do for ye lad' he replied, John must have woken him up
as the doctors words were slurred. 'I need you to come to
the south-east corridor near the control room' 'Can one of
the active Doctors come instead, it may be a while I am not near
there' 'Yeah Doc,' 'Ok, one more question
Colonel, who is the patient, it better not be Rodney again, so help
me if it is…' 'Doc, its not Rodney…its
Elizabeth' 'What?' 'We think there may have
been an explosion in one of the areas by the tower. Carson you need
to hurry' The Doctors movements could be heard, he must
have been moving fast as John could hear bangs as the Doc was trying
to rush out of the room. --- John could hear the
doctor coming even before he was in sight, the crash of the medical
trolleys were making enough noise. 'Carson over
here' Carson leapt into movement and started checking
Elizabeth. 'Doc is she going to be ok' 'I don't
know lad' Elizabeth's leg was revealed and it was at an
angle. 'Oh no, right get that leg strapped up before we go
anywhere.' 'What's the matter Carson?' 'If we
move her before we have checked what damage there is to her leg, it
could cause more damage to it.' 'Oh' They
strapped up her leg and she was carted to the infirmary where Carson
and the other nurses started to examine Elizabeth.
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John was running behind the medical team who were already far
ahead of him, he could see Elizabeth's pale face. At that moment
Rodney came out of his lab and bumped into John, knocking them both
to the ground. 'Rodney' 'Hey, why are you
running, another supply of turkey sandwiches just been unloaded in
the mess hall or something?' 'I cant talk now.' 'That's
fine by me I have something to show to Elizabeth anyway' 'Elizabeth
wont be in her office.' 'Well I will leave it on her desk
she should get it later tonight.' 'Rodney… she wont be
in her office for a while.' 'Why not, has Carson finally
made her take a holiday?' 'No, there was an
accident' 'When? What happened?' 'About 10
minutes ago there was a small overload in one of the systems and it
exploded before anyone had a chance to do anything about it.' 'What
happened?' 'Elizabeth was in the area when the system
exploded, she is critically injured.' 'Oh my … is she
going to be ok, is that who just went past my lab, Carson and a
medical team.' 'Like I said Rodney I cant chat I am going
to the infirmary right now.' 'I'll come with you' they
both ran towards the infirmary, hoping they did not have to say
goodbye to their leader.