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Setting: Season 3

Pairings: I don't know…yet.

The Wizard of Oz: The Stargate Way

Chapter One: Earth

She slammed the door of her house in anger as she left. Tears were stinging her eyes almost as bad as her cheek where her father hit her. He was drunk again, that much was obvious. He's been drunk all her life and will always be. She couldn't understand why her mother still stayed with him. He's treated them like dirt and she couldn't blame her estranged brother for leaving and joining the military when she was very young. A dream she couldn't let herself fulfill…not until now.

When she came home from her dead end job, her father was hitting her mother around again because his supper wasn't on the table before the game came on the television. That's when she finally snapped. Her father swung his hand towards her mother to inflict another blow and she grabbed it, stopping it from hitting its mark.

"What are you doing?" he demanded looking at her in surprise.

"Something I should have done a long time ago." she said pushing his arm way. She walked over to the phone and started dial. "I'm calling the police."

Her father rushed over grabbed the phone from her grip and threw it up against the wall, breaking it. "Don't you ever defy me!" he yelled and swung at her. She dodged the first fist, but wasn't fast enough for the other. It hit the side of her face with so much force she stumbled to the floor.

That's when time stood still in the house. All three family members stared at each other in shock of what just happened. Her father just hit her. In all her life she was never physically abused by her father. He only beat her mother and never her. He thought it was more fun to be mentally and emotionally abusive.

She slowly stood up and walked to her bedroom never saying a word. She pulled out her hiking backpack and began throwing her clothes and what little belongings she had in it. Her mother stood at the door and asked "What are you doing?"

Rolling her eyes, she answered "What does it look like? I'm leaving."

"You're making a mistake. There's nothing for you out there."

She whirled around, furious. "No! The only mistake I ever made was letting you to convince me that I couldn't make it out in the world and was only good at bringing home a paycheck to keep this little shit hole of a house running! That was my mistake!" She then put more clothes in her backpack and topped it off with her journal and a picture of her brother before closing it.

Her mother's face turned red. "Fine leave! But don't expect us to welcome you with open arms when you find out the world's a lot harsher out there than you think!"

She let out a bitter chuckle. "A lot harsher then where, mother! Here? Trust me I think I can make it on my own with you and dad! You were the ones holding me back! You're the ones that won't be able to handle the harshness of reality! Not me!" With that she swung her backpack over her shoulder and left her room for the last time.

She walked through the living room taking one last look at her father. He was sitting in his recliner trying to open his beer bottle. The result of his fumbling was a half empty bottle and alcohol covering his lap. He looked up to her. "Get me a towel!"

"Get it yourself." she snapped back and opened the front door and into her new life. Her father ran to the door screaming at her that she was an ungrateful bitch and they would be better off without her. She tuned him out and with every new step away from her former home gave her more confidence. She held her head up high, for once in her life proud of herself. It was about three hours later with the sun at her back did she begin to think her choice was a mistake.

She stopped walking and looked around, noticing she was at the forest where her old clubhouse she built was hidden. She smiled remembering playing so many fun games with her very few friends when they were children. She walked through the forest in hopes the clubhouse was still intact, so she could find shelter before night approached.

She continued to smile while walking through the forest. For some strange reason it always calmed her. Closing her eyes as she walked, she opened the rest of her senses. There was a joyful tune coming from the wild birds as they sung to one another. A warm gentle breeze caressed her face and tugged at her clothing bringing with it the sweet scent of wildflowers from a meadow a slight distance away.

She heard the bubbling of a stream and stopped to watch allowing the sound to further soothe her frazzled nerves. She pulled her brown hair back to look down at her reflection, frowning at the site before her.

All she saw was a skinny twenty year old nobody. She should have been in college or university years ago, but she convinced herself she was needed at home. She tried to tell herself that she was young and could still live a happy life, which was true, but somehow she had a hard time believing it.

Sighing she turned her gaze away from the stream and deeper into the forest. She continued walking for a few minutes until her ankle caught on a root protruding from the ground and fell to the ground with a sickening thud and a cracking sound. She took in a lungful of air and gasped when a sharp pain erupted from her side. Cursing at her carelessness she sat up slowly, trying not to aggravate the now constant pain. She stood up, hissing as pain flared up in her ankle. She would have chuckled at her predicament if her side wasn't so sore.

Grabbing her backpack, she then took an unsteady step forward favouring her sore ankle and just when she was confident she could make it to her clubhouse, her good ankle slipped on a patch of damp leaves. She fell and in the back of her mind wondered why she wasn't stopping. Looking around at the world swirling by at an incredible speed, she figured she was falling down an extremely steep hill. Her left arm hit a tree and she heard a loud pop and then pain. She screamed from the pain and when everything seemed to slow down for a moment she felt an impact at the back of her head. Everything disappeared into darkness and she knew no more.

Author's Notes: Yeah I know this is a short and boring first chapter, but I promise the Atlantis crew will show up next chapter. Please R & R.