SG1 in Atlantis
AN: ok, this is a future fic, only three years but still in the future. As any of you who have read any of my fics know, I'm a shipper. So, here I'm making a couple of assumption that should really come as no surprise to anyone that has read my other fic: Sam and Jack are together and so are Tayla and John. Ok, that's it for author's note.
Disclaimer: they don't belong to me, though I really wish they did. Neither does the whole concept of Atlantis or a city control mentally, I'm just playing with it.
Chapter 1
"Incoming message from the Daedalus, Dr. Weir," called Mike, the young technician manning the communications counsel in the control room.
"Patch it through," replied Dr. Elizabeth Weir as she came into the control room from her office. Col. John Sheppard, Tayla and Dr. Rodney Mckay followed closely behind. They had been having a nice, friendly chat as they waited for the scheduled arrival of the Daedalus. The ship had been making periodic trip between the Pegasus and Milky Way galaxies for the last three years. It usually stayed around for a couple of months stay each time it came back with supplies, to do a bit of exploring and help the Atlantis expedition with whatever it needed. This time, however, it was only stopping to drop off the supplies and new personnel and to take the back the personnel that were scheduled to go back to Earth for either a vacation or re-assignment – there was some sort of test that it would be taking when it got back to Earth. Since this would be a pretty much pit stop, all of the leaders of Atlantis wanted to be on hand to at least exchange greeting with the crew, who had over the years become friends.
"Atlantis? This is Col. Coldwell at the Daedalus."
"Col. Coldwell, this is Dr. Weir. How was the trip?"
"Dr. Weir, hi. It was a smooth ride; we've done it so many times now I think most of us could do it in our sleep."
"Well, I'm glad it was uneventful thought I hope most of you stayed awake for it," teased Dr. Weir. The last three years had seen a nice friendly relationship developed between the Dr. and the Col., though it hadn't started out like that. At first Dr. Weir and Col. Coldwell had butted heads, his military ways of looking at and doing things hadn't really meshed too well with the Dr.'s more relaxed way of doing things. Fortunately, after a while the Col. had learned to appreciate the Dr.'s viewpoint and the Dr. had learned to respect the Col's. And just as she'd had with Sheppard, she had been able to established a comfortable working relationship with the new Col. Of course, the fact that he wasn't around all that much and John was still the senior military officer most of the time helped a lot.
"I didn't say the trip was uneventful, Dr. Believe me, we had no trouble staying awake." the Col. teased right back.
"I thought you said you had a smooth ride?" asked Dr. Weir, sharing a confused look with the members of AG1.
"Yes, the ride itself was smooth – no surprises on the way. But some of the passengers kept us on our toes. And I don't mind saying, as nice as it was to have them on board, we're kind of glad they're staying with you guys." The Col. almost seemed to be choking back laughter and his tone of voice, which said he was glad the problem was now in the Alanteans hands, brought a bit of anxiety to the confusion evident on the faces of everyone present in the control room.
"Um, Col," said Dr. Weir, a bit apprehensively, "are you talking about some of the transferees?" she asked, really, really hoping the answer was no. They already had more than enough 'problematic' personalities in the city (McKay, Kavenaugh, and yes even Sheppard, to name but a few) they didn't really need anymore. Just thinking about it started giving Elizabeth a headache.
"No, they are not transferees," answered the Col., to the obvious relief of everyone in the room, "I'd say they are more like visitors, who wanted a chance to see your fair city." The Col. finished explaining.
Elizabeth was now more confused than ever, up until now the Daedalus had only brought supplies and personnel that would be stationed here, replacing those going back to Earth. There had never been any 'tourists', which was how the Col. made these arrivals sound. But Elizabeth was nothing if not diplomatic, "Well, we'll be happy to have them. It's been a while since we've visitors from Earth." At the looks that both John and Rodney were giving her, she amended her statement, "well, actually we've never really had visitors from Earth had we? I'm sure it'll be an experience."
"Oh, I'm sure that it'll be that, all right. I can almost guarantee it." The laughter could now be clearly heard in his voice.
The Col. seemed to be enjoying saying things to alarm the people of Atlantis, Elizabeth couldn't help but notice. She again shared looks with the John and Rodney, all of the wondering who could possibly be coming to visit them.
"Ok, Atlantis. We're ready to start beaming down your supplies and personnel."
"And we're ready to receive them. Would you just beam the supplies to the storage area and the personnel to their respective areas?"
"No problem. And where should we beam down your guests?"
Having no idea who the guests were, Elizabeth really didn't think they could be sent anywhere but the control room. Besides, she really should welcome them personally since she was the leader of the city; she welcomed everyone that arrived in Atlantis but over time she'd discovered that it was just more efficient to welcome the new transferees after they've talked with their direct supervisors and settled down a bit. "Right here would be just fine, Col."
"All right they'll beam down momentarily. And I'll contact you again once all the transfers are down. Daedalus out."
As soon as the Col. finished speaking, there was the bright flash of white light that was the signature of the Asgard beam. When the light cleared, the Atlantis crew was utterly surprised at who they saw: standing before them was no one else than SG1 and Gen. Jack O'neill. The SG1 and Gen. Jack O'neill, legends of Stargate Command that had saved the planet countless times – no one had even thought to image they could be ones coming here; it was completely unexpected but certainly an honor.
As soon as John saw the General, he straighten up from where he was leaning against a console and sharply saluted, "General, sir." Both Elizabeth and Tayla were amused to see how fast he went from slouch to perfect military position complete with heels coming together – definitely not something they saw every day as John was a very laid back kind of guy.
The Gen. returned the salute but then said, "relax Sheppard, I'm not here for an inspection."
Elizabeth stepped forward with her hand extended to greet the Gen. "It's a pleasure to see you again, Gen. But if you don't mind my asking, why are you here?"
"Oh," Jack said waving his arm around, "you know we were just in the neighborhood."
"I see," said Elizabeth but it was clear by her tone of voice she really didn't.
"No, you don't," the blond standing next to Jack said, smiling at Elizabeth. "Dr. Weir, hello. It's nice to see you again."
"Elizabeth please, we're not too formal here," Elizabeth said, shaking her hand, "and it's nice to see you too, Col. Carter."
"Actually it's O'neill now, but please call me Sam." Sam said to the considerable surprise of most of those present, although none was more surprise than Rodney if his gaping mouth and eyes were any indication; it appeared that not much social news from Earth had made it way to Pegasus.
"Of course, Sam. And forgive me; I hadn't heard that you and the Gen. had married. My congratulations, I hope you're very happy."
"Oh, don't worry about it," Sam replied waving her hand as if to sweep it away, "no reason why you should have, really. And thank you, we are very happy."
"Yes, we are," said Jack with a tender smile in Sam's direction. "And please call me Jack; I'm not that much for formalities myself."
At that, Daniel snorted and said, "aint that the truth." He then stepped up to shake Elizabeth's hand. "Dr." he began but at her narrowed eyes, he smiled and corrected himself, "Elizabeth, it's a pleasure to see you again, especially here."
Elizabeth shook his hand and had to smile at the awed expression on his face at he kept trying to look at everything at once, "Dr. Jackson, I see you finally made it to Atlantis."
"Please, it's Daniel. And yes, I'm finally here and it only took me four years," this was said with a reproachful glare at Jack who ignored him in favor of looking around; it seemed that he too was fascinated with Atlantis. "I can tell you I'm dying for a tour."
Now it was Jack's turn to snort, "Yes, we all know that, Danny. But maybe we can finished the introductions before you start with the 100 questions and run off to God knows where, uhm?"
Daniel made a face at Jack but stepped back to let him introduce the rest of the team.
"Elizabeth, I'm sure you remember Teal'c" Jack said waving towards the tall Jaffa.
Teal'c inclined his head and said "It's a pleasure to see you again, Dr. Weir."
Elizabeth inclined her head and replied, "you too, Teal'c." She didn't insist that he call her by her giving name, knowing full well it'd be a wasted effort on the always formal Jaffa.
"And this is Lt. Col. Mitchell, the new leader of SG1." Jack finished the introductions waving his hand to the last of the group that had beamed down from the Daedalus.
"Col. Mitchell, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Same here, Ma'am. And please call me Cameron." Cameron said shaking her hand and smiling charmingly at her, something Rodney noticed and didn't much care for; he really wasn't too fond of Air Force pilots, despite the fact that John was one of his best friends, they tended to be too full of themselves in his opinion – an opinion John found hilarious and totally ironic given the size of the self-proclaimed genius's ego.
Elizabeth smiled, "then it's Elizabeth. And welcome, all of you, to Atlantis." She said smiling at everyone in the group and extending her arm to indicate the control and embarkation room.
"It's amazing," Sam said with awe.
"Yes," Elizabeth agreed with a small smile. "But please let me introduce you to my first team. Well, you all know Col. Sheppard and Dr. Mckay." She indicated the two that were a bit behind her.
A chorus of 'yes' and 'how are you' was heard from the new arrivals, except for Cameron how stepped up to the two men to shake their hands and said, "I haven't had the pleasure before."
John shook Cameron's hand and with a nod said, "please, it's John and Rodney. Like the lady said we're not too formal around here."
"That's right; Cameron didn't join the SGC until about a year after you guys left. He hasn't met any of you before." Sam said as it dawned on her for the first time; Cameron had been a part of SG1 for three years and Sam and the guys had by now completely accepted him. So much so, that sometimes they forgot that it had only been three years since he'd joined them – he really was part of the family.
"Oh," said Elizabeth, then she motioned for Tayla to come up, "and this is Tayla, an Athosian that has been with us from the beginning. She's an integral part of AG1 and of our community. But more importantly, she's a trusted and dear friend."
Tayla inclined her head in greeting, but she also offered her hand; she had been a member of the Atlantis community long enough that she was used to their of greeting, "It is an pleasure and honor to meet you. I have heard quite a bit of your adventures from Elizabeth and Rodney."
Jack shook her hand and returned the sentiment, "We've also heard a lot about you. It's a pleasure to meet one that has been such a great allied of our friends here." As head of Homeworld Security, Jack had read all of the reports of the Atlantis crew and knew how much of a help Tayla has been. At the General's words, John couldn't help but puffed up in pride, Tayla really was a treasure and it was gratifying for him that his superior officer and the guy in charge of everything Stargate, no less, acknowledge that.
As Tayla finished shaking hands with the rest of SG1, Elizabeth suggested, "Maybe we'd be more comfortable in the conference room?"
Jack agreed and with a sweep of his arm said, "lead the way."