A/N: Don't own anything, just decided to play with them for a little while. This was kinda fun, and can work as a one-shot, but if reactions warrant it, I've got a much longer story in mind. If you like it, let me know and I'll keep going. (how's that for a shameless cry for reviews? LOL) Enjoy!

Elizabeth entered the lab that she hadn't been to in months. She was obviously perturbed at something, and after a quick glance around the room to find him, she strode over to Rodney determinedly. "Okay, bring me up to speed. What's so important that it couldn't wait until I finished my lunch?"

Rodney just looked at her, distracted and, to Elizabeth, looking a bit green around the gills. Rodney nervous wasn't that new, as he spent more time worrying than anyone she'd ever met. However, he usually at least answered her. The fact that he continued to stare as if his mind was light years away unnerved her. She glanced at Dr. Zelenka; the room's only other occupant. "What's wrong with Rodney?"

The question seemed to snap Rodney back to the room and the realization that she was standing in front of him. "Oh…'Lizabeth. Hi. Thanks for coming. Zelenka was getting strange power readings from this room and decided to investigate. And it would seem he found something that you umm...we really needed to see."

With that said, he turned and led her to a podium, much like the one they found when they first arrived on Atlantis. "Is that a…?"

"Yep. A hologram emitter, like that original one Carson found when we first arrived. Though the one talking is a guy, not a girl. And get this…his name? Janus. Sound familiar?"

Elizabeth raised an eyebrow in question at Rodney. "Janus? As in the guy who helped me, well, the other me?" Rodney rolled his eyes.

"Does Janus sound like a common name to you? Of course it's the same guy." At Elizabeth's glare, he held his hands up in supplication. "Sorry. Besides, this is way too serious to be joking. And I'm sorry about interrupting your lunch. However, after seeing this, I think you'll be glad you didn't eat too much. I was."

That worried Elizabeth. Rodney…glad he didn't eat? Definitely serious. She glanced at the podium again, and then gave a sharp nod. "Alright. Let's see it." She stepped back quickly as a form shimmered into place less than 3 feet in front of her.

The image smiled and appeared to look around. "Greetings. My name is Janus. I record this as my people are preparing to abandon this city and returning to our home world for the final time. If you are watching this now, then the plan I concocted with Doctor Elizabeth Weir was successful and our city did, in fact, survive."

"Unbeknownst to Doctor Weir, I have placed an additional program into the city, which will engage when she is awakened from her metabolic stasis. Should this city have not survived, nor she never awaken, the program will delete itself and never come to fruition. However, should she live, my final actions shall not be in vain, and shall instead ensure your continued existence and presence in this galaxy, as well as ensure our race does not die out either."

At Elizabeth's raised eyebrow, Rodney paused the playback. "Additional program? Have you found any information on this additional program?"

Rodney turned a bit green again, nodded, and resumed the playback.

Janus continued. "I have instructed the computer to keep a sample of Doctor Weir's biological tissue, along with cells from the first male to have contact with the program. These two shall be combined to form a third life, engineered to also have the gene we require to enable the use of our technology. This process will initiate upon the awakening of Doctor Weir. At the advent of a viable lifeform, the formation of a second offspring, biologically adapted will begin. This cycle will continue, with the normal gestation period, with distinctions and random biological characteristics injected into each fetus to ensure no deficiencies or duplicates."

Elizabeth had heard enough, and rounded on Rodney, her eyes wide. "Is he saying what I think he's saying!" She had enough of a grasp of the sciences to understand what the Janus hologram had said, but she just had to make sure she'd heard it right.

Rodney frowned, and then looked at her sadly. "Yes, 'Lizabeth. You heard what you thought you heard. And that's not all. Come look at what else Radek found." He stepped over to a blank wall next to the chamber the alternate Elizabeth had inhabited for millennia. As he approached, a panel slid back and a tank came into view, illuminated from behind.

There, floating serenely in a liquid that looked like nothing so much as partially set jello, was a perfectly formed infant. Elizabeth stepped closer in awe, and then quickly turned to Rodney, who was studying the display next to the tank. "Are you saying that I have a child?" A quick look at the floating infant. "A daughter? That Atlantis itself gave me a daughter. And soon to be several children?"

Rodney looked at the readouts, then back at Elizabeth, his cheeks coloring softly. "Firstly, no to the several children. We have already been able to deactivate the part of the programming that repeats. However, this child is almost full term, and I refuse to 'deactivate' her. And technically, no, 'Lizabeth. What I'm actually saying, and what Janus said, is that in about, oh…maybe 1-2 weeks, we will have a daughter."

At her shocked looked and dropped jaw, Rodney tried to explain further. "Do you remember who initiated the awakening of the other Elizabeth? Me. I was the one who activated the revival process, who was there to wake her and ever the first one to touch her upon reanimation. So no, Elizabeth. YOU are not about to have a daughter. WE are."