Chapter Two: A Medical Emergency
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"Unscheduled Off-World Activation!"
Colonel Steven Caldwell came up to stairs to the Atlantis control tower to where Dr. Rodney McKay was looking at the data that was showing on one of the laptop screens. "Doctor,"
"We just received Colonel Sheppard's IDC and the shield lowered itself."
"Doctor raise the shield, it could be a trap."
"Let me rephrase that, Colonel, we cannot raise the shield because we do not have any control over the system."
"Well how is that possible, Doctor?" Caldwell asked sceptically.
"How should I know?" McKay shot back.
Caldwell spoke into his radio, "Security team to the gate room."
As the security team led by Major Lorne came into the gate room, they positioned themselves strategically around the gate followed by Teyla and Ronan, who waited with the marines anxiously as the event horizon shimmered, the team looked on in horror as John Sheppard came barrelling through the stargate, tumbling down and leaving a trail of blood behind him as he landed in a heap on the smooth floor.
Rodney immediately rushed down the stairs, meeting Teyla and Ronan as they ran to the unconscious man who had his back to them. Teyla bent down to him as Lorne spoke into his radio urgently.
"Medical Team to the Gate Room, STAT!!"
Teyla felt bile rising up at the back of her throat as she reached John's lifeless form and after turning him over, saw a piece of John's collar bone through the ripped flesh on the front as she checked for a pulse which she did not expect to find.
Ronan looked at the mess Sheppard had left in his wake- His anger intensifying- as Rodney stood just behind Teyla as Beckett and his world class medical team arrived but none of them were prepared for the state of Sheppard's bare upper torso.
It was a mass of open wounds thanks the cat-o-nine tails with blood seeping onto the floor and forming a pool of Blood around him and around Teyla, who looked up to Beckett who had come over to them immediately.
"He is alive, Doctor," The Athosian leader whispered as Carson swore to himself.
"Bloody hell, Get him to the bloody infirmary NOW!!"
Beckett and his team laced Sheppard on a gurney and whisked him off hurriedly to the infirmary to begin hours of treatment before his team could see him and perhaps two weeks at least before his team could get anything from the injured man about what happened and whether Elizabeth was even alive.
For the meantime however, all the team and the rest of Atlantis was hope that John was tough enough to get through the kind of trauma that even the most experienced personnel had never experienced.
