The sound of rhythmic beeping in time with multiple heartbeats was almost soothing to Teyla's nerves as she waited for Dr. Beckett to return with his diagnosis. McKay was nowhere to be seen, probably getting something to eat thought Teyla with a small smile. Sheppard's eyes flew open and he looked around the very familiar medical wing of Atlantis. The din of busyness was a calming sound to Sheppard after all these times, it meant everyone was doing alright, at least in the greater Atlantis. His eye's caught Teyla's, she opened her mouth to speak. But Sheppard cut her off.
"How's the kid?" Teyla smiled down at him as he sat up, blood rushed to his head, his vision narrowed and he laid back down. Beckett rushed over quickly. He fiddled with his stethoscope as he looked over the machines hooked into Sheppard.
"He's alright laddie, besides he's sleeping. Vitals are ship shape, Ronon's fine too. Your the last to wake up." Sheppard rubbed the back of his head. When did I? Sheppard stood quickly, he ignored the dizziness and walked past a partition to see the tattooed boy laying on a bed.
"That kid knocked me out with some control thing." Teyla looked at him and Beckett scratched his beard. Ronon walked over with his hand on his forehead.
"Damn kid, hit us with somethin'." Sheppard pointed up at his large friend.
"See see." Rodney walked in with a half eaten apple in his hand, he looked around at his friends before looking at the boy.
"Huh, you think he meant to knock you out?" Teyla crossed her arms.
"What makes you think that he is responsible for it?" Rodney took a bite out of his apple and pointed to his laptop, it was set up near Sheppard's bed. He set the apple down and started to search through the computer, he opened a file.
"Ah. Here it is, I caught this particular burst of energy before they were knocked out." Sheppard studied the image of the energy spike along the 7th line. He squinted his eyes. Teyla watched his face carefully.
"John, what is it?" Rodney looked back at Sheppard.
"I've seen this somewhere before..." Rodney scoffed.
"I've never seen this before, how could you?" Teyla continued to watch his face, Sheppard searched his memory banks, grasping at any old memories. He finally found the one he was looking for. It was a memory from college, one of the guys on the football team, the linebacker, had also been into computers, he had been running a simulation on something or other, it had been a pattern exactly like this. The name hit him.
Daniel Barrows.
"I know a guy who can tell us something about this." Rodney looked dumbfounded, Ronon finally started to pay attention to the conversation as he smelled adventure, he smiled slightly.
"When do we leave?" he asked.