A Stream of Consciousness
Part 2
Author: MacGateFan
Disclaimers in Part 1

Rodney looked up from the text he was reading and sighed. He could definitely use Elizabeth's help with the translation. "Anything?" he asked Zelenka.

"I cannot translate any of this. Maybe you could have a look?"

"As much as I hate to admit it," Rodney said, rubbing his eyes, "I'm having problems translating as well. Let's go over what we know and then we'll go from there."

Zelenka nodded. "Yes, that is good idea. Mynar is from a race of people who were allies with the Ancients at one time."

"But their people were culled by the Wraith," Rodney continued, "and they blamed the Ancients for it. Mynar mentioned Serenity. Let's see if we can't find her in the database."

The pair was silent as Rodney began a search for the name. After ten long minutes, the console beeped and two pages of information spilled onto the screen.

Rodney scanned the information. "According to this, Serenity was one of the Ancient's leading scientists in the creation of the Wraith. Just like nearly everything they experiment with, it went haywire and they purposely let the Wraith loose on that planet."

"My God," Zelenka said. "It looks like they didn't expect them to be so smart and create ships and weapons."

"Wonderful. And no wonder Mynar is hell bent on killing Elizabeth, he thinks she's Serenity. Look at the image of her."

Zelenka muttered a curse in Czech. Elizabeth and Serenity could be twins. "Okay, so this tells us why this is happening, but how can we stop this and get Colonel Sheppard back?"

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait until Elizabeth is able to look over this text," Rodney replied.

Dr. Francesca Brown glanced at the EEG screen. She was not happy about the current readings. In fact, they were beginning to scare her.

She looked up when Carson came into view. Her boss looked decidedly exhausted, which no doubt came from miraculously saving the life of Elizabeth Weir.

According to Suzy, they nearly lost her twice. If Colonel Sheppard was still aware of everything going on, he was going to need one hell of a therapy session after the entity was removed.

"Franny, Love, how's the Colonel?"

"Not well, Carson. Do you remember reading the file on Dr. Jackson from a few years ago?"

Carson thought a moment. "Aye that I do. He had the consciousness of 12 people in his mind. They nearly lost him..." He trailed off. "Are you saying that we may lose Colonel Sheppard?"

"I'm afraid so. If you take a look here," she said, pointing to the EEG screen, "you can see the two separate brain patterns. The top one is the Colonel's as compared to ones he's had in the past and the bottom is Mynar."

"Bottom line is we need to get Mynar out of him before he has complete control of Colonel Sheppard and we lose our friend forever."

Franny nodded. She took a deep breath and asked, "How's Dr. Weir?"

"She's stable for right now. The bullet hit her lower abdomen and nicked an artery. But we were able to remove it and we've repaired the artery. We're just lucky this happened in here."

"Lucky," Franny muttered.

Carson smiled warily. "I should report this to Rodney. After all, he's in charge at the moment."

John could feel Mynar's pain and anger and he felt it consuming him. Mynar's mind had taken control of the pilot and he could do nothing but watch as Mynar attacked Elizabeth. He tried to scream, but the sound went nowhere. He would have rather pointed the gun at himself than shoot Elizabeth. God, was she all right? He didn't know and Mynar wasn't telling him.

"Get out of my mind!" John cried out.

Mynar laughed. "Once my revenge is complete, you may have your body back. I know how you feel about Serenity. What would you do if I told you she was dead? That you killed her."

"No!" John replied. "I didn't have anything to do that!"

"You may keep telling you that if you wish. If you'll excuse me, I have things to do."

John had no choice but to slip away…

Elizabeth woke up to blazing pain in her side. She looked groggily to her left and saw John restrained in the bed next to her. He didn't appear to be conscious, though.

For the moment, she was grateful for that. She didn't think she could handle seeing those cold eyes. True, she knew in her heart it was Mynar, but seeing the expression and utter hatred in John Sheppard's eyes was something she wasn't ready to face again.

"Elizabeth?"

She blinked a few times to see Carson's head swimming above her. Elizabeth's throat was dry and Carson noticed this as he reached for the cup of ice. "Take it easy, Love," he said.

Elizabeth savored the cool wetness as it went down her throat. "Is he all right?" she asked, looking over at John again.

"For the moment," Carson replied. "We have him sedate while Rodney figures out how to remove Mynar's consciousness from the Colonel's mind."

Her heart began racing as she recalled Dr. Frasier's file on Daniel's condition a few years back. "Oh God, Carson!" she gasped.

"No doubt you're thinking of Dr. Jackson's situation. We're aware of that and we're not going to let anything happen to him, I promise."

Elizabeth was a little surprised to see Carson inject something to her IV. When had he gotten that? She wondered as she slowly slipped into the darkness.