Chapter two! Here we go =D Thanks for reading.

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Greer showed Sheppard into the Destiny gate room and John had to swallow the gasp that rose up in his throat.

'It's amazing.' He said slowly, and lowly.

Greer watched him, smiling under his breath. 'Colonel Young is this way.'

John nodded, still amazed and silenced by the prototype gate. 'Yeah,' he said awestruck.

Greer led him to a side room, where John locked eyes with Colonel Young. 'Sir.' He saluted sloppily.

Young surveyed him, before asking 'Colonel Sheppard?'

John nodded, staying silent.

'Why are you here?' Young asked. 'In your own body?'

'I don't know.' John shrugged. 'I went to sleep on Atlantis and woke up in the hallway with Greer poking me with a gun.'

Young nodded, 'You'll need to talk to Rush and Eli.'

'And where are they?' John asked.

'Sergeant Greer or Lieutenant Scott will escort you to them.' Young told him.

John nodded and followed Greer out of the room.

They were walking through the hall when John looked at Greer and asked 'Who's Rush and Eli?'

Greer sneered. 'Rush is the "best" scientist Destiny has, but he's been terrible, manipulative and vile. Eli is basically his assistant, most people see him as sweet, but he's really naive.'

John nodded, before Greer stopped him in front of a door. 'This is them.'

John nodded at him. 'Thanks Sergeant.' Before walking in and being met by two people, one set of eyes on him and the other on a consol.

'Hello.' He said, smiling at the overweight man, staring at him wearing a red T-Shirt emblazoned You Are Here.

'Eli.' The other person introduced himself, 'Also called Mathboy.' He smiled nervously, before looking behind him. 'Rush!'

'What do you want Eli?' the older man said wearily.

'We have a visitor.' He said promptly.

Rush looked up from the consol he was working at and shock enveloped his face. 'Colonel Sheppard! What are you doing here?' he said, practically running over to him.

'I don't actually know how I got here.' John said nervously.

'Well what happened?' Rush asked sceptically.

'I went to sleep on Atlantis and I woke up in the corridor.' John repeated.

'Hmmm.' Rush murmured, before walking around the room.

John was quickly getting bored with Rush's monologue and started talking to Eli. 'So, what's it like on Destiny?'

Eli smiled at him gently. 'It's ... different.'

John smiled at him, 'It was the same with Atlantis in the beginning. I couldn't get used to the sea sounds.'

Eli grinned, 'You wanna go to the mess? They have the protein slop they always serve.'

John nodded.

Eli led him out of the room, leaving Rush to figure out his problem.

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Three days later, and John got on with most people on the ship, mainly Eli, Colonel Young and Sergeant Greer.

This particular day, Eli and Greer was on the planet below the ship that Destiny had dropped out of FTL above, so he was alone in the Destiny Mess when Rush sat at the table and started talking to him.

'So, I think I figured it out.' He said, making John look at him.

'And?' he prompted.

'I think that Atlantis, because she is a sentient ship mainly, sensed that this ship was in danger and sent the most qualified person she knew to help it.' Rush said.

'Well, Atlantis was in danger as well.' John said. 'The Asuran's have launched an attack on Atlantis, they get there in five weeks.'

'Maybe the danger on Destiny is more urgent?' Rush suggested, but John had stopped listening because he saw something different. He could see the Atlantis infirmary.

Rodney and Carson were standing there, arguing.

'He's got to be somewhere!' Rodney yelled.

'I know that Rodney.' Carson said wearily, 'But he just disappeared.'

'Umm, guys?' he said, interrupting them.

'Sheppard!' Rodney nearly screamed. 'Where are you?'

'I'm on the Destiny.' John said.

'The ship Destiny?' Rodney asked. 'How the hell did you get there?'

'Well, Rush theorised that Atlantis sensed that the Destiny was in danger and sent the most qualified person that she knew to the Destiny.' John surmised.

'Are you ok Colonel?' Carson questioned.

'Yeah I'm fine, except for the vision of you here.' He quipped before wincing, and bringing his hand to his head.

'Colonel!' 'Sheppard!' were yelled at the same time and John closed his eyes to stop the dizzy feeling, and opened his eyes to see Rush leaning over him 'Colonel?' he asked worriedly, looking him over. 'Are you ok?'

'Where's Carson gone?' he said woozily. 'Rodney and Carson were here a second ago?'

'No Colonel Sheppard,' Rush contradicted. 'You haven't left the Destiny Mess hall, you collapsed a moment ago.'

'I went to Atlantis.' He mumbled, before passing out.

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John struggled to open his eyes, and in the end he gave up the struggle and left them closed just listening to the sounds of the ship around him.

'Could he be suffering aftermaths of the transport?'

'No, I don't think so,' a female answered. 'I think it's more the fact that Atlantis has sent his body and mind here, and the connection is fracturing, and Atlantis can't control the link.'

'They have a ZPM.' Rush argued.

'Colonel Young!' TJ said, or John was pretty sure it was TJ, she was the only medic here, 'he'll be waking up soon so if you need to talk to him, now would be good.'

'Okay.' John could hear the nod in his voice. 'I'm going.'

John sat up, wincing slightly, at watched at Colonel Young walked over to him.

'Colonel Sheppard.' He said. 'How are you feeling?'

John shrugged, 'I'm fine.'

Young nodded. 'Rush said you told him you went to Atlantis.'

John nodded. 'I did.'

Young surveyed him. 'Do you know how you got there?'

John suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. 'No. I'm pretty sure Rush will find out for you, and Rodney will be looking it up now.'

Young nodded. 'Well if there's nothing you can tell me, I'll be back to the Gate room, there's a team expected back.'

John nodded at him before spying Rush staring at him over his shoulder. They met each other's gaze and regarded each other, silently promising that eventually, they would understand each other.

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Righhttttt, =d Not totally happy with this chapter, not sure where I was going with it, or where exactly the storyline is going, I originally started this as Eli and John, hurtling through space, trapped on ships the opposite sides of the galaxy, but then again, where do storylines take you?

Chapter three, will be up soon =D

Thanks you reading

Emily.