Rebirth
Chapter Two: Reveal
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate. As unfortunate as this is (cries) I still claim Ophelia, Evan, and Rosary.
I think this chapter might start out a little slow, but it get's interesting near the end. And I'll have the next chapter up soon since I'm almost done writing it.
Running Deer: Thank you, I think I meant to add spaces in between scenes, I guess I just never got to it. And I'm glad you found it interesting! And I think Ophelia's story is more interestiong than Rosary's or Evan's. So I'm excited to write it. That's going to be the third chapter.
Again, I welcome any critiquing and I'm open to new ideas! I hope you enjoy!
"Unscheduled off-world activation." Chuck announced, checking the screen in front of him.
"Raise the shield." Dr. Elizabeth Weir ordered. A weird play of light appeared over the gate.
"We're receiving a transmition. It's a video." Chuck looked at Weir uncertainly.
"Bring it up." She ordered.
Rosary Morgan leaned forward and tried her best to see in-between everyone else who was crowding the screen.
A green skinned man dressed in black appeared on screen.
"What is that?" Rosary asked Dr. Rodney McKay, who was close by.
"That's a Wraith. Sheppard gave him this one the name Todd. We've run into him once before. And did Elizabeth say you can see this stuff?"
"It's okay," Rosary said to reassure him even though Elizabeth shot her a look. She technically wasn't supposed to be here.
"Oh," was all Rodney said before turning back to the screen.
"Hello Dr. Weir." The Wraith, Todd, said almost politely. "I have something you might want." He made a gesture and two Wraith dragged an annoyed looking girl towards the screen. Wait, no, that wasn't just a girl, it was Evan Heartly. "She says she's from Ear-"
"That's Evan!" Rosary interrupted.
Weir shot her an alarmed look. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure. I can recognize my own friend!" Rosary pressed closer to the screen, pushing Zelenka out of the way. "Evan are you okay? Why are you with the Wraith? Have y-"
"I'm fine." Evan interrupted with a smirk. "You worry too much. These wackos just don't understand that I don't like being on TV." One of the Wraith hit the back of Evan's head and she glared at him. "Are you serious? Did you just hit me?"
"Take her away." Todd commanded.
"Hey, now you wait just a godda-." Evan protested as the two Wraith dragged her through two purple doors.
"Sorry about that." Todd continued.
Weir turned to Rosary and said, "You should probably go."
Rosary began to protest, but Sheppard led her to the door and closed it behind her.
*
Rosary sulked in her quarters for what seemed like an eternity. Finally, there was a beeping at her door and Weir entered.
"So, what's the deal? Can we get Evan back?" Rosary demanded.
"I don't know." Weir said, sitting down on Rosary's bed and folding her hands in her lap. "According to the Wraith, Todd, Evan doesn't know if she wants to be here or there. She's not sure who is more trustworthy. Although I don't know why she'd ever even have any doubts of leaving that place. They must have been really nice to her to make her so fearless around them."
"No, she's just always dumb." Rosary growled.
"They're threatening to get her to rebuild her science project, and then modifying it so they can get to Earth."
"Why would they want to get to Earth?" Rosary asked, sitting down next to Weir.
"Well, the Wraith feed on humans, and right now there are so many Wraith that they're fighting over food. With as many people as there are on Earth, it's considered a rich feeding ground. This Wraith, Todd, wants us to give him this thing we have called a jumper so that he can study it. A jumper is a type of small space ship. He says that if we don't, he'll get Evan to rebuild that device." Weir smiled nervously. "Now, I came here to ask you if you think she can do it. If she can rebuild it."
Rosary shook her head. "I don't think that Evan would betray the people of Earth. But yes, she can rebuild it. She took careful notes while she was building because she didn't know exactly what she was making. She put the notes in the pocket of her trench coat when she got bored with it, which was right before it started acting up. And…."
"She was wearing the coat." Weir interrupted, understanding and worry in her voice.
"Yes. So she has the notes of how to complete the device." Rosary said matter-of-fact-ly.
"This is not good." Weir said. "I need to know how much time we have. How long did it take her to build the device?"
"Um, about a week. That was with her working for at least three hours a day." Rosary said. "Although, I don't think Evan would betray us."
"Even if she didn't want to help the Wraith, she still might." Weir sighed and placed her head in her hands. "The Wraith can read your thoughts sometimes. And they could take her notes."
"Oh," Rosary said and kicked herself mentally for not having a better response.
"I'm going to go contact my superiors." Weir said hesitantly. "I'll tell you more a little later." She got up as she spoke and stopped at the door.
"Wait," Rosary said, standing up. "If Evan's here then what about Ophelia? Where's she?"
"I don't know." Weir said. Rosary's face fell slightly but then Weir spoke, "I know you think it's going to be hard to find her, but people in this galaxy seem to find a way to keep on running into each other. Besides, we have many allies on many different worlds, we'll have plenty of eyes looking out for her."
Rosary nodded, a little encouraged by this.
*
The next day at lunch, Rosary sat with Rodney and Ronon.
Rodney was talking about Todd and what he could do once as he had a jumper.
"He could find a way to detect the jumpers even when they're cloaked." Rodney was saying. "I mean, think about it. If he could do that, then there would be no point in having jumpers."
"What I want to know, is why that girl's working with him willingly." Ronon said looking at Rosary.
"I don't know." Rosary said. "She's probably just in awe. I'm sure it will wear off. She's always been interested in aliens and stuff. She will probably come back to our side soon enough."
"But they're Wraith!" Ronon growled. "I'm pretty sure she already knows what they eat to survive. There's no reason she should be betraying her people."
Rosary sighed, "Ronon, I don't know what else you want me to say. I don't hate the Wraith, yet, but I wouldn't go around helping them. I don't fully understand why Evan's helping them. Maybe they're threatening her or something. Either way, I'll admit you're right; they're Wraith so there's no reason for her to be helping them. I think that she'd have a good reason to be helping them, though."
"There's no good reason to help a Wraith." Ronon growled.
Rosary shrugged and started fidgeting with her food.
Ronon sighed and went back to eating.
Rodney took this as a hint to start talking again. "Um anyway, as I was saying." He cleared his throat awkwardly and began talking about all the data the Wraith could gain from this.
*
Evan awoke to the sound of footsteps. She was back in her cell. No one had thought about giving her a chance to talk to Rosary. She had been thoroughly disappointed when Atlantis had ended the transmition so quickly, saying they'd think about it. She was at least pleased that Evan had not been annihilated by the device, like the Wraith predicted.
Now Evan turned and brought herself into an upright position to meet whoever was coming towards her cell. A commander Wraith stood at the bars of her cell with two drones. She noticed it was the same one who had brought her to "Todd" (or so the Lanteans referred to him as.) He opened the door, gestured down the hall with his hand, and said, "This way. My Superior wishes to speak with you."
Evan began walking ahead of the group, feeling bored and still tired. She wondered how long she had been sleeping for. Probably not that long, she mused.
She turned around and began walking backwards to talk to the Wraith. "So," she began. "Any news of my sister, Ophelia?"
"Not that I am aware of." The Wraith replied.
Evan sighed and turned back atound. "Alright. So, what did he wake me up so soon for?"
"You've been sleeping ten hours. From research, we determined that a healthy human needs only eight hours of sleep."
"Well, I sleep a lot and I'm still tired. But do you know what this meeting is about?"
The Wraith didn't answer.
Evan sighed and didn't say anything else.
In Todd's "meeting room" there had been placed a small table with two chairs.
"I figured it'd be more comfortable for you to talk while sitting." Todd explained with a smile that seemed almost mocking.
Evan nodded and took a seat. Todd merely stood at the other end of the table.
"Atlantis doesn't seem to be willing to trade with me. So I'm asking you, can you start constructing that device?"
Evan said nothing for a moment then she said, "I don't know. I'd need a few basic supplies. I'm not sure if I can fully remember everything. I didn't have an initial plan when I started to construct it." Looking down she saw her jacked and remembered the notes that were inside its pocket. She didn't say anything about them.
"You didn't plan any of it? You were just putting pieces of metal together and got this?" He waited for her nod and then continued. "It's remarkable really. You could have created an electrical bomb for all you know. And the fact that you created something like this is even more remarkable."
"Well, I'm clearly just a remarkable person!" Evan said leaning back in the chair. "So are you sure you trust my memory to build something like this?"
"You'd better remember or I'll have no choice but to feed on you."
Evan glared.
"You really do seem like the people of Atlantis," commented the Wraith who had led Evan here. "You all are from Earth and seem to be almost fearless when it comes to defending your own people."
"Yeah, well," Evan said shrugging again.
"Start telling me what you remember of building the device." Todd commanded.
"I see you're right to the point." Evan said, not sure if she should tell him everything she remembered about the device, and she remembered most everything. Todd began walking towards her, curling the fingers of his right hand and she instantly cracked for fear of being fed on. "The first thing I did was draw out a very simple circuit board. It was based on a few things I had just lying around."
"You'll have to draw a diagram for me. What supplies will you need?"
"Uhm," Evan mumbled. "I'll need a few feet of rubber encased wire, moldable plastic, electrical tape, pliers, screws, a drill, a screw driver, and something I can use to cut metal. Oh, and a sheet of a semi-flexible combination of aluminum, copper, and steel that's 10 feet by 1 foot."
"I'll try our best to get those materials."
Evan nodded and continued explaining her science project.
*
The next day, Evan was summoned by Todd again. She didn't even bother trying to talk to the Wraith who was her escort.
The room she was brought to wasn't the same one she'd been brought to yesterday. It was bigger and there seemed to be some sort of equipment all around. There were a few more Wraith present today then there had been yesterday, and these weren't the drone-like masked Wraith either.
"These are a few of my scientists." Todd said in way of greeting. "I figured we should begin work on the device as soon as possible."
"Ok." Evan said, feeling a little uneasy at the presence of so many Wraith.
"We have obtained most of the supplies you will need to make this device." One of the Wraith reported.
"Ah, um, thank you." Evan said not knowing what else to say.
"You may begin to work." Todd said walking towards the exit. "My scientists will assist you if you need any help and they will study the device as you construct it so that they may better understand it and plan how to program it to access the device that you left on Earth."
"You're going to send your troops to my room?" Evan said incredulously.
"If we sent them to the main Stargate, then the military base there would stop us the moment my troops stepped out of the Stargate." Todd explained before leaving.
"Um, ok." Evan mumbled and began to construct her science project once again.
*
Days after, Evan was beginning to become accustomed to the Wraith. They talked to her a little more and she didn't feel like she had to fear them any more just so long as she was cooperative. The device was almost finished and she was adding modifications so that the destinations could be controlled.
They planned on building two. One to keep on the hive, and one to replace the one on Earth.
"No! That would result in a total failure!" Todd was yelling at a Wraith who was accompanying him. He turned his attention to Evan. "How much longer do you need to complete this first device?"
"Um, about a day or two more." Evan said uneasily. "But if you included the second, it would take about four or five days. And it'll take a couple days to test it."
"Fine." Todd said sounding slightly irritated. "But do whatever you can to reduce that time. That includes you working as well." The last statement was directed at his scientists. They nodded and came closer to the table. Todd made a slightly irritated noise and left the room.
One of the scientists began to construct the other device and another stood over his shoulder pointing things out.
The other, probably the head scientist, told Evan what to do and explained the theories behind it.
*
Rodney and Weir looked up as Sheppard came into Weir's office.
"How are you doing?" Sheppard asked casually with a bit of a smile.
"Just fine, thank you." Weir said. "What do you need?"
"What do you think we can do to find that other girl before she ends up in the hands of the Wraith too?" Sheppard said, cutting straight to the point.
"Well, none of our off-world contacts has seen her so I don't know what else to do."
"Are you talking about Ophelia?" Rodney gave him an incredulous look. "I don't think you'd be able to find her unless you went out searching for her, which could take a very long time."
"I knew you wouldn't be of much help, Rodney." Sheppard replied. "That's why I didn't ask you. What about Rosary? Is she going to stay here?"
"I've contacted the SGC and they think that's the best course of action until she's been granted proper security clearance."
"So, what's she going to do in the mean time?" Sheppard asked. "Stay here and do nothing?"
"For the mean time yes." Weir laced her fingers together as she said this.
"Do you think she'd be able to go off-world?"
"If she received training, then she might be able to go on simple missions, but she's probably never held a gun in her life. What if…."
"I know this might sound weird," John interrupted. "But what if we trained her? Could she go look for her friend?"
"Well, she'd have to be trained for quite a few months but I suppose she might be able to go off-world. But I don't know how the SGC would react to an under eighteen US citizen who doesn't even have security clearance going on a mission through the Stargate. Why are you so curious?"
"Because she asked me to ask you." He said matter-of-fact-ly. "Now I'm going to go get lunch. She's in her quarters if you want to talk to her. Other ways, I'll tell her later that she can't help look for her friend."
"I'll talk to her soon." Elizabeth said quietly.
"Awesome," He began to leave. "I'll see you later."
*
When they were finished with both the devices, Evan and the three scientists presented them to Todd.
"They have yet to be tested." Evan explained. "But I'm pretty sure they will work."
"Good." Todd said.
"Have you considered being a Wraith worshipper?" Todd said suddenly.
"A Wraith worshipper?" Evan repeated dumbly.
"Or to just serve the Wraith?"
"I don't know. Usually I wouldn't. But well…. Why? Are you asking me to serve your hive?"
"I'm sure the people of Atlantis would be happy to get you away from me. And I need a spy."
"Ok." Evan said, considering it.
"I could put a tracking device in you and show you how to activate it once as the humans trust you. Then I can show you how to program a simple Atlantis radio into a communicator between you and this hive."
Evan looked at him cautiously. She didn't know if she should help him any further.
"If you agree to this, you are not allowed to betray me. I'll place a small device in you that will kill you if you try to betray me."
"Well. I'm not sure if I want to do this."
"You will." Todd said confidently. "Because if you don't, I'll have to kill you anyway. You are useless to me if all you do is rot in your cell."
*
"Unscheduled off-world activation!" Chuck instantly began typing on his computer. "It's the Wraith."
"Are we receiving anything?" Weir asked as she strode into the room.
"Another video."
"On-screen," Elizabeth said simply.
The image of Todd appeared and a few people in the room scowled furiously at him. Elizabeth, however just said, "What have you contacted us for?"
"I have finished building the device. I no longer need Evan Heartly." Todd grinned at Dr. Weir. "I'm sending her through the gate."
The camera shifted to show Evan standing at the active gate with three Wraith pointing their stunners at her.
"Will you lower your shield?"
"How do we know we can trust you?" Weir said suspiciously. "You threaten us and demand our jumpers, yet, here you are returning one of our people just like that? I wouldn't expect you to return her. Wouldn't it make more sense to feed on her? Not that I'm saying it's a good idea to feed on her."
"We need those jumpers for a bigger plan. You may not understand why, but you will later." Todd continued. "We don't need to give you further motivation to not give us those jumpers. The human is unharmed."
"Fine," Weir said with suspicion still in her voice and eyes. "Lower the Shield."
Evan stepped through the gate acting calm as if it were normal for her to be surrounded by tense marines.
"I'm Dr. Elizabeth Weir." Weir stated as she walked towards Evan. "I'm the head of the Atlantis expedition."
"I know." Evan said simply. "I'm Evan Heartly. But you knew that."
Dr. Weir felt a little unnerved by this girl and she didn't know why.
*
"Well there doesn't seem to be anything to worry about." Carson Beckett reported flipping pages on a clip board. "No trackers or weapons that my scanners can detect. Just one healthy little girl."
"I'm relieved to hear that Doctor." Dr. Weir turned to Evan. "I'm sorry for all the mistrust, but we just had to make sure the Wraith hadn't bugged you. It would be bad if the Wraith had an unwilling spy in Atlantis."
"Yeah, I understand." Evan agreed with a shrug, not knowing what else to say.
Rosary stood at the door watching Evan with a grin on her face.
"Am I free to go?" Evan asked.
"Yes you may." Beckett answered. "You're as right as rain."
Evan leaped off the bed and hugged Rosary. Then the two of them went to go explore Atlantis.
*
It was night in Atlantis. The ocean water that surrounded Atlantis lapped at the sides of the city.
Evan was alone in her room. She had already activated the tracking device that had been implanted in her spine.
She took her radio apart and began rewiring it according to Todd's instructions.
"…see you have it working." The radio replied once as she plugged the battery back in.
"Yes, it wasn't too difficult." Evan whispered, trying to make sure no one heard her.
"Did you find anything of interest?" Todd asked.
"No, not really. Although, I did get a few schematics of the City." Evan laid back on her bed.
"Good, very good."
"What kind of information do you want to know?"
"Battle tactics, what sort of technology they have, as well as mission schedules. Just simple things."
"Anything else?" Evan asked with a yawn.
"No, report whenever you have anything of use."
"Will do." Evan said before turning the radio off.
I'm especially hoping for critique on this because I wrote half of this at four in the morning.
TBC in Chapter Three: Ophelia