Don't own anything yadda yadda yadda. If I did Sam would get my foot up her rear and Rodney would get more of the spotlight... Please feel free to tell me what you think, even flames are welcome, I need something to keep the muse warm.

Rodney was ready to tear someone's head off by the time he got to Earth and now they were making him sit through some stupid meeting on the Ori. He understood the Milky Way had problems, but so did Pegasus and right he didn't care about either, he needed to find his daughter.

On Atlantis things hadn't gone very smoothly. Everyone but John, well maybe including John, had thought he was crazy. Some sort of side effect from nearly ascending or perhaps some sort of alien influence. Which technically was the case but not in the way they thought.

So it was much to everyone's amassment when Caldwell of all people came to his rescue. The Colonel had walked into the infirmary just as Carson and his merry bunch of vampires were about to run a third round of tests and told them there was nothing wrong.

Everyone just stared at him, Rodney included. He sighed and pulled out a picture handing it to Rodney.

"See anything familiar?" The picture was obviously one of those studio shots that families get taken. An absolutely stunning women with chocolate brown hair and eyes sat on a chair with a little blonde girl on her lap. Caldwell stood behind the chair, smiling of all things, there were four more girls in the photo of varying ages, the eldest looking to be early twenties. What Rodney noticed was around the neck of all the girls was an identical blue pendant. It was very similar to the one that Cora used to wear, except hers had been a dark red and silver.

Dr Weir snuck a peek over Rodney's shoulder.

"I didn't know you had a family Steven."

"You're not meant to. Dr McKay is most likely telling the truth, it is common practice for memories to be tampered with or blocked to protect their existence. Given the climate of sixteen years ago I am not surprised that the mother chose to make him forget." Caldwell smiled slightly as he took the photo back looking at it.

"God knows my wife threatens me with it every time I piss her off."

Rodney snorted and started pulling off the various cords that were attached to him.

"See not crazy, not a side effect. Now I'm going to Earth to go meet my daughter."

"That is already being arranged."

"What?" Rodney looked at Caldwell as if he grew another head.

"My eldest Iah works for the council, I already sent her a message to start looking, shouldn't be hard for her to find your daughter. Also since this has resulted in a disclosure of sorts, paperwork is being drawn up to protect you from prosecution and make sure that this doesn't get out any more than necessary. Dr Weir, you will be receiving confirmation soon enough that their existence is not to be shared with the rest of the SGC as they are currently in the process of beginning disclosure.

There are those within the United States government who are aware of their existence and they are trying to widen the net, but it has to be done slowly. They already work very closely with the commonwealth military and government."

"Who are they?"

"I'm sorry I can't divulge that as of yet."

Elizabeth looked more than just a little annoyed but wisely dropped it.

"I'll give it a week before doing anything, if the confirmation doesn't come through…"

"Understood."

So now here Rodney sat ignoring everything being said around him. Finally what seemed like an eternity later, Walter brought in a note to General Landry.

"Dr McKay, my apologies I didn't realise you had someone waiting for you topside. You are free to go." Rodney gave some sort of reply and bolted from the room. He made his way topside to find one of the girls from Caldwell's photo waiting for him.

She smiled widely as she stepped forward offering a gloved hand to Rodney to shake.

"Dr McKay?"

"Yes you must be Iah?"

"Yes I am, come on we have much to discuss and you must be hungry for some real food."

"I'd rather just get on with it honestly." Rodney replied as she lead him away from security and towards the car park.

"how'd you get in here anyway?"

Iah levelled a 'how do you think' look at him.

"Oh."

They got into the car and Iah handed him a folder before pulling out and heading away from the base.

"What's this?"

"Your daughter." Rodney tore the folder open to find documents and photo's.

"Aella Meredith Brand McKay. Born 15th of January 1990. She is currently residing in Western Australia for the holidays, spends her year between the Australian and Welsh training facilities and the Camerine School for Girl's just outside of Cardiff. Currently guardian is her uncle Jeffrey Brand. He's an agricultural contractor. They have a large farm in Western Australia."

"What happened to Cora?" he asked skimming the papers in front of him. Aella had certainly inherited his brains by the look of it, she was a perfect student, excelled at everything she put her mind to.

"I'm not sure, I lost track of her about five years ago, which is when Aella began attending Carmine and Jeffrey became her guardian. There is no death certificate but she just seemed to drop off the map. Also if she was missing I should have found something. Anything about her more recent that five years ago is hidden behind walls I don't have the codes for."

"So what, she's under cover or something?"

"Not likely, my access would have let me find some information, last trace of her was a mission. I can only assume something went wrong. Either she is in custody or in medical."

"Shit." Rodney muttered pulling out a picture of Cora and Aella. Aella looked to be about nine or ten in the photo, she was standing on the back of a horse smiling at Cora who was obviously not happy she was up there.

"I am arranging to have you taken to Australia, it's currently 4.30am there at the moment so I thought lunch would be a good idea while we wait. Corrin refuses to teleport anyone until he's had at least three cups of that tar he calls coffee."

"Thank you." Iah looked at him sideways and smiled.

"You know Dad said you were going to rude and annoying."

"What!" Rodney paused for a moment. "Well I am rude, but that's because I can't stand stupid people." Iah laughed as she pulled into what looked like a steak house.

"Well I'm not stupid so we should get along just fine. Come one I am hungry and before you start I know you are allergic to citrus and secondly mum's paying so order whatever the hell you want, I'm sure going to."

"Why?"

"Mum never gives me money."

"No why is she paying?"

"Something about the man who saved her mates life and she has a soft spot for grouchy arogent men who are really big softies on the inside, I think."

"Well she did end up mated to your father."

"Exactly!"

Rodney found that Iah was in fact not a complete idiot and they spent a pleasant two hours conversing over food until Iah received a call from Corrin saying he was ready. She drive him to the edge of the industrial area parking in front of a warehouse. They walked inside and found several people milling around, obviously waiting to go were ever they have to go. A man came up to her and confirmed they weren't followed and pointed to one side of the warehouse. Iah nodded politely to the man before walking over to where he indicated.

"Bout bloody time I don't have forever you know girl. This the mud monkey?"

Iah rolled her eyes.

"This is Dr McKay. I suggest you have some manners."

"McKay huh. You related to Aella?" Rodney looked between the two of them and nodded.

"Shit, well good to meet you mate." He shook Rodney's hand enthusiastically, "Let's get this show on the road, I'll take you straight the house. Aella should be up by now if not she I'll kick her lazy arse out of bed." Rodney looked at the man a little wide eyed as he grabbed Rodney by the shoulder and suddenly they were not in Colorado anymore.

Rodney stumbled for a moment, he had completely forgotten how weird that felt. Corrin clapped him on the back and walked straight to the front door of the large house, walking in. Rodney had a look around. The yard was filled sheds, trucks and other equipment. It obviously didn't rain much here, the ground was hard and dusty. He followed Corrin into the house trying to wipe the dust from his shoes before giving up.

He wondered a bit taking in the lounge room and study before he found the kitchen at the back. The smell of fresh coffee helped. He stood by the door hearing Corrin arguing with someone in another language. The guy seemed pissed. Rodney was guessing it was Jeffrey and that he hadn't been told Rodney was coming. Just great, Rodney thought. He sighed as he heard someone behind him. He turned quickly about to make apologies and swear he wasn't eavesdropping when he was met with two brilliant deep blue eyes.

"DAD?"