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Chapter 2

Four Months Later

On board the Daedolus

Jennifer slumped back onto her bed, huffing loudly as her head hit the pillow and she gazed up at the ceiling. The same ceiling she had been looking up at for nearly a month.

She was in space.

She...was in space.

Three months ago she didn't believe in aliens or deep space travel (or whatever it was called) but now, now it was real. Well, the alien part she hadn't seen personally yet in full force, but the deep space travel part was ticked off.

Three months ago she had had only one thing on her mind.

Trying to find a job.

And it was so hard. No one was interested in the freak teenager who had finished med school with flying colours and she had become more and more discouraged as days had turned into weeks and weeks into months.

But all of that had changed with one knock on her door, when her Uncle Carson had come to visit.

Everything about his visit seemed to be like a haze. She remembered such words as 'space'...'ship'...'stargate' most of it sounding like nonsense until he had handed her an envelope. A very thick A4 envelope with TOP SECRET stamped on it.

Laughing, thinking that it was a practical joke on her uncle's part she had began reading. She remembered the feeling of the amused smile fading from her face as she had read more and more of the report that he had given her.

The Egyptian desert?

Pyramids and space ships?

Antarctica?

Goa'uld?

Wraith?

Replicators?

It all began to merge into one at some point but she continued to read her eyes growing wider and wider with each page.

She had been so engrossed with what she was reading she hadn't even heard Carson leave his chair and disappear into the kitchen for the three hours that it took her to read it all.

She was amazed by what she had read and for some reason she did not doubt any of it, her uncle would not do such a thing.

Space travel and aliens and he was offering her the chance to be a part of it.

It didn't take her long to decide yes was the answer. To be part of something bigger than herself, bigger than the planet Earth...wow!

She had had to be screened for security purposes, given a full health examination (the jerks at the base had been a right bunch of know it alls and had treated her like a three year old through the whole thing – pigs), she had also had to sign screeds of paper work. Papers swearing her silence, papers saying that if she were to die her family wouldn't sue...the pile had been larger than the file Carson had given her back home.

Her dad had not been happy with her decision and she could not blame him. She was his only child and since her mother had died when she was ten he had been a lot more protective of her than many other parents – especially as she had continued to advance at such a quick rate through school.

She didn't want to leave him, but she didn't want to miss the opportunity either - the chance to not just see different countries but other planets and not to mention the chance to get away from the kids that she had left behind at her old school. Sure she was smart but she was still a teenager and being an oddity among kids her own age was not exactly something anyone wanted.

She had also had to stay within Stargate Command itself and had made quite a few friends during her six week long stay there while waiting for the Daedolus to arrive.

Vala had been great and had also been her first official alien. Aliens definitely aren't little green men in flying saucers she quickly found out. Vala was so light hearted and optimistic and Jennifer had found herself wishing on more than one occasion that she could be more like her. She did not like the way that Dr Jackson treated the alien woman though and would have quite happily given him a piece of her mind if she wasn't too busy trying to make a good impression so she wouldn't get sent home.

Despite all of Vala's attempts at being nice Doctor Jackson seemed to take every opportunity to shoot her down. Jennifer had seen the woman's perkiness die down a few times when such a thing happened only for her to come bouncing back again a few second later. In her opinion the good doctor needed to be taught a lesson.

Her second alien encounter had been Teal'c. To begin with she had found the Jaffa a little intimidating, with his size and manners but had quickly found out that as long as you weren't an enemy you had nothing to worry about and also that he had a sense of humour – a very discreet one that had her sniggering behind her hands on more than one occasion. He spoke rarely but Jennifer found that when he did what he had to say was worth listening to.

Samantha Carted had been invaluable. Answering all of her questions and making sure that she was aware just of what she was getting herself into. She also made it clear that because of her age she could return home whenever she wished if she changed her mind or found living away from earth too much of a strain. Jennifer had thanked her for the information and tried not to get annoyed about the 'age' thing again.

And so after all of the forms and the briefings and questions she was on a spaceship, travelling to the mythical city of Atlantis.

Beside her bunk was a pile of documents ranging from the internal structure of a wraith feeding hand – which was just plain freaky - to the most common ailment and wounds found in the city of Atlantis – although she had decided that the title 'City of the Ancients' sounded a lot more dramatic.

The one thing that caught her attention was that accidents caused through training seemed to be the most occurring - especially through sparring. She didn't know what the heck they did to cause such accidents as broken fingers, black eyes and on one report it said something about a broken nose. She shook her head as she glanced at the pile of reports again and decided that men were stupid. Not only did they have to go out and get beaten up by aliens and machines they had to do the same thing with each other – POINTLESS.

On Atlantis

The SGA-1 team watched in some amusement as Dr Beckett darted about the infirmary of Atlantis trying to tidy the already immaculate area.

Rodney leaned in towards Tayla as he observed the uncharacteristic behaviour of the Scottish doctor.

"What's up with Carson?" he whispered, confusion written across his face.

The doctor was usually so laid back and yet here he was rushing around the infirmary like a headless chicken – and Rodney was surprised the man had any hair left on his head after the number of times he had watched him run his hands through it.

"I do not know, Rodney. Perhaps the doctor is ill," Teyla replied in her usual calm voice her eyes never leaving the scene before her.

Rodney just pulled a face and shrugged, obviously not at all convinced with the idea.

"It could have something to do with the new doctor arriving..." John mused from in between Ronon and Teyla.

"All of this because of a new doctor?" Rodney sounded a bit disgruntled by the unwarranted attention this unknown new recruit was receiving before he even arrived on base.

"Apparently Carson knows him. He was the one who convinced him to come," John explained quietly.

"New doctors arrive all of the time though. What is so special about another one?" Ronon asked, the arrival of a new team member didn't really make a great deal of difference to him either way.

John just shrugged.

"Don't know, we'll have to wait until the Daedalus arrives,"

"Who is he then, this new doctor," Rodney grumbled, not liking the idea of competition.

"Keller. J Keller," the leader of SGA 1 replied.

"I wonder what the J stands for," Teyla mused, ever since she had first met the people from earth she had found it quite strange that they would cut people's names of. What could you get from a letter? Nothing.

"James,"

"Jack,"

"Please not another John,"

John glanced at his three companions as they all stared at him.

He shot them his trademark boyish smile before shrugging.

"I'm one of a kind,"

4 Days Later

The team watched from the balcony looking over the gate room as the new recruits all filed in, their eyes huge as they took in their surroundings.

"Goin' to play nice with the new kids," John smiled at Ronon from where he was leaning on the barrier.

Ronon only grunted, trying to weigh up the recruits as they entered the room.

Some of them had bulk that showed they had strength and muscles but from past experience he guessed that they would have no idea how to handle themselves in this new galaxy.

"I just want to know who this knew doctor is," Rodney grumbled moodily.

John only rolled his eyes, regretting ever mentioning the new doctor – all of their lives would have been alot easier over the past couple of days if he had just kept his mouth shut.

"Yes Rodney we are all aware of your desire," Teyla said dryly and both Ronon and John found themselves swallowing back laughter.

Before any of them could say another Carson went belting downt eh stairs and straight into the crowd of newcomers before gripping a small body in a warm hug. They all exchanged quick glances, none of them had even seen the small blonde as they had been obliterated by the rest of the crowd.

They all stayed quiet hoping to hear something that could be viewed as a clue.

"Jennifer lass I'm so glad you're here,"

The team looked at each other again. It seemed they had all guessed wrong.

"Jennifer?" they all parroted.

Hi everyone.

So Jennifer is on Atlantis dun dun dun hehe.

Does anyone else find Daniel's treatment of Vala utterly irritating – i know it gets better as the episodes go on but I could really hit him some times. Anyhoo I couldn't resist throwing in Teal'c and Vala so that Jennifer has some more friends that I can play about with. If you like the sound of me bringing them into the story again at sometime say 'Aye' hehe.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Thank you all for the wonderful reviews – they are so encouraging and really make my day when I read them.

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