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Chapter Two: Explanations

" What!" Dr. McKay replied.

" When we tried to interrogate her she only responded with ' I will only speak to Dr. Rodney McKay.' Since then she has been silent. No matter what we say it has no effect on her." Caldwell explained.

" Do you even know who she is?" asked Elizabeth.

" No. There is nothing in the database to explain who she is or how she avoided sensors for so long. We did a sweep before we left and nobody was unaccounted for." Caldwell replied.

Rodney's mind raced with questions. Who the hell could this be? He saw the other glancing at him expectantly. " What?" he snapped. " I don't know who the hell this could be! For all I know it could be a psycho coming to kill me. After all my brains would be worth.."

"Rodney." Elizabeth cut off his tyrant. " Why don't we go see who this woman is. If she will only speak to you then you're the only one who can find out."

" He can't go in there without an escort, Elizabeth." Sheppard cut in.

" Exactly. Who knows what she could do!" McKay replied nervously.

" I believe we are getting ahead of ourselves. Should we not see the women before we make such assumptions?" Teyla said.

" Teyla's right. Why don't we all go see her and see what she says?" Elizabeth said calmly.

Caldwell nodded and moved to open the brig door with his security card. He nodded to the marines standing guard and stepped inside. McKay and the others followed.

Rodney stopped short at what he saw. There in the very chair in front of him was her! He was sure timed stopped as he gaped openly. How the hell….. he thought. He stared at the chair and it all came flooding back. No way….not here…this can't be!

The young women's head had snapped up at the sound of the door. She appeared to be in her late twenties early thirties and seemed none too pleased with her accommodations. She glared at them all, her eyes scanning each face until they rested on McKay. Her appearance immediately changed, the hard face of before morphing into soft eyes and a gentle smile with an emotion only to be described as relief. Her hands were handcuffed to the chair but that did not stop her from trying to get up.

" Rodney…" she started.

All eyes turned to McKay but his eyes only took in the person in front of him. The person who could not be here… the person that represented what he had run from all those years ago. His eyes turned cold at the memories and his voice spat the anger accompanied with those memories.

" What the hell are you doing here?"

Her face fell for a moment but then quickly turned into a smirk. " What no 'Hi, how're you! How have you been all this time' …..typical no gratitude."

" Gratitude! What the hell am I supposed to be thankful for?" he snapped viciously. "Now WHAT are you doing here!?"

" What do you have to be thankful for? Are you kidding! All those times I pulled your ass out of situations you got yourself into you should be damn thankful!" She shouted.

" Oh yeah, cause were all so impressed that you have half a brain lying in between your ears. I'm the one who had to come with some brilliant idea all the time while your lazy ass…."

" Um...McKay?" Sheppard's voice timidly tried to intercept.

"….sat on your fucking hands waiting for me. If you think…"

"MCKAY!" shouted Sheppard.

" What!" he snapped seemingly unaware of the people standing right behind him.

" Care to explain what is going on." Sheppard asked more calmly.

McKay turned to look at the confused stares of his teammates along with Dr. Weir and Colonel Caldwell. He turned back to the prisoner who was glaring daggers at him and seemed to deflate as he sighed.

" This is Dr. Alison Drella. She's a biomedical theorist and astrophysicist." He stated.

She nodded her head in acknowledgment of the introduction but her gaze still fixed on McKay.

" Would she like to explain what she is doing on my ship, Dr." Caldwell asked his eyes staring at the prisoner not hiding his suspicion.

" I'm afraid that's classified." Dr. Drella stated calmly.

" We all have top clearance." Stated Colonel Sheppard his face set in his usual smirk.

" You all have top military clearance." She clarified. " McKay's the only one with the proper clearance to hear what I have to say."

" I don't care if it's military or not I want to know what the hell you are doing on my ship!" Caldwell said.

" Well, I would have thought that was obvious…I needed to get to Rodney and this ship's the only way to get to him." She said coolly. " Now if you don't mind I would like to speak to him alone."

" How do we know you're not going to try anything?" Sheppard asked. He was trying to get a hold on the situation that was thus far being led way outside his realm of knowledge.

" Oh please, I'm handcuffed to a chair! What am I gonna do…bite him?" she sneered. Rodney felt his lips tug up at that. Same old Ali he thought. He would not let himself get distracted by that however, the situation was serious and he needed to make a decision. If he let the others walk out of here he would have hell to pay once Ali finished explaining what she was doing here. However he didn't know if he could stand them being in the room when his past was about to be displayed openly. He glanced back at his teams' faces and made up his mind.

" They're not going anywhere Ali." He said confidently.

Her brow furrowed as she stared at him. "You know this is classified information. I can't speak when they're in here." She said.

" You have two options at this point. One: you let them listen to whatever you came to tell me. Or Two: you came here for nothing and get to go back to your high and mighty bosses empty handed." He couldn't keep the bitterness out of his voice but he laid a determined stare at Dr. Drella.

After a few tense moments she finally sighed and asked, " Do you trust them that much?"

" Yes." He said without a moment's hesitation. While it was automatic it was also the complete truth. They had been through so many things together that he trusted them with his lives and he knew from countless instances that they trusted him with theirs.

She continued to stare at him as if searching for something until finally giving a nod of reluctant agreement.

" What I am about to tell you is classified under CIA district code 430879.She ignored the exclamation of "CIA!" from Sheppard and continued. "Under no circumstances can you divulge where you received this information outside this room." She waited calmly for everyone's nod in agreement before continuing. " I am sent here with a warning. Atlantis is in danger, there are four explosive devices planted throughout the city. We have no idea where they are planted or by whom. But we have received information that we have roughly 24 hours from now before all four devices go off simultaneously."

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