Addy is mine and Lola is my friends. Don't steal them please. The others are obviously not. Hope you like it.

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As Sheppard flew the Jumper down he wondered why they were helping Michael. He sighed and thought that they seriously needed to take a class in just saying 'no' to peer pressure. When the treetops came into view he brought up the life signs scanner. There was still one bleeping faintly. He steered the ship in that direction.

Lola was busy having a staring contest with an unsuspecting nurse, who had come with the team since she had helped with Michael in the first place. She looked around and then back to Lola, who was looking so hard at her that the nurse couldn't help but not blink. Eventually, when the Jumper landed the nurse blinked and a triumphant Lola stood to announce her awesomeness.

"Did you see that?" Lola practically shrieked at Addy, who just stared back. She was not in the mood to talk or deal with Lola's insanity. Her mind was on Rodney. She was finding it hard to remember exactly what she had done, or exactly why. This concerned her greatly because it had happened once before when she had viciously attacked some Wraith the first time that they had encountered them. She shuttered and stood. Sheppard was in the back instructing his team to proceed with caution and such.

"There's no need really." Addy said walking past Sheppard. He had already opened the door and Addy lead the small group to the tent where Michael had been. A nurse began to open the flap, but Addy stopped her.

"I'll go first." Addy walked in. Inside the tent Michael was trying to sit up. He had apparently heard them coming.

"Hey, hey, hey." Addy said rushing to him. "You're going to hurt yourself." She grabbed him and helped him sit up. She felt fairly safe, but kept the location of his hands close to mind.

Michael was glaring at her. He began to mumble, but coughed up a little blood. Addy could now see clearly that he had a large gapping wound in his torso and some residual wounds on his arm.

"Alright, lets get you up." Addy supported Michael as she stood. He stared at her warily, but didn't resist. "I brought you some help."

"No." He said as they walked towards the exit. "You brought me my hell." He whispered.

Addy stopped and looked at him. He seemed truly distraught. "What do you mean?" She demanded, but he didn't elaborate. Addy bit her lip and sighed, "Well I won't let anyone hurt you."

He laughed, it was a hacking and weak laugh, but it was defiantly a: 'I highly doubt that' sort of thing. They walked slowly towards the flap, which was now held open by Lola, who was gazing in with her head tilted.

"Wow, does your side hurt?" She asked stupidly, and then laughed. "Of course it does. What was I thinking?" She paused and looked around. "I'm hungry! Feed meeeeeeeee!"

Sheppard handed Lola a granola bar and helped the medical team load Michael onto a stretcher. He was immediately injected with a strong sedative and within seconds he was out.

Addy watched, making sure they didn't do anything fishy. As they lead Michael towards the Jumper Addy called Sheppard aside. "So tell me the dealio."

Sheppard tried to play it off, but there was no avoiding Addy's stare. He sighed and started to explain; "About a year ago we started to experiment with this drug that changed Wraith into humans. It took awhile, but we finally made a version that worked. We captured Michael and used it on him."

"I see it didn't work," Addy was trying hard to keep her cool. The whole 'experiment' thing had really stuck a nerve, but she didn't want to let on. Addy knew that they had to grow trust because they needed these new people as allies.

"Not really." Sheppard agreed. "It never goes the way we plan."

"That's what you get when you experiment," Addy muttered under her breath. Sheppard turned to ask her what she had said, but she quickly changed the subject. "I still need to show you my 'Jumper'."

Sheppard nodded and turned back to the Jumper, "Well, it looks like they are gonna take a while to get Michael ready to go, so why didn't you run down and get your Jumper flying. Then you can meet us in the air and follow us up."

Addy grinned, "The last time I ran wildly down that hill I ran into your cloaked Jumper and beat up Rodney." Her nose didn't even hurt anymore.

Sheppard returned the smile, "So that's what happened?"

Addy nodded, "I guess I'll be careful this time." She rushed past the med team that was hard at work getting ready to inject Michael with a new retrovirus and down the slope. She reached the bottom quickly and started across the field. In no time she found her ship and got in. She started in up and flew it over to where the original ship had been. It wasn't there. She frowned and looked around through the shield. Still, she saw nothing.

Sheppard sighed as Lola giggled in the seat. It had been her idea to cloak the ship and stay behind Addy's. Again, he thought, peer pressure. The other soldier who came with them for security purposes also found it quite funny, but they finally stopped when a nurse reminded them that Michael was hanging on to a thread of his life. Sheppard nodded and un-cloaked the ship, then zoomed past Addy's. He could only assume that she was following. They would find out when they got back to the Deadalus.

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Carson, Teyla, and Ronan all sat around Rodney's bed. Teyla, because she had promised, Carson, because he was the doctor, and Ronan, because he had nothing better to do. They all watched Rodney's machine produced breathing and wondered vaguely if Rodney would heal all the way.

"Why again," Teyla started, breaking the silence, "is he on this breathing machine?" He had been breathing fine by himself before. Somehow the breathing machine made everything seem more serious and Teyla didn't really like that.

"Well, he was breathing fairly regularly and we thought that just an oxygen mask would do," Carson started, staring at his badly injured friend, "but the concussion is making him have minor seizures that could make his breathing irregular and there's no sense in not taking the precaution."

Teyla sighed, that did sound serious. Too serious for something that happened to Rodney. He was the guy that got a splinter and complained for days. Not the guy lying in a near comatose state. She didn't like it.

Ronan wondered what was being served for lunch on the Deadalus. He hoped it wasn't chili. Unfortunately, Carson mistook Ronan's concentration for concern.

"There's nothing you could have done, son." Carson said, looking at Ronan.

Ronan looked up, surprised a little. He had forgotten where he was, "About the chili?" He asked.

Carson stared at Ronan. Ronan started back at him, and then realized what the Scottish doctor was talking about. "Oh." He said. There was more he could say, about how this 5'3" girl had completely out-fought him. He could have said something about how he knew that Rodney shouldn't have been let alone like that. He could have even said something about how hard it was to eat chili with your hands, but all he said was 'oh'. That was all he ever said.

Carson started checking all of Rodney's vitals out of nothing better to do when he got a beep. "They're back." He said. In doctor code this meant: get out because things are going to get crazy.

Teyla stood, but Ronan didn't. He wanted to see Michael suffer. Teyla grabbed Ronan's arm and pulled. Finally he got up and left with Teyla. They headed to the mess hall because after all the talk of chili, Ronan had grown hungry.

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Addy tried to follow Michael into the sick bay, but Carson didn't allow them. He didn't allow Sheppard either, so they all turned away, defeated. At that point however, they didn't know how smart it was to have turned away Addy, considering her feelings on experimenting.

The three of them walked towards the mess hall for lack of anything better to do. When they got there they found that the only people there were Ronan and Teyla. Lola and Sheppard got in line to get food, but Addy walked to the table where Ronan and Teyla sat. She watched as Ronan struggled to use a spoon on the chili that was being served. He seemed unnaturally angry that there was chili, as if some evil presence put it there, just for comic relief.

Lola and Sheppard came to the table. Sheppard's plate was filled with food and Lola had two apples. "Not hungry?" Sheppard asked Addy when they got to the table.

She shook her head. She was never really hungry. "Nothing looks good anyways." She said, looking at Ronan's chili. It looked like it might attack her.

"Food's better on Atlantis." Ronan grunted, shoving a piece of bread into his mouth. He had given up on the chili and had moved to all the other food on his plate.

Addy nodded, and hoped it was. She turned to Teyla, who had a small salad in front of her. Teyla was busy examining a piece of lettuce. She seemed troubled and Addy figured it either had something to do with Rodney or Michael. Either way, she was involved, so she figured she had the right to ask. "How's Rodney?"

Teyla looked up at her, surprised. "I was not aware you would care." She said, she said it rather coldly too. It was clear to everybody that Teyla was angry at Addy.

Addy nodded, "I guess that would make sense, but I don't care if you were 'aware' or not. But I do care, and I'm asking you nicely. How is Rodney?" Addy felt bad, she really did, but she didn't need anybody else telling her she was a heartless bitch. Addy knew she wasn't and that was good enough for her.

Teyla nodded, Addy self-defense seemed enough for Teyla to forgive Addy for the moment, or at least not to judge her for her actions. "Rodney is… I believe Carson said stable at serious. He's had a few seizures, but Carson is sure that he will get better. It will be painful."

Addy looked down. She could feel everyone stare at her. Even Lola and that hurt most of all. She blushed and didn't say anything. She was very glad, however, that she didn't get anything to eat because she knew she would have lost her appetite. She pulled at a strand of her raggedy black hair and wished that there weren't so many people looking at her. She wasn't very good with people.

Lola broke the awkwardness by asking what Atlantis was like. Immediately Ronan, Teyla, and Sheppard rushed into hurried stories about their favorite things about Atlantis. Lola swept them up into her mind and treasured each one. That was one thing Lola really loved; stories. Addy listened too, but not as intently. Her mind kept wandering back to Rodney and Michael, but mostly Michael. What had he been talking about? Addy wondered.

Addy sat in silence, until Carson came in. He looked flustered and upset. He came over and sat next to Lola, who looked at him like he was a virus. She looked at everyone who invaded her personal bubble, which was about five feet in diameter, like they were a virus. "You could be diseased." Lola stated staring hard at the doctor. She looked as if she were trying to see germs crawling over him.

Carson stared at her, then smiled and inched away. "I assure you darling, that I am very cleanly. There are no germs on me." He led up his hands to show that there was nothing to see but palm.

Lola eyed him for a moment, as if making sure he wasn't lying, and then she smiled. He was all-good in her book, which meant he was all-good in Addy's book. "I'm tired." Lola announced after Carson had told his third story about his favorite thing about Atlantis.

Addy sighed, she was tired too. "I think that what Lola and I need is rest." She stood and waited for Sheppard to escort them to their respective rooms. It took him a moment to remember that they were still on the 'not-to-be-trusted' list. He stood and excused them all from the table and lead them back to their rooms. Lola turned to watch Carson as she left; he looked back once and blushed when their eyes met. Addy smiled to herself. This was turning out to be one odd misadventure.

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