A/N: The idea from this chapter came from an SG-1 episode from season 6 ("Prophecy").

Chapter 3 - Prophecy

Izzy walked the short distance down the hall to Teyla's door and hesitated briefly before raising her hand to ring the chime. It sounded, and a few moments later, the doors slid open to reveal an exhausted Teyla.

"Izzy? Come in." Teyla said, stepping off to the side and allowing Izzy to enter the room.

"Hi. Sorry it's taken so long for me to come see you. I've been… preoccupied." Izzy said, smiling slightly in embarrassment.

"It's all right, Izzy. I understand." Teyla said, smiling in sympathy. A small wail sounded from the crib nearby, and Teyla sprang into action, stooping to scoop up her new baby in her arms.

"What's his name?" Izzy asked, reaching out a finger and smiling when he grasped it tightly in his hand.

"Torren John Emmagen." Teyla replied, smiling at Izzy. Torren had since stopped crying, apparently wanting nothing more than his mother.

"John as in…"

"Yes." Teyla agreed. "Is that all right with you?"

"I think it's perfect." Izzy said, tears in her eyes and a smile on her face.

"Would you like to hold him?" Teyla asked.

"Uh… sure." Izzy said, moving to sit on the edge of Teyla's bed. Teyla gently placed a tightly-swaddled Torren in Izzy's arms and sat next to her, both watching Torren as he observed his environment.

"Hey, TJ. I'm Izzy." Izzy said, placing her finger in Torren's hand once again. Teyla laughed quietly at Izzy's new nickname.

"You are a natural." Teyla said. "Normally he would begin crying at this point when a stranger is holding him."

"Really?" Izzy asked, pleased that she was handling the baby well.

"Indeed. He likes you." Teyla said, rubbing Izzy's back briefly.

"How's Kanaan?" Izzy asked, watching in amazement at how Torren seemed to be drifting off to sleep.

"He is doing quite well." Teyla said. "He is almost back to his old self, and once Dr. Beckett administers his last treatment, he will be allowed to return to Atlantis to be with us."

"Good." Izzy said. The smile hadn't left her face since she first laid eyes on Torren. "How's the post partum?"

Teyla tilted her head and looked at her in confusion. Izzy deduced that "post partum" was a term that was not used among the Athosians. "It's a term we use to describe a woman's recovery after giving birth."

"Oh." Teyla said, smiling softly. "I'm doing well. I feel like I'm slowly getting back to my old self, just with a new addition." She said, smiling at Torren lovingly.

"How about your people?" Izzy asked, noticing the tone shift from speaking of joyous things to speaking of something that haunted them to their very core.

"I gave Colonel Carter the gate address to the planet where Michael has been keeping them. Some of them were on board the Wraith ship when it was destroyed, but most of them will be on that planet. From my understanding, Colonel Carter will be sending a rescue team and they will be brought back here and undergo a series of treatments to get the ones who had been experimented on by Michael back to their old selves." Teyla explained, her eyes growing dark.

Izzy nodded before passing a sleeping Torren back to Teyla.

"Thanks for letting me hold him, Teyla. I hope your people are okay." Izzy said, standing to leave. Teyla nodded in thanks and said goodbye, and Izzy left.

"Hey, Rodney. You wanted to see me?" Izzy asked, taking a seat near Rodney in his lab.

"Yeah, I need you to test something for me." Rodney said, not glancing up from where he was hunched over his computer.

"Okay." Izzy said cautiously. "Doesn't my dad usually do that stuff for you?"

"He's in a meeting." Rodney said. "Here."

Izzy took the device from his hands. "Why aren't you testing it yourself?"

"If I'm testing it, then who's going to monitor the levels or record the results? Plus, your gene is nearly as strong as your dad's so it would be better for you to test it anyways." Rodney asked in the tone he used when someone was asking him a 'stupid' question.

"What's it supposed to do?" Izzy asked, turning it around in her hands.

"Not sure yet." Rodney said. "Try turning it on."

Izzy sighed but focused on turning the device on. The tingling started in her fingers first before she felt like a bolt of electricity had zapped her. Her vision went black and she sank to the ground.

"What did you do?" John nearly roared as he came into the infirmary, coming to a halt in front of a pacing Rodney.

"Colonel – John. I am so sorry. I didn't think anything would happen. She was just testing this device for me and then she sank to the ground. Oh my god I can't believe I let this happen." Rodney said, rambling and shrinking away from John's menacing gaze.

If looks could kill, Rodney would be dead on the floor.

"What device was she testing?" John asked, the veins in his neck and forehead clearly indicating that he was not happy about how the situation was developing.

"I don't know – " Rodney started.

"You let her test an Ancient device and you didn't even know what it did?" John asked disbelievingly.

"Well I had a pretty good idea but the database said that it was relatively harmless." Rodney claimed, a bead of sweat trickling down the side of his forehead.

"Relatively harmless?" John asked disbelievingly.

"Well so far 'relatively harmless' has been completely harmless in previous devices until now. I didn't think she would go unconscious from it!" Rodney claimed.

John wanted to beat Rodney to a pulp right there in the infirmary, but restrained himself knowing that he would more-than-likely regret it later. Perhaps Izzy passing out and putting him through this anxious misery was punishment enough?

Izzy cracked open her eyes, her body feeling mostly uninjured other than the jackhammer in her skull. Her vision was still blurry from sleep, so she closed them again, trying to allow her body to wake up. She wiggled her fingers, trying to get the tingling out of them. She heard Rodney rambling about something, but she wasn't awake enough to figure out what he was saying. She heard another voice – John – and decided that all she really wanted to do was wake up so she could figure out what was going on and why someone decided to take an icepick to the front of her skull.

After trying in vain to use her voice after her vision cleared enough to indicate she was in the infirmary, she went into a coughing fit.

John moved to stand beside Izzy's bed, his anger at Rodney forgotten for the moment. He poured a cup of water from the pitcher that was next to the bed and handed it to her, Izzy drinking it greedily.

"What happened?" Izzy asked after clearing her throat from the phlegm resulting from being unconscious for a little while.

"You took a header in Rodney's lab after testing a previously untested device." John said, glaring at Rodney who looked marginally relieved that she was awake and seemed to be doing fine.

Carson appeared around the corner at the sound of activity.

"Izzy," he said, strapping on a pair of gloves. "How are you feeling?"

"Fine except for the tingling in my fingers and the icepick in the front of my skull." She replied. Carson checked her vitals while Rodney and John stood off to the side silently. Rodney was clearly worried that John was going to do something to him – maybe cause some sort of physical injury – while John was contemplating if he was going to do anything to Rodney or not. He figured that Izzy landing in the infirmary was punishment for him enough since he hadn't stopped rambling about it since he got here. The sweat on his forehead and the way he kept pinching his lower lip with his fingers indicated that he was extremely anxious about the situation, even more so than John, it seemed.

"Well everything seems normal except for your occipital lobe, which is significantly more active than usual. Probably explains your headache." Carson said, pointing to the area at the front of her skull on a printout from the brain scan.

"Is that bad?" Izzy asked.

"Not necessarily. But, we'll keep an eye on it." Carson said, smiling at her reassuringly. "I'll want you to check in every 8 hours for a couple days, but other than that, you're free to go about your day."

Izzy swallowed thickly, feeling anxious about her situation. John squeezed her hand, and she gave him what she hoped was a reassuring smile. She would be fine, right?

Izzy took a bite out of an apple before rounding the corner to John's office. She waved her hand over the panel, sliding the door open.

"Hey, kiddo." John said, looking up from his stack of paperwork. "Feeling okay?"

"Headache is mostly gone." Izzy said, shrugging and sitting on the corner of John's desk after he had cleared a spot. She was about to say something but froze when she had a vision of some sort.

Izzy was looking at a book in the library when Landon came in and leaned against the doorframe.

"Hey, you want to grab some lunch? It's hamburgers today."

"Izzy?" John asked, putting his hand on her leg to get her attention. "What's wrong?"

"Huh?" Izzy asked, snapping back to reality.

"Are you okay?" John asked, worry evident in the crinkle around his eyes and in the way his pitch was a tad higher than normal.

"Yeah." She said. "I'm good."

"Are you sure?" John asked.

"Yup."

John looked skeptical but he nodded. "Okay."

"Are you heading out soon?" Izzy asked, changing the subject. She didn't want to tell John what happened until she was sure that it actually happened. It was so brief that she wondered if she imagined it or if it was even real.

"Yeah." John said. "We're going to be checking out some planets for the Athosians to go to once they've finished treatments."

"Oh. That's cool." Izzy said. "Are they doing okay?"

"Yeah. Some of them had it worse off than others, but things should be back to normal before too long. Hopefully without any lasting effects."

"That's good." Izzy said, hopping off the desk. "Radio me when you're heading out?"

"Of course." John said, standing to give her a quick hug. Izzy liked being present when John was coming or going through the gate. Somehow it helped ease her anxious nerves, even though watching him go was the hardest part.

Izzy made her way to the library, intent on distracting herself from the annoying tickle she had in the back of her mind that was telling her something was wrong. She had never experienced anything like what just happened in John's office. It was almost like she had a brief dream, though she was awake.

She found a book and flipped it open, not realizing that it was the same book she saw in her dream before she picked it out. She narrowed her eyes and tilted her head slightly in confusion before the door slid open, revealing Landon.

"Hey, you want to grab some lunch? It's hamburgers today." Landon said, leaning against the doorframe. Izzy stared at him in bewilderment.

"I knew you were going to say that." Izzy said, closing the book she was holding, her brow furrowed in confusion and alarm.

"What?" Landon asked.

"Just now, when you came in. I knew you were going to say that."

"You mean like déjà vu?" Landon asked, putting his hands in his pockets and coming to stand in front of her.

"I don't know. Maybe." Izzy said, putting the book back on the shelf.

As much as Izzy tried to ignore the tickle in the back of her mind, she couldn't. She only got through three bites of her hamburger before she had another vision.

Izzy was walking through the hallway near her quarters when she was suddenly met with a figure in front of her. Tensing in panic, she tried to spin out of the way but ended up tripping on the person's foot. She thought she was going to end up on the floor in a heap but was caught instead.

"Whoa, easy there clumsy. Are you okay?" he asked. Izzy recognized that the voice belonged to Jason and relaxed marginally.

She froze in her seat before snapping out of the vision. Landon was staring at her, the creases in his forehead indicating that he was worried.

"Are you okay?" He asked, noting that something was off about the way she was acting.

"Yeah." Izzy replied unconvincingly. She didn't touch the rest of her lunch, and she could tell that Landon wanted to say something about it but was holding his tongue.

"I've got a meeting to go to. Spar later?" Landon asked.

"Yeah." Izzy agreed. She wasn't sure how focused she would be, but she could at least try. "See you then."

Landon opened his mouth to say something else, but Izzy seemed to be lost in thought so he walked away.

Izzy left the mess hall shortly thereafter and made her way to the pier to try to get her mind off the visions she was having and the relentless headache that hadn't gone away since she woke up in the infirmary. She swung by her quarters to grab a jacket and started making her way to the pier again.

Izzy was lost in thought when she rounded a corner and was startled by nearly running headfirst into the person in front of her. She tried to spin out of the way but tripped over the person's foot. At this point she realized it was the exact same thing that happened in her vision. She knew that the person she nearly ran into was Jason, and she wasn't surprised when he caught her before she landed in a heap on the floor.

"Whoa, easy there clumsy. Are you okay?" Jason asked, putting his hands on her arms to steady her.

"Oh, no no no no no. This can't be happening." Izzy said, putting her hands on her head and pacing in the hall.

"Am I missing something?" Jason asked. "I heard you passed out. Are you okay?"

"If I tell you something, can you promise not to freak out?" Izzy asked, knowing that she needed to tell someone. Something was definitely wrong.

"Of course." Jason said.

"Okay, so I've been having these visions." Izzy said, waving her hand vaguely.

"About what?"

"Future events. It's happened twice."

Jason's brow furrowed, silently asking for a deeper explanation.

"The first one happened when I was sitting in my dad's office. The vision was when I was in the library and Landon came in and asked if I wanted to go get lunch because it was hamburgers that day. I thought it was just a déjà vu thing at first, but at lunch I had a vision that I ran into you in the hallway. Both situations were exactly what I saw in my vision." Izzy explained, her fear growing as she explained what was happening to Jason.

"Have you told your dad about this?" Jason asked, concern evident on his face.

"No, not yet." Izzy said, absent-mindedly scratching at her arm.

"I think you should." Jason suggested. "Because being able to see the future isn't normal."

"Yeah, probably." Izzy said.

"I mean now." Jason said, knowing that this went above and beyond the normal Pegasus creepy and into something far more dangerous. If he learned anything from his time in the Pegasus Galaxy it was that time is of the essence. If situations weren't attended to early enough, it could get much worse, sometimes to the point of even death.

"You think I should tell him now?" Izzy asked.

"Yes." Jason replied without hesitation.

"Like, right right now?"

"Like, you should walk down to his office and tell him right now." Jason said.

"Ah, fine. You're so annoying." Izzy said, glaring at him in mock annoyance, though the anxiety she was experiencing was still clear on her face.

"Sometimes I try to be. Other times it just happens." Jason said. "Not get on down there before I drag you there myself."

"Fine." Izzy sulked, turning and walking towards John's office.

"Let me know how it goes." Jason said, patting Izzy's shoulder.

Izzy made her way to John's office. She would have told him regardless of whether Jason made her, but it was comforting knowing that she was making the right decision. Even though John told her time and time again to come to him if she was having a problem, she still didn't want to worry or burden him with her problems when he already had so much on his plate.

John was about to leave to explore a planet for the Athosians when his office door slid open, revealing Izzy. She wasted no time in curling into a ball in the chair in front of his desk. He can't remember a time when she looked so vulnerable or terrified before.

"What's wrong?" John asked, coming to kneel in front of her chair immediately.

"Something's wrong with me." Izzy said, her voice small and her eyes wide. Now that the adrenaline of realizing that something was wrong wore off, terror set in and she was having a difficult time coping.

"Tell me about it." John said insistently yet gently so as to not scare her more than she already was.

"I've been having these visions." Izzy said quietly. John had to put more effort than normal into hearing because of how quietly she was talking. "The first one happened when I was in your office and you asked if something was wrong. I didn't know what it was so I didn't say anything. In my vision I was in the library when Landon came in and asked if I wanted to get lunch because it was hamburgers today. The second vision I was walking through the halls when I almost ran into Jason and tried to spin out of the way but ended up tripping on his foot. He caught me before I hit the floor, then said 'Whoa, easy there clumsy. Are you okay?' Both times the exact same thing happened."

Seeing future events in a vision was cool, but she knew that it wasn't normal. And if her growing headache was any indication of how her body was reacting to it, then she knew that they needed to figure out how to make it go away fast or there was going to be serious trouble.

Izzy expected every reaction from John except the one he gave her. He didn't laugh, scoff, or tell her that she was just 'stressed.' He did, however, take her hands between his own as she carefully watched him think through what she just told him. He didn't fight the rising urge to comfort his aching child, and his mind whirled at the dozens of possibilities that could come as a result of this. He knew that this wasn't normal – even for the Pegasus galaxy – and even though he was still angry with Mckay, he knew that he would need him as well as several other people to get to the bottom of this.

They were gonna fix it… they better damn well fix it.

"I think it has to do with the thing from Rodney's lab." Izzy said quietly. "That's the only thing that makes sense."

John pulled Izzy into his arms. He knew she was scared… he could see it written all over her face. He was worried that something like this was going to happen from the moment that Carson said a part of her brain was more active than normal, and he hated that his gut instinct was right. He felt Izzy take a shuddering breath, so he wrapped his arms around her a little more tightly and gently shushed her before speaking.

"It's going to be fine." John said, and while Izzy was doubtful, she trusted him. That's what it boiled down to, really: did she trust her father? She did without an ounce of doubt in her soul, and if he said that it was going to be fine, then things were going to be fine.

Hopefully.

A/N: Sorry this took me a month. Real life got in the way. On the plus side, I'm now the proud aunt of a perfect baby boy! I've been traveling home a lot because of that, which is why I haven't updated. Most of the next chapter is already written, so it'll be coming soon. I was going to make the next chapter a part of this one, but since it was already ten pages long I decided to call it a night. Review, review, review… the more reviews I get the faster the next chapter will be posted!

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