I apologize if there are any mistakes as it is currently 2 in the morning and my beta-reader is most likely asleep (ah, the life of a weekend worker).
Also, this chapter is no longer from McKay's perspective. Enjoy the normal third person extravaganza!
Chapter 4-Little Girl Grown Up
"Ow. I'm going to kill Ronon. Or Miko will, she does have a soft-spot for me," Dr. Madison Miller, age 29, said to herself as she woke up from her Ronon-stunner-induced sleep. The next thing she noticed, aside from the pounding head, was that she was in the brig of Atlantis. "Bloody hell! I suppose the next thing I'll notice is that they took my staff."
Madison, or Maddie as her friends and husband knew her as, checked her right boot and was satisfied to discover that her captors, aka the people she'd known for the last six years, had missed the Jaffa-made retractable staff that had been given to her by SG-1's Teal'c as a gift for receiving her PhD in theoretical and practical astrophysics at the tender age of 21. General O'Neill had explained that Teal'c had had it made for her mostly because she wasn't quite as annoying as her uncle, the infamous Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay.
Once she was sure that the knives that Ronon had insisted she keep on her person were still in place in her other boot, she began to assess her situation. I've been on Atlantis too long. I'm starting to think like the military. Or Ronon. Oh God, I don't know which is worse; thinking like the military or like Ronon. As she was continuing the inner custom-McKay-esque snarkiness that people had come to expect from anyone related to the physicist, she failed to notice that she was being watched, or rather, monitored from a closed-circuit camera.
"I'm beginning to see some similarities to McKay," Ronon told Shepard as the two watched the young woman on the screen.
"Yeah? How so?" the other man asked.
"She's really fidgety. She doesn't seem to want to sit still," he answered as they watched the younger McKay relation pace her confines.
"I guess you're right about that. But I still can't believe that that woman in there is the same four-year-old kid that McKay showed us pictures of last week."
"Don't forget that he made us sit through that video thing," the Satedan added, remembering the video of the little girl's ballet recital that the scientist's sister had sent along with the photos.
"Has 'Sleeping Beauty' woken up yet?" Lorne asked as he and an unusually quiet McKay approached the pair.
"Yeah, about five minutes ago. She really seems to be related to you McKay; she's got the fidgeting, pacing, & talking to herself down pat," Shepard told his teammate as the other man looked at the video screens.
"Have you decided what you're going to do with her if I can't figure out a way to send her back?" he asked, ignoring, or simply not hearing, the joking his team leader had given the Canadian and his family a moment ago.
"No, not yet. I was going to wait a few more minutes until Elizabeth got here to question her." He turned to the scientist. "You know you don't have to be here."
"I know; it's just…It's just that some of the things that she tells you might be family-related and so I might be able to tell you if it's true or not and-"
"And you want to know if she really is your niece," Ronon finished.
"Yeah."
Okay, so that was chapter 4. What'd you think? Is it good or bad for something written at 2 in the morning? Please review, it feeds my soul!