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Notes - Memories is a replacement for flashback in this chapter; reason will become clear towards the end of it.

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Chapter Four

Whilst dreaming; some unpleasant memories came into play.

First memory

…The virus had progressed into the next stage of its evolution and was now attacking everybody at random, that is, everybody expect me it seemed. I couldn't understand why, but it felt uncomfortable being singled out like this.

When I was returning to my quarters after a long day, I managed to walk right into a fight between two security guards. Being the selfless person I am, I automatically intervened to break it up; that had proven to be a mistake because I ended up on the receiving end of a punch, which resulted in a cut lip and sore nose.

The second that happened I put out a security alert, and continued on my way once help arrived. I didn't want to hang around any longer then necessary.

It felt as though I was loosing the control I had over the city, and this was just the start of worse things to come…

Memory two:

…The worse being

I looked up when I saw a shadow cast over my office floor and saw Colonel Sheppard's angry face on the other side of the window.

He had unwittingly been released from quarantine. If John tried to attack now I would be trapped and defenceless, I wouldn't stand a chance against him; now that ninety percent of the population has been infected.

My fears soon became real when John entered the room and stalked towards me. I decided to confront him; make him see sense. Rather then hide away in a corner.

I meet him in the middle of the room by my desk. "John please. Please don't do this. Remember who you are."

I got no reaction from him, just an evil stare. John's eyes appeared darker then before and it scared the hell out of me.

Without warning he threw a punch at me. Thankfully due to skilful training from Teyla I was able to avoid the blow and I quickly ran around him to head for the exit.

Only before I made it to the door he got hold of my jacket and yanked me back. He then spun me round, and pushed me towards the desk and let go; my head must have connected with the corner as I fell, because the next thing I knew John had his hand around my throat and was squeezing the life out of me as I struggled to get up from the floor.

I heard the sound of weapons fire and then the gate being activated.

"I'm taking over. Now." Stated John.

I don't know where he got the strength from, but he picked me up like a rag doll and tossed me against the window, causing the glass to shatter on impact…

Back to present

A cold bucket of water woke me up from my nightmare and I found myself strapped securely to metal a chair.

Kolya stood in front of me and I noticed something in his hand; it was the jar containing sleeping herbs, John had eventually got me at the market. Kolya tipped out the substance into the palm of his hand. He then leaned heavily on my right shoulder and waved it under my nose. "This is a little experiment we've been working on does what it's designed to do plus more."

"I don't understand?" I asked, trying to take in what he was telling me.

"This substance, when mixed in hot water helps with sleeplessness, it also cures various illnesses too. One of which is the virus."

My eyes widened in both horror and hope, at what I'd just been told. It made sense now why I hadn't been infected with the virus; I had been taking the cure every day.

Kolya laughed. "Fools. We planted the cure right under your nose and you never even gave it a thought. Shame its too late now."

At present one questioned remained unanswered. "How did you know we would be visiting that planet?"

Kolya laughed before he explained. "Call it my second home. You just happened to stumble across at a bad time."

With that he poured the remainder of the contents in the jar all over the floor.

"Take her back to the cell."

--

The next time Kolya showed up, he stormed into my cell my cell yelling abusively at me. "You gave the Wraith the wrong command codes you little…"

Leaving the sentence half finished, he quickly pulled me up to his height by the throat and slammed me up against the stonewall, I winced in pain when my back connected with it.

"Happens when you let someone else do your dirty work." I tried to loosen his old on me, but to no avail and I soon started chocking.

His spare fist clenched in a tight ball and was soon positioned ready to strike at my face. "I could kill you right here and now."

"Then why don't you?" I challenged; I waited for the blow to end my already diminished life.

It never came, instead Kolya's hand was redirected to the wall beside my head; it was enough to scare me. His hand hit it so hard it bleed from the impact, but he wasn't fazed by it.

The tightness increased around my throat adding to the mark already there from when John tried to kill me. "You sorely try my patients Dr. Weir. If you will not give me the command codes, I will send a nuke through to destroy the city whilst the defences are down. No one will have it."

"You can't!" I shouted.

"Call it. 'A cry in the dark.' If I can't have the city, no one can."

--

John Sheppard breathed in deeply and closed the unfinished book he had found; it was definitely Elizabeth's.

He placed it next to his side and looked up at the night sky as a campfire glistened in the moonlight. "Where are you Elizabeth?"

TBC

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