Turning all your fears into smiles

It's such a wondrous feeling

I know that my heart can't be wrong...

Chapter 7: Missing

"So you're telling me that you both remember Daniel Jackson coming back instead of Vala?" Elizabeth asked curiously looking at the two scientists who sat across from her. "How is that even possible?"

"In all honesty Elizabeth I have no idea." Rodney admitted with a shrug of his shoulders. "Sam just mentioned her dream and I-"

"Dreams are hardly memories Rodney." Elizabeth pointed out sceptically.

"Yes but what are the odds of both of us dreaming the same thing at the same time and-"

"Elizabeth—" Jack asked tentatively knocking on the door interrupting Rodney. "---have you seen Vala? She's missing."

"What?" Elizabeth asked rising to her feet followed quickly by Sam and Rodney who looked just as shocked as they all felt.

"What do you mean?" Rodney asked worriedly.

"We saw her last night." Sam pointed out walking to her husband's side. "How can she be missing?"

"I don't know." Jack replied with a shrug of his shoulders. "One minute her energy signature was in her room, the next it was gone."

"Oh god-" Rodney muttered as he sank back down into the chair. "-she's used the coil."

"Coil?" Jack enquired. "What coil? What are you talking about?"

Rodney sighed and explained. "You see, in an alternate timeline Elizabeth was the only survivor of Atlantis's destruction and she was thrown back to when the ancients were still here. She was saved by an ancient named Janus who was the creator of the timeship. Anyways, the alternate Elizabeth had stated that the council of Atlantis had ordered Janus to destroy all his work but late yesterday I found a bracelet and a log that belonged to him. He had left it for us and he called it an 'Ad Infinitum Coil.'"

"And what does this coil- bracelet thingy do?"

"It allows the wearing to go back to a specific point in time." Rodney stated answering Jack's question. "But it's much more specific than the timeship. This bracelet can allow the wearer to jump back minutes, hours or even days."

"Vala put the bracelet on while Rodney and I were arguing." Sam continued with a sigh. "One minute she was gone and the next she was back crying--- when we told her that she had just left she said that she had relived through the past couple days again."

"So she went back in time and-"

"-and failed." Sam finished nodding in confirmation to her husband. "But that's not the strange thing. What's really strange is that when both Rodney and I woke up this morning we had dreamt the same thing. We dreamt that Daniel was the one to come back, not Vala."

"Is that why you were so out of sorts this morning?" Jack asked taking his wife's hand. "And why you rushed off to meet Rodney for breakfast?"

"Well, I wanted to talk to Rodney about the coil." Sam corrected. "But yes, that is why I was out of sorts this morning."

"And now Vala's gone again." Elizabeth interjected pulling the dots together. "But the question is, did she go back to the past again, and will she be successful?"


A/N- Hello my beloved readers. I figured that since I made you guys wait SOOO long for the last chapter, coupled with the fact that I'm going away till Wednesday of next week- well, I figured that I would update early. Here is chapter 7 for you all, I hope you all liked it. Oh- and thank you to Shinki, acer-sigma, Bri milena and Enaintram for reviewing the last chapter and I hope that you all take the time to review this chapter too.

Briar- was this soon enough for ya? ;)