Thanks as always for the reviews. And if I have any of my gateology wrong, please let me know. I'm going from memory and websites.

Title: Eternal
Author: Cindy Ryan
Notes and Summary: See part one

Teyla and Rodney ran their flashlights along every inch of wall near where the Winchester brothers had been found. The floor was still a bit slippery. The environmental systems weren't online yet so the air in the corridor was chilly and with a hint of mildew.

"I'm not detecting any kind of energy down here at all."Rodney grumbled as he glanced down at his handheld scanner.

"Maybe there's some kind of shield."Teyla suggested as she walked ahead of Mckay.

McKay shrugged. "I just don't understand it. Even if whatever they used to get here was dormant it still would've had an energy signal. You need a hell of a lot of power to jump from one galaxy to another."

Teyla tuned Rodney out. Her gaze had settled on something in the wall in front of her. A symbol was etched into the tile. A symbol that was familiar to her yet it wasn't. Teyla took a step forward tentively reaching her hand toward the symbol.

The next second the corridor and Rodney vanished around her.

"Teyla!"Rodney called scrambling forward to where his friend had been just a second before.

There had been nothing to warn of her disappearance. No flash of light. No flash of energy.

Nothing.

Rodney ran his scanner over the area where Teyla had been standing. A faint energy signature registered and Rodney quickly saved the information. At least it would be a starting point.
Something to report back to Weir with.

"I'll be back with the Calvary,Teyla."Rodney promised before turning and running as fast as he could back toward the main area of Atlantis.

Sam Winchester placed his right hand on the outer circle of the Stargate to assure himself that it was real.

It looked like something that should be in a museum Something that should be protected and preserved.To think that a race of humans had such advanced technology thousands of years ago to build this gate system was just mind-blowing.

"This is just unbelievably cool."Sam whispered as his gaze traveled the length of the gate taking in each symbol.

Dean had been in realms that only dimension shifting demons could take him. He'd literally stared into the gates of hell. He'd gone rounds with vampires and werewolves. He'd been healed by a Reaper. And that only scratched the surface of their lives

Now as he watched his brother stare mesmerized at the Stargate, Dean couldn't help but be a bit awed too. He struggled to focus on what Sheppard was telling them.

"The original gate was discovered by Catherine Langford's father in Giza, Egypt in 1928. It wasn't until 1995 when Catherine was able to petition the Pentagon to form a team to research her father's greatest discovery. In 1997 Dr. Daniel Jackson was recruited to the team by Catherine personally. In less than a month he uncovered what the team had been working two years on. He found that the symbols were actually constellations and they formed a star map. He also figured out the symbol for the seventh chevron and they were finally able to activate the gate."

Dean glanced at Sheppard. "So the government's been space….sorry galaxy traveling for a decade and nobody knew about it?"

"For security reasons gate travel had to be kept classified. A few other governments know about it. Russia for example since a second gate was found in their country."

"Can two gates operate at once?"Sam asked walking back and forth in front of the gate trying to take it all in.

John smirked. "Unfortunately no. Creates a bit of a headache if the two wormholes connect or collide."

Rodney was moving fast. Faster than he had in his life. He was almost halfway to his destination before he remembered that he had grabbed a radio at the last minute. Frustrated with himself, Rodney snatched the device out of his jacket pocket and hit the talk button.

"McKay to Weir."

"Go ahead, Rodney."

"I need you and Sheppard and everyone down here now! I've lost Teyla."

John broke off mid sentence as he heard McKay's plea to Weir crackle over the radio. He glanced at Ronon who was already moving to stand closer.

"McKay,"John ordered urgently. "Repeat that again,slowly. What do you mean you've lost her?"

"Just what I said."Rodney snapped his breathing ragged as he came to a halt."She was there and then she wasn't."

"Rodney,"Weir replied calmly. "We're on our way. John, I have quarters for our friends near Ford's old one. Drop them off there and then meet us."

"Copy."Sheppard acknowledged as he looked to where Ronon was standing but his friend was already gone.
As close as Ronon and Teyla were Sheppard wasn't surprised.

"Come on."John said to Sam and Dean as he motioned them toward the door.

Dean began to follow but Sam stubbornly stayed where he was.

"No."

Dean glanced back at his brother with a warning look. "Sam."

Before Sam could reply a familiar feeling started creeping through his skull. It was the beginning of something he'd gotten used to, but when it came it still sent him reeling.
The images flashed through Sam's mind at lighting speed. Along with the images came the all too familiar skull splitting pain.

Sam felt himself clutch his head with his hands just as his knees gave out and he sank to the floor.