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"Hey Ronon." John said with teasing smile as he took his seat across the table at breakfast. Teyla, who sat beside John, exchanged a puzzled look with Carson who sat beside Ronon across from her. "What did you do last night?"

"What's that suppose to mean?" Ronon asked in a gruff voice.

"Nothing, just wondered what you did last night." John explained innocently as he took a bite of his food. "Heard you got attacked by wraith." His face momentarily went serious but quickly returned to his teasing expression.

"Yes, they sent a team but only a few bodies of the wraith were found. What happened?" Teyla asked generally concerned, ignoring John's tone.

"They way I heard it, Attie saved his butt." John answered, still watching Ronon with an almost knowing smile.

"Who saved who from what?" Rodney asked, coming from seemingly no where as he sat on the other side of Teyla.

"Attie apparently saved Ronon from wraith last night." Carson summarized, eyeing Ronon and Sheppard feeling as if he had missed something.

"Wraith?" McKay asked sounding surprised. "That's weird, there were no unaccounted for life signs."

"Isn't it broken?" Ronon asked, keeping his annoyed gaze on Sheppard.

"For some reason, it wasn't picking anything up the other night in the region of the girl's room, but its working fine now." McKay explained as he dug into his own breakfast.

"Hello." Dr. Keller greeted cheerfully as she sat beside Rodney. He greeted her with a small smile as he swallowed hard and kissed her. "So what are we talking about?" she asked as her eyes shifted to the two men still staring at the other with differing intensities.

"Attie saved Ronon from wraith last night which the life detectors didn't pick up, and I have feeling that we missed something." Carson said, expressing his thoughts. "Teyla?"

Her head came up from the food she was staring at unseeingly. "Yes Carson?"

"Are you feeling alright love? You're very quiet today."

"I guess I am just worried about the wraith." The others waited patiently for her to explain further. "I do not understand why I did not sense them."

"Attie did; right before they got to us. It nearly knocked her off her feet." Ronon brought up.

"Well it makes sense she'd be able to sense them." Jen added.

"But why stronger than Teyla?" John asked the table. "You'd think that having less experience, she'd be the one to miss it."

"Is anyone going to say what we're all thinking?" Rodney said. The table stayed silent. "It might just be possible that the girls coming and the wraith's arrival aren't completely separate occurrences." They all seemed to take this in before John finally spoke.

"Check into it." Rodney nodded.

The table grew quiet as the girls, that seemed to be on everyone's thoughts this morning, entered the mess laughing. Julia was the one who had caught their attention, her laugh loud and carefree as she hung her head back with the joyful sound. Attie and Nixie were on either side of her, hands covering their mouths, laughing almost silently. Julia said hello to Major Lorne as she passed him with more enthusiasm that was called for and John's amused grin fell. Attie immediately locked eyes with Ronon and smiled as she went to get her food with Nixie and Ronon's hard glare was lost as he nodded in her direction.

"Hey," all three girls said in unison as they sat simultaneously at the table, which sent them all into more laughter.

"We've been doing that all morning." Nixie explained as she chuckled from her seat at Carson's side.

"You are certainly in a good mood this morning." Teyla said addressing the three.

"Hey I'm alive after two wraith attacks. Of course I'm happy!" Attie exclaimed from the chair next to Ronon.

"You're like a wraith magnet or something!" Julia joked from the seat beside John.

"Am not!" Attie protested.

"Are too." Nixie joined the joke. The others at the table exchanged more looks of confusion at the sudden cheeriness of the three. This was the happiest the expedition members had seen them since their unplanned arrival. "Face it Attie, you got attacked by wraith twice within two nights."

The comment stung Attie slightly as she remembered Ronon's words. But she laughed anyway; though it sounded slightly forced, even to her.

"So Attie, how was your night?" Nixie asked pointedly after a moment of quiet.

"Alright, now I know we've missed something." Beckett stated. Attie raised her eyebrows at Ronon in question but he simply looked in John's direction.

The conversation continued until they were finished their meals and for several moments afterwards.

"Alright," Sheppard began leaning back into a stretch in his chair. "Woolsey wants us to make a sweep of the area Ronon and Attie were in last night." He said talking to the team – Ronon, Teyla, Rodney, and himself.

"I thought there was already a team up there." Rodney whined.

"He wants us to double check." John turned to the rest of the table, Julia in particular. "It should only take a couple of hours. You ladies think you can keep busy that long?"

"I'm sure we'll find some way to entertain ourselves." Julia ensured flirting obviously and Attie sighed along with an eye roll from Nixie.

"Good." John said ignoring the two. "We'll be back in time for lunch." He added as he walked away.

"Maybe," McKay mumbled as he kissed Keller goodbye. Teyla smiled at the girls before walking away beside an annoyed looking Ronon leaving only Carson, Nixie, Julia, Keller, and Attie spread around the table.

For long moments they all sat in silence, unsure of how to start a conversation.

"So, Dr. Keller, how long have you and Rodney been dating?" Attie tried.

"Jen," she corrected with a small smile. "About seven months. What about you three? Any boyfriends?" she asked cheerfully taking a bite of food.

Nixie nearly choked on food as she laughed and Attie shot her a look.

"I don't really like titles…" Attie started.

"She's dating like three guys." Julia said smiling widely.

"Shut up home wrecker." Attie said jokingly and turned back to Keller. "She has a tendency to go for married guys."

"Actually she just likes married men. She doesn't date them." Nixie clarified. Jen nodded with her eyebrows raised.

"Nixie can't hold a guy for more than like three months." Attie continued.

"Hey my record is four!" Nixie exclaimed through laughter, pointing a fork at her friend. The others couldn't help but laugh as well.

An hour later, Attie found herself wondering around, lost yet again. Two marines were following her – since her usual guide/prison guard was else where – but she was too embarrassed to ask them for help. She had been looking for the gym when she stumbled into a large, gray room.

She gaped as she wondered slowly into the center of the room. Odd, cylinder shaped machines with one slanted edge were placed systematically over several levels leading to a large roof. She had no idea what the things did, but she couldn't help but notice they looked almost like a ship.

She walked slowly around the room, the two guards towing closely behind. There was a sudden popping noise and the mutterings of some foreign language she couldn't quite identify. She hurried over to the only noise in the room to see what had happened and who it was.

The flat end of the cylinder was dropped and she stood at the base of the fallen door, looking into the small ship. A short man stood alone in what she guessed was the back. He had a flashlight between his teeth, shining it on what only looked like a mess to Attie. Resting in one of his arms was a computer pad that she recognized from her time with Rodney; the other hand was embedded in his work. Square crystals were exposed from the gray settings; wires hanging limply from the frames.

"Are you alright?" Attie asked the man. He turned to her, looking startled, dropping the flashlight; he muttered again in the other language as it rolled under a seat. His hair was a mess around a balding spot at the back of his head; small, round glasses hung from his nose.

"Yes, I'm fine." He sighed in a heavy accent she almost immediately guessed was Czech. He bent over to see if he could easily find the flashlight.

"Here," she said eagerly walking inside. "Let me get that." She dropped to her stomach and reached under the seat in search of the small object. She quickly found it and handed it back to him.

"Thank you." He said with a smile. "I don't think we've met." He said studying her for a moment.

"No, we haven't." she extended a hand towards him. "I'm Attie." He shook her hand.

"Radeck. Are you one of the new arrivals?" he asked as he turned back to his work.

"You might call me that." She said stepping back to give him room; folding her arms as she did so. "I'm one of the three more… accidental visitors."

"Ah, yes, I've heard a lot about you." He said briefly smiling at her.

"Really?" she smiled. She couldn't help but wonder if Ronon had said anything. Although she doubted he spent much time with an obvious scientist.

"Rodney mentioned you once or twice. Apparently you can use both wraith and ancient technology."

"So I've been told." Her smile faded. "So what is this thing anyway?" she asked eager to change the subject.

"Puddle Jumper." He answered simply. "Space ship." He clarified at her confused pause. She opened her mouth to say something but closed it, her eye brows pulled together.

"Did Rodney happen to say anything about how we got here?" she asked quickly.

"Power surge." He answered simply. She raised her eyebrows, waiting for him to explain. It didn't take him long to realize her silence. "There was a solar storm passing over the planet at the time. Rodney thinks that the energy from that must've, theoretically, knocked the path from your reality to ours."

"A solar storm?" she asked in disbelief. "We have them about three times a month; sometimes you can even see them with the naked eye. That's what landed us here? Are you sure?"

"Well, there's no real way to be exactly sure, but yes, all signs point to that."

"Huh." She looked thoughtful for a moment, letting that sink in. "I'm sorry, I'm keeping you from your work." She said abruptly, suddenly eager to be outside. "It was nice to meet you. And thank you." She said backing out of the puddle jumper.

"Nice to meet you too." He called as she quickly turned and disappeared.