"You will tell me how to make this work! Now!"

"Never!" he pulled scattered thoughts together and kept thinking offoffoff at the Ancient doodad in Big Ugly's hand. They were trying to break him, but it wasn't going to work. He could hold out for awhile yet -plenty of time for his team to find him.

His captor gestured and Sheppard felt Guards 1 and 2 pull him backwards and fasten his manacled legs to chains in the floor. They untied his arms and Big Ugly stood in front of him and pressed a very sharp knife to his throat so he didn't dare make a move. His wrists were attached to chains hanging from the ceiling. His flinching gained him a cut and the blood ran down his bared chest. Ugly removed the knife and taunted him. Sheppard head butted him in retaliation. Ugly staggered back yelling and Guard 1 or 2 clocked him and he didn't see it coming. Out like the proverbial light.

When he came to, thanks to the freezing water Ugly threw over him, the whole of the left side of his face throbbed and burned hotly with bruised and split tissue. He hawked and spat out blood, the motion made his head throb nastily. He ran his tongue round the inside of his mouth. Either he'd bitten the inside of his cheek or he'd bust some teeth. Or maybe both. Well it didn't look as if he was going to have steak and potatoes to eat anytime soon anyway. Come to think of it did Atlantis even have a dentist?