Disclaimer: I do own Stargate Atlantis.

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Where's my stuff?

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All over the city of Atlantis people were missing stuff. Stuff like paperclips, cardboard boxes, duct tape, crayons, brushes & paint from Lorne's room, Lego's from the Lego room, etc. Everyone seemed to be missing something.

And if that wasn't worrisome enough the Tribbles would disappear a few hours at a time all through the day and night.

Was this all connected? And if so how and why?

Sheppard had given Ronon the job of finding out what was going on. He was the best person for the job because of his amazing tracking skills.

Besides he had been wondering the past two days what Dred had been up to. Dred had disappeared yesterday for 2 hours.

And when he came back he acted like he had never left. No matter what question Ronon asked him he would only squeak and mime that he had not left the room.

So today he was going to follow him! Ronon got ready for the day as he always did. Got up went for a run, came back to shower and change, and then went to breakfast. Or so Dred was to think. Dred knew that after breakfast Ronon would be gone from the room for a few hours.

Each time Ronon left the room that day he would circle back and hid and stake out his room to see if Dred would leave.

Fifteen minutes after Ronon had said he was going to breakfast Fluffy came out of Rodney's room. Then he went over to John's room and let Puddles out with a remote control. After he let Puddles out he came over and let Dred out and off they went down the hallway.

Ronon followed them. It was hard to in the hallway with nothing to hide behind, but the Tribbles did not seem to look back.

Ronon followed them down an unused hallway that was a dead end. Just as he was closing in on them a Marine came by and started talking to Ronon about a sparing lesson. When Ronon looked down the hall again the Tribbles were gone!

Where did they go? Ronon would have seen them if they had come back out of the hallway. Ronon got down and started feeling the walls all the way around the hallway.

He could find a way for the Tribbles to have disappeared.

Ronon then went to find Rodney McKay. Maybe Rodney could see if that hallway had a camera and if he could tell where the Tribbles went.

Rodney said, "Sorry Ronon the camera is not working in that hallway." "Your sure they didn't get by you when you were talking to that Marine?"

"No they didn't get past me!" Ronon yelled, "I would have seen them."

"And you felt all along the bottom of the walls all the way around the hallway?" asked Rodney.

"Yes McKay, that's what I just said," stated Ronon.

"Could it he a hologram thingy like when you and Daniel found that secret lab?" inquired Ronon.

"If it was like that then they would have to be a lot taller to access it," Rodney said.

"But it could be something like that only…." trailed off McKay.

"Only what?" asked Ronon. "Let me do some tests and I'll get back to you," Rodney stated.

Ronon went to tell John what had happened and that Rodney had an idea.

While Ronon was still talking to John Rodney called them over the comlink to come and see what he had found in the hallway. John answered and said, "We'll be right there."

When they got to the hallway Rodney was standing there with a grin on his face.

"I see you figured it out McKay," said Ronon. "Yes I did, and you were right about it being the same as the entrance to the secret lab Daniel and I found."

The lights you touch to open the entrance are up here," Rodney said pointing to the three lights on the wall. "And over here is where they are getting in," said Rodney as he put his hand through the wall close to the floor. "I figure it is big enough for the Tribbles to go through along with what ever it is they have been taking."

"How do you know it's the Tribbles that have been taking things," asked John. "Because that I did find out from some of the cameras near our quarters."

"Now to see what they have been up to," said Rodney as he touched the lights in the correct order. The wall vanished and they stepped inside.

Inside the room were allot of busy Tribbles. Some Tribbles were building things, some were playing with things already built like the small roller coaster along side one wall that had a 4 foot drop and then did two loops before it ended. They had even made a small merry go round.

Mostly though there were different kinds of houses. Some made out of the missing Lego's, some made out of the cardboard boxes their supplies came in and painted with different colors. One had even made a room out of books, and was sitting in the middle of the room reading one of them.

Some Tribbles were into art sculptures. Others were painting pictures (with Lorne's paints & brushes). There was allot going on in the room. The Tribbles looked at the humans for about a minute and then went on with what they were doing.

John, Rodney & Ronon talked it over and decided to leave the Tribbles alone for the moment and went to tell Mr. Woolsey what they had found. It was decided that the Tribbles needed their own space to do things they wanted to do so Rodney made sure the wall stayed open so people could go in and see what their pets were doing, but were told not to mess with any of it.

Also in an empty corner of the room people started leaving things they thought the Tribbles might be able to use so that they would stop taking things.

Now besides the Tribble Daycare there was another place the Tribbles could go and have fun.