A/N:

This is quite possibly my shortest update ever but I could not call myself a queen of the cliffhanger if I didn't end this where I did. *grins* Just consider this one of the two-part episodes that we all know and love. At least I'm not ending the "series" here like the TV show had a tendency to do. Although it was awfully tempting.

Side note: Massive depression episode and writer's block hit this week and I'm only just now working my way out of it so while I will do my best to get the next chapter out on time next Sunday please forgive me if I'm not in top form. I have been fighting massive pain and hurricane-like mood swings, complete with waterworks. Ug.

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JR

Recap:

Meditation and Family Gardens

"My point is, that I am here to stay." Teyla concluded. "As for the rest, I will make no promises as I have Torren to think of now, not just myself. But I like you too." Not thinking, she gently kissed his lips and then quickly pulled away to make her way to the door.

Before he could follow, all three of them were hit by the beam of light that transported them away.

Medical Wing

Keller turned to the twins, hoping that they could explain what he meant but it was one of her engineers that raced through the crowd to them. "As soon as she's there, we'll try again Luka." She turned to the trio. "Kelly Timmons ma'am." She nodded, introducing herself, pushing her glasses back into place. "Luka is talking about the fact that each section of the city is in different sensor grids. We've been having trouble syncing all of them so it's possible that each new grid she passes into would pick her up if the one she was in originally wouldn't."

"What do you need?"

"Access to your computer and the good doctor's emergency override code." She blinked. "It was my job to sync the damn coding anyway so I know those sensor grids. If it skipped my boss I want to get her back and know how the hell it happened in the first place!"

Keller didn't wait. She shoved the engineer in front of her computer and quickly in her emergency code as fast as her fingers could fly. "Find her." She demanded. "I just sent Shepherd and the general to the chair room so we have until they get there to get her back."

Rota's Quarters

"The mothers say welcome to the family," Sigrun smirked. "Do make my granddaughter an honest woman when all this is over, yeah?"

"What?"

Luka snorted from inside the wall panel and wiggled back out to throw himself at the crouched Satedan. "He means they said you can marry momma if she agrees." Wrapping his small arms around Ronon's neck, he hugged the man tight. "Will we be moving in your quarters with you?" He wondered, pulling back slightly. "Or you with us?" Then he waved a small hand, pushing the questions away. "Later worries. Have to make sure momma survives first."

"Need any help?" Sigrun asked when Ronon looked a bit too shell shocked to move.

"Almost got it!" He called, slapping one more crystal into place. "Doctor Keller!"

Episode 10 The Wave Part 5

Chair Room

Catching sight of the Colonel and General, the poor duckling that was lieutenant Evans sagged in relief as he slid from the chair. The most he had done in it was pull up Ancient star charts and keep track of their progress through the system to their target planet. There was no way that he could handle the amount of skill and concentration it took to jump the city-ship into hyperspace. The place gave new meaning to the term enormous.

"Sirs." He saluted and quickly took his place back at the wall when Jack waved John into the chair.

"You have more experience with this city." The general explained. "Do you know the planet that we're headed to?"

"Can do it in my sleep, sir."

Jack sagged in relief. Oxygen had gotten a little thinner than he liked in that transporter, and his brain was a little fuzzy to be flying cities around. Bracing against the wall, he slid to the floor, trying to steady his breathing. "Then get us out of here Colonel."

Taking his place John leaned back and closed his eyes, breathing a sigh of relief when the chair tilted back and he caught the blue glow around him. "I'm in!" He announced to the city-wide comms. "Everyone brace yourselves!"

"Get the engines prepped!" Sam ordered. "You've got thirty seconds to the next wave. And a minute longer until the Zeta wave. We need to be out of here before then."

A barely audible hum filled the city as the anti-grav drives came online to combat the gravitational forces that hyperdrive would subject the city and everyone in it to. A breath later the wave hit, softer than the previous but still enough to shake everyone nearly out of their shoes.

"Warming hyperdrive," John advised quietly.

"Jack, you're gonna want to see this," Daniel murmured to his friend who was still sitting on the floor, holding his head to stop the room from spinning around his oxygen-deprived brain.

Nodding that he heard the younger man, Jack lifted his head and set it back against the wall before opening his eyes only to immediately wish he hadn't. There was a start chart of the city and the area around it floating above their heads so that John could see the readings in real-time while the engines warmed.

The stable gravitational waves from planets and stars rippled around the bodies they orbited like soft blue waves that turned yellow at the edges. But the radiation wave headed at them? An angry neon red behemoth that seemed to churn and froth as it moved inexorably closer, orange and yellow flashing at its crests. And it was closing fast.

"Pull chocks, Colonel." Jack gasped, his eyes growing wide. "Now would be good!"

"Can't sir," John answered, feeling the adrenaline of his days in a cockpit filling his veins with white-hot fire. "Engines need the time."

"This isn't an F302, Colonel!" Jack growled, watching as if felt like the wave slowed. It didn't, he knew. Perception was always different when undergoing stress. He had been in enough dogfights to know.

"Exactly, sir," John said, going maddeningly calm as he watched the wave roll closer. "This is Atlantis."

In the Access Tunnels Somewhere Between The Residents Wing And the Training Wing

One more bulkhead. Just one more to clear and then she knew she would be in another section. But unlike the nice automated bulkheads in the hallways, which were nice and wide, went floor to overhead height, and all you had to do was wave your hand at a sensor and they swung open, the access tunnels had to be absolute pains in the rear. No sensor. Not even a bio-metric scanner. No. Because the Lanteans couldn't just make things easy.

Not that she really blamed them, she mentally allowed. What possible use would the main bulkheads be if the access tunnels were wide open? The answer? None at all.

But did they have to make it so damned difficult? A keypad, an actual lock and an airlock that you had to twist open like the city was a blasted submarine. Thank goodness she had turned the key into a necklace and ordered the entire engineering team never to be without theirs. That would suck.

And even after she got the blasted thing open, she had to get through it. And it made the rather tight and awkward space in the tunnel a good foot narrower and was off the bottom of the tunnel by six inches. She had nearly passed out crossing the last four and honestly if the black spots in her vision got any bigger or swam any faster, she was gonna throw up and pass out in it.

"All I wanted was a calm job that I got to play with awesome alien tech in the safety of the city." She grumbled, popping the seal on the door with a grunt. "Where I got to build and reverse engineer cool toys and raise my son." She pushed back the unruly sweat-soaked strands of hair, smearing dirt and dust once again all over her face. "Why am I always the one getting hurt? I didn't even do anything dangerous this time!"

When the city comms crackled to life around her, Sophie's heart caught in her chest. "All engines firing within parameters," Rodney announced as calm as a fight attendant when the plane is going down. "Wave in thirty seconds. Brace yourselves."

Eyes widening, Sophie spun the airlock seal as if her life depended on it.

"Alright everyone," John's voice crackled to life. "This may be a little bumpy."

Resident's Wing

As the city-ship went into hyperspace a scream echoed down the hallway.