A/N: OK to start with I'm SO SORRY it took so long I been…busy…and internetless…lol so here's the next chapter!!

Chapter One

"It doesn't die?" Sam blinked. "That's not possible…"

"Oh, trust us, it is," Sheppard replied.

"You've fought these things…" Sam stated, more then asked.

Sheppard nodded.

Sam turned dumbfounded back to the arm underneath the microscope. Beckett stood on the other side of Sheppard, smiling slightly at the shocked expression on Sam's face.

"There's more…" Sheppard said.

"They can suck the life right out of you," Beckett explained.

Sam's eyes widened even further. "How?"

"We don't know," Beckett replied. "But its pretty scary."

"Yeah…and I thought the Goa'uld were bad…" Sam said.

"The Goa'uld?" Sheppard asked. "They those snake things?"

"Yeah…" Sam said. "Tell me more about these Wraith's…"

xxx

"Wow, these are actual Ancient texts…" Daniel murmured.

"Yes, we discovered a library only last week with thousands of books," Weir said.

"Really?" Daniel looked at her. "Lets go!"

Weir turned to McKay. "Lead the way."

McKay nodded. "So far I've only really started on a couple of scientific books, but they're so complicated…actually I should probably get Maj…Colonel Carter to take a look at them."

Daniel didn't seem to be paying any attention to him. "What's this do?"

Weir looked at the transportation device they had just walked up to.

"It'll transport us to another part of the base," Weir informed him.

"Really? So it's like a high-tech elevator?" Daniel concluded.

"In a way…" Weir said, pressing the spot on the map where the library was located.

They were transported to the library and Daniel stepped out, Weir could've sworn his jaw would reach the ground.

"I've never seen so many texts…its amazing that they still used books to write things in…" Daniel said.

"We think that they had this all stored on computer, this was just a backup in case something happened to their computer systems," McKay added.

"Uh huh…" Daniel said, still gawking at the books.

He made his way quickly down the stair case in front of him. He felt as if he'd just stepped out of a brand new high-tech city in a hundred (earth) year old library. But this library was much older than that.

Over ten thousand years old.

"Everything's perfectly preserved…" Daniel observed as he took a book off the nearest shelf.

He read the front a couple of times, translating it in his head.

"This is…a romance novel," Daniel raised both his eyebrows extremely high. "The Ancients wrote romance novels…"

"Well I supposed they had to have entertainment too…right?" McKay said.

Weir took the book from Daniel and flipped open the front cover. "I might borrow this…"

"You can read Ancient?" Daniel looked at her in surprise.

"I learn fast, Daniel," she said. "And we have been here for months…"

"I suppose…" Daniel said, looking slightly jealous. "You think there's anything in here that'll help us contact Earth?"

McKay and Weir exchanged a glance.

"Well, if you can find some kind of library catalogue, I'm sure you'd be able to find something. But we looked…and the only thing we found was a smashed up piece of, what looked like was once machinery," McKay said.

"Oh…" Daniel said.

xxx

"Where's Daniel?" Sam asked as she sat down for dinner at the table, in Weir's private living quarters.

"We left him in the library," Weir replied, sitting down next to Sheppard.

Teal'c sat down next to Sam. "Do you not think it wise to retrieve him for dinner?"

"I asked him, he said he'd eat later," Weir smiled.

"So where is this library?" Sam asked.

"It's on the other side of Atlantis, you can only get there by transporter," McKay said.

"You know, I always said you and Ford should never name anything," Sheppard said.

"Well you haven't named it yet," McKay replied.

"Lets just leave it nameless for now…ok?" Sheppard said.

"Rodney can you please pass the sauce?" Weir asked, trying to break up the argument before it became one.

"Uh, sure," McKay handed Weir the sauce, seeming to forget about his argument with Sheppard.

"So is there anyway to get back to Earth?" Sam asked.

Weir shook her head. "Not that we know of, the power that we have is limited, and if we use that to dial home we'll loose all shields protecting this base."

"We need a ZPM," McKay said.

Sam looked at him. "Well…I'm sure you can find one somewhere."

"I did, but it was greatly depleted and completely useless to us…" McKay said.

"And it was protecting the last of a civilisation from attack by the Wraith! And when you took it away the Wraith almost came and destroyed them," Weird said coldly.

"Yeah, well…there was that," McKay seemed suddenly extremely interested in his food.

"So basically we're stuck here until we find a power source," Sam said.

"Yeah, that's about right," McKay said.

"Great," Sam said, sarcastically.

xxx

"Siler!"

Siler ignored the call from behind him.

"Siler! What's wrong with it?" Jack O'Neill voice was starting sound extremely harsh and not very forgiving.

"I don't know, sir," he replied.

"Well find out!" Jack said.

"I can't, sir," Siler turned to look at him.

"Why not?"

"I need Colonel Carter's help," Siler said, regretting his words the moment he said them.

"Yeah well in case you haven't noticed she's not here right now. In fact I'd quite like to know where she is, so maybe if you worked a little harder then you'd be able to find out!" Jack said.

"Yes, sir," Siler muttered, turning back to his work.

Jack didn't moved. Siler turned back around to face him and ask him why he was still standing there, but he stopped himself opening his mouth. He was standing at the bottom of the gate staring up at it. Siler knew he was wondering what had happened to his team.

The blank expression on his face told all.

Siler turned back to his worked and continued screwing apart the power box on the Stargate.

A/N: I know its not much but there's more coming!! Please Review!!!