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Chapter Five
Find him Dr. Weir had said. Well, that was easier said than done with all these people around.
Sheppard sighed, and pulled out a life sign detector to look at. Hopefully...yes! There, somewhere close by was Rodney McKay. He motioned to Ford and the two of them followed the trail until they came upon an old, abandoned metal looking barn.
"There's indentations here, sir," Ford told him, "We can pull it open."
"OKay, let's do it," Sheppard agreed, relieved. Thank god, nothing bad had happened to the scientist.
Rodney woke up with a start after realizing he'd fallen asleep. He looked around, his fingers still holding tight to Furzzy's fur. It was still too dark to see anything. He sighed and lay back, wishing he were at home right now, playing with his K'nex toys. That was fun! He could build lots and lots of things with them. Daddy said he'd be an architecht just like him one day. Course, Mummy said he'd be a violinist like her one day. And Granny said he'd be a veterinarian (he was so proud of himself for remembering that word) with the way he liked animals and they liked him.
He liked all of those things, but what he really wanted to do was travel to another galaxy one day. Like in Star Trek, even though he didn't like that show. To boldly go where no man has gone before. Yeah, he could do that some day too.
A loud scraping sound brought him out of his musings and he looked towards where he thought he heard it, clutching Furzzy tightly to his chest. Furzzy squawked in protest, so he loosened his hold a little, but not by much as a sliver of light appeared, and grew larger. Soon, there was a large opening in the wall, and two men stood staring at him.
"McKay?" Asked one of them, a nice looking black man, "You okay? How'd you get in here?"
"Probably just hiding after those men attacked him," the other man said. He was nice looking too. "McKay is nothing, if not smart."
Someone had attacked him? That must be why his head hurt and why his mummy and daddy weren't around. But why were they calling him by his last name? He crawled forward, still holding on to Furzzy.
"Is that...a griffon?" the second nice man asked suddenly, "Where'd you get it?"
"His name is Furzzy," Rodney told him, "He stayed with me so I could protect him."
The second nice man nodded, and then frowned at him. "Why are you talking like that McKay?"
"Why do you call me McKay?" Rodney asked, honestly curious, "My name is Rodney, what's yours?"
The two men shared a look. "Uh, I'm Aiden," said the first man, "Nice to meet you."
"John," said the other, "How old are you, Rodney?"
"Six!" Rodney told him proudly, "Well, five and a half, but I'll be six soon. It's close enough."
"Major Sheppard, have you found..."
"Yes, Teyla!" John said quickly, "We did. Um...dial up the Stargate and have a medical team stand by for us, all right?"
"Wow," Rodney said, "You're a major? For real?"
"Yep," John said with an odd smile, "So, Rodney, why don't you come with us and..."
"What about Furzzy? We can't leave him for the bad men either."
John sighed and stared at the little bird like creature, then nodded and smiled. "No, now we can't. Now, bring Furzzy and you can come with us to see our friend Elizabeth."
"Okay!"
John spoke to Aiden in a whisper. The younger man nodded and took off into the trees.
Rodney smiled brightly at John. "This is gonna be fun. My sister said I was gonna marry a girl named Elizabeth. She likes to pretend she's a fortune tellar. Yeah, it is stupid huh?" he asked, when John began making a funny noise that Rodney took to be derision, "But older sisters are like that sometimes."
"Yeah. Older sisters are like that sometimes..." John agreed, still sounding odd. "Well, here we are. The special thing we're going to use to get to where we're going."
Rodney frowned and looked at the giant pool that stood on its side, but no water was comling out. "That's not possible," he told John, "It's not real."
"That's right, it's pretend. But we have to step through it in order to get to the other side."
Rodney frowned and looked down at Furzzy. His new pet seemed content enough, and John was really nice. Plus, he was in the Army! And a major too! So, Rodney nodded and let John lead him through the fake pool.