Cauchemar- Chapter 5
John woke up to find himself in the Atlantis sickbay. His head was spinning and his memories were lost in a whirlpool of nothingness. Looking across the room, he saw that Dr.Mckay was lying in a bed, mere meters away from him. The sight of McKay's bloodied face triggered something inside him. He remembered. Although it was little more than a series of blurred images, he remembered going to the science labs, talking to McKay, and then… nothing. John's head began to throb with as he tried to remember what had happened after that, but it was as if a black hole had opened up inside his mind and swallowed his memories, engulfing them in an inky void .The doors to the west of the room slid open silently and Dr.Beckett walked in, flanked by a pair of medical experts in spotless white coats. John asked them what had happened, his voice strained, and then listened as they explained to him nervously that he had attacked McKay, but had been found unconscious himself. John asked about the Wraith hallucinatory technology, and was surprised to hear that his prisoner had been found dead in its cell, surrounded by guards who had all suffered seizures. Beckett went on to explain that the Wraith's death was linked to the technology, which they had guessed was being tested on John at first. But they had got too confident with it. They had tried to increase the power, try to affect others in Atlantis, exhausting and invadig their minds in readiness for a full attack on the city. However, with masses of energy being channeled through a single Wraith, its mind had crumbled under the pressure and it had destroyed itself. The attempt had failed, but there were hundreds more Wraith beyond the city, all hungry for human life, and all John Sheppard could do for the time being was rest…