"Why did you wait so long to come help."

"She is made more powerful by her madness and as long as she wishes it I can not enter the room."

"She can keep another one like her from going somewhere?"

"She can."

"Why are you willing to help us?"

"Your McKay interests me. He is arrogant yet he feels himself unimportant. His mask is thick."

"What are you talking about?"

"He will have to tell you that later. If someone can break her concentration I can rescue your man."

"How can we do that?"

"Your Sheppard has already created one. He is going in the mini sub to try to enter Atlantis through the hole in the outer wall."

"Hole?"

"The one caused by the explosion that knocked you scientist out."

"Explosion?"

"Is there an echo in here? Just allow me to do my job and keep you man from drowning, or bleeding to death, or dying of low blood sugar." She vanished leaving Weir in a panic.

"MAJOR SHEPPARD!"

In the sub

"MAJOR SHEPPARD!"

"Sheppard here. What did I do now?"

"Rodney is being held hostage by a deranged Ancient. There is another of her kind here. She says she wants to help but I am not so sure. You need to get to Rodney and fast."

"Gotch ya. Over and out."

"Well Rodney how are you doing?"

"Why are you keeping me alive if you want so badly to watch me die?"

"What are you talking about?"

"At the rate that the water should be rising I should have drowned by now. I have some sort of head trauma from the explosion. My blood sugar should be so low by now I shouldn't be conscious. Both my wrists are injured and bleeding from the rope and I have some sort of injury to my side. Between all these factors I should have been dead at least three times by now."

"Clever aren't we? Your are correct I am keeping you alive but that is to make you suffer for what you did to my people."

"Your people?"

"Don't play dumb, you brought that virus to my people! You killed us all!"

"You are one crazy bat if you believe that I did something so long before I was BORN!" She slapped him again opening the drying scab on his face.

" SHUT UP. JUST SHUT U.P I KNOW YOU DID IT. I KNOW. I KNOW EVERYTHING."

"WELL YOU NEED TO CHECK YOU DICTIONARY ON THE DEFINITION OF EVERYTHING LADY!"

"Who are you to tell me what is right and wrong?" Her voice lost all anger and resumed that calm sadistic tone again. He realized that his lady was totally insane. He had to do something to distract her or something or next time she flew into a rage she might kill him outright, if he lived that long.

"I am obviously more stable than you are Nicole. That means I have a better understanding of what it means to be right and wrong."

"I am sure you have a lot of experience with being wrong."

"Very funny." He had had about enough of her. It took a great deal of his strength but he managed to pull his legs out of the water and kick her in the chest. It connected surprisingly though it didn't phase her for long.

"WHY YOU…"

"Temper, temper." Nicole turned and saw her sister standing right behind her.

"How did you get in here?" her sister just pointed to Rodney.

"You let him get you angry sister."

"I should have know you would spoil my revenge. He killed our people sister. He killed all of them."

"Our people died over 4,000 years ago probably more sister. He couldn't have killed them. No ancient killed them. WE destroyed ourselves. You destroyed us."

"NO! He tampered with our research. He made it dangerous."

"No ancient ever visited us. They were destroyed before our people were. Your inoculation was unsafe."

"NOT UNTIL HE FOOLED WITH IT."

"He wasn't even born when that inoculation was administered."

"I couldn't have done it. I couldn't have. David died from it, my own son died. How could I have done it."

"You didn't mean too but it happened. You need to stop looking else where for blame." Nicole lashed out at Mitra with a wave of energy. Mitra blocked it easily. She took a step closer to her sister.

"Every one has forgiven you Nicole. Why can't you forgive yourself" She blocked another blow this time from Nicole's fist. Then another and another until Nicole lay sobbing in her sister's arms.

"It is okay Nicole. Go home I will be there soon. "Nicole disappeared. Mitra walked over to Rodney, who was unconscious now because Nicole's influence was removed. Her form disappeared as her body became bright. She cut the rope right above Rodney's wrists then wrapped her arms around him until he could barely be seen. Then she pulled him out of the room and into the sub a few meters away from the battered wall. She place him in front of a very surprised John and disappeared.

John raced over to Rodney and started to call over the radio.

"Weir, I've got Rodney and I am going in."

"Good I will have a medical team standing by."

"Doctor Weir?"

"Mitra?" The ascended woman was standing by he desk.

"Yes Doctor. I am sorry."

"Why?"

"I should have watched Nicole more closely. I allowed her to came here but while I studied your people I lost track of what she was doing."

"Why is she like this?"

"About 4,000 years ago, maybe more our planet was struck by a plague. It was like you cancer only much quicker. Doctor Nicole Angel found a inoculation for the disease. It wasn't affective. The inoculation killed more people than the disease. I had died some years earlier and ascended. So when my sister caught the disease I helped her ascend making me an outcast. The mental instability she had developed after my death and the death of her son stayed with her after death. She always tries to find the person responsible for the inoculation going wrong and she has never realized that it was her. She blamed it on the ancients I have tried to help her since it was my fault that she remained here on this plane. I am afraid not only did I wrong her but also I wronged the universe. I almost killed your friend. "

"Nicole almost killed Rodney. You tried to be kind and decent."

"Thank you doctor I hope your friend will be okay" Mitra disappeared.

Weir stopped for a moment to ponder these strange events.

"Doctor Beckett, how is Rodney?"

"Not well. His sugar levels are too low as his body temperature. He had a piece of the wall stuck in his side and he has lost a lot of blood. If I can get enough blood and fluids into him he may make it." Weir started to pray.