Title: Trapped

Pairing: Mention of S/W but is barely there.

Spoilers: General knowledge of season 1. Nothing specific.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, only the original characters. This is just for fun so, don't sue!

Warnings: A bit of language and rude attitudes. The S word mostly.

Summary: Cameras, the Ancient gene, a Wraith loose in the city, a new character, a near crashed puddle jumper and someone calls Sheppard the resident flirt god.

A/N: Reedited and revamped on September 7, 2005. There are things that might be a little different, but in overall is pretty much the same fic. I just wanted to fix it and had it beta'd ever since I included it on my Friends are Foes series. Just as a general warning, knowledge of my fic The bet is on! Might be good but not necessary. Thanks a lot to CeeKay for the help and tips.

Enjoy!

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Chapter I: Camera Work

Major John Sheppard was now walking toward the briefing room. Something had happened and they needed him; apparently one of the civilians was lost in an unexplored part of the city. As he walked into the briefing room, Elizabeth, Lt. Ford and Sgt. Bates were already there. He took a chair and quickly sat on it. "So… who's missing?"

Elizabeth stared at the small camera in her hands. Unsure if it was wise to give it to John, she said, "This morning Sgt. Bates's team was reconnoitering an unexplored section of the city. The area had previously been damaged by the storm, they found this." She handed the camera to Sheppard.

John stared at it. "It's a video camera," he said, not comprehending the importance of the object.

Elizabeth gave him a hard glare, "It's not the camera, it's the footage that is disconcerting."

John opened the little screen to the side. "Is it set?" he asked. Elizabeth nodded, and John pushed "Play". The screen came alive, it was for a moment moving around a lot, and then a young woman's face appeared. John knew instantly who she was. Why her? The woman had her hair pulled back in a weird messed up bun. Now she looked at the camera and smiled. "This is Stella Roig from sector C, Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy. This is B roll footage, so today I'll be shooting mostly filling. If anyone ever sees all the raw footage I have of Atlantis they will have a big picture of how Atlantis looks. Which is basically the same everywhere." John noticed that she was speaking rather fast, she quickly continued, "This area was a bit damaged by a storm; I thought that since I don't have anything to do – ever – I could come by and do a little scouting." Now Stella stared right at the camera. "Believe me, it beats being harassed by Dr. McKay." She smirked, probably at an inside joke.

Stella now disappeared from the screen and the camera started moving toward a long hallway. Her voice could still be heard, "Ok, boring, boring, hallways, rooms, more balconies, oh…" She had stopped talking and was now approaching a set of doors leading towards a balcony. "Nice view! This is definitely better than the southwest pier. Not that it matters; now that place is always invaded by some couple. As if we don't have enough balconies. I wonder if Major Sheppard already knows about this place." The camera now moved outside, Stella continued talking, "Probably… maybe that's why he's the resident flirt god."

John's mind did a double take; he stopped the tape and looked at Elizabeth, "What the hell is this?" John noticed that Ford had a small smirk across his face, Elizabeth replied, trying to remain calm, that he really needed to watch the tape. No matter how much he hated Stella. "John, keep watching please."

Reluctantly John pushed play, Stella was still going on her rants but all John could see was the ocean, "Not with me of course, the man hates me. Also, no one here seems to notice my presence. It's only, Stella, touch this, Miss Roig, activate that. Hey! Don't put a camera there! I should have stayed in earth…" Now Stella seemed to be holding on to the railing taking some great shots of the view, "At least there I could go to the movies, buy new books, or maybe just pretend…." There was a loud metal sound and Stella stopped talking.

John could see that by the movements of the camera, that Stella was trying to walk slowly back into the hallway. The sound was heard again, more menacing this time. Suddenly John couldn't see anything straight; all that was heard was Stella's screams and the camera sliding down the now apparently broken balcony.

The camera hit the floor of another balcony; the lens captured Stella hitting the floor. She now lay on her stomach, unconscious. She woke up, her face full with worry. It looked like she was unharmed as she crawled towards the camera and picked it up. The camera moved unfocused, maybe she was making sure the thing was still working. Her voice was heard again, "Shit!"

The camera moved again, it showed that she was on a lower balcony, maybe lower than anyone has been. She spoke again, "Damn it! It's ok… ok, no one has to know. I'm sure they haven't noticed that I'm gone. Here's a door, I'll go inside and it'll be like nothing happened."

The camera moved again, this time towards the door, which opened to let her inside. The area looked as if a bomb had hit there. There was glass on the floor, the hallway was covered in rubble on one side and the other appeared to be a dead end. The camera focused on an intercom panel near Stella.

From the camera's point of view, John could see that Stella was trying to work the panel. It came alive, she tried to call somebody, but it didn't seem to work. She cut loose with some of her more colorful vocabulary, then she kept working on the panel. And other features appeared, and she started speaking. "Ok, intercom not working. But I got a map, and it says that the side that is not covered in rubble is a dead end. So I'm trapped, great!" She laughed sarcastically, the camera moved again. This time she focused it on the ceiling above the rubble and found a hole there. By the movements of the camera she was now climbing up the mountain of rubble.

The camera moved, unfocused, for a moment, and was placed on the floor, maybe while she climbed up. While the camera was there, the lens captured some movements at the end of the hallway. Stella must not have noticed this, as she was heard struggling to climb up. John knew of the moment she achieved her goal when she said, "God, I need to exercise more."

She grabbed the camera and the previous suspicious movement was caught again. Stella started walking in the direction of the movement. John didn't know if she had noticed, but watching this made him feel he was watching a horror flick. Just before reaching a corner, she slowed her pace. Ok, she saw the movement. Right on the corner, she stopped and moved the camera so she could see who was on the other side.

What John saw was not good, and it wasn't good for Stella either. There was a Wraith on the far left side, working on a panel. Her voice was heard again, this time in gasped whispers, the camera started to shake, "Oh shit! Wraith, wraith, there's a wraith here. I'm dead!"

As she moved the camera away from the corner, the Wraith looked straight at the lens and smirked. Stella was now moving slowly backwards, but footsteps were now heard, and she whispered again, "Shit."

The camera no longer pointed anywhere in particular, and she was running flat out, and screaming, "Oh no, no, no, no, I'm about to get eaten! Shit!"

John looked at Elizabeth, "This looks like the Blair Witch Project." Elizabeth ignored him and John continued watching the video. Stella appeared to walk into a transporter, but it wasn't working. She was now cursing and the tape stopped. Bates was the one who broke the silence, "Miss Roig was last seen last night, and we found this at noon today."

John closed the small screen on the camera and replied, "Did you checked her cave? She may be hiding there."

Ford started, "Sir, I just checked her quarters and workplace, she is not there."

"Damn it!" John sighted and looked at Bates and Ford, "Gear up. We'll leave in ten minutes."

Lt. Ford and Sgt. Bates stood up and walked out of the briefing room. John slowly stood up and glared at Elizabeth, "Just promise me that you will deal with her once we're back. That girl is a menace."

Elizabeth's lips tightened a bit, "John, you should learn to put the past behind you. That incident was a long time ago. And she assured me that she only did it because you were ignoring her right in the middle of the training."

Sheppard half shouted, "She nearly killed me!"

Elizabeth stood up, "Oh, don't be so melodramatic, John. I would have done the same thing in her position."

"She just gets on my nerves."

Elizabeth gave John half a smile, "Only because you let her. Now, go and come back in one piece."

John shook his head. "Sometimes I wonder how she managed to come here." Then he turned around and started walking out of the room.

As he did, he heard Elizabeth's voice. "She had the same luck you had!"

Then John made his way towards his quarters, in order to get ready for the rescue mission.