A/N: szhismine: The Major has taken your bet, he says in three chapters. I guess you'll have to keep reading to see who wins, if anyone does. ;)

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Chapter 5 -Wounds

"Medical emergency in the Gateroom!"

Now what happened! Why cant they just go on a mission and nobody gets bloody hurt! Dr. Beckett thought as he headed out with his team to the Gate.

They got there to see Lt. Ford on the ground surrounded by Major Sheppard, Dr. McKay and Teyla. Rodney was nursing his arm, and John was bleeding from a cut on his cheek. They were all covered in dust. A couple of the medical staff started checking them out while Carson checked on Aiden.

"What happened Major?" He asked as he was checking Aiden's pulse, his weak pulse.

"Major, do you see what I see?" Teyla pointed to past the Stargate. The Gate was at the end of two thirty-foot lines of columns six feet apart connected by lintels that laid across them. The path that was flanked by these lines was ten feet across and only a few crossbeams were across it. The columns then shaped around the Gate. At the other end was a building, looking rather like a Temple and keeping with the same style as the columns. Dr. McKay was back by this Temple looking at the writings, Lt. Ford was halfway down the line, and Major Sheppard and Teyla were in between them.

"Holy crap, that can't be good."

Aiden heard them talking, "What's not sir?"

John nodded his head in the direction that Teyla had pointed. Aiden looked up,

"We should get out of here now sir."

"I agree…" He called back to Rodney, "McKay!"

"What! I'm busy back here." He kept his head down. "As far as I can tell this wasn't built by the Ancients, but there still could be something of value here."

"McKay! Look over at that!" The Major sounded slightly worried.

Rodney looked up and saw what they were all staring at, "That's a volcano, and it's smoking…" Ash started lightly falling.

"Exactly, we have to move it."

"Okay, okay, I'm coming, go!" Rodney started gathering up the few pieces of equipment he set down. Lt. Ford was heading back towards the Gate, followed by Teyla and Major Sheppard.

At that moment, the ground started shaking, and McKay caught up with the Major and Teyla, "These ruins aren't sound enough for this!"

"I know McKay! Let's just get out of here."

The volcano started erupting violently, and the ruins started falling all around them. All they could do was dodge the collapsing columns and crossbeams. It was too dangerous to try and get off of the path, being as they would have to cross where there were the most ruins, at least in the middle there was only the occasional crossbeam. Pieces were falling everywhere to the sides of them as the ground continued to shake. One of the crossbeams fell in front of Major Sheppard, Teyla, and McKay, breaking in half. The three of them jumped back, McKay tripping over a piece of a column that had rolled into the path. They heard Lt. Ford yell ahead of them and saw a piece of yet another crossbeam knock him onto his back, landing on top of him, and rolling off. A small piece of the ruins fell on McKay's left arm, crushing it between itself and the ground.

"Go get the Lieutenant, Major! I'll get Dr. McKay!" Teyla yelled over the noise. Major Sheppard jumped over the fallen crossbeam that had almost crushed the three of them, and picked up an unconscious Aiden while Teyla helped Rodney.

"Ahh that hurts!... How's Ford?" Rodney yelled to Teyla over the still persistent noise as she helped him up.

"I do not know, we'll have to wait until we return."

They caught up with the Major carrying Aiden, dodging the few remaining falling ruins as the ground settled into motionlessness. Teyla dialed the Gate and entered her IDC. They stepped through the Gate just as the lava was nearing.

"We were checking out some ruins, and they collapsed on him when the volcano blew."

Carson checked under Aiden's shirt, there was massive bruising. "Let's move him to surgery!" Carson said to his team. There was a trail of people following on the way to the infirmary, so no one really noticed that Anirul Belacu was close behind the stretcher.

Most everyone was stopped from coming into the infirmary except the team and Anirul. They laid Lt. Aiden Ford out on the bed, Carson examining him more fully, his face did not look positive.

"What's going on?" John asked.

"He has massive internal bleeding, broken ribs… and who knows what else until he gets into surgery. It'll be close."

No one noticed as Anirul was activating an Ancient device that hadn't been activated in 10,000 years. It consisted of a table for most likely a person and an overhead cover extending the length the table. Anirul called over to Dr. Beckett, "Bring the lieutenant over here, now!"

They all turned their heads quickly to the other side of the infirmary to see that she had powered up the Ancient device and had it ready. They all just looked at her.

"No one tells me what to do in my infirmary! He needs surgery." Carson called over.

"Do I have to do this myself?" Anirul called back, annoyed, and started walking over. She got right up to Carson, "If you do not let me take him over there now, he will die." Carson could see the seriousness in her eyes, she certainly was not kidding around.

"If he doesn't make it…" Carson began.

"He will." Anirul said positively.

Aiden was placed on the table, and Anirul lowered the cover down on him. She seemed to know exactly what she was doing. She then pressed some symbols on the side of the machine. "Step back everyone."

The machine started emitting a white light that enveloped Aiden. In a minute, Aiden could be heard coughing. Anirul turned the machine off and lifted the cover. She smiled when she saw the lieutenant conscious and breathing regularly and backed off to let Dr. Beckett examine him.

"Hi lad, how are you feeling?"

"Alright, chest hurts, what happened?"

"I'm not so sure." Carson examined him, the bruising was gone.

Anirul snuck away as the Major, Rodney, and Teyla crowded around Aiden, looking very pleased to have him okay. But Rodney noticed, he pulled away from the nurse who was prying at his broken arm, and stopped her in the hall as she was walking towards her room. He grabbed her with his right arm; he was nursing his left, "What did you do back there?"

"My job." She seemed to be in an altered state, but snapped out of it. "He'll be perfectly fine now."

Rodney was concerned, "How did you know what that machine did? We couldn't figure it out."

Anirul shrugged, "I just knew."

"You just knew?"

"I can't explain it Rodney. Oh look at your arm, here." She took his hand in hers, and the pain dissipated a small amount. "Go back to the infirmary, would you? The machine can't heal broken bones." She started to walk away, but he caught her with his good arm again.

"You're not going to walk away like that! Talk to me!"

"I don't want to talk about it! Now please, let it go." Her eyes were getting moist.

"I won't just let it go, Anirul I- it's important."

"All I did was press a few buttons, okay?"

"Alright. But now why doesn't my arm hurt so much?"

"I- I helped it as much as I could."

"You helped it? How?"

"It's really not that much of an issue."

"Like hell it isn't!"

"Do you really want to know? Fine I'll tell you the whole damn story Rodney. It's a… a mental ability Tialysians have. I first used this… ability on my father when he was dying on me." Her eyes were getting worse now.

"Anirul you don't have to-"

"I was little, eleven years old, and I begged him, I begged him to take me out in the new line of Flyers. So he did, but there was a malfunction, we crashed, he wasn't secured in his seat like I was, he flew into the front window, and I- I was shaken but was alright. He was dying, a broken rib punctured his lung, he couldn't breath, and he was knocked unconscious. I remember crying and moving my hand across one the cuts on his face, and it stopped bleeding. It stopped, it just stopped. I was scared, I knew of the ability before, but I could never get it to work for me, but then it did, and I was happy, happy because I thought I could heal him." She shook her head. "But I didn't understand it doesn't work that way, only with small things. Cuts, scrapes, little bruises, minor aches and pains. It only works when it's someone I lo- care about."

Rodney was standing there, stunned, for once not knowing what to say.

"So will you please go back to the infirmary now?" Anirul pleaded and she walked away.

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