ch. 4 The Next Visitor

A/N: Sorry this chapter is so short. But I promise the next one will be longer. I hope. :-)

Telly sat in her room looking at her family. She looked at it every morning when she got up, every night when she went to bed, and even during the day of the three days she spent in Atlantis in 2005.

There had been growing emotions between John and Teyla, and Rodney and Elizabeth. Telly had been noticing this as November fourteenth grew closer. She hadn't seen anything go on between Aiden and Amanda but she overheard a couple of scientists gossiping about them having dinner together the night before.

Twenty six days dwindled down to twenty three. Telly had been worried the first two days she was there that she had altered the timeline. But then she realized that there would be no reason for people to be engaged for very long as there would not be much to plan. Weddings on Atlantis were not as extravegant as the ones she got to see when she got to visit Earth when she was a little girl.

She hoped she could find a way to get home before the wedding though. Telly had spent most of the three days helping her 'dad' to try and find her a way home. It was actually getting a little frusturating.

"Okay so tell me again what happened." McKay said. Telly groaned.

"I told you. We went to this planet. Waited six hours. Went back to Atlantis and ended up in Atlantis nineteen years in the past."

"When your- uh, stepdad- sent you to the planet, did he do anything? Touch something on the control panel or anything?"

"You know, you would have to ask him that because I was kind of too busy crying my eyes out to really notice anything he did. And I'm sorry that I can't be of any more service, but you're just going to have to deal with the fact that I can't help!" She said annoyed. /She really is just like me.\ Rodney thought.

"Okay. I'm sorry."

"Don't be. I'm so sick of condolences."

"Well then I'm sorry for being sorry." Telly's look sofened and she smiled.

"Look, I know I'm not much help..."

"No. Telly. I understand. And I know you're trying because I understand how much you'd like to go home-"

"No actually. I don't. Want to go home I mean. Not without everyone being there. But then I suppose it's better than staying here where nobody even knows me."

"I'm sorry."

"It's okay. Don't worry about it."

"I think we've worked enough. Why don't you go for a walk or something?"

"Sounds good." Telly said shortly. She picked up her jacket and left Rodney's lab.

in the control room -----o00o-----

Telly leaned on the rail in the control room, looking out over the gate.

John and Teyla walked down the hall of the control room on the other side of the gate room. They had obviously just come from their training lesson. They were wearing their sparring outfits and carrying their wooden sticks in their bags. Telly noticed the heavy flirting going on between the two.

/Looks like their will be a wedding.\ Telly thought. Teyla leaned back on the rail causing one of her sticks to fall out of her bag. John walked down the stairs to retrieve it when the gate activated. John ran back up the stairs without the stick.

"Who is it?" John said to the technician at the control panel.

"Uh, Sir? It's your IDC."

"What? Not again." John said, glancing over at Telly. "Open it up. Full security to the gate room." He said into his comm.

The event horizon rippled and a boy, about eighteen, Bates stepped forward, again.

"Who are you and how did you get Major Sheppard's IDC?" He said for the second time. Telly ran down the stairs and pushed through the crowd of military men up to Bates and the boy.

"Sergeant, it's okay. Leave him alone." Telly avoided eye contact with the boy as she spoke.

"You know him?"

"Yeah I do." She said after a pause. Bates hesitated then put his gun down. He turned around and walked out of the gate room, beconing his men to follow him.

Telly waited until the men left the room to make her move.

"Telly." The boy said. He rubbed his messy black hair. "I know this may seem a little weird. But there is a very logical explanation for this." He missed the look of pure hatred in her eyes. Telly put on a false smile then hit him in the head so hard it sent him to the floor.

"Telly! What the hell did you do that for?" Telly went over to the dropped stick and picked it up.

"I KNOW YOU'RE NOT HIM!" Once the boy regained his feet, Telly swung the stick at him with such accuracy and with such force, she just missed him by centimeters because the boy jumped back.

"HE'S DEAD! YOU KILLED HIM! YOU FOUND THAT DEVICE TWO YEARS AGO THAT MAKES YOU LOOK LIKE SOMEONE ELSE! YOU'RE NOT HIM! I KNOW THAT!" She swung the stick around low by his knees. He jumped over it and whipped it out of her hand. He grabbed her arm and twisted it behind Telly's back. He brought her down to the ground and twisted her other arm behind her back. While grabbing her wrists in one hand, the boy untied his left shoelace and retied it around Telly's wrists with his other hand.

He leaned back and admired his handiwork, only to be struck by Telly's foot. He quickly held them down and untied his other shoelace only to retie it around Telly's ankles and around the string holding her wrists. He sat back while Telly flopped around for a few minutes. When she finally admitted defeat, she flipped over so she was facing the boy. She had tears in her eyes.

"Are you really him?" She whispered.

"Yeah I am." Telly broke down crying. The boy helped her to sit up and untied her arms and legs. She wrapped her arms around his neck.

"I thought you were dead!" She sobbed into his shoulder.

"Shh. Telly it's okay."

"I'm so sorry. Alex I'm so sorry." Everyone in the control room who had stopped to watch went back to work.

A/N: Hope you liked this chapter! Did you like the second visitor? No one else from the future will be coming through though. Tell me what you think. It's just a click and a couple words away! ;-)