PurpleYin: It's not a red herring. And I'm glad you're intrigued and more is coming.
Amanda: Nope.
Gater101: Yes McWeir kid appearing now and others. And you're right about Maigan's parents.

Sooo….. anywho…… because I'm a nice author I write for you people out there who read this….. stuff….. I would like to know any events that you would like to see happen in later chapters. All will be considered (and possibly used).

I own: Maigan, Ava, James, Andrew, Alex, Lucy, Lucy's Teddy, Keayna and Helen.

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Chapter 3

In the morning John slowly opened his eyes and looked around to find himself still in the infirmary sitting between Teyla and Maigan. Looking to his right he saw that the Athosian leader was still asleep and someone had put a blanket over her. After a moment he turned to look at Maigan to find her half-reclining with someone nestled against her, still asleep.

"His name is Alex. He came through the gate last night," Maigan explained as she stroked the little boy's hair off of his face.

The little boy had coloured skin, just lighter than Aiden's and the same colour hair. John looked around again to find more of the beds occupied. He turned back to Maigan.

"They too came through last night."

"And who are they?"

"I'll explain once everyone's together."

"So why are two of them linked up to monitors?"

"They got hit after coming through."

"By what?"

"You know the Wraith blaster…. thingy-ma-bobs?"

"Yes," John smiled slightly.

"Where we're from they fire red…. stuff that knocks you out for a few hours. They should wake fairly soon."

"So Wraith blaster thingy-ma-bobs fire red stuff?"

"You understood what I meant so where's the problem?"

A little moan from behind them caused them to look over towards the other beds. The smallest girl was sitting up and rubbing her eyes as she looked around, yawning. She had the same colour skin as the little boy, long dark hair and brown eyes.

"Hey Lu," Maigan smiled, "sleep okay?"

Lucy nodded before climbing down slowly and grabbing her bear. She put her thumb in her mouth and walked over, dragging the bear on the floor in her other hand. She stood in front of John and just looked up at him.

"What?"

"Up there!" she pointed at Maigan's bed.

"Yes ma'am!" John smiled and placed her on the bed.

Lucy smiled before moving back and settling against Maigan. Maigan put her arm around the little girl. Lucy took her thumb out and looked up.

"You know James wanted to ask Ava something?"

"Yes."

"He asked her."

"I know."

"How?"

"He came and asked me if he could ask her. He would have asked my dad but he couldn't."

"Oh. Anyway she said yes. She has it on her necklace."

"I know that too."

"How?"

"Coz I had to carry her here."

"Oh," after a moment Lucy went back to sucking her thumb.

There was another noise and Maigan carefully got up, placing the sleeping Alex on John. She went over to stand next to the small girl.

"Helen?"

"Keayna?" the girl whispered.

"Nope. You're stuck with me."

Maigan helped the little girl sit up before raising the end of the bed. Helen had long light coloured hair and pale blue eyes. Helen looked around and she stared at the older girl who wasn't connected to monitors. She looked like an older version of Helen with darker hair.

"What's wrong with her?" she whispered.

"Nothing. She's just sleeping. Ava and James are the one's who are injured."

"Red stuff?" Helen looked up at Maigan.

"Yep."

The other small boy suddenly sat up and looked around, breathing heavily. Maigan quickly went over to him. He moved the dark hair out of his eyes and looked up at her.

"It's alright," she soothed, "we're safe here."

So. There's Chapter 3. In Chapter 4 some interesting stuff is revealed in the meeting… now here's the tough part. Do I post soon, or make you people wait? Decisions, decisions….