Chapter Four

Elizabeth almost fell over in shock when Sheppard shuffled into her office, with Ronan close behind, arms crossed in front of his chest. Elizabeth stood, unsure of what else to do and Ronan stood on the doorway.

Sheppard perched himself on Elizabeth's desk and smiled, running his hand through his greasy hair.

"Hello Elizabeth."

"Hi. . . Colonel." Elizabeth said steadily and looked to Ronan for an explanation. Ronan stepped forward slightly and titled his head to one side before speaking.

"We had another. . ." Ronan searched for the right word to use. ". . . encounter."

"Ah, I see." Elizabeth nodded before facing Sheppard. "John?"

"Yeah?" he smiled lopsided. Elizabeth puffed out a aggravated breath of air.

"Take off those sunglasses, get off my desk, go get that gunk out of your hair. After you finish that, gather the team and go to the planet. Got it?"

"Sure thing." Sheppard flung the glasses off his face and he jumped down off the desk. Ronan had already left to do other things so Elizabeth was left alone with Sheppard.

"Oh, and John?" Elizabeth stopped him before he walked out. Sheppard spun around.

"Yeah?"

"Take off that jacket."

"Yes, ma'am." John sloppily saluted and threw the jacket off as he walked through the door.

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John got to the Jumper last to see his team already waiting for him there. But someone was missing. . .

"Where's McKay?" Sheppard asked Elizabeth who sat where McKay usually did. Elizabeth smiled lightly.

"I decided I needed to get off the planet for a while. McKay didn't really want to go anyway." She explained and Sheppard just shrugged.

"at least we'll have some quiet."

"Why do I have ta come again?" Beckett moaned from the back. Sheppard closed his eyes.

"Because if there are survivors, you will be there to help them."

"Oh, right." Beckett sat back and sighed. Sheppard made sure everyone was securely in before starting the Jumper. The Jumper was crowded this time with Sheppard, Elizabeth, Teyla, Ronan and Beckett sitting in the small space.

"Here we go."

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"Powerful one, we are picking up a Atlantis ship coming not far away." A Wraith called out from the controls. The Leader sat up quickly pretending like he hadn't fallen asleep in his chair.

"Finally." Was all the Wraith Leader said and leaned back in his chair. "Drop some Wraith to distract the people. Then, cloak the ship and lift off. We have some Atlantis scum to trap."

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The team traipsed through scarred and thick foliage, their guns out just in case.

"So this is the direction, you're certain?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yep. It came from just. . . up. . . here. . ." Sheppard stopped short when they entered a clearing with absolutely no one and nothing. Suddenly there was a rustle in the bushes around the edge of the clearing and unarmed Wraith slid in front of the Atlantis team.

Ronan went to shoot the one who appeared to be in charge of the small army, but Sheppard stopped him when he saw they were unarmed.

"What do you want? Where are you're weapons?" Sheppard stepped forward and called out, squinting in the sunlight.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. . . we don't need weapons. We're just a distraction." The Wraith called back haughtily.

"From what?" was the last thing Sheppard remembered asking as the a Wraith ship swept up Ronan and Teyla. He managed to shoot a few Wraith before he, Elizabeth and Beckett were taken up into the ship.

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"We have them!" a Wraith curled his lips. The Leader stood and flung his hair over his shoulder in confidence. His coat flowed gently in a non-existent breeze as he held his head high.

"Now we can finally rid of them once and for all. Shall we go welcome them? They'll be waking up soon and we don't want to leave them in the dark, now do we?" The Leader laughed and the rest joined in as the abandoned the controls and followed.

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Sorry that chapter was so short, but I'm trying to put some chapters without songs especially because, as I mentioned before, I only have six songs and six chapters with the song in each would be boring.