thought back to the dream i had, the startling resemblance between the way she looks now and the way she did in my dream...their identical. except for the fact that
she is breathing, and healthy.
i sit up, pulling up my shirt, sure enough there was the scar. i move over to her as i remember the wound to her head. i move my hand across her face to move hair
out of the way to make sure that her injury was not part of my dream as well. when i feel the bump on her cranium, i once again rip my shirt, and bandage her head.
after securing the wrapping, i take a good look at her, i notice for the first time that she does not look like any of the wraith that i have seen before. her skin is a bluer
hue than the others, and her face looks all around more human than insectoid, my god she is beautiful i think to myself, suddenly, her eyes slowly open. "how do
you feel?" i ask her. "i'm...she pauses and notices the bandage..better." i smile,"good" i walk over to my bag, "do you mind if i ask you a question?" "...no" "i don't
mean to offend you but," she cuts me off, "you wish to know why it is that i look different than the others of my kind?" "well..yes" she sighs, "if you wish to know
about me i must first know about you kyle." "alright" i say moving over to her taking, my most prized possession out of my bag, a single book, entitled Stargate
Atlantis:rising. "here" i say as i hand her the book."what is this" she says as the takes it from me and examines it,"this is my only link to where it is that I come from"
she looks at me slightly confused"what do you mean?"
i hesitate for a moment deciding how to tell her something so important, and if known by the wrong person dangerous. "like i said before we were interrupted by the
crash, I'm not from this dimension, she looks at me trying to understand, OK, i know you probably think that I'm crazy, but hear me out. she nods, "i gesture to the
book and begin to explain my life story to her, "as you know my name is kyle, what you don't know is that I'm from an alternate dimension, were i have the
somewhat unique ability to view this universe. "somewhat?" "yes, you see in my dimension, we have a television show...um, its.. a box that..um...has moving
images..sigh, look I'm really not good at explaining these types of things."its alright, you can explain them later, for now just tell me your story" "OK, anyway, one of
the shows on the television that i watch is called Stargate sg-1, "Stargate" "yes, they even have a spin off show called Stargate Atlantis, i say this as i point to the
book, she flips it over and looks at the cover in shock,"wait, you are saying that in you dimension, this universe that we are in now is nothing more than a simple form
of entertainment?" "I'm afraid so, but, i don't see it like that". i say quickly, "what i mean is that I'm here aren't i, here let me explain the whole, reason why and how
i came to be here. about three years ago, i was introduced to the show Stargate sg-1, by a Friend of mine, i was instantly hooked, especially after seeing the movie.
then a few years later Stargate Atlantis appeared, and by then i was nearly obsessing over it. my school grades fell, and my social life became nothing more than
fantasizing about meeting the people that i had watched on television for so long, however after a while i realized what was happening and stopped watching the
show for a while, that was until last year, i came up with the idea to create a Stargate in my basement, no, at the time i was not thinking about a real Stargate, i was
simply trying to build a 15'' model of the prop used in the show for an art project that i had due, in a few months. after a while i started to think about what it would
be like to gate to another world. so, i got my Friends together and we built-up plans to make a working model, for an insta-gate, and before you ask it was my idea
to create a miniature Stargate that would only have enough power for one trip, needless to say that in the end my Friends left after i became once again obsessed
with the idea. after a year of work, and taping season one and half of two (up to episode 17) of Stargate Atlantis, i got the gate to work. my only problem was i
didn't know where i was going to end up. at the time for all i knew i could end up floating around in space. so, i spent some time gathering my belongings. and he day
before i was supposed to attend my last day of school for the year, i opened the gate and stepped through, when i emerged on the other side i found myself in an
ancient outpost, immediately i "woke-up" to my presence, i began a week long expedition to study the complex,after a few hours of searching i found the power
room, and it was then that i realized that it was not just an outpost, it was another city. no, it was not Atlantis. it had not three but six ZPM's powering it. ZPM's are
the power source that the ancients use you may have seen them before um... basically they are crystal cylinders, that glow when they are powered up? "yes, i know
what you speak of, please continue" "right, once i realized that it was another city, i used the computers there to shut down the systems that i did not need, i knew
how nearly everything in the city worked because back in my universe i had study everything about the technology, i removed three of the six ZPM's and spent some
time going over the list of experimental technology that they had been working on before they had left the city. though i was slightly confused as to why the ancients
would leave a city in perfect condition, in fact after thinking about it the city seemed as if it had never been used before. i went to work and checked the mainframe,
for information, and discovered that this was the latest city that the ancients had constructed, it was then that i realized what had happened, the didn't leave through
the gate they had ascended." the woman next to me cuts me off, "ascended?" "yeah, see the ancients discovered how to shed their mortal forms and become body's
of pure energy," anyway, once i realized this, i set an authorization device on the cities d.h.d. to prevent anyone except me form gaining access to it. after doing that i
got some rest and the next day went exploring, i went to one of the many labs in the city and found that they were experimenting in a personal cloaking device that
now only cancels out visibility but also sound. i studied it for a while, and than day after day, i searched the city, needless to say i got bored, some time later and
began to think about gating off world to see if i couldn't find the Atlantis, expedition, but, i thought against it, i still didn't know what the time period was, Even if i
dialed Atlantis now, and the expedition hadn't arrived i could change history, so, i decided to take it upon myself to preform a re con mission, of a wraith hive ship, a
used the ships scanners to located one and taking my bag, and the cloaking device, i Set off, and preformed my mission, although, after about three hours of being
face to face with the owners of the ship i was observing, the cloaking device shut down, and well... the rest you know." " interesting, but, why bring the book?''
"because, i wanted to make sure that i wasn't screwing with history here. one of the theory's that I've had about alternate universes is that if i was to bring something
here with me which foretold events that had either happened or will happen that if i changed anything, i would know the difference and the book would stay the same
but, everything else would have changed." " i see. you didn't want to change the events that you knew would happen." "
exactly," " what...what about me?" "what about you?" "am i in your book?" "i...um..."i take a deep breath to calm my nerves,"no, your not," "which is the reason that
i came here in the first place. i felt tired of being able to just look up an episode guide, or download the future episodes of the show and instantly know the "future". i
wanted to live the life instead of just watching it. it got to the point that i hated knowing everything, no matter how small." "kyle" she stops me, she sighs heavily,
you've told me so much, revealed so many things to me, i.. wanted to thank you for trusting me with this. " "it's not a problem, like i said i was tired of always
knowing everything, so now you know something that i know, and...your my Friend, i didn't want to just leave you in the dark...so to speak." "i.. thank you." " now,
you wanted to know about me." wait, i say stopping her, you don't have to tell me anything that you either aren't ready to or don't want to i won't force you to tell me
anything."no, its alright, i want to, and by the way my name is RYO.
