Lieutenant Ford watched as his commanding officer dragged the leading scientist around a bend in the corridor, he knew that they weren't just going to let him walk away like that but it still felt strange to be letting him just walk past them without any kind of resistance at all.

"Doctor Weir, this is Lorne. I'm afraid we may have a bit of a problem. Major Sheppard has taken Doctor McKay to, well we don't know where; we had to let them go. He's armed and dangerous, should we follow him ma'am?"

There was a short pause before Elizabeth's answer, as though she was thinking about her response carefully.

"Major Lorne I would like you and your team to follow Major Sheppard, but make sure he doesn't see you. He knows the layout of Atlantis better than anyone, and try make sure he doesn't harm anyone else!"

"Yes Ma'am." Major Lorne turned the earpiece off and turned to his team, they all stared back ready to do whatever he asked them to. His eyes rested on Lieutenant Ford for a moment before he began to speak,

"Okay Doctor Weir wants us to follow the Major but to keep a low profile, we don't want to alert him to our presence. If he finds out we're tracking him he might harm Doctor McKay and as much as I know many people would be happy about that, we can't lose our best scientist in these times." Many of the group smiled at the last sentence, even Ford managed a small grin before his face fell back into the normal military position.

"Okay, you all ready?" when he had received four nods from the surrounding men he continued,

"Well then, lets move out."

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John was staggering slightly, he had never known that a scientist could weigh so much, but it seemed that going off world hadn't really helped Rodney's fitness very much.

He reached a fork in the corridor, which way should he go? He tried to think back to the layout plans he had studied when they had got here; he put McKay down against a wall and closed his eyes.

'What the hell are you doing? GET OUT OF MY BODY! LEAVE ME ALONE!' His eyes snapped open, this was not happening!

'This is my body now! You will be SILENT!'

'No.'

'What do you mean no?'

'I mean no. Haven't you ever heard the word before?'

'Of course I have, I am not stupid. Why will you not let me have this body?

'Because it's mine! I'm not gunna let some strange, psycho woman waltz around another planet in my body! And these people are my friends, you're attacking people I count as friends!'

'So?'

'So? So… You're out there attacking the whole of Atlantis. Using Rodney as a shield against my men! McKay fought you, and so will I!'

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McKay's head was hurting badly again, he didn't want to open his eyes. He wanted to lie here until he drifted off to sleep again, but a loud sound made his eyes spring open. The first thing he sawwas a wall, he stared at it for a moment before realising the strange sounds were coming from the other side of him. He managed to slowly turn himself around so he was facing the opposite way; he let out an involuntary gasp at the sight that met him. John was on the ground writhing and twitching, his face screwed up as though he was in pain.

Rodney crawled along the ground, his own pain almost forgotten as he came to his friend's aid.

"Major?" he called softly when he reached John's side, but all he received for his troubles was a flailing arm connecting with his nose. He fell backwards clutching his nose, and suddenly a sharp pain flared up from his side.

He slowly lay back down on the ground and took deep breaths one hand still clutching his nose, he lay in that position for a couple of moments waiting for the pain to die down before he attempted to sit up again.

When he managed to right him self he looked back at John, he had stopped struggling and the look of pain was gone from his face, he was breathing heavily but he wasn't moving at all.

"Major?" He asked again, he wanted to be careful he didn't know if that woman was going to pounce on him at any moment.

When he received no answer he edged nearer to his friend, as he moved closer to John he saw the radio on John's jacket. He just needed to reach it, then he could call for help. His hand was inches from it before the Major's hand shot up and caught him around the neck, he jumped violently and the burning pain in his sides came back but this time he couldn't lie down.

He was chocking, he couldn't breath, he was dying.

"Let…go" he tried to say but he didn't have enough breath to say it, everything was going dark. His eyes were slowly shutting never to open again, until the pressure around his neck suddenly vanished and he fell to the floor taking in great gulps of air.

"Get up" Rodney didn't think he could move, the pain in his sides seemed to have doubled and he was still gulping air.

"I said, GET UP" This time Rodney complied, he lent against one of the walls as he rose to his feet. John looked at him in disgust,

'Come on Major. I know you were fighting her! You have to do this, please!'

"He can't hear you Rodney, I have dealt with him now." Rodney looked straight into the Major's eyes, a look of shock and hatred in his face. How could she! He was going to kill her!

The Major let out a cold laugh at his expression, he moved forwards and grabbed Rodney once more, pushing him in front of him like a shield.

"You are all so full of hatred. I can see why you're all so cranky." John pushed Rodney forward as he said this, and they continued their walk to wherever they were going.

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'Pain filled his body; he didn't think it would ever end. It consumed him; he was falling down a long unending tunnel of darkness. Suddenly he slammed into a hard floor, and he didn't want to get up. He wanted to lie here forever and ever, but his instincts soon kicked in and he raised his head.

'What the hell?' he was in a long, white hall his eyes widened as he saw a desk on one side of the hall.

'Oh great' his voice echoed around the room as he slowly stood up; when he was upright he took a look at himself. He was wearing his normal uniform; it looked out of place in this brilliantly clean hall.

As he did a small 360 turn, taking in the immense beauty of the hall, when he stopped his investigation of the room he started to walk towards the desk. It had several different pieces of paper on it, as he drew nearer to it he saw the name on the top piece, 'RODNEY MCKAY' he stared at it. Why was Rodney's name on this piece of paper? He picked up the piece of paper and glanced at the one below it, the name on this piece of paper made him gasp, 'JOHN SHEPPARD' what was his name doing on this piece of paper? He put the piece with McKay's name back down; he stared at it for a moment

'What happened to McKay here?' and as though the room was answering his question two figures appeared in the middle of the hall. One of them was lying on the floor; the other was sat on the edge of the desk watching the other figure struggling against the floor, which seemed to be almost eating him up.

John stared at the figure on the floor and recognised him, it was McKay. He could tell that the woman was speaking but he couldn't hear a thing, it was all mute.

'Where's the volume control?' he thought as he watched the two figures have a completely silent convosation.

John walkedtowards McKay, just as the woman got off the desk and walked menacingly towards McKay. Suddenly the woman clicked her fingers and the floor that had been engulfing McKay released him, and the volume came on. The woman moved back to the desk and picked up some invisible documents, she appeared to be searching through them.

"Aren't you going to torture me or anything?" John stared at McKay in disbelief, why was he asking her to torture him?

"Would you prefer me to do that Doctor?" She had looked up at him, and suddenly McKay was screaming and writhing on the floor. John took a step towards his friend, his face a mixture of shock and horror.

"Did you enjoy that Doctor McKay?"

"I am simply waiting for the right moment Doctor McKay," John stared at the woman and saw a cold smile stretch across her face, his hatred for her increased dramatically. "your friends will soon take you back to Atlantis, that is where I shall make my move Doctor, Atlantis is where I shall make my move." Rodney began to writhe and scream again on the floor, John suddenly launched himself at the woman laughing on the desk, but instead of hitting her he went straight through her and landed on the floor on the other side of the desk.

He looked up quickly from his position on the floor but Rodney and the woman had gone, vanished into nothing but Rodney's screams were still echoingfaintly around the hall.

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"Major Lorne, have you found Major Sheppard yet?" Elizabeth's voice was full of worry, not matter how hard she tried to cover up her feelings she couldn't. Two of her friends were wandering around the city; both most probably injured, one taken over by an alien consciousness.

"We're following a trail at the moment, you might want to tell Doctor Beckett to get a medical team ready. One of them is badly injured!" With that Lorne's radio crackled and went silent. Elizabeth understood that they had to maintain radio silence when they approached enemies but she just wanted the whole of her expedition to be safe. A wish that was never going to happen.

She looked at the many technicians at work in the control room before heading back to her office; she needed to do some paperwork anyway so she might as well try to do it now.

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John was basically carrying Rodney once again, why the man couldn't walk on his own he didn't know.

"Doctor McKay can you please WALK!"

"What?" came a sleepy answer from the man in front, John realised he shouldn't have thrown Rodney so hard against those walls, Rodney would most probably die before they reached the gate.

"Look McKay, I need you to stay awake!" he said, as he pushed Rodney forwards. "Now we're almost there so just keep on walking, okay?" Rodney nodded his head slightly and began to take small, uneasy steps.

John kept the knife that he was holding close to Rodney's neck, just in case he tried to escape or anyone tried to rescue him. But no one had come near them; no one seemed to be following them. He smiled, it seemed he had gotten the better of them once again.

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"Doctor Weir, this is Lorne."

"Yes? What is it?" Elizabeth asked eagerly

"It seems Major Sheppard is heading you way, you might want to get a security detail up there."

"Okay Major, thank you for the information." She turned the radio off and walked over the small bridge from her office to the control room, when she got there she contacted one of the security teams to set up a perimeter outside the control room and the entrances to the gate room.

"Bring up the life signs detector." She said to one of the technicians who instantly complied, the screen was brought up and Elizabeth saw two dots moving slowly towards them. The security detail was walking towards the two glowing dots, Elizabeth watched as both groups met. She could hear the gunfire from her position in the control room, why were they firing?

"Lieutenant Johnson, come in." Only static answered her, she glanced back at the screen and saw the three dots which had been the security detail fade away to leave just two dots walking towards the control room.

"Oh god." She said, she turned to the silent control room. Most of the people in here were scientists, people who had never held a gun in their lives. She didn't condone violence, but sometimes it was necessary.

She was just about to get on the radio to the teams outside the gate room when the door to the control room opened, she turned to see Rodney McKay almost fall through the door but he was being held upright by another.

Elizabeth could hardly recognise him, his face was filled with cold fury, he held a knife in one hand and a P-90 in the other. The arm with the knife was holding Rodney up by the throat; Elizabeth could see blood starting to trickle down Rodney's neck as the blade punctured his skin.

"John?" He raised the weapon, pointing it straight at her.

"Let me dial the gate, and no one else will get hurt." Elizabeth stared at him; she knew that this was a genuine threat. If she didn't let him pass he could kill as many people as it took before she complied with his demands.

"Okay." John smiled, and walked towards the DHD, when he reached it he keyed an address and headed towards the stairs still holding Rodney in front of him.

"Security teams to the gate room." She said into the radio as quietly as possible when John was a sufficientdistance away, they had to get here; they had to save the day.

She watched the blue wormhole activate as John walked slowly down the steps, stillbasically holdingRodney up by the throat.

'Please hurry!'

I'm putting these chapters up as quickly as possible, hope this ones ok. Please keep the reviews coming, what's going to happen in the next chapter? Hmmm... i wonder.