A bit longer chapter, enjoy


Chapter two

"You know Rodney, if you did not ask so often how far we are from our destination perhaps time would pass faster." Teyla suggested as her team and Dr. Weir trekked through the forest between the Yequida Village and the stargate.

They had been following the established path for about five minutes and not surprisingly by this point Teyla was the only one still talking to Rodney. Ford and Sheppard were completely fed up with him and Elizabeth was unusually unattentive to the conversations around her.

"Yeah Rodney, better yet, just shut up." John exchanged glances with Rodney begging him to remember their conversation after the debriefing. John didn't want to waste his energy trying to ignore Rodney when he needed to be protecting Elizabeth.

Elizabeth stopped abruptly. John quickly raised his gun and looked to her to ask what she had seen.

"Sorry, just a shoelace, Major." Elizabeth said with an uneasy smile, obviously uncomfortable with John's jumpiness. "I was about to trip on it."

"God Sheppard, you'd think someone had just blown up 5/6ths of a solar system." Rodney mocked.

"Uh!" Sheppard grunted as he moved past Elizabeth and Ford. He pulled Rodney aside. "As I've said, I'm really irritable right now and I do not need this McKay!"

His last shout was so loud that it momentarily covered the sudden eruption of gunfire that had befallen SGA-1.

"Ford, take Weir!" Sheppard shouted as Rodney and he ran to the nearest line of trees, unfortunately the opposite direction of Ford and Weir.

"Why the hell are they shooting at us? I thought they were pacifists!" Rodney screamed. But as he went to start shooting again he got hit in the shoulder and immediately fell to the ground unconscious.

Sheppard's radio crackled. "Major, I believe they are using stunners; however I do not think we should handle the situation any differently." Teyla suggested. "This violence was completely unprovoked."

"Agreed. We have no idea what these people want and why the hell they decided to go completely crazy on us." Sheppard called back over the radio. "Ford get out of here!" Then Sheppard felt an object jab his back.

"Don't turn around."

John knew that voice but he couldn't place it.

"Elizabeth…"

"Oh don't worry. She's in good hands."

And his world went black.


Elizabeth's Point of View ((thoughts

My God, Rodney, shut up! I thought to myself. We've only been walking for five minutes. It surprises me I don't get more complaints from your team.

I smiled at the thought of what Rodney's team really thought of him. I was with John's team on M9B-288, the Yequida's planet and while I was not as tired as Rodney, or at least as tired as he said he was, my headache was back. I rubbed my temple but stopped once I noticed John looking at me.

I really felt like telling him off for staring but then I would have had to admit I noticed when he'd been looking at me. Why has he been watching me so much lately? Obviously it's nice. Ha! That's laughable. Don't flatter yourself, Elizabeth. He only cares because he has to.

At that moment I noticed my shoelace was dangerously close to tripping me so I stopped. Not surprisingly, Sheppard immediately went into soldier mode.

"Sorry, just a shoelace, Major." I said with an uneasy smile. My goodness, you're jumpy this afternoon Major. "I was just about to trip on it."

I bent down to tie it as I heard Rodney say something and felt John rush past me. I stood up and was just about to say something to Ford when I felt a burst of energy wiz past my left shoulder.

"What the…?" but by then Ford had grabbed me and dragged me to the nearest tree cover which appeared not to have burst of energy coming out of it.

Once there, he threw me behind a log and tossed me a gun. Before I could even contemplate clicking the safety off, I heard Sheppard call something to Ford. Ford quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me up. We sprinted away so quickly I was positive it would be impossible for anyone to find us. After a few minutes of running, Ford slowed down.

"I think we've lost them for now but we need to the…" Ford raised his gun as footsteps sounded around us. Suddenly we were surrounded by Genii. I knew all too well who was leading this band of soldiers and, as if on cue, the shape of Commander Acastus Kolya was illuminated by the sun as he moved out from the trees.

"Dr. Weir, Lt. Ford, we're so glad you could join us."

I cringed as he spoke. Does he ever just give up?

"Well this has been fun." He mocked as he pointed a gun at me, but just before the energy burst hit me, Ford jumped in front of it and then fell to the ground unconscious.

"Oh, yes that was very brave of Lt. Ford, but if you two haven't been paying attention, we haven't been shooting to kill; just to stun. We would never think of killing you, Dr. Weir, or any of your team. At least…not yet."

I shivered as he looked me up and down. He motioned beside me and two pairs of strong hands grabbed me as he readjusted his stunner.

"Wait! What about John?" I asked struggling against the hands that held me, though I knew it was futile.

"Oh don't worry about him, you're the one in trouble." Kolya sneered. "I'm setting your stun a little bit higher so that you won't try to talk to Major Sheppard while I send my first message."

With that Kolya shot me point blank.


"Major Sheppard, wake up" Dr. Zelenka screamed shaking Sheppard's body violently.

"Dr. Zelenka!" Dr. Carson Beckett cried running into Major Sheppard's curtained off area. "This is not the right way to wake up a patient. Stop!"

"Well maybe so, but he hasn't been hurt. And since you've assured us he'll be fine we need to know what happened!" Radek yelled as he continued to shake Sheppard.

"Radek, I'm not asking" Carson said while pulling Radek forcefully away from Sheppard; however, John then sat up with a start breathing heavily and scanning his surroundings.

"Whoa there laddie, calm down." Carson instructed as he gently pushed John back onto his pillow.

"Kolya! Kolya was there." John pleaded as he tried to sit back up.

"And you can't do anything about that now."

"Well we actually...wait, where's Elizabeth, and the others?" John asked as he realized they we not in the infirmary beds surrounding him.

"Uh, we were hoping you could tell us lad." John's heart dropped. He'd failed. Kolya had his team and Elizabeth.

"Ok, then we need to go look for them now!" John demanded as he jumped out of bed, ignoring the slight ache all over his body from the stunner and getting dressed.

"But Major…"Carson interjected only to get a look from Sheppard ending all discussion.


As Sheppard walked into the control room, Peter Grodin turned to him. "Um, Major I think you'll want to see this."

Peter turned on the video message they had received five minutes earlier.

"Why hello, Major Sheppard it's nice to see you again." Kolya said smiling. "Since we seem to cross paths so often no need for introductions. I believe I have something you want."

Kolya motioned to his right as the camera moved to reveal his team bound and gagged on the ground in the corner. "Oh and more importantly,"Kolya said with glee, "we also have the wonderful Elizabeth Weir with us." Kolya laughed as the camera moved to show Elizabeth's semi-conscious form tied to a chair. Kolya stroked her cheek and laughed again. "Though Lt. Ford fought valiantly to protect her, I would have to say Major you are losing your touch."

Koyla bent down and kissed Elizabeth on the top of her head. John felt as though he was going to be sick. He couldn't bear seeing Elizabeth look so fragile and helpless.

"So Major I have a proposition for you." Kolya said continuing to stand beside Elizabeth. "I'll give you four hours to try to rescue your team before we kill one. Then every hour longer it takes you we will kill another member of your team until there are none left. Maybe we'll even start with Lizzie here."

The screen went fuzzy.


So thanks again for reading my story and I hope it was a little bit more exciting then chapter one. Please review I would love to hear what other think.