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To Hell and Back
Warning. Torture.
Chapter 2
"You will tell me what I want to know! Where is the coordinates of Earth? Who is your leader?! How do I get the ancient gene?!" Koyla yells
"Not very talkative?!"
Koyla burns Elizabeth with a soldering iron and orders his men to whip Elizabeth.
Beep, beep, beep. The sounds of beeps awaken Elizabeth from her flashbacks. Where was she? She opens her eyes, everything is bright and blurry. It takes her a moment to realise she is in the infirmary.
Suddenly she sees Koyla. Elizabeth pulls out her IVs and anything else attached to her tries to make a run for it.
"Whoa, Elizabeth! Where are you going?" Carson yells, suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
"It's Koyla, he's here! I need to get away from him." She says, pointing to where she had just seen him
Carson looks over in the direction Elizabeth was pointing. "There's no one there, you're hallucinating. You've been though a hell of a 24 hours. Please come back to bed" he responds, holding on to Elizabeth who can barely support her own weight under her.
"But he was right there, where did he go?" Elizabeth says, looking around the room.
Suddenly John appears in the room. "Elizabeth? He asks, looking concerned at how desperate Elizabeth looks. "What's going on?"
Carson leads her back into bed and puts her IV in. "She started hallucinating as she woke up. She said she could see Koyla"
"How are you feeling?" Carson asked, looking at her vitals as he helped ger back into bed.
"I've been better. John, how are you? Where did Koyla go? Is city safe? THE CITY!" Elizabeth cries out as she tries to get up and out of bed again, getting stopped buy Carson yet again with the help of John.
"John?" Elizabeth started.
"I am okay. Koyla, he got away on the planet but as soon as I get my hands on him…" John started, sounding her angry.
"Hold it Coronel. Elizabeth, what do you remember?" Carson asked, as he finished listening to her breathing with a stethoscope
"I remember a room, some dungeon of some sort. He asked so many questions, I wouldn't answer him so her tortured me. I don't remember much, I'm sorry "
"Aye, don't be sorry. You have signs of trauma to parts several parts of your body including your head, so the memory loss is not unusual. I suspect you will get your memory back as you progress. But I am taking you off duty and keeping you here in the infirmary for an unknown time, It depends on your recovery. You have several cracked ribs, a concussion bruising, concussion and burns. And that is just for starters. There are other cuts and graziers on you too." Carson started. He could see Elizabeth tearing up.
He took her hand. "The best you can do now is rest, let your body heal. And I recommend you talk to Dr Heightmeyer. I suspect you have been through a lot. And there is going to be emotional trauma."
Elizabeth wasn't exactly happy about having an upgrade from her quarters to the infirmary for an extended stay. She hated the infirmary as much as John did.
"But'-" Elizabeth started.
"No buts, or I will pull medical rank on you" Carson started.
"Listen to the nice doctor" John said, smirking. Elizabeth didn't see him smirking, but Carson did.
"You're not a good role model when it comes to staying in bed, Colonel" Carson said, rolling his eyes.
Elizabeth was too exhausted to fight Carson anymore, she looked at John who nodded and closed her eyes and let sleep come at her.
John patted her hand softly and left the room with Carson.
"Doc? How is she really?" John asked, feeling as if Carson was keeping something from them both.
"She's been through a lot. She is showing signs of severe torture. While her body may heal, it's the mental recovery that is going to be the hardest. It's not going to be a walk in the park. I don't know how she is going to react from what she has gone through. Especially once she starts remembering what happened to her." We won't know exactly what she has been through apart from looking at her injuries and making assumptions. However, there is some odd marks on her forehead. I remember reading about this in some medical files from the SGC. It looks like some sort of memory recall device." Carson replied, his voice starting to break. It broke his heart to see someone who he admired and cared about, look so hurt and helpless.
"Colonel, where are you going?" Carson asked, watching John storm away
"To teach that Koyla guy a lesson!" he yelled, as he disappeared down the hall.
"Colonel, you should be resting, you got hurt too, you know!" Carson yelled at him, hoping he could hear, but fighting doubting it. He knew there was no fighting him right now. He just hoped John would be careful, whatever his plans could be
OoooOoo
"Please tell me you have good news" John asks Lorne and his team, as they arrived back. Some of the rescue team had remained on the planet to try to find any survivors from the initial village.
"The Genii are gone. There is no trace of any of them, including Koyla. But there is one thing." Lorne began. "The underground where we found you and Elizabeth, we found the room where we think she was taken. But it was different to everywhere else. It gave off strange energy readings. It seems to be some sort of time dilation device. If our scans are correct, 2 hours in the room was equivalent to around 72 hours in the room…"
"So, what you're are telling me, that while we initially thought Elizabeth was held captive for about 24 hours with the freak, she was actually held for 72 hours?" John started, trying to keep his voice calm.
"Yes"
John stormed back to the infirmary and sat down next to Elizabeth. "Don't worry Liz, we will get him. And you will get through this, okay? I can't run the city alone, and please don't make me have to deal with Rodney alone"
Elizabeth opened her eyes. "John?"
"Oh hey Liz. Howe are you feeling?"
"Super…. thirsty actually" she replied, starting to reach for the water in front of her.
John picked up the jug of water, filled the cup, put a straw in it, and handed it to Elizabeth, helping her drink.
"Thanks" she smiled. "John, please don't beat yourself up over this. This was not your fault. He tried to get information out of me about Atlantis and Earth. But I refused, so he hurt me, a lot. He then put some mind thing on me, and I am quite sure he got the information he needed. I'm sorry…..oh my god, Earth! I need to inform the SGC" Elizabeth said, starting to get shaky and attempting to get out of bed.
"Hey, hey, hey, Liz just stay in bed, you let us deal with that" John said, locking her from getting out of bed, along with Carson.
"Carson, where did you come from?" John asked, noting his sudden appearance.
"Elizabeth, good to see you awake. How are you feeling?" Carson replied, ignoring John's question.
"I could be better, I feel dizzy and I hurt everywhere, my head is also thumping." Elizabeth replied, rubbing her head.
"Aye, that is excepted. Coronel, would you mind giving me a little time? I would like to have a chat with Elizabeth and run a few scans." Carson said, as he ushered John out of the infirmary.
Carson ran the usual scans, took Elizabeth's vitals and some bloods, all while looking at her in sympathy.
He left her alone while requesting her to get more sleep and went into her office, almost running into John.
"Have you been there the whole time? I thought I told you to go away!" Carson said in annoyance.
"You said you wanted some time alone with Elizabeth, you didn't say go away….how is he?"
Carson sighed. "No different to how she was when she arrived. How she is actually awake and talking with her injuries, amazes me, technically, she should be dead. She is the strongest woman I know.",
Meanwhile, Elizabeth layed in bed, her back facing Carson and John. Little did they both know, she could hear them both, word for word. As she lay, thinking about what she had gone through, she saw Koyla run pass the door of the infirmary. She turned around, and saw Carson and John still talking. She made a run for it, regardless of how dizzy and the pain she felt when moving.
"Lorne to Sheppard." John heard on his radio
"Go ahead Major"
"We have a problem. We have had a few reports of others seeing Koyla around the base" Lorne said
John and Carson looked at each other
"So, either more people are hallucinating or…" Carson began
"Koyla is here at Atlantis" John said.
TBC