Hey guys, yes I am hiding from my family and proofing this chapter on NYE. Thanks so much for the reviews and the guessing.
Guest64: See there is more (and there will be a lot more loose ends but I hope also some answers).
Sheppardlover928: Bad Atlantis would also be a good way to go, but yeah that was not on the agenda when I started planning this universe.
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I got some strange information
I keep it to myself
I got a bad reputation
I can't think of nothin' else
There must be about a million
Single ways to go down

Time Bomb Town – Lindsey Buckingham

The next couple of days Team Sheppard just stays in the city and Sam Carter contemplates to block the address to the planet they recently returned from. Sam knows that Rodney has retreated to his lab, Ronon is training the marines, John is in his office doing paperwork and Teyla is teaching meditation techniques to every expedition member possible. She had done some research herself, especially after Sheppard mentioned he might have seen himself with stars on his uniform, but she couldn't find any evidence of a solar flare on the projected path of the wormhole.

Maybe I should get Rodney to double check?

With that last thought she gets up and makes her way to the labs. She finds McKay hunched over papers, books and a data pad, which is connected to a couple of hard drives. Either he hasn't heard her enter or is ignoring her in hopes of her disappearing again. To prevent the latter from going on for much longer and if it is the former make herself know she clears her throat. A low growl comes from her longtime colleague and sometimes nemesis, but he looks at her anyway.
"What do you want Sam? I am busy!" The last part is accentuated by a hand wave over all the assorted pieces on his workstation.
"I can see that, but I wanted to discuss your last mission one more time and possibly block the gate address."

That got his attention really fast and a vigorous head shake. "No, no, no. We cannot block that address now. I have run every test possible on the gate and I can almost certainly rule out a gate malfunction. The sensors didn't pick up any explosions or solar flares in the vicinity of the wormholes path either, but somehow, we ended up in the future. I am sure of it, well 98% at least!"

The last comma she could hear. All the other notations she had to make in her mind since Rodney hadn't even taken a breath. Sam was sure she just heard him say future. But that was impossible right?

"Come on Rodney. If there was no solar flare, how in the world would you have landed in the future. That makes no sense at all!" Sam goads him into explaining himself.
"I thought so too, but from what I could decipher of the ancient gibberish in the database and the data I could already decompress on this thing…"
"Don't tell me you connected a piece of tech full of unknown data to our network?!" Sam interrupts his still confusing explanation.
"I am not stupid! This is air gaped and the hard drives are too!"

Sam lets out a breath she wasn't aware she was holding in. "OK, that's good, but I still can't follow your reasoning for the future thing!"
"Like I said I am 98% sure my theory is correct but without another trip to MX7-77P I cannot be 100% sure."

He pulls her around the station and points her to the monitor in the desk. "See this gibberish here means, according to Jackson and his language squad: A cycle intersects every 26 years. And on top, this mini pad here shows a date 26 years in the future!"

Rodney crosses his arms and looks almost smug. Sam is still not convinced.
"Oh, come on. It could be a system error because of the data overload of your pad. And all of this does not convince me not to block the gate address. It is dangerous. If you really want to go back there again you need to come up with a plan and a lot more information. And you should get John on board. Maybe then I can reconsider." Sam can see Rodney wants to protest but she stops him. "Think about it and come to me when you have a plan." After that she returns to her office and ponders the implications of Rodney's theory.

A couple of days later Sam hasn't heard so much as a peep about time travel and MX7-77P. Maybe Rodney is still figuring out a way to convince me? His pad must've downloaded a huge amount of compressed data.

She looks out her office window, dubbed the "glass cube" and sees Team Sheppard geared up and ready for the yearly trip to what they like to call the "kids planet", M7G-677. Something is not quite right with the picture in front of her, but she can't put her finger on it. Maybe it is just that Teyla isn't with them and they are taking Lorne's team too?

She gives Chuck the sign to dial the gate when she steps up to the railing. She gives the teams a quick salute and watches them walk through the gate.

After the iris has closed again, she informs Chuck that she will be in the labs and on coms if there is anything unscheduled happening.

Might as well take the quiet time and look over Rodney's research.

But before she reaches the research level Sam runs into Teyla and the two of them sit down for a cup of tea on one of the many balconies.

"How are you feeling?" Sam asks while blowing her tea to cool it down. She looks at Teyla and musters the athosian woman carefully. Teyla gives her a serene smile.
"I feel very well rested. Thank you for asking."
"Can I ask about that last mission? The one with the other Atlantis? What do you think happened?" Sam decides to just jump right in.
"I believe Rodney might be right in his assumption that we visited the future."
"Why do you say that? Did you see or notice something there?" Sam prods once again.

She notices that Teyla takes her time before answering and that she also lowers her hand to rub small circles on her belly.
"Yes, indeed I noticed something. I believe this child I am carrying will be a boy named Torren J. Emmagan and also, if no one else wrote it in their reports, the Lieutenant that spoke to us was named M. Lorne."
Sam couldn't hide her surprise. But one detail was weird anyway:
"You know your sons first name but not the Lieutenants?"
"I just saw T.J. but my father's name was Torren, so this is a given." Sam smiles at Teyla and congratulates her on having a son.
I guess there is no denying it. They might really have traveled to the future.

After the tea Sam finally makes her way to Rodney's workstation and gets to reading and proofing Rodneys theory.