Moonwalking, time travel
New day, more truth unravel
Mars landing, space gravel
Mankind still a fight and squabble
Time Travel – Damian Marley
She usually loves Atlantis and the Pegasus galaxy. She hated being away on earth for university, but it had been necessary. Her parents had insisted on it. But right now? She hates this galaxy and its crazy workings. They are hiding out on some backwater planet with nothing on it but an ancient structure. From the little bit of ancient runes, she could make out it is some sort of time laboratory. Her idiotic team leader Markus, apparently no-relation to the colonel, Lorne had decided to search for whoever just arrived here on his own.
The leaves outside the cave start to move and Sergeant Meyers peaks outside. And almost immediately moves out of the way of the idiot. Yes, I think I'll stick with idiot for now.
Mer looks at Markus expectantly. He looks confused.
Her impatient nature gets the best of her and she barks "What got you looking like a confused puppy?" And the annoyed look is back… phew all is good in the world.
She remembers that day, a little over two months ago when she first met Markus Lorne and Tom Meyers. The first thing she did was accuse him of nepotism, which he vehemently denied. To his credit he doesn't really look like the colonel. He has a lot lighter hair, even if it still is brown and the features are decidedly different.
"I think, I just saw evidence that we are in the past." He says it as if that explains anything. When her brain finally processes the sentence, she nearly falls off the cot she is sitting on.
"Say that again?"
She listens to his story and yes, it is weird that there are people in Atlantis uniforms standing guard at the gate and that they can't hear their com signals. But one thing really makes no sense at all:
"If my dad would've been to this rock before, don't you think they would've given us that information?" she finishes, leans her back against the cave wall and crosses her arms.
Her teammates stare at her for a little too long and she realizes she must've looked rather smug in that particular moment. She raises an eyebrow and fixes Lorne again with her eyes.
"Let's just get through this last week and then bring it up at debrief. Deal?" he says, and they all agree.
Much to her surprise they get through the last week without another incidence and she even manages to figure out what the structure is. A list of dates and the words for forward and backwards. She copies a couple of them and makes a note to discuss this date with her dad directly and not with her usual supervisor. This is too important!
Meredith is sorting through her notes and preparing a short presentation of her findings for the debrief. She is a little nervous about it, because the whole command staff apparently will be there, and they all know her since she was a baby. She hopes they will take her seriously.
Fingers crossed.
Normally Meredith wouldn't describe herself as a gossip but even she had to admit she was curious to witness the first meeting of the Lornes. Even if they are not related by blood.
When she is satisfied with her data she glances at the clock on her wall and realizes she even has time for a cup of coffee before she needs to be in the conference room.
She pushes the door open to the conference room and sees everyone is already there.
"Am I late?" Mer asks looking at her dad directly.
"No, you are actually early. Good for you. Have you seen your team leader?" She shakes her head and sets up her pad, connects it with the ancient projection system and then takes her seat. As soon as she sits down Markus walks in, just in time. The soldier in him probably keeps him from sitting down promptly. And she must remind herself that he is new to the city. Thankfully General Sheppard tells him to take a seat before she says something stupid or calls him an idiot in front of everyone. That would be bad.
She leans back, to get a better view at what is about to happen. The general starts off the introduction round. She sees Markus visibly perk up at the mention of Colonel Lorne and she also sees something she would describe as a mixture of surprise and shock on the latter's face when the Lieutenant gets introduced. But no time to dwell on male emotions.
Her father starts off the debrief, much to her surprise.
"Thank you for your reports, and it pains me to say it, but you are smarter then you look, Lieutenant. Yes, you were indeed in the past. I might have forgotten that that particular date was at the tail end of your stay on MX7-77P." Mer observes the command staff rolling their eyes a little at that. Forgotten? Never ever!
"Now, first things first: did you leave anything behind?" Colonel Lorne starts a confusing line of questioning.
"No, sir. We brought all our gear back with us." Markus saves her again from saying something that would get her in trouble.
"Good." Sheppard takes back the lead. "Because we will be there in two days' time and that would be bad. Also, congratulations on us not noticing you back there. You did good."
"They didn't do good. I saw their tracks. Three people running through the woods. Very easy to follow, but you ordered me not to." Ronon interjects and Mer feels herself turn red. She hadn't even thought about not leaving tracks. She had just run like someone was chasing her with something containing citrus. Stupid allergies!
"We can rectify that with some training." The colonel proposes and then turns to Markus "Come see me in my office after this briefing and we can plan the training exercises, Lieutenant." Mer inwardly grins at the reaction from the younger Lorne. He sits up completely straight and answers "Yes, sir."
All that's missing is the salute.
Okay, so yes I am doing a time travel thing. Explanations on how this works will come. I got to admit I love the future characters... they just really amuse me. What do you think?