Catching little pieces of times
Making them yours, making them mine.
Great vacations and celebrations
Can fade away in a year.
But when we're making memories,
Happy days are always here.
Makin Memories – Sherman Brothers
He looked like he recognized me but was surprised to see me.
To say she wasn't curious about that would be blatantly lying. She had called for a meeting with all affected parties in 30 minutes to recap what had happened and how to prevent such a thing in the future without endangering their own people. She makes her way to the conference room a little early to collect her thoughts there.
This is going to be interesting.
Ronon and John showed up looking like they had been at the gym, but they were early. Major Lorne shows up right on time and Rodney, as always, a little late. Sam had asked Teyla not to attend, as she wants to find out if anyone of the three men having encountered Lieutenant Lorne had also noticed the name tag on their first encounter. The young man had used the majors IDC after all, which made her extremely curious about the possible connection there.
When Rodney shows up, he looks around: "Ok, I know I am late. But we can start now." Sam inwardly groans when the man flops into a seat. "Actually, we are still waiting for Jennifer. I need her to be in this meeting too." And as if on queue the blonde doctor walks in, carrying a chart with her. "Sorry, but there were too many cuts to sew, as someone had beaten up a couple marines in a training exercise."
I didn't know she could send a glare like that. Wouldn't want to be Ronon or John right now.
"Don't worry. Rodney was late too. But now we can begin." Sam notices that Rodney wants to interrupt but she just keeps talking "John, please recap again. Start with your first meeting with the lieutenant."
Sam listens to John's account of events and just dives right in: "Ok, so he was your point of contact in the other Atlantis. Did he mention his name or gave any indication as to how he knew you?"
"Now that you mention it, I don't think he ever gave us an explanation. Although he seemed to know a great deal about us. Was it just me or did it look like he knew we were coming?" John offers and looks at his team.
"Yes, he even knew about my emergency tablet. One of them at least." Rodney continues "And he never gave us the explanation he promised when he put us in that stupid room."
Sam rolls her eyes, well inwardly while John is probably this close to slapping Rodney at the back of the head.
"Moving on to this contact." She turns slightly to face Lorne "Major, do you have any idea at all how they could've gotten your IDC, or even a device to send it through?" "Honestly, no idea Ma'am. I've never given out my IDC and to my knowledge there is not device missing."
He looks rather uncomfortable.
Sam can't say anything because as she opens her mouth Rodney already launches into a rant.
"The explanation is easy. They had Lorne's IDC and know what they know because they are from the future. As I've been saying from the beginning and the data on my tablet proves that!"
As a reply most, people around the table groan audibly. So, Sam decides to move on again and tackles the next problem: "Doctor, how was the patient and what kind of chances are you giving him?"
"The leg is broken in two places and a lot of the skin around the wounds looked badly burned. But with the treatments we have developed here to regenerate human skin, a good cast and a lot of care he should pull through. I gave them a copy of my notes to give to their doctor. If they are really from the future, I'll put the case also in the database. Along with all the scans we took."
"Thank you for your time. The rest of this meeting we will try to find a way to prevent this sort of problem from happening again, so you can leave if you'd like." She thanks the doctor who rather quickly exits the room.
Wish I could leave too, because it looks this is going to be a long one.
After what feels like days Rodney finally stops ranting.
Finally ran out of breath.
They agree, that the MALP is only the first step but they can't find a solution to the second problem. If they receive a valid IDC they have to let the teams through. To be on the safe side Sheppard proposes to always keep two security teams on stand-by. Sam can see that major Lorne is not exactly looking forward to the upcoming paperwork. The schedules are going to be tricky to change and a lot of teams are probably going to want to kill someone for having to pull more security shifts. Most of her people love going off world and explore the galaxy.
Go figure.
Sam takes pity on her officers and says: "I'll rework the schedule and then we'll see what is going to happen. And one last thing: we change the codes every two weeks now. Rodney, you have to write the new program and roll it out. You have 10 days!"
After that Sam closes the meeting and everyone goes to do their task. She can hear Rodney whining about having to do the most work.
Yeah, I didn't manage to post what I had ready... got busy. And right now am catching my breath in between watching the handball worldcup in Germany and Denmark. So I am giving you all I have right now and hope you like it.
I know this story is confusing sheppardlover but that is the beauty of time travel :). Oh and Guest thanks for joining in, but I have bad news *spoiler alert* since I gave Rodney a kid and John a wife... I guess there is zero chance for romance there. They will be friends though.