Reunions are a marry time, a time to refill your mind with distant memories, the kind that can alter one▓s emotions entirely. Night and day bring changes, but being away brings more. Upon returning, be sure to be prepared because Time is neither good or evil fore it assumes many forms.
Atlantis was in shambles. Weapons from the Wraith Hive ship had damaged many vital systems, and everyone was evacuated in a hope to save themselves. The sensors from the Hive could pick up their life forms since the damage was extensive, and the people immediately informed Earth and dialed another gate address. As soon as Ronon broke the plane, he recognized Titan▓s battered landscape, not dotted with large tents and paths of plywood for medical equipment that was used to attempt to heal the wounded, but a patrol was on a northern pier when the attack began, causing three of the five to perish and the remaining two to face a rocky recovery. Ronon had seen such an attack before, except the outcome was usually much different, ending with many dead and the Wraith full of humans. This time, the Atlantians were lucky, but the future looked bleak.
The camp was a maze of tents and random supplies lying on the ground. Ronon was amazed with the little civilization and the doctors there, who had kept the wounded alive. Now, the wounded were lying in the medical tent, receiving more rations than the rest. None of the animals had returned to Titan, leaving food to whatever they had brought along with them. Ronon was willing to find food on another planet, but Dr. Weir wanted to keep everyone together in case there was another attack from the Wraith or anyone else. Ronon, however, could tell that they would be in more trouble if they waited until they absolutely had to obtain food, and he proposed his ideas to Dr. Weir, who understood his concerns and allowed him to leave, sending him alone to a random address.
On the other side, Ronon faced a large civilization. Luckily, he blended well with them, and he was able to trade a leather pouch for an entire cow. He then dialed Titan and returned to find no one. A downpour had turned hills into means for rivers. Ronon would have been lost if it were not for Colonel Sheppard, who watching the gate for his return. Upon greeting Ronon, John Sheppard saw the cow for the first time. He led the cow onto what was left of the plywood path, and he and Ronon led the cow, very slowly, to the new camp, which was the battlefield where Ronon first met the warrior. Ronon, in his fight with the cow, remembered this past, but he suppressed the feelings and guided the cow towards one of the few grassy areas left. Ronon then returned to Dr. Weir, and showed her the address and told her of the planet. She wrote down the address and a basic description. She then sent Colonel Sheppard to kill the cow.
⌠No,■ Ronon said sternly. ⌠We should wait until the rations are scarce, unless things have changed in my absence.■
⌠I understand your thoughts, Ronon, but we are all hungry.■
⌠I▓ve faced much worse!■ Ronon exclaimed. ⌠You need to wait. I▓ll get you more food, find you some nuts and berries, but the cow lives for two more cycles at least.■
Dr. Weir caved, and Ronon left with the next patrol group, and he found an untouched cove filled with edible plants. The camp ate them hungrily, and Ronon was praised by Dr. Weir. The cow lived three more cycles, and just before they slaughtered it, they dialed Atlantis. The gate seemed to dial slower, and everyone held their breath. When the address took, everyone cheered. Ronon volunteered to go through the gate after the portal was open for a few minutes. They allowed him, and he emerged in a shaken Atlantis, but the Wraith were gone. Ronon, using a radio connection, told them the news, and they let Ronon stay to clean up Atlantis. On the fourth day, everyone was home and Earth was contacted. Everyone was doing fine all around, and the two planets returned to normal. The warrior was about to go off world for the first time, and the runner was beginning his journey to becoming Atlantis▓s greatest asset.