TEN MINUTES LATER IN THE LABS

"Come on Rodney, we need you if we're going to get John back. We need to get him out of here and you refuse to let me try to fly, therefore we need you." Brianna had been arguing with Rodney for the past ten minutes, she was trusting Lilah to get everything else they would need, including John, into the 'jumper. If necessary she would knock Rodney out and fly them out of there herself.

"I don't let you fly because we don't know if you have the gene or not, since you won't let me test you; besides I can't go until I figure out what this does." He waved a small device around in front of her face.

Brianna sighed and focused on the small thing in his hand. "It's a map maker." She snapped. Now you know what it does, can we go?"

"It's a what?" Rodney was shocked speechless.

"A map maker. You turn it on, and leave it on as you travel to your destination, and then you turn it off. You can tell it to bring you back to your starting place, or you can use it to find the path someone else took. You happy now? Can we please get out of here before it gets dark?"

"How the hell do you know that?" Rodney looked at her suspiciously.

Brianna rolled her eyes, "Apparently John never told you that the ancient gene can be used to identify function as well as use the things. Now are you going to come and help me get him back so you can yell at him or not?"

Rodney gaped at her. "No I'm not coming, I need to figure out how to make that work now."

Brianna rolled her eyes again, and that was the last thing Rodney knew for a while.

IN THE 'JUMPER, AN UNDETERMINED TIME LATER

The next thing Rodney registered was a shooting pain in his head.

Immediately after that he heard Lilah's voice. "Are you sure you didn't hit him too hard? Shouldn't he be awake by now."

"He'll be fine. Now tell me where I should be going again?"

The 'jumper jolted, and Rodney groaned, raising a hand to his aching head.

"See? He's fine." Brianna sounded almost gleeful about that.

"Evil incarnate," Rodney muttered, trying to keep his head still, and still glare at the slender woman flying the 'jumper. He caught a glimpse of John, still unconscious, stretched out on the bench on the other side of the puddle jumper.

"Shut up Rodney."

The bulkhead door closed, and over the headset he heard, "Try out that gene thing now, you should be able to open the bulkhead door from in there, and don't bother trying the actual trigger, I've disabled it." Then the lights went out. "And you should be able to turn those on as well. Enjoy yourself Rodney."

The headset went silent, and the two girls ignored every attempt to communicate with them. Rodney pounded on the door and yelled "You two better not be making out in there!!" A low throaty chuckle was the only response.

Lilah chuckled at Rodney's last comment. "He seems to be taking this whole thing rather well."

"Well he doesn't know that we're not even on Atlantis anymore. He might be less happy once he finds out that we've jumped planet." Brianna winced again, "I might want to warn him about that."

"You probably should, just so he doesn't open the back door, but that wasn't what I was talking about."

Brianna just looked at her friend and lover sitting relaxed in the co-pilots seat, then delivered her warning. She glanced at the control consol again; screens appeared, then disappeared in rapid succession over the windshield, before something flashed on one of them, and the screens vanished.

"There, we're on auto pilot, what did you mean?" She turned sideways in her seat so she was facing her lover, pulling her legs up so her knees touched her chest and her feet rested on the edge on the chair.

Lilah turned and slung her feet up to rest on the console, crossing her arms and tucking her fingers into her armpits to keep them warm.

"I was talking about the whole 'you and me as a couple' thing." Lilah sighed and glanced forward again. "He seems remarkably unfazed by it all."

"He's handling the whole 'John as my brother' thing well too, I'm frankly surprised. I didn't think he'd take it all this well." Bri continued to watch her lover.

Lilah glanced over in surprise, "You told him about that?"

"He asked, you remember what my conditions were for telling anyone, he asked 'what is your relationship to John?' so I told him the truth." Brianna bowed her head, twisting her fingers together.

"I think you did the right thing. He may be an arrogant bastard but he will be able to deal with this, and he'll do the right thing." Lilah heard a hum, and asked, "What was that?"

Brianna looked at the console and shrugged. "He got the lights on, he's working on the door. That'll take him a bit longer."

Lilah sighed, "That was fast."

Bri grinned evilly, "But Lil, he's not going to be able to get the door open. The 'jumper likes me and says it won't open the thing unless I tell it too."

Lilah grinned back, "I just hope we get there soon, otherwise Rodney's going to start sweet talking the 'jumper, and then we'll be in trouble."

"Oh we will?" Brianna raised an eyebrow.

Lilah's grin widened, "Yes we will…" she tackled the redhead onto the bed that extended from the wall at her command.