A DAY AND A HALF LATER

"Elizabeth, we've picked up a small ship, puddle jumper size, that we were tracking on long range sensors. It just entered Atlantis' orbit."

"Wraith?" She asked.

"No ma'am. It registers as ancient, but there has been no attempt to identify." The technician answered.

"Broadcast on all frequencies please." Elizabeth responded, hoping that this was finally Bri and Lilah returning with Rodney. Radek had been rather frantic at the sudden disappearance of his superior, and Lorne was not overly happy about John's disappearance either. "This is Elizabeth Weir of Atlantis. Please identify yourself before we take defensive action."

"Oh come on now, that isn't really necessary Elizabeth." John's voice was heard over the communications system.

Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good to hear your voice John."

"Like wise Elizabeth."

"Hey, sorry about that whole 'denuding Atlantis of most of the senior staff' thing, I kind of needed all of them to fix this." Brianna sounded cheerful, even though she knew she was going to be in trouble because of this little stunt.

"After you land I'll need to see you in my office to discuss that."

"Hey, for the record, not only did you give me permission to take whatever supplies and personnel I needed to get John back to the land of the living, We're coming back with a completely re-vamped jumper, a trip that took seven days out only took us 5 and a half coming back, and I wasn't pushing it to anywhere near top speed! Oh and I can find us a ZPM later too if that helps."

Elizabeth then heard some scuffling and what was apparently a fierce argument between Brianna and Rodney about the ZPM, mostly seeming to consist of 'Why didn't you tell me?' and 'I thought I did!' with John's interspersed comments of 'Will two cut it out! You're as bad as Bri and I!'

Eventually Lilah was heard saying 'Give me that', then Elizabeth heard "Sorry about that Elizabeth, we'll land this thing and come to your office for a debriefing. Jumper one out."

Elizabeth looked at poor Chuck, who was trying his hardest not to start laughing hysterically. With a small half smile she said, "Let them in, then make sure Rodney doesn't disappear before I get a chance to talk to that group.

"Yes ma'am."

Authors note: It was pointed out that the female OC's are Mary Sues. Yeah, I heard you. Deal with it. It's not my problem that you don't like it, as I stated these stories are written for my enjoyment, if you choose to read and enjoy them as well, good. If you don't, please don't point out issues that you have with my writing. You are under no obligation to read these, so if you don't like it, stop reading.