BACK ON ATLANTIS, HEADING TO DR. WEIR'S OFFICE
"So where is this ZPM you can supposedly find for us." Rodney asked.
"How should I know," Bri responded.
"Well dear the whole 'I can find us a ZPM now' thing would seem to indicate that you knew where one was." John muttered.
"I said I could find one, not that I knew where it was. I'm having Atlantis run a scan with the long-range sensors. Every time we open the gate from now on she'll scan and see if there's a ZPM there. I don't have a clue where one might be, but Atlantis will look for us." Brianna replied, rather annoyed.
"She's got you there," Lilah murmured.
"Whatever, whatever, that doesn't mean I have to like it." Rodney muttered.
Brianna turned in the door of the gate room and faced Rodney.
"You know you don't have to depend on people to tell you everything now, you have the link to the city just like the rest of us," she gestured to the little group of four huddled together, "you have to get used to asking her for things. She may seem too aloof and powerful, and … graceful, to ask for little, inconsequential things like that, but you need to get used to it. So next time, ask her when you need something, like a ZPM, and she'll not only do her best to get it to you, she'll help keep it working, and tell you how to make more if you need it. She will not however, under any circumstances, tell you ANYTHING about how to ascend. She was left alone, and won't tell us how to do it again." Brianna spoke softly, so quietly that the marines standing guard around the gate room could not hear a word she had just said.
"Guys?" Elizabeth called from the balcony, "Are you coming?"
"Yes, sorry!" Lilah called up, then grabbed Brianna by the arm and dragged her up the stairs.