Dr. Beckett had to practically sprint to keep up with me as I walked quickly through the halls. I unlocked my door and started throwing the few things that were out of boxes into the boxes that they had come from. Dr. Beckett wandered over to where the picture of my team was. He picked it up gently.
"Dr. Lam told me about what happened." He said. I looked over at him. He continued. "I can't imagine what it must have been like." I shrugged hoping to get off the topic of my team quickly.
"I'd just rather nobody on Atlantis knew" I said "People here treat me like a bomb that's about to explode." Dr. Beckett nodded.
"Aye, it'll just be you, Col. Sheppard, Dr. Weir and myself aware of your file. Everyone else can find out from you when you're ready to tell them." He assured me.
We spent the better part of an hour putting my boxes in the jumper. I had been tested for the ATA gene when Dr. Beckett had discovered it a couple years ago and I had it, but I still had never flown the jumper before. Thankfully Dr. Beckett could fly the jumper at least enough to get us safely to another galaxy. We were all set to go and I had said good-bye to Dr. Lam. Jack had even shown up to wish me off. I secretly thought he had suggested that I should be going off world to her before we had talked this morning. I gave Jack a hug. We had known each other before I started working in the gate program but he'd been there for me after everything had happened.
"Don't get in too much trouble" he said in my ear as he hugged me good-bye. I smiled, for the first time in a long time I felt like I had something to do with my life now.
"I promise" I said. He opened his mouth again. I held up my hand. "and I promise to go see Dr. Heightmeyer while I'm on Atlantis." Jack smiled.
I climbed into the passenger seat of the puddle jumper. My stuff was in boxes piled in the back. Carson brought up the HUD and started turning on the jumper. He dialed the gate and maneuvered the jumper through. I cringed slightly. I never could get over the fact that the jumpers fit perfectly through the gate. I was always worried that they would bump into the sides. We sat through the first half of the ride in silence. We were cleared at the Midway station for departure and started off again on the 30 minute half that was left. Dr. Beckett cleared his throat.
"So ye've been pretty quiet." He said and then was silent himself as if he wanted me to respond to that. I shrugged.
"A lot has happened over the past few hours. I guess it just hasn't sunk in yet." I replied slowly choosing my words carefully. Beckett looked over at me.
"I think you'll fit in wonderfully on Atlantis" he said "I don't know if you remember but I met you before we left for Pegasus a couple years ago." I thought hard trying to remember.
"I vaguely remember that…." I trailed off. I did remember that meeting now that Dr. Beckett had reminded me.
I'd gone with Jack to check out the base in the Antarctic. Because I had the ATA Gene they wanted me to sit in the chair. I met Col. Sheppard at Macmurdo. I was an excellent pilot in all kinds of weather, but Sheppard was more familiar with the terrain and flew us safely to the base, even though we almost got killed by a drone.
Jack went off to meet with Dr. Weir and Dr. Jackson. I was taken over to where the chair was and made to sit in it. Nothing really happened, like most of the other people they'd found with the ATA gene I had to concentrate to get even the smallest thing to happen.
"It's fine Lass" Beckett had said patting me on the shoulder. "The only person we've had automatic results with as of yet is Gen. O'Neill."