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CHAPTER FOUR: FURTHER PROBLEMS

Scully woke up lying in the middle of her hotel room with a pounding headache.

"Hello?" came a voice from her bathroom.

Scully quickly remembered that she had McKay locked in her bathroom. She decided to ignore the fact that her all to vivid dream had included Mulder's 'Starplate' and get on with the problem of having someone who'd been looking for her locked in her bathroom.

"Hello? Are you still there? Um… I swear I'll send you home, and err… never let anyone spill coffee on 10 000-year-old equipment again! Seriously, you can't just leave me here!" protested McKay.

"I could," called Scully, getting up off the floor. "Who are you and why did you break into my hotel room?"

"Oh thank god you're still there! I thought for a minute you'd abandoned me, but you wouldn't do that, right?" questioned McKay.

Scully sighed. "Tell me why you're here, and what you want."

"Errm… I'm here to get you home. As for what I want, well I want to send you home I guess, but right now I also want to be let out of this bathroom, does that count?" asked McKay.

Scully frowned. "What do you mean 'send me home'? I'm here investigating a case, you have no right to 'send me home'!"

"What?" questioned McKay. "No nononono, I don't mean send you back to wherever it is you live, you can stay on this island for all I care... well not technically this island, but one exactly the same in your universe… which is where I want to send you back to. Hold on, do you even know you left? I mean, you're probably only here because you were too close to the Starplate when we managed to pour coffee on the Parallel Universe Machine. Hmm, the Starplate probably disappeared right in front of you -because obviously it can't move out of your universe- and you probably didn't even realise that you'd moved universes."

Scully realised that he was implying that she was in a parallel universe and was going to go on rambling about it unless she interrupted him.

"I don't believe in parallel universes," Scully broke in flatly.

She heard him click his fingers. "No, of course you don't, I should've realised, you're gonna go back to not believing a word I say because we erased your memories. Typical, I need to get Zelenka to control his science team, I mean, spilling coffee on the Parallel Universe Machine, how careless do you get?"

Before Scully could reply McKay's radio, still on the ground where he'd left it, burst to life.

"McKay, this is Sheppard, do you read?"

Scully stared at the radio.

"McKay, do you - ouch! - read?"

"Is that my radio? Could you answer that for me? He's not going to be very happy if he can't contact me," McKay told her from the bathroom.

Scully picked up the radio.

"McKay – ouch! Damn it! – Are you there?"

"McKay's busy," Scully announced into the radio.

"What the… Scully is that you?"

"Strange that you remember me when I don't know who you are," Scully remarked dryly.

"Ah. Sorry about – Ow! – that," came her reply, followed by a rustling sound. "Ouch!"

"What is he doing?" asked McKay.

Scully had been wondering the same thing when she heard Mulder's voice over the radio.

"Don't move!"

"Hey, that sounded like your partner, is he here too? What was his name, Mudder? Mouldy? Why can I never remember names?" McKay complained.

"Ouch! Back off, I still have my gun you know," Scully heard Sheppard reply.

Over the radio there was the distinctive sound of a safety being taken off. Scully noted that it didn't sound like Mulder's gun.

"I will shoot!" Scully heard Mulder yell.

"Yeah? Well so will I, and I'll be firing blind with a P90 so back off!"

"Is he threatening to shoot someone from a parallel universe again? Doesn't he ever learn? Tell him not to," McKay instructed her.

"Doctor McKay doesn't want you to shoot," Scully said into the radio, hoping that it would be enough to stop Mulder being shot with a sub-machine gun.

"Believe it or not, I don't want to shoot him either, but I will if I have to – ouch! Damn bush!"

"Was that Scully?" Mulder demanded.

"Um… maybe," Sheppard replied.

"Yes, I've caught Doctor McKay," called Scully. "I'm using his radio."

She hoped Mulder knew who she was talking about.

Instead Sheppard answered her. "Will you shut up?"

Scully was not impressed. "No, I will not…"

There was a click, and then static as Sheppard turned his radio off.

"Will you let me out now?" asked McKay from the bathroom.

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Sheppard pointed his P90 in the general direction Mulder's voice was coming from as he wondered that why out of all the bushes had the wraith managed to throw him into a prickle bush.

"What happened to the wraith?" asked Sheppard trying to see through the bush without getting a thorn in his eye.

"It's dead," Mulder replied.

Sheppard heard the familiar sound of Ronon's gun powering up.

"Drop your gun!" Teyla ordered.

Sheppard attempted to free himself from the bush.

"I'll shoot!" yelled Mulder.

"Why shoot at a bush?" asked Ronon.

Sheppard rolled his eyes. "'Cause I'm in the bush. Ronon, if you have to shoot, stun, okay?"

"Err... okay," replied Ronon.

"John," called Teyla. "Why are you in a bush?"

"Wraith threw me in here," Sheppard replied and then managed to roll out of the bush, getting more scratches on his way out.

Mulder pointed his gun at him.

"Now you are surrounded," Sheppard told him. "Drop your weapon."

Mulder scowled, but put his gun on the ground.

"Good, Ronon, you and Teyla take him to Lt Mills. I'm gonna go find McKay," Sheppard ordered.

"Sure," agreed Ronon.

"Hey!" exclaimed Mulder. "Don't go near Scully!"

"Sorry, I kinda have to, seeing as she's caught McKay," Sheppard told him.

Ronon grabbed Mulder's arm to prevent him from trying anything. "This way."

Sheppard nodded to Ronon and jogged off, turning back on his radio.

"Beckett, do you read?"

"Aye, Colonel, I can hear you. What now?"

"Where was the last place McKay went?" asked Sheppard.

"I last saw him going into room 38 of the Paradise Beach Hotel," replied Beckett.

"Thanks, Sheppard out."

Sheppard stopped in his tracks as the back wall of the Beach Paradise Hotel came into view. McKay was half way out of a third story window, attempting to climb down a towel and shower curtain that he had tied together.

Sheppard walked closer and then called out. "McKay, what the hell are you doing?"

McKay jumped and almost fell out of the window ledge before he looked down and saw Sheppard.

"I'm escaping out the window, what else could I possibly be doing?" McKay called back indignantly.

"You're trying to escape out a third story window with a tied together towel and shower curtain that don't even come close to reaching the floor?" inquired Sheppard innocently.

"Yes, I am. Had you waited another couple of minutes before arriving I would already be safely on the ground," announced McKay.

"Oh really?" asked Sheppard. "How?"

McKay paused. "I would've climbed in through another window and walked out through the front door."

"Uh huh," replied Sheppard.

"I would've! It works in the movies," added McKay sulkily.

"I agreed with you," Sheppard reminded him.

"Right." McKay didn't say anything for a moment, then, "Are you going to just stand there or are you going to help me?"

Sheppard continued to stare up at him. "You said you'd've been fine if I hadn't turned up so I figured I could just stand around and watch.

"Oh, that very funny. Now hurry up and help get me down before Scully realises I'm escaping!" snapped McKay.

A/N: okay, so that was chapter 4. hope you like McKay's escape attempt. now remember PLEASE review!! if i get lots of reviews who knows i might write faster and post daily... :)