A/N: REALLY really sorry about how late this chapter is, I've been very busy lately. Sorry it's so short as well, but I had to post something.

CHAPTER SIX: OF WRATH AND PUM

"Elizabeth!" called McKay, jogging up to her. "Did you know Lt Mills put SGA-13 in charge of sending Mulder back?"

"Really?" asked Weir.

"Yes, I know. Can you believe it?" continued McKay. ""And so, typically, they've gone and done something wrong, I could've predicted that."

Weir sighed. "What is it?"

"For whatever reason after Zelenka finished fixing the PUM…" began McKay.

"Hold on," interrupted Weir. "The 'pum'?"

"Oh, the Parallel Universe Machine," explained McKay.

"Just call it the Parallel Universe Machine," advised Weir, thinking of Sheppard's re-action if he heard McKay calling it PUM. "Continue."

"Hmm. Anyway, after Zelenka had fixed the Parallel Universe Machine, he told SGA-13 it was ready and, of course, they thought 'Great! We can send the guy home now' and send Mulder back, which would have been okay if they hadn't forgotten if they were supposed to erase his or Scully's mind of the events before sending them back. They decided to guess and now they've erased Mulder's memories," complained McKay.

Weir frowned. "That's annoying. Any word of Sheppard?"

"No, he's definitely gone to Scully and Mulder's universe," McKay told her.

Weir sighed again. "We don't need this, not with the wraith hanging around on Earth. Do we even know how they got here yet?"

"Ah," said McKay. "That's the good news. Caldwell found out all of five minutes ago, the wraith hitched a ride on the Daedalus to get here."

"How is that good?!" exclaimed Weir.

"It means they don't know the location of Earth," McKay pointed out. ""And as for the question you're just about to ask 'Why this island', when Mulder and Scully jumped universes, there was a small energy spike from this island, so they beamed down here."

Weir thought about that for a moment.

"How did Caldwell find out that the wraith used the Daedalus?" inquired Weir.

"Err… well turned out there was still a wraith on board, Caldwell went to get a glass of water from the ships cafeteria and the wraith jumped out and tried to eat him." McKay sounded amused. "Luckily Lorne turned up and shot it."

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Scully watched a very bored looking Sheppard from outside his jail cell.

"Why don't you just get the Starplate for me?" demanded Sheppard.

Scully sighed. "So you would seemingly just disappear from your jail cell? D'you have any idea what problems we'd have if the public found out a FBI prisoner had just disappeared from his cell?"

"Yeah, I see your point. Still, I don't even know why I'm here," Sheppard told her, gesturing to his jail cell in general.

"AD Skinner contacted the Air Force to see what you were doing snooping around an FBI case, and of course the Air Force told him they don't employ a Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard. They can't find out who you are, because as far as anyone's concerned, you don't exist."

Sheppard frowned. "Oh, great. I guess I'm gonna be stuck here for a while then."

Scully smiled. "Not so long if your friends send back Mulder."

"What?!" asked Sheppard.

Scully shrugged. "I'll give you the Starplate if Mulder gets back here safely, the security people need to tighten up on this place anyway."

With that she walked off, leaving Sheppard to his boredom.

A/N: please R&R, again, I'm sorry for the short late chapter, I'll try to be quicker!