Looking around her Laura was surprised to see bars and a small window also with bars across it. Why the hell am I in a jail? She thought to herself. She saw Lorne in the cell next to hers. Looking down she realised she had been de-armed and her Atlantis jacket had been taken. Noticing some small stones on the ground she picked a couple up and threw them through the bars, trying to wake Lorne up.

Something was hitting him in the head. What the hell is that? He thought groggily. Then he heard someone shouting his name, "Lorne! Lorne! For gods sake wake the fuck up! Lorne!" Whoever was shouting at him they certainly weren't happy. He got up off the little bed that he had been put on and placed his feet on the floor. He looked up and saw Laura in another cell next to his. She had something in her hand; seeing that he was now actually awake she dropped it.

"Where the fuck are we?" she demanded.

"Well I'm gonna guess that we are still on the planet and in jail. As you can see." He said as he walked to the bars that separated the two cells.

"Yes I can see that. Now how did we get in here and how do we get out?" she snapped at him.

"I think we were tranquillised and I have no idea how we get out. But there's something I should probably tell you something about our kidnappers."

"What's that?"

"They're clowns." She paled so fast Lorne thought that she was going to pass out. Then she started to panic. She gripped the bars between their cells and started to shake them hoping that one would come loose.

"What are you doing?"

"I can't stay in here on my own. In fact I don't want to be here full stop!" she again tried to get the bars loose.

"Stop it! That won't work. You're gonna be fine. I won't let them hurt you I promise." He took a hold of her hands and pulled her as close as he could through the bars and hugged her awkwardly through the bars. Her whole body was shaking and there was nothing he could do about it.

After a few minutes a door opened somewhere and two guards walked in. Laura looked up and froze. The clown walked past her cell, looked in and then walked to Lorne's cell and looked in again. "This one." He pointed at Lorne and walked away. The other one opened the cell door and walked in and grabbed Lorne. Laura grabbed him as well and said, "No. Don't go. Please." The clown roughly pulled Lorne away from her and walked him out the cell. She walked to her own little bed and started to cry.

"Where the hell are you taking me?" he demanded. He was being thoroughly manhandled by the clown that had led him out of his cell. The clown didn't say anything and pushed him through a door out into the streaming daylight. Causing him to stumble as he was momentarily blinded from the sun. He regained his balance when he realised the clown was leading him towards the gate. Once reaching it the clown turned to him and said, "You are free to go."

"What? What about Laura? I am not leaving her here!" he asked shocked.

"She is to stay here. Her fear will feed us for many years." Lorne stared in horror as the clown walked away. Quickly he dialled Atlantis and went through.

Back on Atlantis Lorne had gone through the post-mission check-up and was now debriefing Sheppard's team and Beckett.

"We have to go back. I will not leave her on that planet." He said.

"We will but first we have to try and negotiate for her realise." Replied Weir as diplomatically as she could. Lorne stared at her in shock.

"Negotiate for her release? Are you kidding me? They will not let her go."

"How can you be sure?"

"Coz the one who let me go said that her fear would feed them for years. God only knows what they are gonna do to her!" he had stood up and he was shouting.

"How did she seem when you were taken?" asked Beckett.

"Frightened. She even tried to shake the bars loose separating her cell from mine just to try and get in mine. She was that afraid. I don't know how long she'll last."

"Well judging from what happened on the Daedalus from a nightmare, she won't last long if they are real. We have to go and get her." Beckett said.

"Agreed. How?" asked Weir.

"A cloaked jumper might do it. But the best bet is the Daedalus. It can beam her out. Nice and quick." Suggested Beckett.

"There's only one problem. Daedalus is halfway back from Earth. It will arrive in a week. Will she last that long?"

"No. She won't. But we have use the Daedalus." Lorne said.

"Why do we have to use the Daedalus?" asked Teyla.

"Because the clown's are monitoring the gate. That is the only way they could have known we had come through the gate in the first place." Lorne replied. A heavy silence filled the room as they realised that Laura would have to stay on that planet for a week before any of them could go and get her. Weir dismissed them all and had McKay come up with another way to try and get her back. Lorne walked to his quarters and fell on to his bed. He soon fell asleep.

"You. Get up." Laura was huddled as far into the corner of her cell as she could go. When she didn't move the clown came in and grabbed her causing her to shriek. Pulling her by the hair she was taken out of the cell and led down a different corridor towards a circular room. He could see a figure sitting in a chair that reminded him of a throne. It slowly turned around to reveal the most sinister looking clown he had ever seen. He tensed and began to shake at the same time.

"Leave us." It said. The clown pushed him roughly to the floor and left, leaving them alone.

"Do you have a name?" it asked. He didn't reply, he couldn't even if he wanted too. The clown got up and walked towards him, he whimpered slightly. It stood in front of him and sucked the air. He felt a cold rising in his chest as though all the happiness in the world was being sucked out of him, increasing his sense of fear by 100 percent. Walking back to his chair he said again, "Do you have a name?" he still didn't answer. The clown stared at him. Ah you believe that your friends will come and rescue you. They will not. You are all alone. They will leave you here with me. You will tell me everything that I want to know. In time. this I promise you. The clown walked towards him again and this time ran a cold, finger under his chin and lifted it. Snapping his eyes shut so that he wouldn't have to look, the clown leaned down and put his mouth over his and sucked up.

Lorne woke up with a start. He had woken up because he had thought that he was going to have a heart attack. His dream had seemed so real, he was shivering with fear. But he was safe on Atlantis. Surrounded by people that he would call family. He couldn't remember ever being that afraid of clowns. As a child he had enjoyed the circus and he knew that his friends would never leave him behind anywhere. This he knew for certain, yet he could feel uncertainty and he couldn't explain it. These were not his feelings that he was feeling. It was Laura. What he had seen in a dream had happened to Laura.

Back on the planet Laura was confused and very frightened. The clown had sucked out all of her happiness and had increased her fear exponentially. She was now more afraid than ever. Yet there was something that she couldn't quite explain. While the clown had been interrogating her she remember a feeling or rather she had a feeling that she wasn't alone. Yet in the room there was only she and the clown in the room. When he had clamped his mouth over hers and sucked it had drained not only her hopes and dreams but also her energy. He had taken so much she had passed out. When she had awoken she had been in her cell. On her own. She had been thrown onto the floor. Getting up she climbed shakily onto the little bed and tried to sleep.

A couple of hours later, she had woke up again when she had heard her cell door open. A clown pushed in a plate of food.

"You must eat. We need your energy." It said. She walked to the food and bent down and picked it up. Not looking at the clown she walked back over to her little bed and sat down with the food on her lap.

"It has been delivered my lord." Said the servant.

"Good. It should make her mind more pliable. She will tell us everything that we want to know." The head clown laughed cruelly. "I want to see her the second she has finished eating. The quicker the better. It wears off the longer it is in her system. Go!" he added. The servant bowed his head and rushed off to the cells.

As a rule Laura didn't eat anything on other planets, it could have anything in it. She had learned this the hard way back in the Milky Way. She did not want to go through that again. Noticing a big pile of rocks in the corner she walked over to it and dug a hole with the spoon she had been provided and tipped the meal into the hole and covered it with the rocks. Walking back to her bed she placed the now empty plate and bowl onto the tray and set it onto the floor. She lay down and tried to sleep. She was soon being woken roughly from her sleep by the servant and dragged again to the circular room. She had shut her eyes on the way and refused to open them again.

"Leave us." There was a noise behind her and the sound of a door closing. "Now tell me what is your name?" it asked her. She didn't reply. She tried to fill her mind with images that would help her through this latest ordeal. Lorne popped into her mind and she desperately clung to the image as a cruel voice in her head said who is this? Is this the man who was with you when you were brought here? She didn't answer. She was prepared this time. do you honestly think this man loves you? He does not. He told me himself before I let him go. He will not come back for you. No one will. SHUT UP! SHUT UP! THEY WILL COME FOR ME. WE DON'T LEAVE OUR PEOPLE BEHIND! A cruel laugh filled her head.

"So you can speak. Do you honestly think they will come for you?" it asked again. He walked away and sat on his chair. She heard a noise and the door re-opened.

"Take her away." She was pulled roughly to her feet by her hair and taken back to her cell.

Lorne had been walking around Atlantis for hours. He had been kicked out of McKay's lab for pestering him. he was still shaken from the dream that he had, had before. He did not trust himself to go back to sleep. In truth he was afraid. He had come to the conclusion that he had witnessed Laura being tortured or rather their version of torture and he had not liked it one bit. But he also could not help her in the way that he wanted too. At least if he slept he would know that she was alive. Deciding this was better than not knowing anything at all he walked back to his quarters.

He was walking down the corridors when he heard someone call his name.

"Lorne? Is that you?" the voice asked. He followed the sound until he saw a figure standing in the middle of a corridor. He walked up to it and placed a hand on the shoulder. It spun round.

"Laura? What are you doing here?" he asked. She looked puzzled at him.

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Hang on where are we?"

"Atlantis. I know your not here. So why are you here?"

"I don't know. So when are you coming to get me out of this hell that I am currently stuck in?" she asked him.

"Not until the Daedalus gets here."

"When is that?"

"A week."

"NO! I can't stay here that long. I won't last that long, you have to come and get me. I cannot take that git sucking whatever it is that he's sucking out of me anymore. He's done it to me 3 times already! I cannot take it. Every time my fear gets increased. I have to get out of here."

"I know. But you have to hang on just a little bit longer."

"I can't. You know what happened the last time. By the time the space marines get here there'll be nothing left to save. And you know it." He nodded. She turned to walk away when she said, "There's something you need to know before I go."

"What is it?" he asked.

"I love you. Have done since I first saw you on Daedalus. It was nice knowing you." She walked up to him and gently kissed him on the lips and began walking towards the gate room. Not believing his ears he said, "Wait!" He hurried after her. He shouted her name and she stopped and turned to face him with tears in her eyes. He took a deep breath.

"I love you too." She looked at him in shock.

"Really?" He nodded. She had never felt so happy. Now she was determined than ever to get out. She smiled at him and disappeared.

Laura woke up with a start. Her cell had opened again. The servant came in with the plate of food. He had left the door open and she saw her chance. Grabbing a hold of the servant she snapped his neck and picked up the knife that was on the tray. Walking up to the clown she pulled him onto the bed and covered it with the blanket. Placing the tray next to the bed. If any of the other guards came to look it would look like she was asleep instead of missing. She walked out of the cell and pushed the door closed. She looked down the corridor. Lorne had been taken left, she had always been taken to the right. Going left she followed it to a big brown door. Opening it carefully, she looked left and right and then stepped out into the light. She didn't have chance to relish it, finally feeling the heat on her face, she ran towards the woods. She met very little resistance, those that she did meet she killed them with the knife that she had stolen. Reaching the gate she dialled Atlantis and spoke into a radio that she had stolen from one of the clowns guarding the gate she tuned it to the Atlantis frequency and said, "Atlantis let me in."

"Who is this?" asked Weir.

"Laura Turner." Shocked Weir turned to Chuck and said, "Lower the shield. Get a medical team down here and major Lorne." Pushing the button that allowed for communications she said to Laura, "Come on home." Laura walked through the gate as the medical team and Lorne arrived. She took two steps and collapsed.