Merry Christmas! Well, you know what they say. Another day, another...chapter. Yeah. Well, thanks for the reviews, and I don't own Stargate Atlantis or its characters or anything like that, but I wish I could borrow Sheppard for a day...or a couple of years...well, here's chapter 4!
Chapter 4
John slowly came to conciousness, realizing the sky was moving faster than usual. No, he was moving.
He attempted to sit up, but nearly fell over, feeling the ground moving beneath him. He looked up and saw Teyla walking toward him, but she wasn't getting any closer. Because he was still moving.
"Ronon, stop," she said, and Sheppard stopped moving.
Sheppard turned around, feeling unusually hot despite the cooling air around him. "What the hell? You son of a bitch! You knocked me out!" Sheppard accused Ronon.
"He did not. You have a fever. You began convulsing, and lost consciousness. We have to get you back to the Stargate, so you can get help from Dr. Beckette and his medical team. You will feel better when you have rested," Teyla said.
"I think I've rested long enough," he said, standing up, then began to walk back the way they had came from.
"What, are you stupid, or something? You can't just go wandering off like that!" Rodney snapped.
"Where the hell's my gun?!" Sheppard said angrily, turning on them suddenly.
"You threatened us with it, so we took it from you. And you're not gonna get it back until you've been cleared by Beckette back on Atlantis," Ronon said.
"So you're just gonna let him kill Senave? Just like that? I little girl, and you're going to let her die," Sheppard said incredulously.
"Even if this Senave isn't just a figment of your imagination, you've already told us she's dead. She can't die dead, Colonel, you're delirious. I doubt there are any soul-sucking monsters on this planet," McKay said as-a-matter-of-factly.
"You have met the Wraith, haven't you?" Sheppard said with narrowed eyes, then continued walking.
Help me, John!
Sheppard fell to his knees, holding his head, and screamed out horrifically.
Teyla rushed over to his side, kneeling beside him. "What is it, John? Is it her?"
"She's dieing!" he shouted, still holding his head.
Rodney and Ronon stood back a little, but still had the look of concern in their eyes. "Teyla?" Ronon asked.
"What is happening?" she asked.
Sheppard said nothing, but put his hands down and stood, then began running, and Teyla and Ronon followed, then followed by Rodney shortly, who lagged behind. Sheppard ran quickly, his head pounding, and his stomach hurting like hell, but he couldn't stop. Not until he found her.
Ronon and Teyla had finally caught up with him, but Sheppard had already stopped, and was standing at the edge of a village. A village that was obviously empty, and had been raided. He just stood staring, and Ronon walked up to his side.
"This was her village," Sheppard whispered, then began forward again.
Rodney finally reached them, and found that they were moving ahead again, complained, "Oh, don't you guys know the meaning of the word 'break'?"
John led the team to a small tee-pee-type home and he went inside.
What he found shocked him. Senave, lain on the ground. But she wasn't alone. There was a boy holding on to her. He was only maybe a few years older than her, maybe 20. John slowly made his way over to the bodies and felt a lump form in his throat and he suddenly felt sick. Who would do something like this?
"Jossen," he said aloud.
"He did this," Teyla stated, rather than questioned.
John was startled, hadn't heard her come in. He simply nodded, then walked over and fell to his knees by the bodies.
"I'm sorry," he said quietly. "Oh my God."
"What is it?" Teyla asked urgently.
Sheppard looked down and the boy, then checked his pulse. "He's alive."
Yes, that's it, for now. You'll soon find out what's going on, who the boy is, and who Jossen and Senave is. And, find out what lies in John's future...dun dun dun! Bie:0D
Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Winter, and Happy Kwanza and Al Adha for the next few days, and Happy New Years, in case I don't get back by then, but I think I will, bie:0D