I figured it was about time I thanked all you beautiful people who've been reviewing and reading. As a point of reference there will be two more chapters, so just hold on with me and the story will be finished monday morning my time. And much thanks to my beta, the brilliant and amazing Colleen. (Someday I'll learn how to use commas, but today is not that day. )

"It gets worse."

"How much worse?"

"We're missing a naquada generator."

Elizabeth dropped into her seat in shock as Caldwell roared, "What?!"

"John probably came to the same conclusion that I did, and he's heading back to the planet to undo the damage."

"How did they get their hands on a naquada generator?" All Rodney could do was shrug, but Ronon raised his hand.

"Ronon, why are you raising your hand?"

"I gave him a generator."

Elizabeth just sputtered at him, "Wh...why would you do that?"

He stated it simply, like it was an obvious answer. "It's Sheppard."

Caldwell signaled to two marines outside the door as he got in the very dangerous position in front of Ronon's face. "You will be in the brig until the Colonel and Teyla are retrieved, and if I have my way, you'll be in there for a lot longer." The marines hesitated for a moment before grabbing Ronon, and he just smirked in return.

"Don't worry boys, I'll play nice, there's nothing you can do to stop them anyway." Ronon reached into his pocket and smirked even more as the marines nearly jumped out of their skins. He pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Weir. "He told me to give you a message. He hoped now you would understand why he didn't tell you."

Elizabeth read the note and crumpled it in her hand in frustration.

"Elizabeth?"

"'And Brutus is an honourable man.'"

Caldwell just sputtered, "Why would he write that?"

Carson looked at him like he was a fool and said, "We lied to him. Brutus pretended to be the best friend of Caesar, and was instead his murderer. By lying to him we thought we were his friends, but we may very well have killed him."

The gate technician blared over the comm, "Dr. Weir, Jumper One is activated and dialing the gate!" The team burst from the office, with the marines temporarily forgetting their duty.

Rodney sprinted down the stairs and stood in front of the gate as the Jumper descended. "I'm not going to let you do this, John!"

"Trust me Rodney, I'm lucid enough to make this decision. I'm strung out enough to make even you happy."

Rodney stared down the barrel of the gun and yelled at Sheppard through the Jumper window. "This is my fault, John, and I'm going to fix it!"

"McKay, I get mad at you every mission, our fight doesn't even rank in the top ten. We argued, I went off and did something stupid, dragging Teyla down with me- that makes it my hot-headed fault, not yours."

Rodney's frenzied gaze swept over the cockpit and he asked, "Where's Teyla?"

"I'm sorry Dr. McKay, but Teyla can't come to the phone right now. She's busy watching her father be eaten by a Wraith. I would leave her a message, but I'm afraid she'll be occupied for a while. Next, she has to relive Bob taking over her body and threatening her friends. Then comes almost being drunk by a wraith when she was fifteen, then my personal favorite, hauling my dead body through an event horizon. So I'm sorry, she's a little busy! And I'd love to chat, but currently I'm staving off the death of Sumner. As much as I would love listing more visions off, I'm sort of running out of time here."

"John, why isn't she up, why isn't she lucid?"

"Tell Carson I'm sorry for the theft of his stimulant, but we only got enough to keep one of us conscious, not two. Since I can fly, I get to listen to her nightmares rather than live mine. Now Rodney, I need you to get out of the way."

"The two of you have had only minuscule amounts and it's kept you both fine!"

"No McKay, we've been sneaking extra. After that first night we could hear our Wraith tour guide talking to us during waking hours. We've been taking stronger and stronger doses trying to stave him off and buy the two of you more time, but now time has run out and this is the only thing we've come up with."

"No John, we'll find another way, doing this is suicide!"

John tapped his headset, changing the signal from the gateroom to just Rodney. "You know what else I remember, McKay? Flying a jumper to the bottom of the ocean, praying that you were still alive every second of the way. I also remember who traded his life with Kolya to save us. You weren't lying when you called yourself my brother, Rodney; you're the closest thing I've got to a sibling, and you know that. Now, brother, you need to trust me."

"You don't seem to remember what happens when we trust each other," Rodney helplessly replied.

"No, I remember. Blowing up five-sixths of a galaxy is pretty near the top of the list of bad memories." Rodney shuffled for a moment, and met John's eyes. "You can see it in me, I'm lucid. And you know this is the only way. I won't spend the rest of my life reliving that pain Rodney," Teyla screamed in the back of the jumper, and Rodney could feel her pain as it drank her life away. John whispered, "And I won't let her." Rodney nodded his head and stepped out of the path of the jumper, and Sheppard was gone.

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